The Cambridge Five was a ring of spies in the United Kingdom that passed information to the Soviet Union during the Second World War and the Cold War and was active from the 1930s …

Aug 24, 2021 · The Cambridge 5 were Soviet spies working undetected inside British Intelligence for years. The secrets they leaked to the USSR changed postwar Europe forever.

Jan 14, 2025 · Most notably, the files offer fresh perspectives on notorious members of the Cambridge Five spy ring, namely Anthony Blunt, Kim Philby and John Cairncross. ...

Jul 11, 2024 · Anthony Blunt, Guy Burgess, John Cairncross, Donald Maclean, and Kim Philby – known as the Cambridge Five – were elite British members of a KGB spy ring that penetrated …

Jul 7, 2014 · Members of the "Cambridge Five" spy ring were seen by their Soviet handlers as hopeless drunks incapable of keeping secrets, newly-released files suggest. Donald Maclean, …

Jan 13, 2023 · In the years leading up to World War II, several communist sympathizers at Cambridge found work in British intelligence agencies after being recruited as Soviet spies. …

Jan 23, 2025 · The exposing of five University of Cambridge graduates as Soviet spies remains one of the most fascinating stories from the Cold War. The members of the so-called …

In 1963, the British government discovered he was a spy but offered him immunity in return for information. In 1979, the story got out and Blunt was stripped of his knighthood.

From the 1930s right into the era of the Cold War, a group of seemingly patriotic British men consistently betrayed their country by leaking secrets to the Soviet Union. But who exactly …

2 days ago · OPINION — Earlier this month, a tranche of British Security Service (MI5) records was declassified on the most notorious traitors in modern British history: the five “Cambridge …