A closer look at recently declassified MI5 files on the intelligence failure surrounding the five "Cambrdige spies" ...
Five Cambridge University graduates served as double agents, leaking highly classified information to the Soviet Union ...
The Cambridge Five consisted of Harold ‘Kim’ Philby, Guy Burgess, Donald Maclean, Anthony Blunt and John Cairncross, who together made up the most infamous spy ring of the 20th century.
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 ...
Top secret MI5 files detailing first-hand accounts of confessions of three of Britain's most notorious double agents ...
Among the papers is an incomplete six-page confession from 1963 of Philby, seen as the Cambridge Five's ringleader and ... papers and equipment used by spies in the agency's 115-year history.
"Watchers" – effectively spies in MI5 – were also instructed ... confessions from some of the members of the so-called Cambridge Five spy ring have also been provided to the National Archives ...