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Cambridge Five, the Glossary

The Cambridge Five was a ring of spies in the United Kingdom that passed information to the Soviet Union during the Second World War and the Cold War and was active from the 1930s until at least the early 1950s.^[1]

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A Different Loyalty

A Different Loyalty is a 2004 drama film inspired by the story of British traitor Kim Philby's love affair and marriage to Eleanor Brewer in Beirut and his eventual defection to the Soviet Union.

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A Perfect Spy

A Perfect Spy (1986) is a novel by British-Irish author John le Carré about the mental and moral dissolution of a high-level intelligence-officer.

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A Question of Attribution

A Question of Attribution is a 1988 one-act stage play, written by Alan Bennett.

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A Spy Among Friends

A Spy Among Friends is a British espionage thriller television series, starring Guy Pearce, Damian Lewis, and Anna Maxwell Martin.

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A. S. F. Gow

Andrew Sydenham Farrar Gow (27 August 1886 – 2 February 1978) was an English classical scholar and teacher.

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Adrian Edmondson

Adrian Charles Edmondson (born 24 January 1957) is an English actor, comedian, musician, writer and television presenter.

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Alan Bates

Sir Alan Arthur Bates (17 February 1934 – 27 December 2003) was an English actor who came to prominence in the 1960s, when he appeared in films ranging from Whistle Down the Wind to the "kitchen sink" drama A Kind of Loving.

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Alan Bennett

Alan Bennett (born 9 May 1934) is an English playwright, author, actor and screenwriter.

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Alan Moore

Alan Moore (born 18 November 1953) is an English author known primarily for his work in comic books including Watchmen, V for Vendetta, The Ballad of Halo Jones, ''Swamp Thing'', Batman: The Killing Joke, and From Hell.

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Alan Turing

Alan Mathison Turing (23 June 1912 – 7 June 1954) was an English mathematician, computer scientist, logician, cryptanalyst, philosopher and theoretical biologist.

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Alec Douglas-Home

Alexander Frederick Douglas-Home, Baron Home of the Hirsel, (2 July 1903 – 9 October 1995), styled as Lord Dunglass between 1918 and 1951 and the Earl of Home from 1951 until 1963, was a British statesman and Conservative politician who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1963 to 1964.

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Allen Leech

Allen Leech (born 18 May 1981) is an Irish actor.

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Allied Commission

Following the termination of hostilities in World War II, the Allies were in control of the defeated Axis countries.

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Allied-occupied Germany

The entirety of Germany was occupied and administered by the Allies of World War II from the Berlin Declaration on 5 June 1945 to the establishment of West Germany on 23 May 1949.

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An Englishman Abroad

An Englishman Abroad is a 1983 BBC television drama film based on the true story of a chance meeting of actress Coral Browne with Guy Burgess, a member of the Cambridge spy ring who spied for the Soviet Union while an officer at MI6.

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Anatoliy Golitsyn

Anatoliy Mikhaylovich Golitsyn CBE (Russian: Анатолий Михайлович Голицын; 25 August 1926 – 29 December 2008) was a Soviet KGB defector and author of two books about the long-term deception strategy of the KGB leadership.

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Andrew Boyle (journalist)

Andrew Philip More Boyle (27 May 1919 – 22 April 1991) was a Scottish journalist and biographer.

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Andrew Lownie

Andrew James Hamilton Lownie (born November 1961) is a British biographer and literary agent.

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Andrew Sinclair

Andrew Annandale Sinclair FRSL FRSA (21 January 1935 – 30 May 2019) was a British novelist, historian, biographer, critic, filmmaker, and a publisher of classic and modern film scripts.

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Another Country (1984 film)

Another Country is a 1984 British romantic historical drama written by Julian Mitchell, adapted from his play of the same name.

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Another Country (play)

Another Country is a 1981 British play written by English playwright Julian Mitchell.

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Anthony Blunt

Anthony Frederick Blunt (26 September 1907 – 26 March 1983), styled Sir Anthony Blunt from 1956 to November 1979, was a leading British art historian and Soviet spy. Cambridge Five and Anthony Blunt are British spies for the Soviet Union.

