[Espionage] | Collection of material relating to the Cambridge Five

[Espionage]

Collection of material relating to the Cambridge Five, comprising:

i) [Harold 'Kim' Philby]. The Short Fiction of James Baldwin. New York: Dell Publishing, 1968. Philby's copy, signed, with his bookplate

ii) Cyril Connolly. The Missing Diplomats. London: The Queen Anne Press, 1952. With inscription 'Basil Stein for Cyril Connolly, Sep 1973'

iii) Ian Fleming. Russians Make Mistakes Too. In Esquire, November, 1960

iv) Ben Macintyre. A Spy Among Friends. London: Bloomsbury, 2014

Ian Fleming's news team broke the story of the Cambridge spy ring, known as the Cambridge Five. Philby tipped off Burgess and Maclean in May, 1951, and the pair fled to Moscow. Philby then resigned from MI6 in July that year, amid speculation that he was also part of the ring. After he was publicly exonerated, he resumed work for MI6 in 1956, but was finally outed by the KGB defector Anatoily Golitsyn. Fleming's close friend Nicholas Elliott was tasked with securing a full confession. Philby escaped to Russia in 1963.