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 ...
The Cambridge spy Kim Philby declared he would have done it all again after he finally confessed that he had been for years a Russian agent, according to newly-declassified intelligence files.
Trove of newly declassified files detail investigations into some of country’s most notorious double agents the ‘Ring of Five’ who passed information to Soviets for three decades ...
A closer look at recently declassified MI5 files on the intelligence failure surrounding the five "Cambrdige spies" ...
Helenus Milmo, a barrister and wartime MI5 officer, was tasked with trying to wring the truth from Kim Philby. Some seven ...
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.
Will we ever tire of the Cambridge spies? Kim Philby, Anthony Blunt, Burgess and Maclean – and to a lesser extent John ...
Top secret MI5 files detailing first-hand accounts of confessions of three of Britain's most notorious double agents ...
Newly declassified files show the moment the notorious Cambridge double agent finally confessed to his treachery.
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 ...
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