Five of Cambridge
The Five of Cambridge ( Cambridge Five in English), are a group of Espionnage, composed of five former students of the university of Cambridge, members of the Secret society of the Cambridge Apostles and recruited by NKVD, future the KGB, during the years 1930. They worked on behalf of the Soviet Union during the second world war and the Cold war which followed it. According to certain sources, it would be to seventeen agents which would have been recruited at that time.
Their former fellow traveller, the American Michael Straight, revealed the role of Sir Anthony Blunt in front of MI5 as of 1963. However, these revelations remained a Secret of State until in 1979, at the time of the Scandale which involved the official disgrace of Blunt. Lastly, in 1983, Straight published its autobiography, entitled After Long silence .
Composition of the group of the Five of Cambridge
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