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 and Blunt were, along with Guy Burgess, Donald Maclean and John Cairncross, part of the "Ring of Five" - former Cambridge University ... and equipment used by spies in the agency's 115 ...

These programmes examine the gradual exposure of the Cambridge Spies and reveal how the names Burgess, Philby, Maclean, Blunt and 'fifth man' Cairncross became synonymous with treachery at the ...

Confessions of double agents and tips for new spies have been released as part of a tranche of recently-declassified documents from MI5. The documents are part of a new exhibition on display at ...

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 secrets and betrayals poured out of the art historian as he revealed his secret schemes with the Cambridge spies to betray his country. However, he was never prosecuted, was later knighted ...

Two of the Cambridge spies, Donald Maclean and Guy Burgess, fled to Russia in 1951. A third, Kim Philby, continued to work for foreign intelligence agency MI6 despite falling under suspicion.

Kim Philby, Anthony Blunt, and John Cairncross - whose details are all included in the exhibit - were recruited as Soviet spies while at Cambridge University in the 1930s. Philby's confession to ...

Top secret MI5 files detailing first-hand accounts of confessions of three of Britain's most notorious double agents ...