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5 giorni fa · Christopher Burgess / May 25, 2024. Intelligence. The espionage tales of the Cold War are not complete without reference to the Cambridge Five which included Kim Philby (codename Sonny/Stanley), Guy Burgess (codename Hicks), Donald MacLean (codename Homer), John Cairncross (codename Liszt), and Anthony Blunt (codename Johnson).
4 mag 2024 · Home. Listen now. 4 Extra Debut. Alan Bennett introduces his drama-double choice as BBC Radio 4 Extra celebrates his 90th birthday. Simon Callow as Guy Burgess. Edward Petheridge as Anthony...
21 ore fa · His trial took place only months after the defection to the Soviet Union of Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean in summer 1951 after which the Foreign Office started to consider anyone known to be homosexual as a potential security risk.
18 mag 2024 · But perhaps Bennett was most at home with characters who live in disguise, behind masks, especially spies and homosexuals. His Guy Burgess says at one point, “I never pretended. If I wore a mask it was to be exactly as I seemed.” This is what fascinated him about Burgess and Blunt.
3 mag 2024 · 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.
2 mag 2024 · The stentorian tones of Stuart Hibberd inform 1950s Britain about the disappearance of two Foreign Office officials. Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean had last been seen on 26 May, some two weeks...
6 mag 2024 · John Cairncross (born July 25, 1913, Lesmahagow, Scotland—died October 8, 1995, Herefordshire, England) was a British literary scholar and civil servant who was identified in the 1990s as the “fifth man” in the notorious Cambridge spy ring that included Kim Philby, Guy Burgess, Donald Maclean, and Anthony Blunt.
