The Spy Files: How Kim Philby And Anthony Blunt Turned On Their Fellow 'Cambridge' Agents

Tom Whitehead and Tom Morgan at the British newspaper the Telegraph offers a piece on the notorious Cambridge spy ring.

Kim Philby and Anthony Blunt turned on their fellow “Cambridge” agents in a desperate attempt to deflect suspicion from themselves as the Soviet spy ring first began to be exposed, files reveal for the first time.

Philby came under immediate suspicion when his associates Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean suddenly fled to Russia in May 1951 as the net closed in on the latter as a Soviet mole.

Burgess had been sent by Philby to tip Maclean off but was not supposed to go with him to Russia and when he did it turned the spotlight on Philby, a senior MI6 agent.

But within days of their disappearance, and with doubts still lingering over Burgess, Philby wrote to the head of MI6 suggesting he had all “the essential requirements of an espionage agent”.

Similarly, Blunt went to see the deputy director general of MI5 on a fishing exercise to see what they knew of Maclean and also pointed the finger at Burgess.

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

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/11949108/kim-philby-anthony-blunt-cambridge-spies.html 

Note: To learn more about Kim Philby and the Cambridge spy ring I suggest you read Ben Macintyre's A Spy Among Friends: Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal. 

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

New Biography Reveals Nortorious Cambridge Spy Guy Burgess Spent His Final Days Drunk In Moscow, Pining For Britain

The British newspaper the Daily Mail offers three extracts from Andrew Lownie's biography of the British spy and traitor Guy Burgess.

You can read the extracts and watch a video of an interview with Burgess via the below links:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3214863/Stalin-s-SUPERSPY-Old-Etonian-Guy-Burgess-unlikely-KGB-spy-major-biography-reveals-s-deadly.html

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3217528/The-rude-doodle-CIA-chief-s-wife-nearly-blew-Cambridge-spy-ring-s-cover-arrogance-Guy-Burgess-exposed-new-biography.html

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3220298/The-lonely-exile-drank-death-New-biography-reveals-Cambridge-spy-spent-final-days-stuck-drab-Moscow-flat-pining-Britain.html   

Cambridge spy Anthony Blunt admitted "I should have been Shot"

Duncan Gardham in the British newspaper The Telegraph reports that British spy Anthony Blunt, one of the infamous Cambridge communist spies, admitted that he should have been shot for what he did.
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I quite agree.
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You can read Gardham's piece via the below link:
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/7777483/Cambridge-Spy-Anthony-Blunt-admitted-I-should-have-been-shot..html