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Anthony Hopkins

Sir Philip Anthony Hopkins (born 31 December 1937) is a Welsh actor.

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Anthony Powell

Anthony Dymoke Powell (21 December 1905 – 28 March 2000) was an English novelist best known for his 12-volume work A Dance to the Music of Time, published between 1951 and 1975.

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Arnold Deutsch

Arnold Deutsch (1903–1942?), variously described as Austrian, Czech or Hungarian, was an academic who worked in London as a Soviet spy, best known for having recruited Kim Philby.

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Atomic spies

Atomic spies or atom spies were people in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Canada who are known to have illicitly given information about nuclear weapons production or design to the Soviet Union during World War II and the early Cold War. Cambridge Five and Atomic spies are Soviet Union–United Kingdom relations.

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Attorney general

In most common law jurisdictions, the attorney general (attorneys general) or attorney-general (AG or Atty.-Gen) is the main legal advisor to the government.

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Barrie Penrose

Barrie Penrose (26 January 1942 – 5 July 2020) was a British investigative journalist, interviewer and trainer.

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Battle of Kursk

The Battle of Kursk was a major World War II Eastern Front battle between the forces of Germany and the Soviet Union near Kursk in southwestern Russia during the summer of 1943, resulting in a Soviet victory. The Battle of Kursk was the single largest battle in the history of warfare. It, along with the Battle of Stalingrad several months earlier, are the two most oft-cited turning points in the European theatre of the war.

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BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster headquartered at Broadcasting House in London, England.

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BBC Four

BBC Four is a British free-to-air public broadcast television channel owned and operated by the BBC.

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Beirut

Beirut (help) is the capital and largest city of Lebanon.

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Ben Macintyre

Benedict Richard Pierce Macintyre (born 25 December 1963) is a British author, reviewer and columnist for The Times newspaper.

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Benedict Cumberbatch

Benedict Timothy Carlton Cumberbatch (born 19 July 1976) is an English actor.

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Big Brother (Nineteen Eighty-Four)

Big Brother is a character and symbol in George Orwell's dystopian 1949 novel Nineteen Eighty-Four.

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Blade on the Feather

Blade on the Feather is a television drama by Dennis Potter, broadcast by ITV on 19 October 1980 as the first in a loosely connected trilogy of plays exploring language and betrayal.

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Bletchley Park

Bletchley Park is an English country house and estate in Bletchley, Milton Keynes (Buckinghamshire), that became the principal centre of Allied code-breaking during the Second World War.

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Bob Stewart (communist)

Robert J. Stewart (16 February 1877 – 1971) was a member of the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) and was in charge of the underground cell which, in the 1930s, operated a clandestine transmitter in Wimbledon that relayed information between the CPGB and the Comintern in Moscow. Cambridge Five and Bob Stewart (communist) are British spies for the Soviet Union.

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Brian Sewell

Brian Alfred Christopher Bushell Sewell (15 July 1931 – 19 September 2015) was an English art critic.

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Brian Simon

Brian Simon (26 March 1915 – 17 January 2002) was an English educationist and historian.

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British Library

The British Library is a research library in London that is the national library of the United Kingdom.

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Cambridge Apostles

The Cambridge Apostles (also known as the Conversazione Society) is (or perhaps was) an intellectual society at the University of Cambridge founded in 1820 by George Tomlinson, a Cambridge student who became the first Bishop of Gibraltar.

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Cambridge Spies

Cambridge Spies is a four-part British drama miniseries written by Peter Moffat and directed by Tim Fywell, that was first broadcast on BBC Two in May 2003 and is based on the true story of four brilliant young men at the University of Cambridge who are recruited to spy for the Soviet Union in 1934.

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Capitalism

Capitalism is an economic system based on the private ownership of the means of production and their operation for profit.

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Channel 4

Channel 4 is a British free-to-air public broadcast television channel owned and operated by Channel Four Television Corporation.

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Chapman Pincher

Henry Chapman Pincher (29 March 1914 – 5 August 2014) was an English journalist, historian and novelist whose writing mainly focused on espionage and related matters, after some early books on scientific subjects.

