For one man who appears in season 3 of The Crown, it took some 40 years before his secret was finally revealed to the world.
), was a member of the famous Cambridge Five spy ring, a group of five men who were recruited by the Soviet Union during World War II. While a member of the British Army and MI5, the United Kingdom’s domestic counterintelligence agency, during the 1940s, Blunt leaked classified information to Soviet intelligence agents. Publicly, Blunt was an esteemed art historian. He was a professor at the University of London and director of the university’s prestigious Courtauld Institute of Art.
In 1964, he confessed to his past as a spy when he was promised immunity from prosecution in return for his cooperation. And despite his admission to sharing state secrets, Blunt was allowed to keep his art advising role in Buckingham Palace. It’s unclear whether the
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