Guy Francis de Moncy Burgess (* 1911 in Devonian haven, England; "† 1963 in Moscow, Soviet Union) were a British secret agent and double agent, who worked at the same time for the Soviet Union. It belonged to the espionage ring Cambridge Five within the MI5.

Biography

Like many member the British Oberschicht went through Burgess the Eton college, the royal navy academy Dartmouth and studied later at the Trinity college in Cambridge. There it engaged itself in a student debating club, where it became acquainted with Anthony Blunt. Later it followed, like many member its generation of the communist party. There it was introduced with Cambridge Apostles, an at this time strictly Marxist, secret combination.

In order to hide its per-communist attitude, he said officially of communism loose and joined themselves 1934 Fellowship to the Anglo German, to a group of per Nazis, to which beside British prominent ones also Kim Philby belonged. Between 1936 and 1944 he worked for BBC, where he produced the transmission The Week in Westminster. Between 1939 and 1941 he supported MI5 with the production of war propaganda. 1944 joined Burgess the Foreign Office, where he worked in the communications department. 1947 became Burgess as a second secretary of the British message in Washington (D.C.) actively. Kim Philby warned 1951 Burgess and Donald Maclean that Maclean in suspicion was guessed/advised and both were probably unmasked. Both fled and submerged. 1956 dipped both into Moscow. Burgess died 1963 in Moscow. As Anthony Blunt, which was likewise in the espionage ring Cambridge Apostles implied, was also Burgess homosexual.

See also

John Cairncross, George Blake, Melita Norwood, Profumo affair

Books and films, which are based on it

• Julian Mitchell: Another Country. Amber Lane Pr., Oxford 1983, ISBN 0-906399-31-9 (1994 of Marek Kanievska filmed)
• Alan Bennett: At Englishman Abroad. In: Single Spies. Faber & Faber, London 1998, ISBN 0-571-14105-6 (1986 of John Schlesinger filmed)
• Verne Newton: Cambridge Spies: the untold story OF MacLean, Philby and Burgess in America. Madison Books, Lanham, MD. 1991, ISBN 0-8191-8059-9 (1998 of Phillip Knightley filmed)

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