Guy Burgess
British-born radio producer, intelligence and Foreign Office officer and double agent · United Kingdom · On the map · Journalists · Lived 1911 to 1963 · aged 52
Guy Francis de Moncy Burgess was a British diplomat and Soviet double agent, and a member of the Cambridge Five spy ring that operated from the mid-1930s to the early years of the Cold War era.
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Eton College, which Burgess attended in 1924 and between 1927 and 1930
Great Court, Trinity College, Cambridge
Cambridge War Memorial, focus of demonstrations in November 1933
Burgess in 1935
Old Broadcasting House, BBC's London HQ from 1932 (photographed in 2007)
Foreign ministers Molotov (left) and Ribbentrop at the signing of the Nazi-Soviet Pact
Anthony Eden, Burgess's guestAbout this person
His defection in 1951 to the Soviet Union, with his fellow spy Donald Maclean, led to a serious breach in Anglo-United States intelligence co-operation, and caused long-lasting disruption and demoralisation in Britain's foreign and diplomatic services.
