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mw-list-item"><a href="https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%AD%D0%BD%D1%82%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%96_%D0%91%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%82" title="Энтані Блант – Belarusian" lang="be" hreflang="be" data-title="Энтані Блант" data-language-autonym="Беларуская" data-language-local-name="Belarusian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Беларуская</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-da mw-list-item"><a href="https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Blunt" title="Anthony Blunt – Danish" lang="da" hreflang="da" data-title="Anthony Blunt" data-language-autonym="Dansk" data-language-local-name="Danish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Dansk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Blunt" title="Anthony Blunt – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Anthony Blunt" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Blunt" title="Anthony Blunt – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Anthony Blunt" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eu mw-list-item"><a href="https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Blunt" title="Anthony Blunt – Basque" lang="eu" hreflang="eu" data-title="Anthony Blunt" data-language-autonym="Euskara" data-language-local-name="Basque" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Euskara</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A2%D9%86%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%86%DB%8C_%D8%A8%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AA" title="آنتونی بلانت – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="آنتونی بلانت" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Blunt" title="Anthony Blunt – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Anthony Blunt" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%95%A4%EC%84%9C%EB%8B%88_%EB%B8%94%EB%9F%B0%ED%8A%B8" title="앤서니 블런트 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="앤서니 블런트" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>한국어</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hy mw-list-item"><a href="https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D4%B7%D5%B6%D5%A9%D5%B8%D5%B6%D5%AB_%D4%B2%D5%AC%D5%A1%D5%B6%D5%BF" title="Էնթոնի Բլանտ – Armenian" lang="hy" hreflang="hy" data-title="Էնթոնի Բլանտ" data-language-autonym="Հայերեն" data-language-local-name="Armenian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Հայերեն</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Blunt" title="Anthony Blunt – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Anthony Blunt" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%90%D7%A0%D7%AA%D7%95%D7%A0%D7%99_%D7%91%D7%9C%D7%90%D7%A0%D7%98" title="אנתוני בלאנט – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" data-title="אנתוני בלאנט" data-language-autonym="עברית" data-language-local-name="Hebrew" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>עברית</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-arz mw-list-item"><a href="https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%86%D9%89_%D8%A8%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%B7" title="انتونى بلانط – Egyptian Arabic" lang="arz" hreflang="arz" data-title="انتونى بلانط" data-language-autonym="مصرى" data-language-local-name="Egyptian Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>مصرى</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Blunt" title="Anthony Blunt – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="Anthony Blunt" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" data-language-local-name="Dutch" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nederlands</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-no mw-list-item"><a href="https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Blunt" title="Anthony Blunt – Norwegian Bokmål" lang="nb" hreflang="nb" data-title="Anthony Blunt" data-language-autonym="Norsk bokmål" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Bokmål" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk bokmål</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pt mw-list-item"><a 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biography vcard"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above" style="font-size:125%;"><div class="fn">Anthony Blunt</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:Anthony_Blunt.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/f9/Anthony_Blunt.jpg/220px-Anthony_Blunt.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="290" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/f9/Anthony_Blunt.jpg 1.5x" data-file-width="275" data-file-height="363" /></a></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data"><div style="display:inline" class="nickname">Anthony Frederick Blunt</div><br /><span style="display:none">(<span class="bday">1907-09-26</span>)</span>26 September 1907<br /><div style="display:inline" class="birthplace"><a href="/wiki/Bournemouth" title="Bournemouth">Bournemouth</a>, <a href="/wiki/Hampshire" title="Hampshire">Hampshire</a>, England</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Died</th><td class="infobox-data">26 March 1983<span style="display:none">(1983-03-26)</span> (aged 75)<br /><div style="display:inline" class="deathplace"><a href="/wiki/Westminster" title="Westminster">Westminster</a>, <a href="/wiki/London" title="London">London</a>, England</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Burial place</th><td class="infobox-data label"><a href="/wiki/Putney_Vale_Cemetery_and_Crematorium" class="mw-redirect" title="Putney Vale Cemetery and Crematorium">Putney Vale Cemetery and Crematorium</a>, London, England</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Alma mater</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Trinity_College,_Cambridge" title="Trinity College, Cambridge">Trinity College, Cambridge</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Occupation(s)</th><td class="infobox-data role"><a href="/wiki/Art_historian" class="mw-redirect" title="Art historian">Art historian</a>, professor, writer, spy</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Awards</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Royal_Victorian_Order" title="Royal Victorian Order">KCVO</a>, revoked in 1979 on the grounds of treason</td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"><b>Espionage activity</b></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Allegiance</th><td class="infobox-data category"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a9/Flag_of_the_Soviet_Union.svg/23px-Flag_of_the_Soviet_Union.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a9/Flag_of_the_Soviet_Union.svg/35px-Flag_of_the_Soviet_Union.svg.png 1.5x, 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class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li><li>Yan<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul></div></td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Anthony Frederick Blunt</b> (26 September 1907 – 26 March 1983),<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> styled <b>Sir Anthony Blunt</b> <span class="nobold noexcerpt nowraplinks" style="font-size:85%;"><a href="/wiki/Royal_Victorian_Order" title="Royal Victorian Order">KCVO</a></span> from 1956 until November 1979, was a leading British <a href="/wiki/Art_history" title="Art history">art historian</a> and <a href="/wiki/Soviet_Union" title="Soviet Union">Soviet</a> <a href="/wiki/Espionage" title="Espionage">spy</a>. </p><p>Blunt was a professor of <a href="/wiki/History_of_Art" class="mw-redirect" title="History of Art">art history</a> at the <a href="/wiki/University_of_London" title="University of London">University of London</a>, the director of the <a href="/wiki/Courtauld_Institute_of_Art" title="Courtauld Institute of Art">Courtauld Institute of Art</a> and <a href="/wiki/Surveyor_of_the_Queen%27s_Pictures" class="mw-redirect" title="Surveyor of the Queen's Pictures">Surveyor of the Queen's Pictures</a>. His 1967 <a href="/wiki/Monograph" title="Monograph">monograph</a> on the <a href="/wiki/French_Baroque" class="mw-redirect" title="French Baroque">French Baroque</a> painter <a href="/wiki/Nicolas_Poussin" title="Nicolas Poussin">Nicolas Poussin</a> is still widely regarded as a watershed book in art history.