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 ...

(PA via AP, File) FILE - Harold "Kim" Philby, one of the Cambridge Ring of Soviet Spies, Aug. 11, 1955. (PA via AP, File) LONDON (AP) — Queen Elizabeth II wasn’t told details of her long-time ...

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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Kim Philby was the quintessential spy, a man who charmed and betrayed in equal measure. To his colleagues in MI6, he was the consummate professional, rising swiftly through the ranks of Britain’s ...

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.

My grandfather tried to break spy Kim Philby - but found a master of duplicity In 1951, Helenus Milmo, a barrister and wartime MI5 officer, was tasked with trying to wring the truth from Kim ...