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 ‘Cambridge Five’ spy-ring were all ...
More than 100 Security Service (MI5) files have been released by the National Archives, showing the confessions of double agents from Cambridge. The Cambridge Five consisted of Harold ‘Kim ...
Instead, he fled to Moscow, where he died in 1988. The Cambridge spies have inspired myriad books, plays movies and TV shows, including the 2023 series " A Spy Among Friends," starring Guy Pearce as ...
Philby and Blunt were, along with Guy Burgess, Donald Maclean and John Cairncross, part of the "Ring of Five" - former Cambridge University ... and equipment used by spies in the agency's 115 ...
The newly-declassified documents include details about some of the UK's most notorious spies.
These programmes examine the gradual exposure of the Cambridge Spies and reveal how the names Burgess, Philby, Maclean, Blunt and 'fifth man' Cairncross became synonymous with treachery at the ...
Top secret MI5 files detailing first-hand accounts of confessions of three of Britain's most notorious double agents ...
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 ...