CRIMINAL MASTERMINDS (True Crime) by Williams Anne & Head Vivian & Prooth Sebastian

Author:Williams, Anne & Head, Vivian & Prooth, Sebastian [Williams, Anne]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Canary Press
Published: 2011-02-01T16:00:00+00:00

The Cambridge Spies

In the 1930s, a number of bright young students at Cambridge University, who were destined for careers in the Foreign Office or the intelligence agencies, became famous for passing information to the Soviet Union over a period of about thirty years. In the KGB they were known as the ‘magnificent five’, but in the UK they were better known as the Cambridge spies. The four men were Kim Philby, Guy Burgess, Donald Mclean and Anthony Blunt. There was believed to be a fifth man, John Cairncross, but there is insufficient proof to confirm that he was actually involved. The information they passed on was accurate and reliable, and they became major assets to the KGB. None of the men were motivated by any form of financial gain, but by the fact that they believed capitalism to be corrupt.

The Cambridge spies were informally led by Harold ‘Kim’ Philby, who allegedly served the KGB for over fifty years. He is believed to have caused the most damage to both British and US intelligence, providing classified information that caused the deaths of numerous agents. Burgess and Maclean were most productive for around twelve years, until they defected to Russia in 1951. Anthony Blunt was the most aristocratic of the infamous Cambridge spy ring. He was a discreet homosexual, a distant relative of the Queen and keeper of the royal family’s pictures and drawings.

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