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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]
Aug 26, 2024 · Guy Burgess was a British diplomat who spied for the Soviet Union in World War II and early in the Cold War period. At the University of Cambridge in the 1930s, Burgess was part of a group of upper-middle-class students—including Donald Maclean, Kim Philby, and Anthony Blunt—who disagreed with the
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Burgess began passing information to the Soviets during World War II, while working as secretary to the British foreign minister. In 1947 he was transferred to the British embassy in Washington, where he continued his work as a spy.
Guy Burgess was a member of the ‘Cambridge Five’ spy ring. He worked as a Soviet spy during World War Two and the start of the Cold War. He headed to the USSR in 1951 with Donald Maclean, where he died in 1963. Guy Burgess was born on 16 April 1911 in Devonport, Devon.
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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 regularly...
Sep 29, 2015 · Burgess’s assets as a spy were his network of friends and his charm. His company was sought out by Maynard Keynes, W H Auden, Winston Churchill, Isaiah Berlin, Harold Nicolson, George Orwell, Lucian Freud and many others.
Guy Burgess, a member of the Cambridge Spy Ring and a double agent to the British and Russians was also an open homosexual
