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  1. The Cambridge Five was a ring of spies in the United Kingdom that passed information to the Soviet Union during the Second World War and the Cold War and was active from the 1930s until at least the early 1950s. None of the known members were ever prosecuted for spying.

  2. Aug 24, 2021 · The Cambridge 5 were Soviet spies working undetected inside British Intelligence for years. The secrets they leaked to the USSR changed postwar Europe forever.

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  3. Home. Episodes. All. Available now (0) Next on (0) Episode 4. 4/4 Kim Philby survives, but time runs out for Donald Maclean and Guy Burgess. Episode 3. 3/4 Infamous double agent, Anthony...

  4. Jan 13, 2023 · In the years leading up to World War II, several communist sympathizers at Cambridge found work in British intelligence agencies after being recruited as Soviet spies. Recruited straight out of university, these British intelligence officers were secretly moles.

  5. Cambridge Spies is a four-part British drama miniseries written by Peter Moffat and directed by Tim Fywell, [1] that was first broadcast on BBC Two in May 2003 and is based on the true story of four brilliant young men at the University of Cambridge who are recruited to spy for the Soviet Union in 1934.

  6. Oct 17, 2016 · 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.

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  8. An engaging and charming companion to many, an unappealing, utterly ruthless manipulator to others, Burgess rose through academia, the BBC, the Foreign Office, MI5 and MI6, gaining access to thousands of highly sensitive secret documents which he passed to his Russian handlers.