<sup id="cite_ref-Shone_2013_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Shone_2013-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His teaching text and reference work <i>Art and Architecture in France 1500–1700</i>, first published in 1953, reached its fifth edition (in a version slightly revised by Richard Beresford) in 1999, at which time it was still considered the best account of the subject.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1964, after being offered <a href="/wiki/Immunity_from_prosecution" class="mw-redirect" title="Immunity from prosecution">immunity from prosecution</a>, Blunt confessed to having been a spy for the Soviet Union. He was considered to be the "fourth man" of the <a href="/wiki/Cambridge_Five" title="Cambridge Five">Cambridge Five</a>, a group of <a href="/wiki/University_of_Cambridge" title="University of Cambridge">Cambridge</a>-educated spies who worked for the Soviets between the 1930s and the 1950s.<sup id="cite_ref-:1_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Blunt was the fourth member of the group to be discovered; the fifth, <a href="/wiki/John_Cairncross" title="John Cairncross">John Cairncross</a>, was yet to be revealed. The height of Blunt's espionage activity was during the <a href="/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">Second World War</a>, when he passed to the Soviets intelligence about <a href="/wiki/Wehrmacht" title="Wehrmacht">Wehrmacht</a> plans that the British government had decided to withhold. His confession—a closely guarded secret for years—was revealed publicly by <a href="/wiki/Prime_Minister_of_the_United_Kingdom" title="Prime Minister of the United Kingdom">Prime Minister</a> <a href="/wiki/Margaret_Thatcher" title="Margaret Thatcher">Margaret Thatcher</a> in November 1979. He was stripped of his <a href="/wiki/Orders,_decorations,_and_medals_of_the_United_Kingdom" title="Orders, decorations, and medals of the United Kingdom">knighthood</a> immediately thereafter. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_life">Early life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Anthony_Blunt&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Early life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Anthony Blunt was born on 26 September 1907 in <a href="/wiki/Bournemouth" title="Bournemouth">Bournemouth</a>, which at the time was in <a href="/wiki/Hampshire" title="Hampshire">Hampshire</a> but is now in <a href="/wiki/Dorset" title="Dorset">Dorset</a>. He was the third and youngest son of a <a href="/wiki/Vicar" title="Vicar">vicar</a>, the Revd (Arthur) Stanley Vaughan Blunt (1870–1929), and his wife, Hilda Violet (1880–1969), daughter of Henry Master of the <a href="/wiki/Madras" class="mw-redirect" title="Madras">Madras</a> civil service.<sup id="cite_ref-:1_7-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His siblings included the writer <a href="/wiki/Wilfrid_Jasper_Walter_Blunt" title="Wilfrid Jasper Walter Blunt">Wilfrid Jasper Walter Blunt</a> and <a href="/wiki/Numismatist" title="Numismatist">numismatist</a> <a href="/wiki/Christopher_Evelyn_Blunt" title="Christopher Evelyn Blunt">Christopher Evelyn Blunt</a>. One of his grandfathers was <a href="/wiki/Richard_Blunt_(bishop)" title="Richard Blunt (bishop)">Bishop Frederick Blunt</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Guardian_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Guardian-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Blunt's father was assigned to <a href="/wiki/Paris" title="Paris">Paris</a> with the British embassy chapel and moved his family to the French capital for several years during Anthony's childhood. Blunt became fluent in <a href="/wiki/French_language" title="French language">French</a> and intensely experienced the artistic culture available to him in Paris, stimulating an interest which lasted a lifetime and formed the basis for his later career.<sup id="cite_ref-MCarter_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-MCarter-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Blunt was educated at <a href="/wiki/Marlborough_College" title="Marlborough College">Marlborough College</a>, a boys' <a href="/wiki/Public_school_(United_Kingdom)" title="Public school (United Kingdom)">public school</a> in <a href="/wiki/Marlborough,_Wiltshire" title="Marlborough, Wiltshire">Marlborough</a>, <a href="/wiki/Wiltshire" title="Wiltshire">Wiltshire</a>. There he joined the college's secret "Society of Amici",<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> in which he was a contemporary of <a href="/wiki/Louis_MacNeice" title="Louis MacNeice">Louis MacNeice</a> (whose unfinished autobiography <i>The Strings Are False</i> contains numerous references to Blunt), <a href="/wiki/John_Betjeman" title="John Betjeman">John Betjeman</a> and <a href="/wiki/Graham_Shepard" title="Graham Shepard">Graham Shepard</a>. He was remembered by historian <a href="/wiki/John_Edward_Bowle" class="mw-redirect" title="John Edward Bowle">John Edward Bowle</a>, a year ahead of Blunt at Marlborough, as "an intellectual prig, too preoccupied with the realm of ideas." Bowle thought Blunt had "too much ink in his veins and belonged to a world of rather prissy, cold-blooded, academic puritanism."<sup id="cite_ref-MCarter_9-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-MCarter-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1928, Blunt founded a political magazine, <i>Venture</i>, whose contributors were <a href="/wiki/Left-wing" class="mw-redirect" title="Left-wing">left-wing</a> writers.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="University_of_Cambridge">University of Cambridge</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Anthony_Blunt&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: University of Cambridge"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Blunt won a scholarship in mathematics to <a href="/wiki/Trinity_College,_Cambridge" title="Trinity College, Cambridge">Trinity College, Cambridge</a>. At that time, scholars at the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Cambridge" title="University of Cambridge">University of Cambridge</a> were allowed to skip Part I of the <a href="/wiki/Tripos" title="Tripos">Tripos</a> examinations and complete Part II in two years. However, they could not earn a degree in less than three years,<sup id="cite_ref-Spycatcher_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Spycatcher-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> hence Blunt spent four years at Trinity and switched to Modern Languages, eventually graduating in 1930 with a <a href="/wiki/First_class_degree" class="mw-redirect" title="First class degree">first class degree</a>. Blunt taught French at Cambridge and became a Fellow of Trinity College in 1932. His graduate research was in French <a href="/wiki/Art_history" title="Art history">art history</a>, and he travelled frequently to continental Europe in connection with his studies.<sup id="cite_ref-MCarter_9-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-MCarter-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Like <a href="/wiki/Guy_Burgess" title="Guy Burgess">Guy Burgess</a>, Blunt was known to be <a href="/wiki/Homosexuality" title="Homosexuality">homosexual</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-daily_telegraph_blunt_memoirs_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-daily_telegraph_blunt_memoirs-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> the practice of which was a criminal offence at the time in the United Kingdom. Both were members of the <a href="/wiki/Cambridge_Apostles" title="Cambridge Apostles">Cambridge Apostles</a> (also known as the Conversazione Society), a clandestine Cambridge discussion group of twelve <a href="/wiki/Undergraduate" class="mw-redirect" title="Undergraduate">undergraduates</a>, mostly from Trinity and <a href="/wiki/King%27s_College,_Cambridge" title="King's College, Cambridge">King's Colleges</a> who considered themselves to be the brightest minds; many were also homosexual as well as <a href="/wiki/Marxism" title="Marxism">Marxist</a> sympathisers. Through the Apostles, Blunt met the future poet <a href="/wiki/Julian_Bell" title="Julian Bell">Julian Bell</a> (son of painter <a href="/wiki/Vanessa_Bell" title="Vanessa Bell">Vanessa Bell</a>) and took him as a lover.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Amongst other members were <a href="/wiki/Victor_Rothschild" class="mw-redirect" title="Victor Rothschild">Victor Rothschild</a> and the American <a href="/wiki/Michael_Whitney_Straight" class="mw-redirect" title="Michael Whitney Straight">Michael Whitney Straight</a>, the latter also later suspected of being part of the Cambridge spy ring.