'Mistake' to spy for Soviets.THE spy whose work for the Soviet Union dealt a shattering blow to British intelligence later confessed it was the "biggest mistake" of his life. Traitor Anthony Blunt Anthony Frederick Blunt (26 September 1907 – 26 March 1983), known as Sir Anthony Blunt, KCVO between 1956 and 1979, was an English art historian, formerly Professor of the History of Art, University of London and director of the Courtauld Institute of Art, London also said he contemplated suicide, in papers released yesterday. They were lodged with the British Library British Library, national library of Great Britain, located in London. Long a part of the British Museum, the library collection originated in 1753 when the government purchased the Harleian Library, the library of Sir Robert Bruce Cotton, and groups of manuscripts. after he died in 1983, aged 75, on condition they stayed secret for 25 years. In 1964, he was unmasked as the "fourth man" in the infamous Cambridge University spy ring but this remained an official secret in return for his full confession. Blunt cited the Spanish Civil War Spanish civil war, 1936–39, conflict in which the conservative and traditionalist forces in Spain rose against and finally overthrew the second Spanish republic. and the rise of Hitler for his decision to become a spy to "fight fascism". CAPTION(S): TRAITOR: Anthony Blunt |
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