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Born 1911 • England
Died August 30, 1963 (aged 52) • Moscow • Soviet Union
Philby, Kim
Kim Philby
British intelligence officer and Soviet spy
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George Blake
British diplomat and Soviet spy
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Frederick Forsyth
British author
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Anthony Blunt
British art historian and spy
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Donald Maclean
British diplomat and spy
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John Cairncross
British civil servant and spy
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Sir Harold Nicolson
British diplomat and author
John André, copperplate engraving
John André
British military officer
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Beatrice Webb
British economist
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Douglas Richard Hurd
British diplomat
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Sidney Webb
British economist
Boris Johnson
Boris Johnson
prime minister of United Kingdom
Cobbett, detail of a painting by an unknown artist; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
William Cobbett
British journalist
Walter Bagehot
Walter Bagehot
British economist and journalist
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Michael Gove
Scottish-born journalist and politician
Halifax, Edward Frederick Lindley Wood, 1st earl of
Edward Frederick Lindley Wood, 1st earl of Halifax
British statesman
Tony Hall
Tony Hall
British media executive
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Sir Roger Casement
British politician
Bryce, James
James Bryce, Viscount Bryce
British statesman
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Sir Stafford Cripps
British statesman