Anthony Blunt
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Anthony Blunt (26 de setembro de 1907 — 26 de março de 1983) foi um importante historiador de arte britânico e espião soviético.
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editar- Blunt reconheceu que recrutou espiões para a União Soviética entre jovens estudantes radicais em Cambridge, passou informações aos russos enquanto servia como oficial de inteligência britânico de alto escalão durante a Segunda Guerra Mundial e ajudou dois de seus ex-alunos de Cambridge que se tornaram toupeiras soviéticas dentro do Serviço Exterior Britânico, Guy Burgess e Donald Maclean, escaparam para a União Soviética em 1951, quando suas atividades estavam prestes a ser expostas.
- - Blunt acknowledged that he had recruited spies for the Soviet Union from among young radical students at Cambridge, passed information to the Russians while he served as a high-ranking British intelligence officer during World War II, and had helped two of his former Cambridge students who had become Soviet moles inside the British Foreign Service, Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean, escape to the Soviet Union in 1951 just as their activities were about to be exposed.
- - Fonte: como citado no artigo The New York Times (27 de março de 1983)
- - Blunt acknowledged that he had recruited spies for the Soviet Union from among young radical students at Cambridge, passed information to the Russians while he served as a high-ranking British intelligence officer during World War II, and had helped two of his former Cambridge students who had become Soviet moles inside the British Foreign Service, Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean, escape to the Soviet Union in 1951 just as their activities were about to be exposed.