Guy Burgess

Standard Name: Burgess, Guy

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
politics Rosamond Lehmann
RL and her brother were hounded by members of the press for information about Communist agent Guy Burgess (who with Donald Maclean had defected from the British Foreign Office to Russia).
Lehmann, John. In My Own Time. Little, Brown, 1969.
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politics Rosamond Lehmann
RL knew Guy Burgess in the late 1930s through Goronwy Rees, and she knew early on that he was a Comintern agent. When the news came in June 1951 that he had gone to Russia,...
Publishing Rebecca West
Over the next two decades RW published several revised and updated versions of this work. In 1956 Pan Books (London) published a new edition of The Meaning of Treason in which West eliminated some discussion...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Lesley Storm
This play effectively portrays the aftermath in Britain of the defection of Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean , who fled to the Soviet Union on 25 May 1951 after years of spying for Communist Russia...

Timeline

25 May 1951
Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean , friends from their Cambridge days, who had been spying for the Soviet Union from positions of some influence within the British establishment, fled to Russia.
13 February 1956
Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean , English spies who had fled on 25 May 1951 to the Soviet Union (whose undercover agents they had been), gave a press conference which riveted British attention on the...
January 1963
Kim Philby , perhaps the cleverest of the group of Britons who had been spying for Soviet Russia for years, was confronted with his guilt and offered immunity in exchange for a full confession. Instead...
15 November 1979
Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher revealed that Sir Anthony Blunt , distinguished art historian and Master of the Queen's Pictures, had spied for Soviet Russia.