Stewart Purvis leads guided walks of Hampstead showing tourists where the spies who leaked state secrets lived and met ...

Kim Philby, Anthony Blunt, Burgess and Maclean – and to a lesser extent John Caincross ... More flintily clear-sighted is John Banville’s 1997 The Untouchable, his arch and exquisite novel (essential ...

Sir Anthony Blunt, the Royal Family's picture surveyor and renowned art historian, finally admitted that he had been a Soviet agent since the 1930s.

15, 1979. (PA via AP, File) clockwise from top left, Anthony Blunt, Guy Burgess (who died in Moscow in 1963), Donald MacLean and Kim Philby, who tipped off Burgess and MacLean in 1951 forcing them to ...

Two of the Cambridge spies, Donald Maclean and Guy Burgess, fled to Russia in 1951. A third, Kim Philby, continued to work for foreign intelligence agency MI6 despite falling under suspicion.

The publisher said: “Charlotte Philby’s grandfather [Kim Philby] was the most infamous double agent in history. Inspired to find out about his world, Charlotte discovered that there were ...

In the files relating to Anthony Blunt, there is a transcript of the interview conducted by MI5. Top secret MI5 files detailing first-hand accounts of confessions of three of Britain's most ...

So it is fitting, amid the revelations about traitors Kim Philby and Anthony Blunt ... the latest of which, the Profumo affair, had revealed that the secretary of state for war had lied about ...

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Two of the Cambridge spies, Donald Maclean and Guy Burgess, fled to Russia in 1951. A third, Kim Philby, continued to work for foreign intelligence agency MI6 despite falling under suspicion.

The Queen’s Private Secretary, Sir Martin Charteris, shared her composed reaction in a handwritten letter summarised by the head of the Security Service in a Top Secret memo. That memo is just ...

My grandfather tried to break spy Kim Philby - but found a master of duplicity In 1951, Helenus Milmo, a barrister and wartime MI5 officer, was tasked with trying to wring the truth from Kim ...