Anthony Frederick Blunt (26 September 1907 – 26 March 1983), [4] styled Sir Anthony Blunt KCVO from 1956 until November 1979, was a leading British art historian and Soviet spy. Blunt was a professor of art history at the University of London, the director of the Courtauld Institute of Art and Surveyor of the Queen's Pictures.

Jul 11, 2024 · Anthony Blunt, Guy Burgess, John Cairncross, Donald Maclean, and Kim Philby – known as the Cambridge Five – were elite British members of a KGB spy ring that penetrated the upper echelons of British intelligence.

Though a student at the University of Cambridge, he only knew Blunt, who was by then teaching modern languages. By 1934, when Cairncross arrived at Cambridge, the other three members of the ring had already graduated.

Anthony Blunt was at once the most enigmatic and the most public figure of the Cambridge Five. With access to the upper echelons of British society, including the royal family itself, he was able to gather information any intelligence service in the world could only dream of.

Jan 15, 2025 · Anthony Blunt was a British art historian who late in his life was revealed to have been a Soviet spy. While a fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, in the 1930s Blunt became a member of a circle of disaffected young men led by Guy Burgess, under whose influence he was soon involved in espionage on

Anthony Blunt was a British art historian and a member of the ‘Cambridge Five’ spy ring, which had simultaneously provided espionage services to ‘MI5’ and the Soviet Union during World War II.

Jan 14, 2025 · But they certainly had this in common: all were graduates of Cambridge University, and were recruited by Soviet Intelligence during the 1930s. ... KV 2/4705 includes a riveting account of an interview with Anthony Blunt by MI5 Officer Arthur Martin, in Blunt’s flat above the Courtauld Institute on 23 April 1964, in which he finally confessed ...

Jan 18, 2025 · The Cambridge Five consisted of Harold ‘Kim’ Philby, Guy Burgess, Donald Maclean, Anthony Blunt and John Cairncross, who together made up the most infamous spy ring of the 20th century.

May 25, 2024 · The espionage tales of the Cold War are not complete without reference to the Cambridge Five which included Kim Philby (codename Sonny/Stanley), Guy Burgess (codename Hicks), Donald MacLean (codename Homer), John Cairncross (codename Liszt), and Anthony Blunt (codename Johnson).

British art historian Anthony Blunt served as a double agent for the Soviet Union during the 1930s and ’40s. He was part of a spy ring of former University of Cambridge students. Anthony Frederick Blunt was born on September 26, 1907, in Bournemouth, Hampshire, England.