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Rothschild later worked for <a href="/wiki/MI5" title="MI5">MI5</a><sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and gave Blunt £100 to purchase the painting <i>Eliezar and Rebecca</i> by <a href="/wiki/Nicolas_Poussin" title="Nicolas Poussin">Nicolas Poussin</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The painting was sold by Blunt's <a href="/wiki/Executor" title="Executor">executors</a> in 1985 for £100,000 (totalling £192,500 with tax remission<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>) and is now in Cambridge's <a href="/wiki/Fitzwilliam_Museum" title="Fitzwilliam Museum">Fitzwilliam Museum</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Recruitment_to_Soviet_espionage">Recruitment to Soviet espionage</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Anthony_Blunt&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Recruitment to Soviet espionage"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>There are numerous theories of how Blunt was recruited to the <a href="/wiki/Soviet_Union" title="Soviet Union">Soviet Union</a>. As a Cambridge <a href="/wiki/University_don" class="mw-redirect" title="University don">don</a>, Blunt visited the Soviet Union in 1933 and was possibly recruited in 1934. At a press conference decades later, Blunt claimed that Burgess recruited him as a spy after both had left Cambridge.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The historian Geoff Andrews writes that Blunt was "recruited between 1935 and 1936",<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> while his biographer <a href="/wiki/Miranda_Carter" title="Miranda Carter">Miranda Carter</a> says that it was in January 1937 that Burgess introduced Blunt to his Soviet recruiter, <a href="/wiki/Arnold_Deutsch" title="Arnold Deutsch">Arnold Deutsch</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Shortly after meeting Deutsch, writes Carter, Blunt became a Soviet "talent spotter" and was given the <a href="/wiki/NKVD" title="NKVD">NKVD</a> codename "Tony."<sup id="cite_ref-Carter_2001,_p._180_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Carter_2001,_p._180-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Blunt may have identified Burgess, Straight, <a href="/wiki/Kim_Philby" title="Kim Philby">Kim Philby</a>, <a href="/wiki/Donald_Maclean_(spy)" title="Donald Maclean (spy)">Donald Maclean</a> and <a href="/wiki/John_Cairncross" title="John Cairncross">John Cairncross</a> – all undergraduates at Trinity College (except Maclean at the neighbouring <a href="/wiki/Trinity_Hall,_Cambridge" title="Trinity Hall, Cambridge">Trinity Hall</a>) a few years younger than he – as potential spies for the Soviets.<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Joining_MI5">Joining MI5</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Anthony_Blunt&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Joining MI5"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>With the <a href="/wiki/Invasion_of_Poland" title="Invasion of Poland">invasion of Poland</a> by <a href="/wiki/Nazi_Germany" title="Nazi Germany">German</a> and Soviet forces, Blunt joined the <a href="/wiki/British_Army" title="British Army">British Army</a> in 1939. During the <a href="/wiki/Phoney_War" title="Phoney War">Phoney War</a> he served in <a href="/wiki/French_Third_Republic" title="French Third Republic">France</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Intelligence_Corps_(United_Kingdom)" title="Intelligence Corps (United Kingdom)">Intelligence Corps</a>. When the <a href="/wiki/Wehrmacht" title="Wehrmacht">Wehrmacht</a> drove British forces back to <a href="/wiki/Dunkirk" title="Dunkirk">Dunkirk</a> in May 1940, Blunt was part of the <a href="/wiki/Dunkirk_evacuation" title="Dunkirk evacuation">Dunkirk evacuation</a>. During that same year he was recruited to MI5, the Security Service.<sup id="cite_ref-MCarter_9-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-MCarter-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Before the war, MI5 employed mostly former members of the <a href="/wiki/Indian_Imperial_Police" title="Indian Imperial Police">Indian Imperial Police</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In MI5, Blunt began passing the results of <a href="/wiki/Ultra_(cryptography)" title="Ultra (cryptography)">Ultra</a> intelligence (from decrypted <a href="/wiki/Enigma_(machine)" class="mw-redirect" title="Enigma (machine)">Enigma</a> intercepts of Wehrmacht radio traffic on the <a href="/wiki/Eastern_Front_(World_War_II)" title="Eastern Front (World War II)">Eastern Front</a>) to the Soviets, as well as details of German spy rings operating in the Soviet Union. Ultra was primarily working on the <a href="/wiki/Kriegsmarine" title="Kriegsmarine">Kriegsmarine</a> naval codes, which eventually helped win the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_the_Atlantic" title="Battle of the Atlantic">Battle of the Atlantic</a>. As the war progressed, Wehrmacht codes were also broken. Sensitive receivers could pick up transmissions, relating to German war plans, from <a href="/wiki/Berlin" title="Berlin">Berlin</a>. There was a great risk that, if the Germans discovered their codes had been compromised, they would change the settings of the Enigma wheels, blinding the code breakers. </p><p>The entirety of Ultra was known by only four people, only one of whom routinely worked at <a href="/wiki/Bletchley_Park" title="Bletchley Park">Bletchley Park</a>. Dissemination of Ultra information did not follow the usual intelligence protocol but maintained its own communications channels. Military intelligence officers gave intercepts to Ultra liaisons, who in turn forwarded the intercepts to Bletchley Park. Information from decoded messages was then passed back to military commanders through the same channels. Thus, each link in the communications chain knew only one particular job and not the overall Ultra details. Nobody outside Bletchley Park knew the source.<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>John Cairncross was posted from MI6 to work at Bletchley Park. Blunt admitted to recruiting Cairncross and may well have been the <a href="/wiki/Cut-out_(espionage)" class="mw-redirect" title="Cut-out (espionage)">cut-out</a> between him and Soviet contacts. Although the Soviet Union was now an ally, the Russians were not trusted. Some information concerned German preparations and detailed plans for the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Kursk" title="Battle of Kursk">Battle of Kursk</a>, the last major German offensive on the Eastern Front. <a href="/wiki/Malcolm_Muggeridge" title="Malcolm Muggeridge">Malcolm Muggeridge</a>, a wartime British agent, recalls meeting Philby and Rothschild in Paris in 1955. He reported that Rothschild argued that much more Ultra material should have been given to <a href="/wiki/Josef_Stalin" class="mw-redirect" title="Josef Stalin">Stalin</a>; for once, Philby reportedly dropped his reserve and agreed.<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>During the war, Blunt attained the rank of <a href="/wiki/Major_(United_Kingdom)" title="Major (United Kingdom)">major</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-MCarter_9-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-MCarter-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was later accused of betraying <a href="/wiki/Operation_Market_Garden" title="Operation Market Garden">Operation Market Garden</a> to benefit both the Nazis and the Russians.<sup id="cite_ref-:2_28-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:2-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This defeat was usually attributed to the Dutch traitor <a href="/wiki/Christiaan_Lindemans" title="Christiaan Lindemans">Christiaan Lindemans</a>. In <i>The Traitor of Arnhem</i>, premiered by <i><a href="/wiki/The_Times" title="The Times">The Times</a></i>, there is talk of another traitor, a certain "Josephine", who the author believed to be a cover name for Blunt. The aim of the Soviets, and therefore of Blunt, would have been to prevent <a href="/wiki/Allies_of_World_War_II" title="Allies of World War II">Allied forces</a> from arriving in Berlin before the Russians.