• Anthony Frederick Blunt (26 September 1907 – 26 March 1983), styled Sir Anthony Blunt KCVO from 1956 until November 1979, was a leading British art historian...
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    Following Philby's flight, British intelligence obtained confessions from Anthony Blunt (1907–1983, codename Johnson) and then John Cairncross (1913–1995, codename...
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    Emily Olivia Laura Blunt (born 23 February 1983) is a British actress. She is the recipient of several accolades, including a Golden Globe Award and two...
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    Runners (1983), A Passage to India (1984), and Comrades (1986). He played Anthony Blunt in the BBC play by Alan Bennett, A Question of Attribution (1992). He...
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  • Sir Lionel Cust (1901–1927), Sir Kenneth Clark (1934–1944), Professor Anthony Blunt (1945–1972), one of the infamous Cambridge Five Soviet spies, and Sir...
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    Murders, Waking the Dead and Poirot, as well as one-off dramas. He played Anthony Blunt in Cambridge Spies, a BBC production about the four British spies, starring...
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    New York: Macmillan. ISBN 978-0-02-517390-3. Carter, Miranda (2001). Anthony Blunt: His Lives. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. ISBN 978-0-374-10531-0...
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  • Division in charge of counter-espionage, where he appointed Dick White and Anthony Blunt to senior posts. Shortly after the new appointment, he was informed...
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  • quartet of the Cambridge Five Soviet spies, Guy Burgess, Kim Philby, Anthony Blunt and Donald Maclean, who whilst studying at the University of Cambridge...
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  • include the unmasking of the Surveyor of the Queen's Pictures, Sir Anthony Blunt as a Soviet spy, Harold Wilson and Edward Heath's respective terms as...
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    V, Gregory XIII, and probably again of Clement VIII". According to Anthony Blunt, "rumours were current in 1936 that Pius XI intended to continue the...
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  • ridiculed Guy Burgess's claim to be a spy. He also told Boyle that Anthony Blunt was the man to follow. Boyle's revelations in the Daily Mail led to...
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  • with Guy Burgess, Anthony Blunt and Kim Philby, members of the Cambridge Spy Ring. His flat in London was shared with Burgess and Blunt; this later aroused...
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    Caron, Lynn Fontanne, David Bowie, Elizabeth Taylor, Rupert Everett, Anthony Blunt, David Hockney, Princess Grace of Monaco, Diana, Princess of Wales,...
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    basketball player Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle Jr., American general and diplomat Anthony Blunt, British art historian and Soviet spy Anthony Vanden Borre...
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    James Blunt (born James Hillier Blount, 22 February 1974) is an English singer, songwriter and musician. He has released seven albums since 2004 and has...
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  • share their upper-middle-class backgrounds or tastes. Although he knew Anthony Blunt at Cambridge, Guy Burgess socially (and had a dislike of both of them)...
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  • centred around interviews with Anthony Blunt at that time, and Wright had amassed a sizable amount of taped evidence from Blunt when Martin returned from suspension...
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  • Wright on various investigations, including those into Roger Hollis and Anthony Blunt. These events are described in detail in Nigel West's Molehunt and Peter...
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  • Blunt (1837–1917), English horsebreeder; wife of Wilfrid Scawen Blunt Anthony Blunt (1907–1983), English art historian and Soviet spy Charles Blunt (born...
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  • homosexual Victor Maskell—a character based largely on Cambridge spy Anthony Blunt and in part on Irish poet Louis MacNeice. The Untouchable is both comical...
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    Labour Cambridge Five Kim Philby (1912–1988) Guy Burgess (1911–1963) Anthony Blunt (1907–1983) James Klugmann (1912–1977) John Cairncross (1913–1995) GRO...
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  • career in the SIS. Philby, along with Guy Burgess, Donald Maclean, Anthony Blunt, and John Cairncross, was part of a group of Soviet moles in Britain...
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  • first book was a biography of the art historian and spy Anthony Blunt, entitled Anthony Blunt: His Lives. It won the Royal Society of Literature Award...
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  • It focuses on the British art expert and former Soviet agent, Sir Anthony Blunt. It was premiered at the National Theatre, London, on 1 December 1988...
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  • into the same network as Donald Maclean, Guy Burgess, Kim Philby, and Anthony Blunt. Straight's espionage activities began at Cambridge during the 1930s;...
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    recorded in Lunéville between 1639 and 1642, and may have traveled again; Anthony Blunt detected the influence of Gerrit van Honthorst in his paintings after...
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    Cambridge Five Anthony Blunt Guy Burgess John Cairncross Donald Maclean Kim Philby Portland spy ring Lona Cohen Morris Cohen Ethel Gee Harry Houghton...
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  • Gordon Anthony Blunt Samuel West Martin Furnival Jones Angus Wright Michael Straight Paul Hilton Mary Wilson Teresa Banham James Jesus Angleton Anthony Brophy...
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  • Guy Burgess, Kim Philby and KGB recruiter Anthony Blunt. A document from Soviet archives of a report that Blunt made in 1943 to the KGB states, "As you...
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