Guy Burgess

Spy, Military Person

1911 – 1963

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Who was Guy Burgess?

Guy Francis de Moncy Burgess was a British radio producer, intelligence officer and Foreign Office official. He was a member of the Cambridge Five spy ring that passed Western secrets to the Soviets before and during the Cold War.

Burgess, Donald Maclean, Anthony Blunt, and Kim Philby were the four confirmed members of the Cambridge Five, a spy ring that contributed to the Communist cause with the transmission of secret Foreign Office and MI5 documents that described NATO military and Marshall Plan economic strategy.

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Born
Apr 16, 1911
Devonport, Devon
Nationality
  • United Kingdom
Profession
Education
  • Trinity College, Cambridge
  • Eton College
  • Britannia Royal Naval College
  • Lockers Park School
Employment
  • British Broadcasting Corporation
  • British Embassy, Washington
Died
Aug 30, 1963
Moscow

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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