<sup id="cite_ref-:2_28-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:2-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> After the war, Blunt's espionage activity diminished, but he retained contact with Soviet agents and continued to pass them gossip from former MI5 colleagues and documents from Burgess. This continued until the defection of Burgess and Maclean in 1951.<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Trips_on_behalf_of_the_royal_family">Trips on behalf of the royal family</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Anthony_Blunt&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Trips on behalf of the royal family"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In April 1945, Blunt, who had worked part-time at the <a href="/wiki/Royal_Library,_Windsor" class="mw-redirect" title="Royal Library, Windsor">Royal Library</a>, was offered and accepted the job of <a href="/wiki/Surveyor_of_the_King%27s_Pictures" title="Surveyor of the King's Pictures">Surveyor of the King's Pictures</a>. His predecessor, <a href="/wiki/Kenneth_Clark" title="Kenneth Clark">Kenneth Clark</a>, had resigned earlier that year. The <a href="/wiki/Royal_Librarian" class="mw-redirect" title="Royal Librarian">Royal Librarian</a>, <a href="/wiki/Owen_Morshead" title="Owen Morshead">Owen Morshead</a>, who had become friends with Blunt during the two years he worked in the Royal Collection, recommended him for the job. Morshead had been impressed with Blunt's "diligence, his habitual reticence, and his perfect manners."<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Blunt often visited Morshead's home in <a href="/wiki/Windsor,_Berkshire" title="Windsor, Berkshire">Windsor</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-ReferenceA_31-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ReferenceA-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His student <a href="/wiki/Oliver_Millar" title="Oliver Millar">Oliver Millar</a>, who would become his successor as Surveyor, said, "I think Anthony was happier there than many other places."<sup id="cite_ref-ReferenceA_31-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ReferenceA-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Carter writes: "The <a href="/wiki/Royal_family_of_the_United_Kingdom" class="mw-redirect" title="Royal family of the United Kingdom">royal family</a> liked him: he was polite, effective and, above all, discreet."<sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In August 1945, during the final days of <a href="/wiki/World_War_II_in_Europe" class="mw-redirect" title="World War II in Europe">World War II in Europe</a>, <a href="/wiki/King_George_VI" class="mw-redirect" title="King George VI">King George VI</a> asked Blunt to accompany Morshead on a trip to <a href="/wiki/Friedrichshof_Castle" class="mw-redirect" title="Friedrichshof Castle">Friedrichshof Castle</a> near <a href="/wiki/Frankfurt" title="Frankfurt">Frankfurt</a> to retrieve almost 4,000 letters written by <a href="/wiki/Queen_Victoria" title="Queen Victoria">Queen Victoria</a> to her daughter, <a href="/wiki/Victoria,_Princess_Royal" title="Victoria, Princess Royal">Empress Victoria</a>, the mother of <a href="/wiki/Wilhelm_II,_German_Emperor" class="mw-redirect" title="Wilhelm II, German Emperor">Kaiser Wilhelm II</a>. The account of the trip in the <a href="/wiki/Royal_Archives" title="Royal Archives">Royal Archives</a> states that the letters, as well as other documents, "were exposed to risks owing to unsettled conditions after the war."<sup id="cite_ref-Carter2001p311_33-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Carter2001p311-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> According to Morshead, Blunt was needed because he knew <a href="/wiki/German_language" title="German language">German</a>, which would make it easier to identify the desired material. There was a signed agreement made at the time, since the royal family did not own the documents.<sup id="cite_ref-Carter2001p311_33-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Carter2001p311-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The letters rescued by Morshead and Blunt were deposited in the Royal Archives<sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and were returned in 1951.<sup id="cite_ref-Carter2001p311_33-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Carter2001p311-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Carter mentions that other versions of the story, which claim that the trip was to retrieve letters from the <a href="/wiki/Edward_VIII" title="Edward VIII">Duke of Windsor</a> to <a href="/wiki/Philipp,_Landgrave_of_Hesse" title="Philipp, Landgrave of Hesse">Philipp, Landgrave of Hesse</a>, the owner of Friedrichshof Castle, in which the Duke knowingly revealed Allied secrets to <a href="/wiki/Adolf_Hitler" title="Adolf Hitler">Hitler</a>, have some credibility, given the Duke's known Nazi sympathies.<sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Variants of this version have been published by several authors.<sup id="cite_ref-Spycatcher_12-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Spycatcher-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Carter allows that, while George VI may have also asked Blunt and Morshead to be on the alert for any documents relating to the Duke, "it seems unlikely that they found any."<sup id="cite_ref-Carter2001p313_38-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Carter2001p313-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Much later, Queen Victoria's letters were edited and published in five volumes by <a href="/wiki/Roger_Fulford" title="Roger Fulford">Roger Fulford</a>, and it was revealed they contained numerous "embarrassing and 'improper' comments about the awfulness of German politics and culture."<sup id="cite_ref-Carter2001p313_38-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Carter2001p313-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Hugh_Trevor-Roper" title="Hugh Trevor-Roper">Hugh Trevor-Roper</a> remembered discussing the trip with Blunt at MI5 in the autumn of 1945, recalling (in Carter's retelling): "Blunt's task had been to secure the Vicky correspondence before the Americans found it and published it."<sup id="cite_ref-39" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Blunt made three more trips to other locations over the following eighteen months, mainly "to recover royal treasures to which the Crown did not have an automatic right."<sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On one trip he returned with a twelfth-century <a href="/wiki/Illuminated_manuscript" title="Illuminated manuscript">illuminated manuscript</a> and the diamond crown of <a href="/wiki/Queen_Charlotte" class="mw-redirect" title="Queen Charlotte">Queen Charlotte</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The King had good reason to worry about the safety of the objects he had sent Blunt to retrieve: the senior American officers at Friedrichshof Castle, Kathleen Nash and Jack Durant, were later arrested for looting and put on trial.<sup id="cite_ref-42" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Suspicion_and_secret_confession">Suspicion and secret confession</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Anthony_Blunt&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Suspicion and secret confession"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Some people knew of Blunt's role as a Soviet spy long before his public exposure. According to MI5 papers released in 2002, <a href="/wiki/Moura_Budberg" title="Moura Budberg">Moura Budberg</a> reported in 1950 that Blunt was a member of the <a href="/wiki/Communist_Party_of_Great_Britain" title="Communist Party of Great Britain">British Communist Party</a>, but this was ignored. According to Blunt himself, he never joined because Burgess persuaded him that he would be more valuable to the Soviet cause by working with Burgess. He was certainly on friendly terms with Sir <a href="/wiki/Dick_White" title="Dick White">Dick White</a>, the head of MI5 and later <a href="/wiki/MI6" title="MI6">MI6</a>, in the 1960s, and they used to spend Christmas together with Rothschild in the latter's Cambridge residence.<sup id="cite_ref-Observer_43-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Observer-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Blunt's <a href="/wiki/KGB" title="KGB">KGB</a> handlers had also become suspicious at the sheer amount of material he was passing over, suspecting him of being a <a href="/wiki/Triple_agent" class="mw-redirect" title="Triple agent">triple agent</a>. Later, he was described by a KGB officer as "ideological shit."