1. The best book on the Cambridge Five was written by the best spy among them, and perhaps of all time: Kim Philby. "My Silent War" is a brilliantly cynical confection of truth, half-truth, lies ...

The Cambridge Five network began to be dismantled only in 1951, but by then it had caused much damage to Western governments and profound embarrassment to Her Britannic Majesty's counter-espionage.

Enemies Within: Communists, the Cambridge Spies and the Making of Modern Britain. By Richard Davenport-Hines. William Collins; 642 pages; £25. To be published in America in October; $26.99 ...

Eventually, he, like other members of the Cambridge Five, was posted to Washington DC, where a mistake in code transmissions nearly led to his unmasking.

Kim Philby was part of the Cambridge Five The archive was compiled by KGB Major Vasili Mitrokhin, who defected to Britain in 1992 and contains more than 30 years of Soviet secrets.

Among the papers is an incomplete six-page confession from 1963 of Philby, seen as the Cambridge Five's ringleader and who became a senior figure in Britain's foreign spy agency MI6, in which he ...

British double-agent Guy Burgess was one member of the Cambridge Five ring of spies. Wikimedia Commons Like any good spy story, it started with cocktails. Stanley Weiss first encountered Guy ...

In 1964 Sir Anthony Blunt, a leading art historian and art surveyor who frequently advised Queen Elizabeth II on art matters, was revealed as a member of the Cambridge Five, a group of Soviet ...