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Accessions administration: KV 2
Catalogue reference: PRO 57/15934
Date: 2000 Jan 1 - 2003 Dec 31
Accessions administration: KV 2
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Anthony BLUNT: British. BLUNT was recruited by the Russian Intelligence Services...
Catalogue reference: KV 2/4700
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This record is about the Anthony BLUNT: British. BLUNT was recruited by the Russian Intelligence Services... dating from 1935 Jan 1 - 1951 Aug 31 in the series The Security Service: Personal (PF Series) Files. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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- KV 2/4700
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1935 Jan 1 - 1951 Aug 31
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Anthony BLUNT: British. BLUNT was recruited by the Russian Intelligence Services (RIS) to talent spot when he was a student and then a don at Cambridge University during the 1930s. He was a member of the Cambridge Five ring of spies. Between 1940 and 1945 he worked for MI5. During this time he passed significant quantities of secret intelligence to the RIS. An art historian of renown, he later became Keeper of the King's Pictures. In this role he had no access to secret information but in 1951 he helped two of his Cambridge Five friends, Guy BURGESS and Donald MACLEAN, defect to Moscow. In 1964 he confessed his espionage activities and was given immunity from prosecution in exchange for information about his fellow RIS agents
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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- PF 604582 VOL 1
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- Public Record(s)
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- Open on Transfer
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- Open Document, Open Description
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- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C19404936/
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The Security Service: Personal (PF Series) Files
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