The Cambridge spy ring files that Whitehall won’t make public

Calls for release of cold war secrets grow, as the Foreign Office, MI6 and MI5 keep past mistakes under lock and key

Another biography of Guy Burgess. Readers and reviewers may be forgiven for wondering what more there is to say about the much investigated, albeit most enigmatic, member of the Cambridge spy ring.

Guy Burgess, the Spy Who Knew Everyone, by Stewart Purvis and Jeff Hulbert (Biteback) has just been published, less than five months after Andrew Lownie’s Stalin’s Englishman (Hodder & Stoughton).

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