A closer look at recently declassified MI5 files on the intelligence failure surrounding the five "Cambrdige spies" ...
Anthony Blunt after he was publicly unmasked as a Soviet ... to inform the monarch. On March 19, MI5 director general Michael Hanley reported that the cabinet secretary Sir Burke Trend had shown ...
Newly declassified British documents show that Queen Elizabeth II wasn’t told details of her long-time art adviser's double life as a Soviet spy because palace officials didn’t want to add to her ...
The late Queen was not formally told of the full scale of Cambridge spy Anthony Blunt’s treachery for almost a decade, according to newly published MI5 documents. A distinguished art historian ...
secret MI5 files reveal today. The newly declassified papers tell how the Queen was left in the dark about the scale of the treachery of Anthony Blunt. He was allowed to continue in his role as th ...
Getty Images Anthony Blunt, is pictured with a painting by Velazquez, in 1962 Despite Blunt's prominent position, few outside MI5 were told of this confession. The home secretary and his most ...
MI5 and the Edward Heath government were terrified ... A passport photo of Captain Anthony Blunt, taken during WW2 when he was an officer in the Security Service The National Archives During ...
More than 100 Security Service (MI5) files have been released by the National Archives, showing the confessions of double agents from Cambridge. The Cambridge Five consisted of Harold ‘Kim’ Philby, ...
Newly released MI5 files reveal that, for nearly 10 years, the late monarch didn’t know that royal household member Anthony Blunt was actually a Soviet double agent. According to the BBC ...
The files about royal art historian Anthony Blunt are among a trove from the intelligence agency MI5 released Tuesday by Britain's National Archives. They shed new light on a spy ring linked to ...
Elizabeth II reacted ‘very calmly’ in 1973 when warned by MI5 about the media frenzy expected to follow the death of Russian spy Sir Anthony Blunt, who had been the surveyor of her pictures until only ...