The National Archives has released declassified MI5 files, including the confession of a civil servant who worked in the ...
A closer look at recently declassified MI5 files on the intelligence failure surrounding the five "Cambrdige spies" ...
Queen Elizabeth II was not officially informed for nearly a decade that Anthony Blunt was a Soviet spy, newly declassified documents reveal.
Top secret MI5 files detailing first-hand accounts of confessions of three of Britain's most notorious double agents ...
Britain’s National Archives on Tuesdayreleased declassified MI5 domestic counterintelligence agency files containing the confessions of notorious double agents known as the “Cambridge Five” who spied ...
Five Cambridge University graduates served as double agents, leaking highly classified information to the Soviet Union ...
The group included Anthony Blunt, Guy Burgess, Donald Maclean, and John Cairncross. Philby, often seen as the ringleader, also recruited Burgess and Maclean, later tipping them off in 1951 when ...
The trio, together with Kim Philby and John Cairncross, had all been recruited by the Russians while or after studying at Cambridge University in the 1930s. In the years that followed, they were able ...
Philby and Blunt were, along with Guy Burgess, Donald Maclean and John Cairncross, part of the "Ring of Five" - former Cambridge University students who passed information to the Soviets from the ...