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Born 1911 • England
Died August 30, 1963 (aged 52) • Moscow • Soviet Union
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Kim Philby
British intelligence officer and Soviet spy
George Blake
British diplomat and Soviet spy
Frederick Forsyth
British author
Anthony Blunt
British art historian and spy
Donald Maclean
British diplomat and spy
John Cairncross
British civil servant and spy
Sir Harold Nicolson
British diplomat and author
John André
John André
British military officer
Douglas Richard Hurd
British diplomat
Sidney Webb
British economist
Beatrice Webb
British economist
Boris Johnson
Boris Johnson
prime minister of United Kingdom
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William Cobbett
British journalist
Walter Bagehot
Walter Bagehot
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Michael Gove
Scottish-born journalist and politician
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Edward Frederick Lindley Wood, 1st earl of Halifax
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Tony Hall
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James Bryce, Viscount Bryce
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