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Charles Cumming

Charles Cumming (born 1971) is a British writer of spy fiction and a screenwriter.

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Christopher Andrew (historian)

Christopher Maurice Andrew, (born 23 July 1941) is an Emeritus Professor of Modern and Contemporary History at the University of Cambridge with an interest in international relations and in particular the history of intelligence services.

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Code name

A code name, codename, call sign, or cryptonym is a code word or name used, sometimes clandestinely, to refer to another name, word, project, or person.

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Cold War

The Cold War was a period of geopolitical tension between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies, the Western Bloc and the Eastern Bloc, that started in 1947, two years after the end of World War II, and lasted until the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991.

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Communism

Communism (from Latin label) is a sociopolitical, philosophical, and economic ideology within the socialist movement, whose goal is the creation of a communist society, a socioeconomic order centered around common ownership of the means of production, distribution, and exchange that allocates products to everyone in the society based on need.

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Cryptanalysis

Cryptanalysis (from the Greek kryptós, "hidden", and analýein, "to analyze") refers to the process of analyzing information systems in order to understand hidden aspects of the systems.

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Daily Express

The Daily Express is a national daily United Kingdom middle-market newspaper printed in tabloid format.

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Damian Lewis

Damian Watcyn Lewis (born 11 February 1971) is a British actor, musician and producer.

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Daniel Silva (novelist)

Daniel Silva (born 1960) is an American journalist and author of thriller and spy novels.

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Dennis Potter

Dennis Christopher George Potter (17 May 1935 – 7 June 1994) was an English television dramatist, screenwriter and journalist.

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Derek Jacobi

Sir Derek George Jacobi (born 22 October 1938) is an English actor.

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Doctor Who

Doctor Who is a British science fiction television series broadcast by the BBC since 1963.

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Donald Maclean (spy)

Donald Duart Maclean (25 May 1913 – 6 March 1983) was a British diplomat and Soviet double agent who participated in the Cambridge Five spy ring. Cambridge Five and Donald Maclean (spy) are British spies for the Soviet Union and double agents.

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Donald Pleasence

Donald Henry Pleasence (5 October 1919 – 2 February 1995) was an English actor.

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Double agent

In the field of counterintelligence, a double agent is an employee of a secret intelligence service for one country, whose primary purpose is to spy on a target organization of another country, but who is now spying on their own country's organization for the target organization. Cambridge Five and double agent are double agents.

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Eighth Doctor Adventures

The Eighth Doctor Adventures (sometimes abbreviated as EDA or referred to as the EDAs) are a series of spin off novels based on the long running BBC science fiction television series Doctor Who and published under the BBC Books imprint.

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Emma Peel

Emma Peel is a fictional character played by Diana Rigg in the British 1960s adventure television series The Avengers, and by Uma Thurman in the 1998 film version.

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Endgame (novel)

Endgame is a BBC Books original novel written by Terrance Dicks and based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who.

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Fascism

Fascism is a far-right, authoritarian, ultranationalist political ideology and movement, characterized by a dictatorial leader, centralized autocracy, militarism, forcible suppression of opposition, belief in a natural social hierarchy, subordination of individual interests for the perceived good of the nation or race, and strong regimentation of society and the economy.

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Federal Bureau of Investigation

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is the domestic intelligence and security service of the United States and its principal federal law enforcement agency.

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Fellow

A fellow is a concept whose exact meaning depends on context.

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Foreign Intelligence Service (Russia)

The Foreign Intelligence Service of the Russian Federation (p) or FIS RF (r) is Russia's external intelligence agency, focusing mainly on civilian affairs.

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Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) is the ministry of foreign affairs and a ministerial department of the Government of the United Kingdom.

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Frederick Forsyth

Frederick McCarthy Forsyth (born 25 August 1938) is an English novelist and journalist.

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From Russia, with Love (novel)

From Russia, with Love is the fifth novel by the English author Ian Fleming to feature his fictional British Secret Service agent James Bond.

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Gabriel Allon

Gabriel Allon is the main protagonist in Daniel Silva's thriller and espionage series that focuses on Israeli intelligence.