<sup id="cite_ref-Observer_43-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Observer-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>With the defection of Burgess and Maclean to <a href="/wiki/Moscow" title="Moscow">Moscow</a> in May 1951, Blunt came under suspicion. Burgess returned on the <a href="/wiki/RMS_Queen_Mary" title="RMS Queen Mary">RMS <i>Queen Mary</i></a> to <a href="/wiki/Southampton" title="Southampton">Southampton</a> after being suspended from the British embassy in <a href="/wiki/Washington,_D.C." title="Washington, D.C.">Washington</a> for his conduct. He was to warn Maclean, who now worked in the <a href="/wiki/Foreign_Office" class="mw-redirect" title="Foreign Office">Foreign Office</a> but was under surveillance and isolated from secret material. Blunt collected Burgess at Southampton Docks and took him to stay at his flat in London, although he later denied that he had warned the defecting pair. Blunt was interrogated by MI5 in 1952 but gave away little if anything.<sup id="cite_ref-MCarter_9-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-MCarter-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Arthur Martin and <a href="/wiki/Jim_Skardon" title="Jim Skardon">Jim Skardon</a> interviewed Blunt eleven times after 1951, but Blunt had admitted nothing. </p><p>Blunt was greatly distressed by Burgess' flight and, on 28 May 1951, confided in his friend <a href="/wiki/Goronwy_Rees" title="Goronwy Rees">Goronwy Rees</a>, a fellow of <a href="/wiki/All_Souls_College,_Oxford" title="All Souls College, Oxford">All Souls College, Oxford</a>, who had briefly supplied the NKVD with political information in 1938–39. Rees suggested that Burgess had defected because of his virulent <a href="/wiki/Anti-Americanism" title="Anti-Americanism">anti-Americanism</a> and belief that the United States would involve Britain in a <a href="/wiki/Third_World_War" class="mw-redirect" title="Third World War">Third World War</a>, and that he was a Soviet agent. Blunt suggested that this was not sufficient reason to denounce Burgess to MI5, pointing out that "Burgess was one of our oldest friends and to denounce him would not be the act of a friend." Blunt quoted <a href="/wiki/E._M._Forster" title="E. M. Forster">E. M. Forster</a>'s belief that country was less important than friendship, arguing that "Burgess had told me he was a spy in 1936 and I had not told anyone."<sup id="cite_ref-44" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1963, MI5 learned of Blunt's espionage from Straight, whom he had recruited. Blunt confessed to MI5 on 23 April 1964, and Queen <a href="/wiki/Elizabeth_II" title="Elizabeth II">Elizabeth II</a> was informed shortly thereafter.<sup id="cite_ref-Spycatcher_12-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Spycatcher-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He also named Cairncross, <a href="/wiki/Jenifer_Hart" title="Jenifer Hart">Jenifer Hart</a>, <a href="/wiki/Phoebe_Pool" title="Phoebe Pool">Phoebe Pool</a>, Peter Ashby, <a href="/wiki/Brian_Simon" title="Brian Simon">Brian Simon</a> and Leonard Henry Long as spies. Long had also been a member of the Communist Party and an undergraduate at Trinity College, Cambridge. During the war, he served in <a href="/wiki/MI14" title="MI14">MI14</a> military intelligence in the <a href="/wiki/War_Office" title="War Office">War Office</a>, with responsibility for assessing German offensive plans. He passed analyses but not original material relating to the Eastern Front to Blunt.<sup id="cite_ref-45" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>According to his obituary in <i><a href="/wiki/The_New_York_Times" title="The New York Times">The New York Times</a></i>,<sup id="cite_ref-46" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Blunt acknowledged that he had recruited spies for the Soviets from among young radical students at Cambridge, passed information to the Russians while he served as a high-ranking British intelligence officer during World War II and had helped two of his former Cambridge students who had become Soviet <a href="/wiki/Mole_(espionage)" title="Mole (espionage)">moles</a>, Burgess and Maclean, escape in 1951 just as their activities were about to be exposed. </p><p>Blunt was convinced that his confession would be kept secret. "I believed, naively, that the security service would see it, partly in its own interest, that the story would never become public," he wrote.<sup id="cite_ref-47" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Indeed, in return for a full confession, the British government agreed to keep his espionage an <a href="/wiki/Official_secret" class="mw-redirect" title="Official secret">official secret</a>, though only for fifteen years, and granted him full <a href="/wiki/Immunity_from_prosecution" class="mw-redirect" title="Immunity from prosecution">immunity from prosecution</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-burns_48-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-burns-48"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Blunt was not stripped of his knighthood until <a href="/wiki/Prime_Minister_of_the_United_Kingdom" title="Prime Minister of the United Kingdom">Prime Minister</a> <a href="/wiki/Margaret_Thatcher" title="Margaret Thatcher">Margaret Thatcher</a> officially announced his treachery in 1979.<sup id="cite_ref-49" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>According to the memoir of MI5 officer <a href="/wiki/Peter_Wright_(MI5_officer)" title="Peter Wright (MI5 officer)">Peter Wright</a>, Wright had regular interviews with Blunt from 1964 onwards for six years. Prior to that, he had a briefing with <a href="/wiki/Michael_Adeane,_Baron_Adeane" title="Michael Adeane, Baron Adeane">Michael Adeane</a>, the Queen's private secretary, who told Wright: "From time to time you may find Blunt referring to an assignment he undertook on behalf of the Palace – a visit to Germany at the end of the war. Please do not pursue this matter. Strictly speaking, it is not relevant to considerations of national security."<sup id="cite_ref-50" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>For unknown reasons, Prime Minister <a href="/wiki/Alec_Douglas-Home" title="Alec Douglas-Home">Alec Douglas-Home</a> was not informed of Blunt's spying, although the Queen and <a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(United_Kingdom)" class="mw-redirect" title="Conservative Party (United Kingdom)">Conservative</a> <a href="/wiki/Home_Secretary" title="Home Secretary">Home Secretary</a> <a href="/wiki/Henry_Brooke,_Baron_Brooke_of_Cumnor" title="Henry Brooke, Baron Brooke of Cumnor">Henry Brooke</a> had been fully informed. In November 1979, Thatcher informed <a href="/wiki/Parliament_of_the_United_Kingdom" title="Parliament of the United Kingdom">Parliament</a> of Blunt's treachery and the immunity deal that had been arranged.<sup id="cite_ref-51" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-51"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Blunt's life was little affected by the knowledge of his treachery. In 1966, two years after his secret confession, <a href="/wiki/Noel_Annan" class="mw-redirect" title="Noel Annan">Noel Annan</a>, <a href="/wiki/Provost_(education)" title="Provost (education)">provost</a> of King's College, Cambridge, held a dinner party for <a href="/wiki/Labour_Party_(United_Kingdom)" class="mw-redirect" title="Labour Party (United Kingdom)">Labour</a> Home Secretary <a href="/wiki/Roy_Jenkins" title="Roy Jenkins">Roy Jenkins</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ann_Fleming" title="Ann Fleming">Ann Fleming</a> (widow of <a href="/wiki/James_Bond" title="James Bond">James Bond</a> author <a href="/wiki/Ian_Fleming" title="Ian Fleming">Ian Fleming</a>), and Victor Rothschild and his wife Tess. The Rothschilds brought their friend and lodger – Blunt. All had had wartime connections with British intelligence; Jenkins at Bletchley Park.<sup id="cite_ref-52" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Public_exposure">Public exposure</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Anthony_Blunt&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Public exposure"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 1979, Blunt's role was represented in <a href="/wiki/Andrew_Boyle_(journalist)" title="Andrew Boyle (journalist)">Andrew Boyle</a>'s book <i>Climate of Treason</i>, in which Blunt was given the <a href="/wiki/Pseudonym" title="Pseudonym">pseudonym</a> "Maurice", after the homosexual protagonist of E. M. Forster's <a href="/wiki/Maurice_(novel)" title="Maurice (novel)">novel of that name</a>. In September of that year, Blunt had tried to obtain a typescript before the publication of Boyle's book. "Technically there was no <a href="/wiki/Defamation" title="Defamation">defamation</a>, and Boyle's editor, Harold Harris, refused to cooperate."