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Born May 25, 1913 • London • Soviet Union • England
Died March 11, 1983 (aged 69) • Moscow
Anthony Blunt
British art historian and spy
Philby, Kim
Kim Philby
British intelligence officer and Soviet spy
George Blake
British diplomat and Soviet spy
Guy Burgess
British diplomat and spy
Oleg Vladimirovich Penkovsky
Soviet officer
Sidney Reilly
Russian spy
Sidney Webb
British economist
Douglas Richard Hurd
British diplomat
Beatrice Webb
British economist
John Cairncross
British civil servant and spy
Halifax, Edward Frederick Lindley Wood, 1st earl of
Edward Frederick Lindley Wood, 1st earl of Halifax
British statesman
Bevin, 1945
Ernest Bevin
British labor leader and statesman
Sir Roger Casement
British politician
Bryce, James
James Bryce, Viscount Bryce
British statesman
Sir Stafford Cripps
British statesman
Sir Samuel Hoare, 2nd Baronet.
Sir Samuel Hoare, 2nd Baronet
British statesman
Robert Gilbert Vansittart, 1938.
Robert Gilbert Vansittart, Baron Vansittart
British diplomat and author
Sir Harold Nicolson
British diplomat and author
Edward Bancroft
British-American spy
Stratford Canning, Viscount Stratford, painting by G.F. Watts, 1855; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Stratford Canning, Viscount Stratford
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