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 ...

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Five Cambridge University graduates served as double agents, leaking highly classified information to the Soviet Union ...

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 ...

The documents, released by the UK's National Archives, expose the exploits of Soviet double agents like Kim Philby and Anthony Blunt, members of the infamous Cambridge Spy Ring, and their shocking ...

LONDON (AP) — 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 worries, newly declassified ...

LONDON (AP) — 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 worries, newly declassified documents ...

A third, Kim Philby, continued to work for foreign intelligence agency MI6 despite falling under suspicion. As evidence of his duplicity mounted, he was confronted in Beirut in January 1963 by his ...

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LONDON (Reuters) – 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 ...