The Untold Cost of the Cambridge Five

The British obsession with the spies who worked for the Soviet Union from the 1930s until the early 1950s rivals the American fascination with the case of Alger Hiss. Recruited from Cambridge University, Kim Philby, Donald Maclean, Guy Burgess, Anthony Blunt, and John Cairncross have been analyzed, interpreted, and puzzled over in scores of books and articles. How had Soviet intelligence agencies managed to suborn members of the country's elite, educated at its finest universities and entrusted with positions of power and influence? For years they betrayed their country, the organizations in which they worked, and many of their friends by transmitting secrets and confidential information to Joseph Stalin's totalitarian regime.
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