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GCHQ

Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) is an intelligence and security organisation responsible for providing signals intelligence (SIGINT) and information assurance (IA) to the government and armed forces of the United Kingdom. Primarily based at "The Doughnut" in the suburbs of Cheltenham, GCHQ is the responsibility of the country's Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (Foreign Secretary), but it is not a part of the Foreign Office and its Director ranks as a Permanent Secretary.

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Genrikh Borovik

Genrikh Averyanovich Borovik (Ге́нрихАверьянович Борови́к; born 16 November 1929, Minsk) is a Soviet and Russian publicist, writer, playwright and filmmaker, the father of journalist Artyom Borovik.

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Goronwy Rees

Morgan Goronwy Rees (29 November 1909 – 12 December 1979) was a Welsh journalist, academic and writer. Cambridge Five and Goronwy Rees are British spies for the Soviet Union.

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Government of the United Kingdom

The Government of the United Kingdom (formally His Majesty's Government, abbreviated to HM Government) is the central executive authority of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

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Graham Greene

Henry Graham Greene (2 October 1904 – 3 April 1991) was an English writer and journalist regarded by many as one of the leading novelists of the 20th century.

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Greyfriars School

Greyfriars School is a fictional English public school used as a setting in the long-running series of stories by the writer Charles Hamilton, who wrote under the pen-name of Frank Richards.

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Guy Burgess

Guy Francis de Moncy Burgess (16 April 1911 – 30 August 1963) was a British diplomat and Soviet double agent, and a member of the Cambridge Five spy ring that operated from the mid-1930s to the early years of the Cold War era. Cambridge Five and Guy Burgess are British spies for the Soviet Union.

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Guy Liddell

Guy Maynard Liddell, CB, CBE, MC (8 November 1892 – 3 December 1958) was a British intelligence officer.

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Guy Pearce

Guy Edward Pearce (born 5 October 1967) is an Australian actor.

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Harold Wilson

James Harold Wilson, Baron Wilson of Rievaulx, (11 March 1916 – 24 May 1995) was a British statesman and Labour Party politician who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom twice, from 1964 to 1970 and again from 1974 to 1976.

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Henry Brooke, Baron Brooke of Cumnor

Henry Brooke, Baron Brooke of Cumnor, (9 April 1903 – 29 March 1984) was a British Conservative Party politician who served as Chief Secretary to the Treasury and Paymaster General from 1961 to 1962 and — following the "Night of the Long Knives" — as Home Secretary from 1962 to 1964.

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House of Commons of the United Kingdom

The House of Commons is the lower house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

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Ian Fleming

Ian Lancaster Fleming (28 May 1908 – 12 August 1964) was a British writer, best known for his postwar James Bond series of spy novels.

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Ian McEwan

Ian Russell McEwan (born 21 June 1948) is a British novelist and screenwriter.

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Ian Richardson

Ian William Richardson (7 April 19349 February 2007) was a British actor from Edinburgh, Scotland.

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Ideology of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union

Before the perestroika Soviet era reforms of Gorbachev that promoted a more liberal form of socialism, the formal ideology of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) was Marxism–Leninism, a form of socialism consisting of a centralised command economy with a vanguardist one-party state that aimed to realize the dictatorship of the proletariat.

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Investigative journalism

Investigative journalism is a form of journalism in which reporters deeply investigate a single topic of interest, such as serious crimes, racial injustice, political corruption, or corporate wrongdoing.

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ITV (TV network)

ITV, legally known as Channel 3, is a British free-to-air public broadcast television network.

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ITV Granada

ITV Granada, formerly known as Granada Television, is the ITV franchisee for the North West of England and Isle of Man.

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ITV1

ITV1 (formerly known as ITV) is a British free-to-air public broadcast television channel owned and operated by the British media company ITV plc.

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ITVX

ITVX (formerly ITV Hub and ITV Player) is a British ad-supported video-on-demand streaming service operated by ITV.

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James Bond

The James Bond series focuses on the titular character, a fictional British Secret Service agent created in 1953 by writer Ian Fleming, who featured him in twelve novels and two short-story collections.

