The Soviets recruited Philby, Blunt and Cairncross, as well as Donald Maclean and ... from the KGB Soviet spy agency. He was questioned several times after Maclean and Burgess fled to the Soviet ...

He had been recruited by the Soviets while he was at the University of Cambridge, joining a spy ring that included other infamous double agents Donald Maclean, Guy Burgess and Kim Philby.

The members of the ring were Donald Maclean (1913 - 1983), Guy Burgess ... In 1963, the British government discovered he was a spy but offered him immunity in return for information.

The files confirm that Philby recruited Donald Maclean in 1934, and how Guy Burgess, Anthony Blunt and the fifth spy, John Cairncross, agreed to work for Russian intelligence soon afterwards.

Amid fears of arrest and that their spy ring was ... “Look, Donald’s in trouble, and I must contact him at once”. Burgess’s plan was to wander into Maclean’s office in the Foreign ...