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May 31, 2024 · Anthony Blunt was a British art historian who late in his life was revealed to have been a Soviet spy. While a fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, in the 1930s Blunt became a member of a circle of disaffected young men led by Guy Burgess, under whose influence he was soon involved in espionage on.
May 24, 2024 · The story behind the Royal Family's Soviet Spy. A Russian spy lived a double life in the United Kingdom...and the Royal Family allegedly knew all about it. Anthony Blunt was the Windsors' chief art curator for decades but he was also one of the 'Cambridge Five' spy ring.
May 25, 2024 · The espionage tales of the Cold War are not complete without reference to the Cambridge Five which included Kim Philby (codename Sonny/Stanley), Guy Burgess (codename Hicks), Donald MacLean (codename Homer), John Cairncross (codename Liszt), and Anthony Blunt (codename Johnson).
1 day ago · A member of the House of Glücksburg, Philip was a prince of both Greece and Denmark by virtue of his patrilineal descent from George I of Greece and George's father, Christian IX of Denmark; he was from birth in the line of succession to both thrones.
May 22, 2024 · Adding to all this intrigue, one of the legendary “Cambridge Five” of British traitors, Anthony Blunt, had ‘inferred [sic] during his 1964 confession’ that there was a “link between [Kim] Philby and Ellis”, a matter that would have ramifications for Ellis when he was interrogated in London the following year.
4 days ago · The Soviets learned about the Double-Cross network from two well-placed spies of their own — moles Anthony Blunt in MI5 and Kim Philby in MI6’s counterespionage service, Section V or XB.
May 21, 2024 · Not until 1979 was it made public that the inferred “fourth man” in the spy ring was Anthony Blunt, a respected art historian and member of the queen’s household. It had been Blunt, also a Cambridge colleague, who had contacted Soviet agents to arrange for Maclean’s and Burgess’s escape from England.
