The Cambridge Five consisted of Harold ‘Kim’ Philby, Guy Burgess, Donald Maclean, Anthony Blunt and John Cairncross, who together made up the most infamous spy ring of the 20th century.

They shed new light on a spy ring linked to Cambridge University in the 1930s, whose members spilled secrets to the Soviet Union from the heart of the U.K. intelligence establishment.

The art expert was the fourth member to be uncovered of the notorious ‘ Cambridge Five’, a spy ring of British agents who passed information to the Soviet Union during the Second World War and the ...

In the files relating to Anthony Blunt, there is a transcript of the interview conducted by MI5. Top secret MI5 files detailing first-hand accounts of confessions of three of Britain's most ...

Anthony Blunt confessed in 1964 to spying for the Soviet Union as part of the notorious Cambridge Five spy ring during World War II. A photo of Anthony Blunt inside an MI5 file made available to ...

Blunt, who worked at Buckingham Palace as surveyor of the Queen’s pictures, was under suspicion for years before he finally confessed in 1964 that, as a senior MI5 officer during World War II ...

Professor Anthony Blunt, former surveyor of the Queen's pictures, photographed at the Courtauld Institute with Queen Elizabeth II on Nov. 15, 1979. / AP ...

Queen Elizabeth II was not told for almost a decade that a long-serving royal art historian had confessed to being a Soviet spy, according to newly declassified documents. The files about Anthony ...

Mr Philby and Mr Blunt were, along with Mr Guy Burgess, Mr Donald Maclean and Mr John Cairncross, part of the "Ring of Five" - former Cambridge University students who passed information to the ...

LONDON — Top secret MI5 files detailing first-hand accounts of confessions of three of UK's most notorious double agents including Kim Philby and Anthony Blunt who spied for the Soviet Union ...

That memo is just one revelation in MI5 files about the infamous Cambridge Five spy ring, released on Tuesday into the National Archives at Kew. Charteris spoke to the Queen in 1973 because Blunt had ...

Elizabeth II reacted ‘very calmly’ in 1973 when warned by MI5 about the media frenzy expected to follow the death of Russian spy Sir Anthony Blunt, who had been the surveyor of her pictures ...