The Seventh Man? Letter Reveals New 1950s Cambridge Spy Suspect But Judge Rules He Can't Be Named - As He Is Still Alive

Steve Doughty at the British newspaper the Daily Mail offers a piece on a British judge ruling that the possible "seventh man" in the 1950s Cambridge spy ring named in a letter cannot be revealed.

(In the above photo, the "third man," the late Kim Philby, meets with reporters).

A man connected to Britain’s most notorious spy scandal cannot be named, a judge has ruled. 

His identity must remain secret even though historians say he could be the ‘seventh man’ in the 1950s Cambridge spy network that included traitor Kim Philby.

Judge Peter Lane ruled that the suspect’s name cannot be revealed as he is still alive and it was ‘quite possible that personal relationships could be jeopardised’, and there was no pressing need to identify Cold War defectors.

The man is named in a letter held in the National Archives in Kew, South West London.

Its existence was traced by historian Andrew Lownie but he was denied the right to see the letter following a Freedom of Information request. That decision was upheld in the publication yesterday of Judge Lane’s first-tier tribunal ruling.

Historians criticised the ruling, saying possible social embarrassment was no reason for shielding a traitor from exposure.

You can read the rest of the piece and view the photos of the known spies via the below link:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3797379/The-seventh-man-Letter-reveals-new-1950s-Cambridge-spy-suspect-judge-rules-t-named-alive.html

Unmasked: SIXTH Man In Cambridge Spy Ring Sent Nuclear Secrets To The KGB Allowing Russia To Develop Their Own Atom Bomb

Andrew Lownie, the author of Stalin's Englishman: The Lives of Guy Burgess, unmasks the sixth man in the notorious Cambridge spy ring that included Kim Philby and Guy Burgess in the Daily Mail.

For more than 50 years, the identities of members of the infamous Cambridge Spy Ring have been the stuff of debate and fevered speculation. Four – Donald Maclean, Kim Philby, Guy Burgess, and Anthony Blunt – have been unmasked as Soviet agents. 

A fifth is believed to have been the Bletchley Park and MI6 officer John Cairncross. Now author Andrew Lownie has unmasked a sixth Soviet spy at the heart of the Establishment – a brilliant MI6 physicist who sent nuclear secrets to the KGB which allowed the Russians to develop their own atom bomb…

To his colleagues in MI6, scientist Wilfrid Mann was known as ‘Atomic Man’, the conduit between Britain’s nascent nuclear programme and the team of specialists working under Robert Oppenheimer on America’s Manhattan Project in the desert of New Mexico.

But he also had a secret life as a Russian spy, working in the office next door to his fellow KGB agents Donald Maclean, Guy Burgess and Kim Philby in the British Embassy in Washington from 1943 to 1951.

You can read the rest of the piece via the below link:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3223851/Unmasked-SIXTH-man-Cambridge-spy-ring-sent-nuclear-secrets-KGB-allowing-Russia-develop-atom-bomb.html

You can also read an earlier post on Andrew Lownie's new book via the below link:

http://www.pauldavisoncrime.com/2015/09/new-biography-reveals-nortorious.html

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy: The Men Behind The Mole War

Jeff Stein offers a brief history of the real story behind John le Carre's spy novel, which was made into a classic miniseries and is now a feature film starring Gary Oldman.

Stein's piece in the Washington Post covers the Cambridge spy ring, a group of British men who spied for the Soviet Union during the Cold War.

Included in the ring was a senior British Secret Intelligence Service officer named Kim Philby (seen in the above photo).

Beautifully directed, wonderfully acted and darkly stylized, “Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy,” the latest rendition of John le Carré’s iconic spy thriller, is drawn from real events that shook the British establishment decades ago.

But for two-plus hours, moviegoers — especially those born after the last hammer and sickle flew from the Kremlin in 1991 — might wonder what all the fuss was about.

You can read the rest of the piece via the below link:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/tinker-tailor-soldier-spy-the-men-behind-the-mole-war/2011/12/07/gIQABf942O_story.html

You can also read an earlier piece on John le Carre and Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy via the below link;

http://pauldavisoncrime.blogspot.com/2011/12/tinker-tailor-soldier-spy-almost.html

And you can read a BBC account of the Cambridge spy ring via the below link:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/special_report/1999/09/99/britain_betrayed/444058.stm