The British Secrets Exposed By The Archives
The "Crown Jewels" was the phrase used by the KGB to describe their most valuable assets - the reports by British pro-Soviet spies, many of which have never been released before now. As well as adding hitherto unsuspected dimensions to the famous Cambridge five and revealing the full scale of their duplicity, the files reveal a completely unknown Soviet network based in London and headed by a named 'Daily Herald' journalist; the huge scale of Soviet penetration of the British Foreign Office from 1927 to 1951; details of a previously unknown spy-ring in Oxford, organised by university undergraduates who went on to work in Whitehall; and the key role played by Anthony Blunt in supervising pot-war Soviet espionage activities in London.
With new material on the Soviet spymasters and recruiters, the atomic spy Klaus Fuchs, the Lonsdale circle and other mysterious intelligence activists of the Cold War years, Nigel West proves himself once again the best-informed of all writers on intelligence and security issues.
