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Enigma.('Anthony Blunt: His Lives')
On a Saturday morning half a century ago, the overnight ferry from Southampton docked at Saint-Malo. While most passengers headed for the boat train to Paris, two members of the British ruling class took a leisurely breakfast with beer. When the train had been safely missed, they hired a taxi to drive them fifty miles (very ruling class) to Rennes, where they paid the fare of forty-five hundred francs but failed to give the driver a tip (not very ruling class). At Rennes, they caught a less obvious train to Paris, and were not seen again for five years.
The sureness of hindsight makes it obvious what was happening. Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean, Soviet spies ...
- 'The Fourth Man'; Russian spy Sir Anthony Blunt's diary released.(News)
- Newspaper article from: Daily News (South Africa) July 24, 2009 700+ words
...the notorious traitor Sir Anthony Blunt - released this week, 26...alongside Guy Burgess, Donald Maclean and Kim Philby - in the most...Cambridge spies. Burgess and Maclean had already been smuggled...in recruiting Burgess and Maclean. He claims, in fact, that...
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- Newspaper article from: International Herald Tribune JOHN F BURNS July 24, 2009 700+ words
...2009 Decades later, memoir reveals Anthony Blunt's regret about spying for Soviets...word typewritten memoir in which Anthony Blunt, one of Britain's most renowned...word typewritten memoir in which Anthony Blunt, one of Britain's most renowned...
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- Newspaper article from: The Mirror (London, England) July 24, 2009 700+ words
...CRISPIN BLACK BLUNT, Burgess, Maclean, Philby, Cairncross...life. Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean, who worked for the Foreign...Moscow. The fourth man, Anthony Blunt, had his cover blown in 1964...damage to their country. Maclean as a diplomat in wartime Washington...
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- News wire article from: AP Online July 22, 2009 700+ words
...and ended in bitter regret. Anthony Blunt _ English gentleman, art...Burgess, Kim Philby and Donald Maclean attended Cambridge University...and Kim." Burgess and Maclean, both British diplomats...Philby tipped them off that Maclean was about to be exposed...
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- Newspaper article from: The Orlando Sentinel (Orlando, Fla.) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service) March 24, 2003 700+ words
...European history. FOURTH MAN ``Anthony Blunt: His Lives,'' by Miranda Carter...18, paperback): Burgess, Maclean, Philby _ these were the most...spy ring. But there was also Anthony Blunt, perhaps the most enigmatic of...
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- Newspaper article from: The Daily Mail (London, England) Grove, Trevor December 1, 2001 700+ words
...he was a traitor. His name was Sir Anthony Blunt. The confrontation took place in the...in May 1951, Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean had defected to the Soviet Union after...a new book reveals the real reason Anthony Blunt so callously betrayed his country called...
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- Newspaper article from: The Birmingham Post (England) December 8, 2001 700+ words
...the Establishment. How else to explain the strange case of Anthony Blunt? Reviled at the time of his exposure as the `fourth man...after the defection of fellow Cambridge spies Burgess and Maclean to Moscow, Blunt continued to pursue a double life, ascetic...
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- Newspaper article from: The Birmingham Post (England) December 8, 2001 700+ words
...the Establishment. How else to explain the strange case of Anthony Blunt? Reviled at the time of his exposure as the `fourth man...after the defection of fellow Cambridge spies Burgess and Maclean to Moscow, Blunt continued to pursue a double life, ascetic...