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Cambridge Spies:
Key members of the ring sprang from The Apostles, a secret society of Cambridge idealists.
The Cambridge Give:
On the eve of World War II, Soviet intelligence recruited five Communist sympathizers from Cambridge University to penetrate the British government. Eventually, they obtained top positions in British intelligence and the Foreign Office. Known and revered by their Soviet spymasters simply as "The Five," they operated from the 1930s well into the Cold War.
The Five were Donald Maclean, Guy Burgess, Harold "Kim" Philby, Anthony Blunt, and John Cairncross. Together, they passed tens of thousands of secret documents to Moscow, including information about the US and British nuclear bomb programs, Allied postwar policies, US military strategy in Korea, and numerous Western intelligence agents -- many of whom consequently lost their lives. |