Volume 34, Number 16 · October 22, 1987
Et Tu, Anthony
By Noel Annan
Conspiracy of Silence: The Secret Life of Anthony Blunt
by Barrie Penrose, by Simon Freeman
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 616 pp., $22.95
The Cambridge spies—their character, youth, acquaintances, and deeds—have cast a spell over the British and a cloud over their contemporaries. Beside them the other spies look shabby. Fuchs was a German refugee, Nunn May an obscure physicist, the rest men without features. The only glamour that George Blake evoked was his sensational escape from prison. It was organized by the KGB who did not miss their chance of taking advantage of the humane conditions under which Blake had begun to serve his sentence of forty-two years for being a mole in M16.
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