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Together with Philby, Burgess, Blunt and Maclean, he is remembered by the Center (Moscow KGB Headquarters) as one of the Magnificent Five, the ablest group of foreign agents in KGB history. Though Cairncross is the last of the five to be publicly identified, he successfully penetrated a greater variety of the corridors of power and ...
Hace 2 días · After Burgess and Maclean fled to the Soviet Union, Philby came under suspicion and was forced to resign. In 1963, he defected to the Soviet Union, and died there. Blunt worked for MI5 during...
17 de feb. de 2011 · This is how it turned out. By the time World War Two was underway, Maclean was climbing the ladder in the Foreign Office, Burgess was an intimate of prominent politicians, and Blunt was an...
26 de dic. de 2020 · When Philby learned there were suspicions about a mole passing secrets to the Soviets and that Maclean was a suspect, he told Burgess to tip off Maclean in London.
23 de oct. de 2015 · Philby warned Maclean of the imminent danger and he fled, with Burgess, to the Soviet Union. The files released today contain detailed reports and intercepted correspondence which provide...
Blunt, Burgess, Philby and Maclean meet at the University of Cambridge and bond through their common leaning towards communism, which they see as the only alternative to fascism. They agree to spy for the Soviets and once the university year ends, Philby is sent on assignment to Vienna, where he marries a committed Communist, Litzi ...
13 de ene. de 2023 · On discovering that Maclean’s position was about to be compromised, Philby turned to Guy Burgess for assistance. Burgess had also been busily passing on classified information to the Soviets for over a decade and half. The charismatic Burgess excelled at making contacts in all the right places.