<sup id="cite_ref-53" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-53"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>53<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Blunt's request was reported in the magazine <i><a href="/wiki/Private_Eye" title="Private Eye">Private Eye</a></i> and drew his attention.<sup id="cite_ref-54" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-54"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>54<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In early November excerpts were published in <i><a href="/wiki/The_Observer" title="The Observer">The Observer</a></i>, and on 8 November <i>Private Eye</i> revealed that "Maurice" was Blunt. In interviews to publicise his book, Boyle refused to confirm that Blunt was "Maurice" and asserted that was the government's responsibility.<sup id="cite_ref-55" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-55"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>55<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:0_56-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-56"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>56<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Based on an interview with Blunt's solicitor, <a href="/wiki/Michael_Rubinstein" title="Michael Rubinstein">Michael Rubinstein</a> (who had met with Thatcher's <a href="/wiki/Cabinet_Secretary_(United_Kingdom)" title="Cabinet Secretary (United Kingdom)">Cabinet Secretary</a>, <a href="/wiki/Robert_Armstrong,_Baron_Armstrong_of_Ilminster" title="Robert Armstrong, Baron Armstrong of Ilminster">Sir Robert Armstrong</a>), Carter states that Thatcher, "personally affronted by Blunt's immunity, took the bait. ...she found the whole episode thoroughly reprehensible, and reeking of Establishment collusion."<sup id="cite_ref-57" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-57"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>57<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On 15 November 1979, Thatcher revealed Blunt's wartime role to the <a href="/wiki/House_of_Commons_of_the_United_Kingdom" title="House of Commons of the United Kingdom">House of Commons</a> in reply to <a href="/wiki/Prime_Minister%27s_Questions" title="Prime Minister's Questions">questions</a> put to her by <a href="/wiki/Ted_Leadbitter" title="Ted Leadbitter">Ted Leadbitter</a>, <a href="/wiki/Member_of_Parliament_(United_Kingdom)" title="Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)">MP</a> for <a href="/wiki/Hartlepool_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Hartlepool (UK Parliament constituency)">Hartlepool</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Dennis_Skinner" title="Dennis Skinner">Dennis Skinner</a>, MP for <a href="/wiki/Bolsover_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Bolsover (UK Parliament constituency)">Bolsover</a>:<sup id="cite_ref-Security_Written_Answers_58-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Security_Written_Answers-58"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>58<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1244412712">.mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 32px}.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;margin-top:0}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{padding-left:1.6em}}</style><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>Mr. Leadbitter and Mr. Skinner: Asked the Prime Minister if she will make a statement on recent evidence concerning the actions of an individual, whose name has been supplied to her, in relation to the security of the United Kingdom.<sup id="cite_ref-Security_Written_Answers_58-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Security_Written_Answers-58"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>58<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712"><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>The Prime Minister: "The name which the hon. Member for Hartlepool (Mr. Leadbitter) has given me is that of Sir Anthony Blunt."<sup id="cite_ref-Security_Written_Answers_58-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Security_Written_Answers-58"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>58<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote> <p>In a statement to the press on 20 November, Blunt claimed the decision to grant him immunity from prosecution was taken by the then-prime minister, Sir Alec Douglas-Home.<sup id="cite_ref-bbcotd_59-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bbcotd-59"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>59<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Speaking in the House of Commons on 21 November, Thatcher disclosed more details of the affair.<sup id="cite_ref-60" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-60"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>60<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>For weeks after Thatcher's announcement, Blunt was hunted by journalists. Once found, he was besieged by photographers. Blunt had recently given a lecture at the invitation of <a href="/wiki/Francis_Haskell" title="Francis Haskell">Francis Haskell</a>, <a href="/wiki/Oxford_University" class="mw-redirect" title="Oxford University">Oxford University</a>'s professor of art history. Haskell had a Russian mother and wife and had graduated from King's College, Cambridge. To the press, this made him an obvious suspect. They repeatedly telephoned Haskell's home in the early hours of the morning, using the names of his friends and claiming to have an urgent message for "Anthony."<sup id="cite_ref-61" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-61"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>61<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Although Blunt was outwardly calm, the sudden exposure shocked him. His former pupil, art critic <a href="/wiki/Brian_Sewell" title="Brian Sewell">Brian Sewell</a>, said at the time, "He was so businesslike about it; he considered the implications for his knighthood and academic honours and what should be resigned and what retained. What he didn't want was a great debate at his clubs, the <a href="/wiki/Athenaeum_Club,_London" title="Athenaeum Club, London">Athenaeum</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Travellers_Club" title="Travellers Club">Travellers</a>. He was incredibly calm about it all."<sup id="cite_ref-Observer_43-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Observer-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Sewell was involved in protecting Blunt from the extensive media attention, and his friend was spirited away to a flat within a house in <a href="/wiki/Chiswick" title="Chiswick">Chiswick</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-62" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-62"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>62<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1979, Blunt said that the reason for his betrayal could be explained by the E. M. Forster adage "if asked to choose between betraying his friend and betraying his country, he hoped he would have the guts to betray his country." In 2002 the novelist <a href="/wiki/Julian_Barnes" title="Julian Barnes">Julian Barnes</a> asserted that "Blunt exploited, deceived, and lied to far more friends than he was loyal to ... if you betray your country, you by definition betray all your friends in that country..."<sup id="cite_ref-63" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-63"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>63<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The Queen stripped Blunt of his knighthood,<sup id="cite_ref-bbcotd_59-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bbcotd-59"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>59<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and in short order he was removed as an Honorary Fellow of Trinity College.<sup id="cite_ref-64" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-64"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>64<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He resigned as a Fellow of the <a href="/wiki/British_Academy" title="British Academy">British Academy</a> after a failed effort to expel him; three fellows resigned in protest against the failure to remove him.