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Anthony Frederick Blunt (* 26 September 1907 in Bournemouth, Hampshire, "† 26. March 1983 in London) was an English art historian and double agent in services British secret service of the MI5 and the Soviet NKWD.
Anthony Blunt, a distant cousin of the Queen Mum, was born 1907 as a son occasional of a anglikanischen minister in Bournemouth, active in the diplomatic service, Hampshire. He spent a large part of its youth in Paris. It received its training to the Marlborough School and studied until 1930 mathematics at the Trinity college in Cambridge. There it became under the influence of its friend Guy Burgess the communist; both were member of in a marxist manner infiltrated secret company "Cambridge Apostles". It was homosexual, and it is said, it enticed the poet Julian Bell. After its study he became a and 1932 Fellow at the Trinity college. Easter 1936 it traveled to Spain, where it criticized like many other British and American intellectual ones the passive attitude of its country in view of threatening fascism in Europe and Asia.
Between 1935 and 1940 he published countless art-scientific articles, in which he expressed himself to the relationship of capitalism, communism and art. It wrote books concerning Nicolas Poussin, concerning French and Italian art and over the designs of old masters. Blunt was member of the British academy of the arts, professor for history of art at the Universities of London and Oxford and formally belonged in its characteristic as a director of the "Queen's Gallery", the royal painting collection, since 1945 to the royal household. From 1947 to 1974 he was a director of the renowned Londoner Courtauld of institute. For its earnings/services it was struck 1956 of the Queen to the knight. it received the Slade Professur for beautiful arts in Cambridge to 1965.
At the same time however it worked for the 30's as a feeler gauge for the Soviet Union. Blunt led a double life. Together with friends from its former student debating club - all member "ruling class" - it turned "working class", whom able it considered as only to oppose the Dekadenz of the Vorkriegs and war generation order and structure-giving life reform beginnings of the working class. From the example of the "Gentleman" they developed the self understanding of the "honest intellectual one", which follows paternalistisch harmoniestiftend the fight of the working class and puts themselves as didactical avant-garde at their disposal. Soon Blunt was "talent more spotter" its Soviet guidance leaderships.
Its first efforts 1939 to the British secret service to be taken up failed. With the outbreak of the Second World War it was finally accepted nevertheless on switching of its friend Victor Rothschild in the military shielding service MI5. It was considered first as safety risk, until it 1940 a study to the aesthetic theory in Italy 1450 - 1600 published, in which it apparently with its Marxist past fallow. In the MI5 it led control of the diplomatic post office in Great Britain of accredited neutral states, became responsible for strategic diverting manoeuvres and moved up to the member in the Joint Intelligence Committee of the government, which coordinated the work of the intelligence services and for it thus view of the secret service activity of its country beyond the MI5 made possible. Finally he became a representative of the MI5 in the headquarters of allied expedition armed forces, which itself among other things with the invasions to Italy and France busy. For king George VI. it traveled briefly after end of war to Germany, where it had to guarantee politically compromising letters of members of the English yard from the 1930er years to German relatives secretly. In agreement with its Soviet guidance leaderships it left 1945 the MI5.
For its Soviet clients, who distrusted to graduate of Cambridge again and again, it procured altogether 327 Filmrollen and copies of 1771 classified documents. Between 1939 and 1940 Blunt did not have nearly one year a contact to its guidance agents, because these fell by course changes Stalins in Moscow in disgrace and fell the stalinistischen cleaning waves to the victim. After its retreat from the MI5 he dedicated himself to the art publicly again with priority, gave up however its contacts not completely. Thus it warned its friends Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean before their threatening arrest and destroyed under the eyes of MI5 and Scotland yard it loading documents. Due to loading statements by Blunt enlisted of the Michael Straight with the CIA and Soviet defectors set the British counter espionage it into the early 1960er years under warranty of the exemption from punishment and considering its position with Hofe so far under pressure that it finally put a confession down of its activities until 1945.
Arranged by the book publication of the journalist Andrew Boyle ("Climate OF Treason ") and their annoying about the behavior of the English "Oxbridge" - Oberschicht broke Margaret Thatcher 1979 that up to then nearly two decades lasting public silence of government and law. Blunt was unmasked only now publicly beside its friends Kim Philby, Burgess, John Cairncross and Donald Maclean as the fourth man of the family of five Cambridge Connection so mentioned and a Soviet feeler gauge. Thereupon to it one denied. The British academy of the arts and science suggested the withdrawal to it, its professor title and training permission for British universities it was extracted.
Kim Philby, Guy Burgess, Donald Maclean, John Cairncross, George Blake, Melita Norwood, Profumo affair
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