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James Jesus Angleton

James Jesus Angleton (December 9, 1917 – May 11, 1987) was an American intelligence operative who served as chief of the counterintelligence department of the Central Intelligence Agency from 1954 to 1975.

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James Klugmann

Norman John Klugmann (27 February 1912 – 14 September 1977), generally known as James Klugmann, was a leading British Communist writer and WW2 Soviet Spy, who became the official historian of the Communist Party of Great Britain. Cambridge Five and James Klugmann are double agents.

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Jim Skardon

William James Skardon (1904–1987) was a Special Branch officer who joined MI5 in 1940 and became an interrogator and head of "The Watchers" (physical surveillance teams).

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John Banville

William John Banville (born 8 December 1945) is an Irish novelist, short story writer, adapter of dramas and screenwriter.

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John Cairncross

John Cairncross (25 July 1913 – 8 October 1995) was a British civil servant who became an intelligence officer and spy during the Second World War. Cambridge Five and John Cairncross are British communists, British spies for the Soviet Union and double agents.

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John le Carré

David John Moore Cornwell (19 October 193112 December 2020), better known by his pen name John le Carré, was a British and Irish author, best known for his espionage novels, many of which were successfully adapted for film or television.

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John Le Mesurier

John Le Mesurier (born John Elton Le Mesurier Halliley; 5 April 191215 November 1983) was an English actor.

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John Schlesinger

John Richard Schlesinger (16 February 1926 – 25 July 2003) was an English film and stage director, and actor.

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John Vassall

William John Christopher Vassall (20 September 1924 – 18 November 1996) was a British civil servant who spied for the Soviet Union, allegedly under pressure of blackmail, from 1954 until his arrest in 1962. Cambridge Five and John Vassall are British spies for the Soviet Union.

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Julian Mitchell

Charles Julian Humphrey Mitchell, FRSL (born 1 May 1935) is an English playwright, screenwriter and occasional novelist.

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KGB

The Committee for State Security (Komitet gosudarstvennoy bezopasnosti (KGB)) was the main security agency for the Soviet Union from 13 March 1954 until 3 December 1991.

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Kim (novel)

Kim is a novel by Nobel Prize-winning English author Rudyard Kipling.

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Kim Philby

Harold Adrian Russell "Kim" Philby (1 January 191211 May 1988) was a British intelligence officer and a spy for the Soviet Union. Cambridge Five and Kim Philby are British communists, British spies for the Soviet Union, double agents and world War II spies for the Soviet Union.

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Last Call for Blackford Oakes

Last Call for Blackford Oakes is a 2005 Blackford Oakes novel by William F. Buckley, Jr. It is the final of the 11 novels in the Blackford Oakes series.

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Laurence Olivier

Laurence Kerr Olivier, Baron Olivier (22 May 1907 – 11 July 1989) was an English actor and director who, along with his contemporaries Ralph Richardson and John Gielgud, was one of a trio of male actors who dominated the British stage of the mid-20th century.

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Lebanon

Lebanon (Lubnān), officially the Republic of Lebanon, is a country in the Levant region of West Asia.

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Lipstick on Your Collar (TV series)

Lipstick on Your Collar is a 1993 British television serial written by Dennis Potter.

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Little, Brown and Company

Little, Brown and Company is an American publishing company founded in 1837 by Charles Coffin Little and James Brown in Boston.

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London

London is the capital and largest city of both England and the United Kingdom, with a population of in.

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Louis MacNeice

Frederick Louis MacNeice (12 September 1907 – 3 September 1963) was an Irish poet, playwright and producer for the BBC.

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M (James Bond)

M is a codename held by a fictional character in Ian Fleming's James Bond book and film series; the character is the Chief of the Secret Intelligence Service for the agency known as MI6.

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Marek Kanievska

Marek Kanievska (born 9 March 1948) is a British film director.

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Margaret Thatcher

Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher, (13 October 19258 April 2013) was a British stateswoman and Conservative politician who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990 and Leader of the Conservative Party from 1975 to 1990.

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Marxism–Leninism

Marxism–Leninism is a communist ideology that became the largest faction of the communist movement in the world in the years following the October Revolution.

