Guy Burgess
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Guy Francis de Moncy Burgess was a British diplomat and Soviet double agent, and a member of the Cambridge Five spy ring that operated from the mid-1930s to the early years of the Cold War era. His de
Photo portrait, before 1951
Eton College, which Burgess attended in 1924 and between 1927 and 1930
Great Court, Trinity College, Cambridge
Cambridge War Memorial, focus of demonstrations in November 1933
Kim Philby
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Harold Adrian Russell "Kim" Philby was a British intelligence officer and a double agent for the Soviet Union. In 1963, he was revealed to be a member of the Cambridge Five, a spy ring that had divulg
Guy Burgess
…and joined the Communist Party of Great Britain. Burgess was recruited by Soviet intelligence in 1935, on the recommendation of the future double agent Harold "Kim" Philby. After leaving Cambridge, Burgess worked for the BBC as a producer, briefly interrupted by a short period as a full-time MI6 intelligence officer…
Philby in 1955
Philby on a 1990 Soviet stamp