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Anthony Frederick Blunt (26 September 1907 – 26 March 1983), styled Sir Anthony Blunt KCVO from 1956 to November 1979, was a leading British art historian and Soviet spy. Blunt was a professor of art history at the University of London, the director of the Courtauld Institute of Art and Surveyor of the Queen's Pictures.
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Straight worked for the Soviet Union as part of a spy ring...
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Kim Philby, as depicted on a Soviet Union stamp. The...
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John Cairncross (25 July 1913 – 8 October 1995) was a...
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Nov 17, 2019 · Anthony Blunt was the art curator for Queen Elizabeth & the royal family. Later, he was discovered as a Russian spy. Here, how Blunt's true story compares to The Crown season 3's plot line.
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Nov 17, 2019 · A KGB spy worked in Buckingham Palace For Decades, and The Crown season 3 tells part of the story. Here's what you should know about Anthony Blunt who remained in Queen Elizabeth's service long...
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Anthony Blunt (born Sept. 26, 1907, Bournemouth, Hampshire, Eng.—died March 26, 1983, London) 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 ...
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Nov 25, 2019 · Learn about Anthony Blunt, a Soviet spy who worked in the British Establishment and managed the Queen's paintings. Discover his privileged upbringing, his Communist sympathies, his art career and his confession.
Anthony Frederick Blunt (26 September 1907 – 26 March 1983), styled Sir Anthony Blunt KCVO from 1956 to 1979, was a British art historian and spy. In 1964, he confessed to having been a spy for the Soviet Union and was part of the spy group the Cambridge Five.
Jul 24, 2009 · July 23, 2009. CAMBRIDGE, England After keeping it sealed in a steel container for 25 years, the British Library made public on Thursday a 30,000-word memoir in which Anthony Blunt, one of...