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Maurice Hankey, 1st Baron Hankey

Maurice Pascal Alers Hankey, 1st Baron Hankey, (1 April 1877 – 26 January 1963) was a British civil servant who gained prominence as the first Cabinet Secretary and later made the rare transition from the civil service to ministerial office.

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MI14

MI14, or British Military Intelligence, Section 14 was a department of the British Directorate of Military Intelligence.

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MI5

MI5 (Military Intelligence, Section 5), officially the Security Service, is the United Kingdom's domestic counter-intelligence and security agency and is part of its intelligence machinery alongside the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6), Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), and Defence Intelligence (DI).

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MI6

The Secret Intelligence Service (SIS), commonly known as MI6 (Military Intelligence, Section 6), is the foreign intelligence service of the United Kingdom, tasked mainly with the covert overseas collection and analysis of human intelligence on foreign nationals in support of its Five Eyes partners.

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Michael Caine

Sir Michael Caine (born Maurice Joseph Micklewhite; 14 March 1933) is a retired English actor.

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Michael Dobbs

Michael John Dobbs, Baron Dobbs (born 14 November 1948) is a British Conservative politician and author, best known for his House of Cards trilogy.

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Michael Straight

Michael Whitney Straight (September 1, 1916 – January 4, 2004) was an American magazine publisher, novelist, patron of the arts, a member of the prominent Whitney family, and a confessed spy for the KGB.

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Middle East

The Middle East (term originally coined in English Translations of this term in some of the region's major languages include: translit; translit; translit; script; translit; اوْرتاشرق; Orta Doğu.) is a geopolitical region encompassing the Arabian Peninsula, the Levant, Turkey, Egypt, Iran, and Iraq.

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Mole (espionage)

In espionage jargon, a mole (also called a "penetration agent", "deep cover agent", "illegal" or "sleeper agent") is a long-term spy (espionage agent) who is recruited before having access to secret intelligence, subsequently managing to get into the target organization.

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Moscow

Moscow is the capital and largest city of Russia.

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Mother (The Avengers)

"Mother" is a fictional character in British TV series The Avengers.

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Murray Sayle

Murray William Sayle (1 January 1926 – 19 September 2010) was an Australian journalist, novelist and adventurer.

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National archives

National archives are the archives of a country.

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Nicholas Elliott

John Nicholas Rede Elliott (15 November 1916 – 13 April 1994) was an MI6 intelligence officer.

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Nicholas Rowe (actor)

Nicholas James Sebastian Rowe (born 22 November 1966) is a British actor.

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NKVD

The People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (Narodnyy komissariat vnutrennikh del), abbreviated as NKVD, was the interior ministry of the Soviet Union from 1934 to 1946.

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Oleg Gordievsky

Oleg Antonovich Gordievsky, CMG (Оле́г Анто́нович Гордие́вский; born 10 October 1938) is a former colonel of the KGB who became KGB resident-designate (rezident) and bureau chief in London. Cambridge Five and Oleg Gordievsky are double agents.

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Peter Wright (MI5 officer)

Peter Maurice Wright CBE (9 August 191626 April 1995) was a principal scientific officer for MI5, the British counter-intelligence agency.

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Philby

Philby can refer to the following people.

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Phillip Knightley

Phillip George Knightley (23 January 1929 – 7 December 2016) was an Australian journalist, critic, and non-fiction author.

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Portland spy ring

The Portland spy ring was an espionage group active in the UK between 1953 and 1961. Cambridge Five and Portland spy ring are British spies for the Soviet Union and Soviet Union–United Kingdom relations.

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Press conference

A press conference, also called news conference or press briefing, is a media event in which notable individuals or organizations invite journalists to hear them speak and ask questions.

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Prime minister

A prime minister or chief of cabinet is the head of the cabinet and the leader of the ministers in the executive branch of government, often in a parliamentary or semi-presidential system.

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Roger Hollis

Sir Roger Henry Hollis (2 December 1905 – 26 October 1973) was a British intelligence officer who served with MI5 from 1938 to 1965.

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Roland Perry

Roland John Perry OAM (born 11 October 1946) is an Australian author and historian.

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Rory Gallagher

William Rory Gallagher (2 March 1948 – 14 June 1995) was an Irish musician and songwriter.

