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Michael Whitney Straight (September 1, 1916 – January 4, 2004) was an American magazine publisher, novelist, patron of the arts, a member of the prominent Whitney family, and a confessed spy for the KGB.
Nov 17, 2019 · Michael Straight, an American whom Blunt had attempted to recruit at Cambridge, informed British intelligence of Blunt’s espionage after years of wrestling with the knowledge. Blunt, who had...
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Jan 5, 2004 · Jan. 5, 2004. Michael Straight, the patrician former magazine publisher who described in a political memoir his lingering involvement with Soviet spies whom he had first met when they were all...
Jan 8, 2004 · Michael Whitney Straight, the former magazine publisher and National Endowment for the Arts official who belatedly described his involvement in spying for the Soviets in his candid but poorly...
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Nov 18, 2019 · Who is Michael Straight? In the opening episode of The Crown, Straight is portrayed as the man who was essential in revealing that Anthony Blunt was in fact as KGB spy during the time he was...
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Jan 24, 1983 · Michael Straight sinks deeper down in his armchair and stares balefully into the fire. He's been over it all so many times before, four decades of this canker at the soul's root. As a communist...
Michael Straight. Michael Whitney Straight (September 1, 1916 – January 4, 2004) was an American magazine publisher, novelist, patron of the arts, a member of the prominent Whitney family, and a confessed spy for the KGB. [1] Contents. 1 Early life. 2 Career. 2.1 Memoirs and novels. 3 Personal life. 4 References. 5 Further reading.
