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A landmark espionage book about the Cambridge Spies, which has stood up surprisingly well though published almost forty years ago and before the release of Russian and British archives, and first made me interested in ‘The Climate of Treason’. It not only gives the historical background to their recruitment during the 1930s but, drawing on a deathbed confession from Goronwy Rees, named two new spies ‘Maurice’ and ‘Basil’. After leaks to the satirical magazine Private Eye , Margaret Thatcher confirmed that ‘Maurice’ was the Surveyor of the Queen’s Pictures Sir Anthony Blunt who had been granted immunity sixteen years earlier.…
From Andrew's list on The best books on Guy Burgess of the Cambridge Spy Ring.
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