Mystery AtlasAnthony Blunt
Art historian and Surveyor of the Queen's Pictures who recruited fellow Cambridge Five members and confessed his own Soviet espionage to MI5 in 1964 in exchange for immunity; the British government kept his identity secret for fifteen years until Margaret Thatcher named him publicly in 1979.
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- Kim Philby1912-1988
Anthony Blunt is frequently compared to Kim Philby — Fellow Cambridge Five members exposed through starkly different mechanisms: Philby's suspected flight and eventual defection versus Blunt's traded confession and the government's own fifteen-year concealment of it.
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- The Cambridge Five1930s-1979
Anthony Blunt was a member of The Cambridge Five.