As new documents reveal fascinating new details about the infamous MI6 double agent Kim Philby and his betrayals, Mark Hollingsworth reflects on how despite the evidence, he and fellow Soviet agent An ...

More than 100 Security Service (MI5) files have been released by the National Archives, showing the confessions of double ...

Will we ever tire of the Cambridge spies? Kim Philby, Anthony Blunt, Burgess and Maclean – and to a lesser extent John ...

Newly declassified British documents show that Queen Elizabeth II wasn’t told details of her long-time art adviser's double life as a Soviet spy because palace officials didn’t want to add to her ...

A closer look at recently declassified MI5 files on the intelligence failure surrounding the five "Cambrdige spies" ...

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 ...

Top secret MI5 files detailing first-hand accounts of confessions of three of Britain's most notorious double agents including Kim Philby and Anthony Blunt who spied for the Soviet Union were released ...

While teaching at Cambridge University, Blunt was influential in recruiting the other three, who were all students there. Burgess became a journalist after he left university, but on the outbreak ...

The newly-declassified documents include details about some of the UK's most notorious spies.

Two of the Cambridge spies, Donald Maclean and Guy Burgess, fled to Russia in 1951. A third, Kim Philby, continued to work for foreign intelligence agency MI6 despite falling under suspicion.

Kim Philby, Anthony Blunt, and John Cairncross - whose details are all included in the exhibit - were recruited as Soviet spies while at Cambridge University in the 1930s. Philby's confession to ...