Conspiracy of silence

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"Engrossing and illuminating..,Mr. Penrose and Mr. Freeman are more successful than previous writers in providing a credible account of the world in which Blunt grew up and the climate in which he flourished they add substantiaily, and instructivety, to the picture." -TheNew York Times Before Prime Minister Thatcher exposed him in the House of Commons in 1979, elegant, aloof, dictatorial, brilliant, communist, homosexual Sir Anthony Blunt had been a world-class art histórián, successor to Kenneth Clark as Surveyor of the Queen's Pictures. He was alsó a core member of the Cambridge Conspiracy, an intelligence operation whose purpose was to recruit young idealists in elite British universities to become covert agents of subversion and espionage in the British establishment they were preparing to enter, As early as 1964, after Burgess, Maciean, and Philby had fled to the Soviet Union, the British government had known of Blunt's treachery, and had granted him immunity for reasons that... Tovább

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"Engrossing and illuminating..,Mr. Penrose and Mr. Freeman are more successful than previous writers in providing a credible account of the world in which Blunt grew up and the climate in which he flourished they add substantiaily, and instructivety, to the picture." -TheNew York Times Before Prime Minister Thatcher exposed him in the House of Commons in 1979, elegant, aloof, dictatorial, brilliant, communist, homosexual Sir Anthony Blunt had been a world-class art histórián, successor to Kenneth Clark as Surveyor of the Queen's Pictures. He was alsó a core member of the Cambridge Conspiracy, an intelligence operation whose purpose was to recruit young idealists in elite British universities to become covert agents of subversion and espionage in the British establishment they were preparing to enter, As early as 1964, after Burgess, Maciean, and Philby had fled to the Soviet Union, the British government had known of Blunt's treachery, and had granted him immunity for reasons that are unclear, though supposedly having to do with "national security." Here is not only the story of Blunt's life, but alsó the story of why he received immunity and why Britain waited so long to expose him and the entire murky world of espionage. "To read its pages is to enter a web of revelations and concealments, a labyrinth of secret passageways and blind alleys, and a welter of opinions and testimoriy, somé wild, somé sober, somé sincere, somé self-serving What emerges is a survey of a milieu, several milieus, from the sedate world of the Oöuríauld galiéry i to the raffish world of Blunt's homosexual contacts, from the exck; 5 war!tf.| of Cambridge and the Apostles-the prestigious secret socfety at Camfcdga -to the complex, looking glass world of espionage and counterespio. • -Christian Science MüíMr ¦ Vissza