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TRIPLEX: Secrets from the Cambridge Spies

By Oleg Tsarev , Nigel West

Book information

Year
2009
ISBN
0300123477, 9780300123470
LCC
UB271.R9 T75 2009
Open Library ID
OL23180828M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (1622472 bytes)
Pages
384\376
Orientation
yes
Scanned
no
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

TRIPLEX reveals more clearly than ever before the precise nature and extent of the damage done to the much-vaunted British intelligence establishment during World War II by the notorious “Cambridge Five” spy ring—Kim Philby, Donald Maclean, Guy Burgess, Anthony Blunt, and John Cairncross. The code word TRIPLEX refers to an exceptionally sensitive intelligence source, one of the most closely guarded secrets of the war, which appears nowhere in any of the British government’s official histories. TRIPLEX was material extracted illicitly from the diplomatic pouches of neutral missions in wartime London. MI5, the British Security Service, entrusted the job of overseeing the highly secret assignment to Anthony Blunt, who was already working for the NKVD, Stalin’s intelligence service. The rest is history, documented here for the first time in rich detail.

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