928: 5/8 A Spy Named Orphan: The Soviet Agent Who Stole the West's Greatest Secrets, by Roland Philipps
Image: With German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joachim_von_Ribbentrop) and Soviet Communist Party leader Joseph Stalin looking on, V. M. Molotov (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V._M._Molotov) signs the non-aggression treaty on behalf of the Soviet Union, August 23, 1939. A Spy Named Orphan: The Soviet Agent Who Stole the West's Greatest Secrets,by Roland Philipps (https://www.amazon.com/Roland-Philipps/e/B07F1L31GZ/ref=dp_byline_cont_ebooks_1) Donald Maclean was one of the most treacherous spies of the Cold War era, a member of the infamous “Cambridge Five” spy ring, yet the extent of this shrewd, secretive man’s betrayal has never fully been explored. Drawing on formerly classified files, A Spy Named Orphan documents the extraordinary story of a model diplomat leading a chilling double-life until his exposure and defection to the USSR. Philipps describes a man prone to alcoholic rages, who rose through the ranks of the British Foreign Office while secretly transmitting through his Soviet handlers reams of diplomatic and military intelligence on the atom bomb and the shape of the postwar world. A mesmerizing tale of blind faith and fierce loyalty alongside dangerous duplicity and human vulnerability, Philipps’s narrative will stand as the definitive account of the man codenamed “Orphan.” https://www.amazon.com/Spy-Named-Orphan-Enigma-Maclean-ebook/dp/B076MMP5CG/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=a+spy+named+orphan&qid=1609368893&s=digital-text&sr=1-1 .. .. .. Cambridge Five (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambridge_Five) : The Cambridge Five consisted of five members that were recruited from the University of Cambridge (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Cambridge) in the 1930s. There is debate surrounding the exact timing of their recruitment, but it is generally believed that they were not recruited as agents until after they had graduated. The group included Kim Philby (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Philby) (cryptonym 'Stanley'), Donald Maclean (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Maclean_(spy)) (cryptonym 'Homer'), Guy Burgess (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_Burgess) (cryptonym 'Hicks'), Anthony Blunt (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Blunt) (cryptonyms 'Tony', 'Johnson'), and John Cairncross (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Cairncross) (cryptonym 'Liszt'). There were many others that were accused of being a part of the Cambridge Spy Ring, but these five members were collectively known as the Cambridge Five