<sup id="cite_ref-65" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-65"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>65<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He broke down in tears in his <a href="/wiki/BBC_Television" title="BBC Television">BBC Television</a> confession at the age of 72.<sup id="cite_ref-bbcotd_59-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bbcotd-59"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>59<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Anthony Blunt died of a <a href="/wiki/Heart_attack" class="mw-redirect" title="Heart attack">heart attack</a> at his London home, 9 <a href="/wiki/The_Grove,_Highgate" title="The Grove, Highgate">The Grove, Highgate</a>, in 1983, aged 75. Jon Nordheimer, the author of his obituary in <i>The New York Times</i>, wrote: "Details of the nature of the espionage carried out by Mr. Blunt for the Russians have never been revealed, although it is believed that they did not directly cause loss of life or compromise military operations."<sup id="cite_ref-66" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-66"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>66<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Memoirs">Memoirs</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Anthony_Blunt&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Memoirs"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Blunt withdrew from society after he was officially exposed and seldom went out, but continued his work on art history. His friend Tess Rothschild suggested that he occupy his time writing his memoirs. Sewell, his former pupil, said they remained unfinished because he had to consult the Newspaper Library in <a href="/wiki/Colindale" title="Colindale">Colindale</a> to check facts, but was unhappy at being recognised. </p><p>"I do know he was really worried about upsetting his family," said Sewell. "I think he was being absolutely straight with me when he said that if he could not verify the facts there was no point in going on." Blunt stopped writing in 1983, leaving his memoirs to his partner, John Gaskin, who kept them for a year and then gave them to Blunt's executor, John Golding, a fellow art historian. Golding passed them on to the British Library, insisting that they not be released for twenty-five years. They were finally made available to readers on 23 July 2009 and can be accessed through the British Library catalogue.<sup id="cite_ref-67" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-67"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>67<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In the typed manuscript, Blunt conceded that spying for the Soviet Union was the biggest mistake of his life.<sup id="cite_ref-bbc_blunt_memoirs_68-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bbc_blunt_memoirs-68"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>68<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712"><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>What I did not realise is that I was so naïve politically that I was not justified in committing myself to any political action of this kind. The atmosphere in Cambridge was so intense, the enthusiasm for any anti-fascist activity was so great, that I made the biggest mistake of my life.<sup id="cite_ref-daily_telegraph_blunt_memoirs_13-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-daily_telegraph_blunt_memoirs-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote> <p>The memoir revealed little that was not already known about Blunt. When asked whether there would be any new or unexpected names, Golding replied: "I'm not sure. It's twenty-five years since I read it, and my memory is not that good." Although ordered by the KGB to defect with Maclean and Burgess to protect Philby, in 1951 Blunt realised "quite clearly that I would take any risk in [Britain], rather than go to Russia."<sup id="cite_ref-bbc_blunt_memoirs_68-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bbc_blunt_memoirs-68"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>68<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> After he was publicly exposed, he claims to have considered <a href="/wiki/Suicide" title="Suicide">suicide</a> but instead turned to "whisky and concentrated work."<sup id="cite_ref-bbc_blunt_memoirs_68-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bbc_blunt_memoirs-68"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>68<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The regret in the manuscript seemed to stem from the way that spying had affected his life, and there was no apology. The historian <a href="/wiki/Christopher_Andrew_(historian)" title="Christopher Andrew (historian)">Christopher Andrew</a> felt that the regret was shallow, and that he found an "unwillingness to acknowledge the evil he had served in spying for Stalin."<sup id="cite_ref-69" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-69"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>69<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-70" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-70"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>70<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Career_as_an_art_historian">Career as an art historian</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Anthony_Blunt&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Career as an art historian"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Royal_Collections">Royal Collections</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Anthony_Blunt&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Royal Collections"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Throughout the time of his activities in espionage, Blunt's public career was as an art historian, a field in which he gained eminence. In 1940, most of his fellowship dissertation was published under the title of <i>Artistic Theory in Italy, 1450–1600</i>, which remains in print. In 1945, he was given the distinguished position of Surveyor of the King's Pictures, and later the Queen's Pictures (after the death of King George VI in 1952), in charge of the <a href="/wiki/Royal_Collection" title="Royal Collection">Royal Collection</a>, one of the largest and richest collections of art in the world. He held the position for 27 years, was <a href="/wiki/Knight" title="Knight">knighted</a> as a <a href="/wiki/Royal_Victorian_Order" title="Royal Victorian Order">KCVO</a> in 1956 for his work in the role, and his contribution was vital in the expansion of the Queen's Gallery at Buckingham Palace, which opened in 1962, and organizing the cataloguing of the collection. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="University_of_London_and_Courtauld_Institute">University of London and Courtauld Institute</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Anthony_Blunt&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: University of London and Courtauld Institute"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 1947, Blunt became both Professor of the History of Art at the <a href="/wiki/University_of_London" title="University of London">University of London</a>, and the director of the <a href="/wiki/Courtauld_Institute_of_Art" title="Courtauld Institute of Art">Courtauld Institute of Art</a>, University of London, where he had been lecturing since the spring of 1933,<sup id="cite_ref-71" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-71"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>71<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and where his tenure in office as director lasted until 1974. This position included the use of a live-in apartment on the premises, then at <a href="/wiki/Home_House" title="Home House">Home House</a> in <a href="/wiki/Portman_Square" title="Portman Square">Portman Square</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-72" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-72"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>72<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> During his 27 years at the Courtauld Institute, Blunt was respected as a dedicated teacher, a kind superior to his staff. His legacy at the Courtauld was to have left it with a larger staff, increased funding, and more space, and his role was central in the acquisition of outstanding collections for the Courtauld's Galleries. He is often credited for making the Courtauld what it is today, as well as for pioneering art history in Britain, and for training the next generation of British art historians.