Day: July 6, 2025

By Fazal Khaliq The Cambridge Five refers to a group of British spies who secretly worked as Soviet agents during and after World War II. Their betrayal of their country and their espionage activities have become one of the most notorious cases of Cold War espionage. The members of the Cambridge Five were recruited while studying at Cambridge University in the 1930s, where they were ideologically sympathetic to communism and attracted by Soviet promises of revolution and equality. The core members of the group were Kim Philby, Guy Burgess, Donald Maclean, Anthony Blunt, and John Cairncross. Each of these...