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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.
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.
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.
He reveals how he was recruited at Cambridge as a damage limitation exercise but was soon regarded as the most important of the network by the Russians penetrating the BBC, the Foreign Office and...
Sep 29, 2015 · Guy Burgess, the Cambridge spy who bet on a Soviet future. As Britain’s imperial elite dissolved, the charming double agent clung to his precious badge of identity: an Old Etonian tie.
Jul 31, 2017 · Andrew Lownie’s labour-of-love biography of Guy Burgess (1911–1963) is a cracking read, rich with archival detail and interviews with those who knew Burgess. Lownie throws up three central questions: why did Burgess spy for the USSR, why did the British establishment not see him for what he was and how much damage did he do?
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.
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.
