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Guy Francis de Moncy Burgess (16 April 1911 – 30 August 1963) was a British diplomat and Soviet double agent, and a member of the Cambridge Five spy ring that operated from the mid-1930s to the early years of the Cold War era. [1]
Guy Burgess (born 1911, Devonport, Devon, Eng.—died Aug. 30, 1963, Moscow, Russia, U.S.S.R.) was a British diplomat who spied for the Soviet Union in World War II and early in the Cold War period.
The general public first became aware of the conspiracy in 1951 after the sudden flight of Donald Maclean (1913–1983, codename Homer) and Guy Burgess (1911–1963, codename Hicks) to the Soviet Union.
Sep 29, 2015 · Born of Huguenot stock in Devon in 1911 into a military and naval family, Guy Francis de Moncy Burgess was educated at Eton and Cambridge, where he became a member of the Apostles, and went on to hold positions in the BBC, the intelligence services and the Foreign Office.
Jan 10, 2017 · The Student and the Spy: How One Man’s Life Was Changed by the Cambridge Five. An unlikely friendship with Guy Burgess, the infamous British double-agent, brought unexpected joy to Stanley...
Guy Burgess (1911-63) was a British diplomat and intelligence officer who passed secrets to Moscow and later defected to the Soviet Union. Burgess was born in Plymouth, the son of a loyal and long-serving naval officer.
Jun 2, 2016 · Guy Burgess was a brilliant young Englishman who rose through the ranks of MI5 and MI6 during the Cold War. But as a member of ‘The Cambridge Spies’, he betrayed his country by...
Feb 23, 2015 · A television interview with Guy Burgess, one of the Cambridge Five spy ring, has been discovered after it lay in archives forgotten about for more than half a century.
Nov 30, 2016 · Guy Burgess was in many ways a patriot and very British and yet, I argue, he was the most important of the Cambridge Spies and to the end of his life remained a fascinating paradox—Stalin's Englishman.
Anthony Blunt, Guy Burgess, John Cairncross, Donald Maclean, and Kim Philby – known as the Cambridge Five – were elite British members of a KGB spy ring that penetrated the upper echelons of ...
