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 ...

BBC Archive: Originally broadcast 14 February 1956. 1956: Journalist meets 'Cambridge spies' in Moscow. Video, 00:00:501956: Journalist meets 'Cambridge spies' in Moscow Up Next. 1949: Bonn - new ...

Secret UK Files Detailing Confessions of Cambridge Five Spies Released By Michael Holden LONDON (Reuters) - Top secret MI5 files detailing first-hand accounts of confessions of three of Britain's ...

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 Damian Lewis as Elliott.

Philby fled to Moscow where he died in 1988, telling Elliott he faced the choice “between suicide and prosecution". The Cambridge spies have inspired myriad of books, plays, movies and TV shows.

The Spies is a British television series produced by the BBC in 1966. A spin-off or rebranding of the previous 1965 series The Mask of Janus, The Spies was a more conventional espionage thriller ...

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

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 ...

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 ...