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Rupert Penry-Jones

Rupert William Penry-Jones (born 22 September 1970) is a British actor, known for his performances as Adam Carter in Spooks, Clive Reader in Silk, DI Joseph Chandler in Whitechapel, and Mr.

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The Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (Russian SFSR or RSFSR), previously known as the Russian Soviet Republic and the Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic, and unofficially as Soviet Russia,Declaration of Rights of the laboring and exploited people, article I. was an independent federal socialist state from 1917 to 1922, and afterwards the largest and most populous constituent republic of the Soviet Union (USSR) from 1922 to 1991, until becoming a sovereign part of the Soviet Union with priority of Russian laws over Union-level legislation in 1990 and 1991, the last two years of the existence of the USSR..

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Samara

Samara, formerly known as Kuybyshev during Soviet rule, is the largest city and administrative centre of Samara Oblast in Russia.

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Samuel West

Samuel Alexander Joseph West (born 19 June 1966) is an English actor, theatre director and narrator.

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Secret society

A secret society is an organization about which the activities, events, inner functioning, or membership are concealed.

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Single Spies

Single Spies is a 1988 double bill written by the English playwright Alan Bennett.

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Social media are interactive technologies that facilitate the creation, sharing and aggregation of content (such as ideas, interests, and other forms of expression) amongst virtual communities and networks.

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Soviet Union

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.

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Spycatcher

Spycatcher: The Candid Autobiography of a Senior Intelligence Officer (1987) is a memoir written by Peter Wright, former MI5 officer and Assistant Director, and co-author Paul Greengrass.

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Stalin's Englishman

Stalin's Englishman: The Lives of Guy Burgess is a biography of the Soviet spy Guy Burgess by historian Andrew Lownie.

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Stewart Purvis

Stewart Peter Purvis CBE is a British broadcaster, broadcasting executive, author and academic.

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Surveyor of the King's Pictures

The office of the Surveyor of the King's/Queen's Pictures, in the Royal Collection Department of the Royal Household of the Sovereign of the United Kingdom, is responsible for the care and maintenance of the royal collection of pictures owned by the Sovereign in an official capacity – as distinct from those owned privately and displayed at Sandringham House and Balmoral Castle and elsewhere.

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The Crown (TV series)

The Crown is a historical drama television series about the reign of Queen Elizabeth II, created and principally written by Peter Morgan and produced by Left Bank Pictures and Sony Pictures Television for Netflix.

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The Daily Telegraph

The Daily Telegraph, known online and elsewhere as The Telegraph, is a British daily broadsheet newspaper published in London by Telegraph Media Group and distributed in the United Kingdom and internationally.

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The Economist

The Economist is a British weekly newspaper published in printed magazine format and digitally.

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The Establishment

In sociology and in political science, the term The Establishment describes the dominant social group, the elite who control a polity, an organization, or an institution.

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The Fourth Protocol

The Fourth Protocol is a thriller novel by British writer Frederick Forsyth, published in August 1984.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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The Hour (2011 TV series)

The Hour is a British television drama series broadcast on BBC.

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The Imitation Game

The Imitation Game is a 2014 American period biographical thriller film directed by Morten Tyldum and written by Graham Moore, based on the 1983 biography Alan Turing: The Enigma by Andrew Hodges.

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The Independent

The Independent is a British online newspaper.

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The Innocent (McEwan novel)

The Innocent is a 1990 novel by British writer Ian McEwan.

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The Jigsaw Man (film)

The Jigsaw Man is a 1983 British espionage film starring Michael Caine, Susan George, Laurence Olivier and Robert Powell.

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The KNTV Show

The KNTV Show is an educational television programme that was broadcast on Channel 4 in the United Kingdom beginning in 2006, which taught about science, and philosophy (on its sister show KNTV - Philosophy).

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The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Black Dossier is an original graphic novel in the comic book series The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, written by Alan Moore and illustrated by Kevin O'Neill.

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The Mail on Sunday

The Mail on Sunday is a British conservative newspaper, published in a tabloid format.

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The Man from U.N.C.L.E.

