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Five spies
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15 November marks the 30th anniversary of the exposure of Anthony Blunt as a former spy for the Soviet Union. |
| 1909 also marks the centenary of two institutions, now best known as MI5 and MI6, responsible for anti-espionage activities in Britain and overseas—first led by Vernon Kell and Mansfield Cumming, the original C. |
- Anthony Blunt (1907-1983), a member of the Cambridge spy ring, Blunt worked simultaneously for MI5 and the NKVD. Blunt’s story is also available as a free biography podcast.
- Melita Norwood (1912-2005), codename Hola, she disclosed British atomic research to the USSR.
- Alan Nunn May (1911-2003), physicist who passed details of the Manhattan project to the Russians. May’s life is also available as a podcast.
- Elizabeth Alkin (d.1655?), known as Parliament Joan, she spied against royalists during the civil war.
- Sidney Reilly (1874–1925), the ‘Ace of Spies’, and an early member of Secret Intelligence Service (MI6), Reilly worked to overthrow the Bolsheviks.
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