PENROSE – FREEMAN : Conspiracy of silence (ajánló)
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 historian, successor to Kenneth Clark as Surveyor of the Queen's Pictures. He was also 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, Maclean, 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 also the story of why he received immunity and why Britain wanted so long to expose him and the entire murky world of spionage.
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