The Man from U.N.C.L.E. is an American spy fiction television series produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Television and first broadcast on NBC.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.

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The Observer

The Observer is a British newspaper published on Sundays.

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The Other Woman (Silva novel)

The Other Woman is a 2018 spy novel by Daniel Silva.

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The Tenth Man (novel)

The Tenth Man is a 1985 short novel by the British novelist Graham Greene.

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The Third Man

The Third Man is a 1949 film noir directed by Carol Reed, written by Graham Greene, and starring Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, Orson Welles and Trevor Howard.

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The Times

The Times is a British daily national newspaper based in London.

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The Trinity Six

The Trinity Six is a 2011 thriller novel by Charles Cumming.

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The Untouchable (novel)

The Untouchable is a 1997 novel by John Banville.

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The Washington Post

The Washington Post, locally known as "the Post" and, informally, WaPo or WP, is an American daily newspaper published in Washington, D.C., the national capital.

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Theodore Maly

Theodore Maly (1894 – 20 September 1938) was a former Roman Catholic priest and Soviet intelligence officer during the 1920s and 1930s.

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Time (magazine)

Time (stylized in all caps as TIME) is an American news magazine based in New York City.

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Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy is a 1974 spy novel by British-Irish author John le Carré.

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Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (film)

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy is a 2011 Cold War spy film directed by Tomas Alfredson.

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Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (TV series)

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy is a 1979 British seven-part spy drama by the BBC.

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Toby Stephens

Toby Stephens (born 21 April 1969) is a British actor who has appeared in films in the UK, US and India.

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Tom Hollander

Thomas Anthony Hollander (born 25 August 1967) is a British actor who has gained success for his roles on stage and screen, winning a BAFTA Award and two Screen Actors Guild Awards.

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Top Priority

Top Priority is Rory Gallagher's eighth studio album and tenth album overall.

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Traitor (Play for Today)

"Traitor" is the first episode of the second season of the British BBC anthology TV series Play for Today.

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Trinity College, Cambridge

Trinity College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge.

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United States Atomic Energy Commission

The United States Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) was an agency of the United States government established after World War II by the U.S. Congress to foster and control the peacetime development of atomic science and technology.

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University of Cambridge

The University of Cambridge is a public collegiate research university in Cambridge, England. Cambridge Five and university of Cambridge are history of Cambridge.

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University Pitt Club

The University Pitt Club, popularly referred to as the Pitt Club, the UPC, or merely as Club, is a private members' club of the University of Cambridge.

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Venona project

The Venona project was a United States counterintelligence program initiated during World War II by the United States Army's Signal Intelligence Service and later absorbed by the National Security Agency (NSA), that ran from February 1, 1943, until October 1, 1980. Cambridge Five and Venona project are cold War espionage.

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Victor Rothschild, 3rd Baron Rothschild

Nathaniel Mayer Victor Rothschild, 3rd Baron Rothschild, (31 October 1910 – 20 March 1990), was a British scientist, intelligence officer during World War II, and later a senior executive with Royal Dutch Shell and N M Rothschild & Sons, and an advisor to the Edward Heath and Margaret Thatcher governments of the UK.

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Warner Media, LLC (doing business as WarnerMedia) was an American multinational mass media and entertainment conglomerate owned by AT&T.

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Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly known as Washington or D.C., is the capital city and federal district of the United States.

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Wilfrid Basil Mann

Wilfrid Basil Mann (4 August 1908 – 29 March 2001) was a radionuclide metrologist.

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World War II

World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.

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Yuri Modin

Yuri Ivanovich Modin (8 November 1922 in Suzdal – 2007 in Moscow) was the KGB controller for the "Cambridge Five" from 1948 to 1951, during which Donald Duart Maclean was said to have passed atomic secrets to the Soviets.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambridge_Five

Also known as Burgess-Maclean spy affair, Cambridge 4, Cambridge 5, Cambridge Four, Cambridge Spy Ring, Cambridge University Spy Ring, Cambridge spy, Guy; and Maclean, Donald Burgess, Magnificent Five, Oxford Ring, Oxford Spy Ring, Ring of Five, The Cambridge Five.

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