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The center concluded that all five must really be British intelligence officers trying to penetrate the KGB.
Newly released evidence on the Cambridge Spies reveals how, among other revelations, inaction and incompetence on the part of the authorities enabled Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean to make their escape to Moscow.
Because he was in MI5 they learned things from him. This doesn't make him the fifth man, and he wasn't
In fact, Philby's first seven years in the Soviet Union were almost a form of house arrest. Again a victim of deception: "The K.G.B. told him they were afraid the British M.I.6 was going to try to assassinate him, so he had to have guards all the time, close surveillance," Lyubimov said. But the real reason was the Soviets did not completely trust him not to bolt for home. "They were afraid something would happen. And he would end up back in Britain or even America.""Did he know they didn't trust him?""Oh yes, he knew." "All this time, he wanted to be a hero of this country," Lyubimov says. "But they did everything to prevent him from this." But for the most part, Philby was frozen out, his suggestions ignored. "The K.G.B. was too stupid and impotent to make use of him," Lyubimov reiterated to me. "This destroyed him. This ruined his life."
Donald Maclean: 'the most quietly productive of the Cambridge spies and perhaps the strangest too'
meticulously researched life of the disreputable but undeniably fascinating Guy, Stalin's Englishman
Alec Douglas-Home was kept in the dark about one of the biggest spy scandals of the cold war
UK government launched campaign to block memoirs being published fearing damaging disclosures
meticulously researched life of the disreputable but undeniably fascinating Guy, Stalin's Englishman
for much of his life he suffered from an incurable form of conspiracy disease, a highly contagious condition that he caught from Peter Wright of Spycatcher fame.
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