Newly declassified British documents show that Queen Elizabeth II wasn’t told details of her long-time art adviser's double life as a Soviet spy because palace officials didn’t want to add to her ...
Newly-declassified files show the Queen was only told the full story a decade after the Cambridge don and royal courtier confessed he was a KGB spy.
14 (UPI) --Documents newly declassified by MI5, Britain's internal intelligence ... infamous Cambridge Five member and art historian, Anthony Blunt, who was employed as the monarch's surveyor ...
New archival material released in the UK have revealed some unexpected details about one of the biggest spy scandals ...
Getty Images Anthony Blunt, is pictured with a painting by Velazquez, in 1962 Despite Blunt's prominent position, few outside MI5 were told of this confession. The home secretary and his most ...
Sir Anthony Blunt, the Royal Family's picture surveyor and renowned art historian, finally admitted that he had been a Soviet ...
DURING the Blitz, Anthony Blunt was the assistant to the chief of counter-intelligence at MI5. He was recruited as a Soviet agent at Cambridge University in the 1930s before becoming an art historian.
MI5 and the Edward Heath government were terrified ... A passport photo of Captain Anthony Blunt, taken during WW2 when he was an officer in the Security Service The National Archives During ...
The late Queen was not formally told of the full scale of Cambridge spy Anthony Blunt’s treachery for almost a decade, according to newly published MI5 documents. A distinguished art historian ...
according to newly released MI5 files. Art historian Anthony Blunt was for decades Surveyor of the Queen's Pictures, overseeing the official Royal Art Collection, and in 1964 admitted he had been ...
Newly released MI5 files reveal that, for nearly 10 years, the late monarch didn’t know that royal household member Anthony Blunt was actually a Soviet double agent. According to the BBC ...
The files about royal art historian Anthony Blunt are among a trove from the intelligence agency MI5 released Tuesday by Britain's National Archives. They shed new light on a spy ring linked to ...