Hugh Trevor-Roper remembered discussing the trip with Blunt at MI5 in the autumn of 1945, recalling (in Carter's retelling): "Blunt's task had been to secure the Vicky correspondence before the Americans found it and published it."

Jan 15, 2025 · During World War II he served in MI-5, a military intelligence organization, and was able to supply secret information to the Soviets and, more importantly, to give warning to fellow agents of counterintelligence operations that might endanger them.

Anthony Blunt was at once the most enigmatic and the most public figure of the Cambridge Five. With access to the upper echelons of British society, including the royal family itself, he was able to gather information any intelligence service in the world could only dream of.

Jan 15, 2025 · 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 Cambridge University in the 1930s, whose members spilled secrets to the Soviet Union from the heart of the U.K. intelligence establishment.

Jan 14, 2025 · KV 2/4705 includes a riveting account of an interview with Anthony Blunt by MI5 Officer Arthur Martin, in Blunt’s flat above the Courtauld Institute on 23 April 1964, in which he finally...

In fact, Blunt was a double agent operating simultaneously for the British spy service MI5 while tipping off the Soviets about counterintelligence operations. The FBI duly reported this to MI5, opening an uncomfortable chapter in Britain’s espionage history.

LONDON, Jan 14 (Reuters) - Top secret MI5 files detailing first-hand accounts of confessions of three of Britain's most notorious double agents including Kim Philby and Anthony Blunt who spied...

A photo of Anthony Blunt inside an MI5 file made available to the National Archives in London on Monday. James Manning / PA via Getty Images

Elizabeth II reacted ‘very calmly’ in 1973 when warned by MI5 about the media frenzy expected to follow the death of Russian spy Sir Anthony Blunt, who had been the surveyor of her pictures...

Anthony Blunt was a British art historian and a member of the ‘Cambridge Five’ spy ring, which had simultaneously provided espionage services to ‘MI5’ and the Soviet Union during World War II.