BLETCHLEY PARK Cambridge Spy Ring Origins and Early Betrayals — Part One ANTONIA SENIOR (HOUR 2) 1 111326

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Cambridge Spy Ring Origins and Early Betrayals — Part One

Antonia Senior, author of Stalin’s Apostles: The Cambridge 5 and the Making of the Soviet Empire, describes how Soviet intelligence recruited gifted Cambridge students, including working-class outlier John Cairncross, who passed Bletchley Park decrypts and atomic secrets to Moscow. Donald Maclean exploited high-level British diplomatic access in Washington to pass secret discussions on the formation of NATO to Joseph Stalin. (9)