Anthony Blunt
Anthony Frederick Blunt (26 September 1907 – 26 March 1983), known as Sir Anthony Blunt, KCVO from 1956 - 1979, when he was stripped of his honours, was a British art historian who was exposed as a Soviet spy late in his life.
Blunt was Professor of the History of Art at the University of London, director of the Courtauld Institute of Art, Surveyor of the King's Pictures and London. He was exposed as a member of the Cambridge Five, a group of spies working for the Soviet Union from some time in the 1930s to at least the early 1950s.
Read more about Anthony Blunt: Early Life, Cambridge University, Recruitment To Soviet Espionage, Joining MI5, Suspicion and Secret Confession, Public Exposure, Memoirs, Career As An Art Historian, Later Life, Works, Depictions in Popular Culture
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