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 ...

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 ...

Will we ever tire of the Cambridge spies? Kim Philby, Anthony Blunt, Burgess and Maclean – and to a lesser extent John ...

Suspicion first fell on Blunt in 1951, when his fellow spies Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean fled to the Soviet Union. He had been a close friend of Burgess since their time at Cambridge together in ...

The Cambridge spies have inspired myriad books ... Soviet handlers as hopeless drunks incapable of keeping secrets, the BBC reported. One passage describes Burgess as a man "constantly under ...

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 ...

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 ...

Confessions of double agents and tips for new spies have been released as part of a tranche of recently-declassified documents from MI5. The documents are part of a new exhibition on display at ...

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 ...