Cambridge Five were later an espionage ring of the NKWD and the KGB in the British secret service MI5 and partly also in the CIA. They were probably the most successful feeler gauges in western secret services.

Kim Philby, Donald Maclean, Guy Burgess, Anthony Blunt and probably also John Cairncross were enlisted into the 1930ern at the Trinity college Cambridge University. They supplied the Soviet Union in the Second World War into the early 1950er inside with important information. Speculations over further members of the espionage ring continue until today.

The espionage novels of John le always allude the search for "moles "in the British secret service, in particular to the Cambridge Connection. Without these allusions are not to be interpreted for knowledge Cambridge Five at all correctly.

They were recruited still during their study, in order to be able to arrive later in the British secret service into high positions. During the Second World War they supplied the Soviet Union with information about the war strategy and - technology of the western allied ones. Later changed some from them into the USA, in order to help there with the structure of the CIA. Stalin distrusted to its information for many years and regarded it as double agents.

Burgess and Maclean fled 1951 into the Soviet Union, Philby were active until 1963 as a feeler gauge, before he likewise fled there into the USSR (he worked until 1988 as an advisor of the KGBs). Blunt was discovered 1964. As a director/conductor of the royal picture gallery was entitled to it however immunity, in order not to pull in the royal family into the scandal. Only 1979 were denied to it its acquired meanwhile.

Beside the Cambridge Connection might probably a Oxford Connection have existed, but so far only the pseudonyms Bunny and the Chefrekrutierers Scott were drawn from KGB archives. The exact number of the agents of this Oxford ring is unknown.

Related links

• All the Cambridge Five about (English)
• Report over Cambridge Five and the Apostel

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