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British double-agent Guy Burgess was one member of the Cambridge Five ring of spies. Wikimedia Commons Like any good spy story, it started with cocktails. Stanley Weiss first encountered Guy ...
For five years the West has been baffled by the strange flight to Russia of Donald Maclean and Guy Burgess, two officials in the British Foreign Office. Both were in disgrace. Burgess had just ...
STALIN’S ENGLISHMAN: GUY BURGESS, THE COLD WAR, AND THE CAMBRIDGE SPY RING By Andrew Lownie St. Martin’s Press, $29.99, 433 pages Nonfiction writers on two continents have dined out for ...
That's what Dr.s Guy and Heidi Burgess had in mind when they requested ASSETT Development Award funding for their Make a Difference Guide for their Peace and Conflict Studies (PACS) students. The ...
The best-known members of this "Cambridge Comintern," after Philby, were Donald Maclean, Guy Burgess, and Anthony Blunt—the last publicly identified only in 1979 as the long-suspected "fourth man." ...
Sixty-five years ago the defection to the U.S.S.R. of the “Cambridge spy” Guy Burgess deeply scarred Britain’s relationship with the United States. That much is certain, but as Andrew Lownie ...
Guy Burgess's passport and briefcase left behind when he fled to Moscow in 1951 A battered leather briefcase left behind by Guy Burgess when he fled to Moscow in 1951 is among 20 objects from MI5 ...
Soviet spy Guy Burgess feared the Americans would assassinate him if he ever returned to the UK – but was more concerned about being persecuted by the British press, personal letters have revealed.
Exclusive: a recording of the voice of Guy Burgess – the most colourful and notorious of the cold war spies – has come to light thanks to a freedom of information request to the FBI.
A battered leather briefcase left behind by Guy Burgess when he fled to Moscow in 1951 is among 20 objects from MI5's archives to go on display for the first time from Saturday. A joint exhibition ...