“Brazilian Embassy: The agent is a butler, thirty-nine years of age.”—
from a list of MI5 assets which Anthony Blunt forwarded to Stalin’s intelligence service in 1945
Imagine if a foreign power were to learn everything about your country’s most valuable assets, its plans of attack, opinions, and strategies. That is exactly the position that Britain was in when the Cambridge Five were operating as secret agents of Soviet intelligence. The Five—Kim Philby, Donald Maclean, Guy Burgess, Anthony Blunt, and John Cairncross—penetrated Britain’s principal intelligence service and foreign office. Blunt was actually in charge of one of Britain’s richest sources of information, code name TRIPLEX. In the KGB archives, Nigel West, renowned British historian of military intelligence and author of TRIPLEX: Secrets from the Cambridge Spies, discovered the secret documents sent by the five spies to the Soviets. Drawing on these documents, West will reveal precisely what was compromised by the British traitors and what the self-directed spies thought would be of special interest to Moscow.
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