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This book reveals more clearly than ever 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 L ... More
Keywords: British intelligence, World War II, Cambridge Five, Kim Philby, Donald Maclean, Guy Burgess, Anthony Blunt, John CairncrossMI5, NKVD
Print publication date: 2009 | Print ISBN-13: 9780300123470 |
Published to Yale Scholarship Online: October 2013 | DOI:10.12987/yale/9780300123470.001.0001 |
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