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My five Cambridge friends : Burgess, Maclean, Philby, Blunt, and Cairncross by their KGB controller

by Yuri Modin, Jean-Charles Deniau, Aguieszka Ziarek, Anthony Roberts, David Leitch

Written from the perspective of their KGB controller, this account analyses the operations of the Cambridge Five spy ring, detailing how they gathered intelligence, transferred secrets, and eventually defected to the USSR.

Accession 18556 ISBN 0374216983 Publisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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