The beating heart of the British establishment, the University of Cambridge, as we know, served as a recruitment center for Stalin's secret services in the mid-1930s. With the objective - fulfilled by five of them - of infiltrating after their studies the British state apparatus.
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First of the five to set foot in MI6, the English DGSE, Guy Burgess manages to introduce his accomplice Kim Philby.
Officer from 1939 of the MI5, the equivalent of our DGSI, Anthony Blunt will become after the war… Queen Elizabeth II's adviser for her purchases of paintings!
In 1940, John Cairncross saw himself promoted to secretary to Maurice Hankey, the eminence grise of the British intelligence community.
In post in the United States in 1944, Donald Maclean became, for his part, the star of the Foreign Office.
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So much goes all the same the jug to the water.
In February 1951, Philby, in charge of liaison between MI6 and the CIA in Washington, learned that American decryptions of Soviet radio messages…
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