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 ...

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 ...

Papers released by MI5 show that although Blunt confessed to them he had spied for the Russians during World War Two, the ...

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 ...

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 ...

The secrets and betrayals poured out of the art historian as he revealed his secret schemes with the Cambridge spies to betray his country. However, he was never prosecuted, was later knighted ...

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.

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 ...