In the late 1940s, British intelligence believes they have a Russian spy in their midst. They narrow the list to five or so individuals, one of whom is Donald Maclean, who was assigned to the British ...

No callers are identified. No conversations are recorded. No phone records are kept. Now speak clearly and when you are finished say: 'Go ahead'.

Philby was nicknamed “Kim” by his father, in a nod to the Rudyard Kipling poem which, in an uncanny coincidence, is a very English story of duality, all about a boy spy who becomes “a two-sided man”.

What with Burgess and Maclean, Gordon Lonsdale and George Blake, Klaus Fuchs and Alan Nunn May, Britain’s postwar years have often seemed to be a nonstop series of spy scandals. None of them ever ...

Burgess and Maclean defected to the Soviet Union in 1951. During Philby's time in Washington, he was also accredited to Ottawa and had contact with Canadian security officials. The 1963 confirmation ...