Guy Burgess

Guy Francis De Moncy Burgess (1911-1963) was a flamboyant, homosexual, British-born intelligence officer and double agent who worked for the Soviet Union, was part of the Cambridge Five spy-ring within MI5.

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Chronology

1911 Born in Devonport, England
Studied at Eton College
Studied at Dartmouth Royal Naval College
Studied at Trinity College, Cambridge. Meets the rest of the spy-ring and becomes a supporter of the Communist party. Inducted into the Cambridge Apostles, a secret society that was strongly Marxist at that point
1934 To hide his sympathies, renounces communism and joins the Anglo-German Fellowship, a pro-Nazi group. Philby is also a member
1936 until 1944 worked for the BBC. Produced the programme The Week in Westminster
(Note: 1939 to 1941 Seconded to MI5 to work on war propaganda)
1944 Joins the Foreign Office news department
1947 Sent to Washington, DC as a second secretary of the British Embassy
1951 Kim Philby warns Burgess and Donald Maclean that Maclean is under suspicion and will most likely be unmasked. They both flee and go into hiding
1956 They appear in Moscow
1963 Died in Moscow, Russia

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Works based on his life

Another Country, a play subsequently made into a movie
An Englishman Abroad, the first act of Single Spies a play by Alan Bennett subsequently made into a TV movie
Cambridge Spies, a four-part BBC TV series

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