Anthony Blunt confessed in 1964 to spying for the Soviet Union as part of the notorious Cambridge Five spy ring during World War II. IE 11 is not supported. For an optimal experience visit our ...

Newly released MI5 documents have revealed that Queen Elizabeth II was not formally briefed about the full extent of royal art surveyor Anthony Blunt's Soviet spy activities until 1973, nearly a ...

A note from March 1973 about Soviet spy Anthony Blunt. REUTERS. The MI5 files, released to the National Archives, reportedly contain Blunt’s full confession.

Blunt confessed in 1964 to spying for the Soviet Union as part of the notorious Cambridge Five spy ring during World War II, but the queen would only be told the full story in 1973 — responding ...

Blunt was publicly unmasked as a spy by Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in the House of Commons in November 1979. He was finally stripped of his knighthood, but never prosecuted, and died in 1983 ...

Queen Elizabeth was kept in the dark for many years over a Soviet spy being embedded in one of the most senior roles in the family. ... Anthony Blunt, admitted to being a Soviet spy.

The files about royal art historian Anthony Blunt are among a trove ... — Queen Elizabeth II wasn’t told details of her long-time art adviser’s double life as a Soviet spy because ...

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.Blunt, who ...

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