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_56-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-56"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>56<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> While at the Courtauld, Blunt contributed photographs to the Conway Library of art and architecture, which are currently<sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Dates_and_numbers#Chronological_items" title="Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Dates and numbers"><span title="The time period mentioned near this tag is ambiguous. (July 2023)">when?</span></a></i>]</sup> being digitised.<sup id="cite_ref-73" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-73"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>73<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-74" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-74"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>74<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Research_and_publications">Research and publications</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Anthony_Blunt&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Research and publications"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 1953, Blunt published his book <i>Art and Architecture in France, 1500–1700</i> in the <a href="/wiki/Pelican_History_of_Art" class="mw-redirect" title="Pelican History of Art">Pelican History of Art</a> (later taken over by Yale University Press), and he was in particular an expert on the works of <a href="/wiki/Nicolas_Poussin" title="Nicolas Poussin">Nicolas Poussin</a>, writing numerous books and articles about the painter, and serving as curator for a landmark exhibition of Poussin at the <a href="/wiki/Louvre" title="Louvre">Louvre</a> in 1960, which was an enormous success.<sup id="cite_ref-MCarter_9-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-MCarter-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He also wrote on topics as diverse as <a href="/wiki/William_Blake" title="William Blake">William Blake</a>, <a href="/wiki/Pablo_Picasso" title="Pablo Picasso">Pablo Picasso</a>, and the Galleries of England, Scotland, and Wales. He also catalogued the French drawings (1945), G. B. Castiglione and Stefano della Bella drawings (1954) Roman drawings (with H. L. Cooke, 1960) and Venetian (with <a href="/wiki/Edward_Croft-Murray" title="Edward Croft-Murray">Edward Croft-Murray</a>, 1957) drawings in the Royal Collection, as well as a supplement of Addenda and Corrigenda to the Italian catalogues (in E. Schilling's German Drawings).<sup id="cite_ref-:0_56-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-56"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>56<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Blunt attended a summer school in <a href="/wiki/Sicily" title="Sicily">Sicily</a> in 1965, leading to a deep interest in <a href="/wiki/Sicilian_Baroque_architecture" class="mw-redirect" title="Sicilian Baroque architecture">Sicilian Baroque architecture</a>, and in 1968 he wrote the only authoritative and in-depth book on <i><a href="/wiki/Sicilian_Baroque" title="Sicilian Baroque">Sicilian Baroque</a></i>. From 1962 he was engaged in a dispute with Sir <a href="/wiki/Denis_Mahon" title="Denis Mahon">Denis Mahon</a> regarding the authenticity of a Poussin work which rumbled on for several years. Mahon was shown to be correct. Blunt was also unaware that a painting in his own possession was also by Poussin.<sup id="cite_ref-MCarter_9-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-MCarter-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>After Margaret Thatcher had exposed Blunt's espionage, he continued his art history work by writing and publishing a <i>Guide to Baroque Rome</i> (1982). He intended to write a monograph about the architecture of <a href="/wiki/Pietro_da_Cortona" title="Pietro da Cortona">Pietro da Cortona</a> but he died before realising the project. His manuscripts were sent to the intended co-author of this work, German art historian Jörg Martin Merz by the executors of his will. Merz published a book, <i>Pietro da Cortona and Roman Baroque Architecture</i> in 2008 incorporating a draft by the late Anthony Blunt.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_56-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-56"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>56<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Many of his publications are still seen today by scholars as integral to the study of art history. His writing is lucid, and places art and architecture in their context in history. In <i>Art and Architecture in France</i>, for example, he begins each section with a brief depiction of the social, political and/or religious contexts in which works of art and art movements are emerging. In Blunt's <i>Artistic Theory in Italy, 1450–1600</i>, he explains the motivational circumstances involved in the transitions between the High <a href="/wiki/Renaissance" title="Renaissance">Renaissance</a> and <a href="/wiki/Mannerism" title="Mannerism">Mannerism</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_56-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-56"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>56<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Notable_students">Notable students</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Anthony_Blunt&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Notable students"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Notable students who have been influenced by Blunt include <a href="/wiki/Aaron_Scharf" title="Aaron Scharf">Aaron Scharf</a>, photography historian and author of <i>Art and Photography</i> (whom Blunt assisted, along with Scharf's wife, in escaping <a href="/wiki/McCarthyism" title="McCarthyism">McCarthy</a> condemnation for their support of communism), Brian Sewell (an art critic for the <i><a href="/wiki/Evening_Standard" title="Evening Standard">Evening Standard</a></i>),<sup id="cite_ref-75" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-75"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>75<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Ron_Bloore" title="Ron Bloore">Ron Bloore</a>, Sir Oliver Millar (his successor at the Royal Collection and an expert on <a href="/wiki/Van_Dyck" class="mw-redirect" title="Van Dyck">Van Dyck</a>), <a href="/wiki/Nicholas_Serota" title="Nicholas Serota">Nicholas Serota</a>, <a href="/wiki/Neil_Macgregor" class="mw-redirect" title="Neil Macgregor">Neil Macgregor</a>, the former editor of the Burlington magazine, former director of the National Gallery and former director of the <a href="/wiki/British_Museum" title="British Museum">British Museum</a> who paid tribute to Blunt as "a great and generous teacher",<sup id="cite_ref-76" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-76"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>76<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/John_White_(art_historian)" title="John White (art historian)">John White</a> (art historian), Sir <a href="/wiki/Alan_Bowness" title="Alan Bowness">Alan Bowness</a> (who ran the <a href="/wiki/Tate_Gallery" class="mw-redirect" title="Tate Gallery">Tate Gallery</a>), John Golding (who wrote the first major book on <a href="/wiki/Cubism" title="Cubism">Cubism</a>), <a href="/wiki/Reyner_Banham" title="Reyner Banham">Reyner Banham</a> (an influential architectural historian), <a href="/wiki/John_Shearman" title="John Shearman">John Shearman</a> (the "world expert" on Mannerism and the former Chair of the Art History Department at <a href="/wiki/Harvard_University" title="Harvard University">Harvard University</a>), <a href="/wiki/Melvin_Day" title="Melvin Day">Melvin Day</a> (former Director of <a href="/wiki/National_Art_Gallery_of_New_Zealand" class="mw-redirect" title="National Art Gallery of New Zealand">National Art Gallery of New Zealand</a> and Government Art Historian for New Zealand ), Christopher Newall (an expert on the <a href="/wiki/Pre-Raphaelites" class="mw-redirect" title="Pre-Raphaelites">Pre-Raphaelites</a>), <a href="/wiki/Michael_Jaff%C3%A9" title="Michael Jaffé">Michael Jaffé</a> (an expert on <a href="/wiki/Rubens" class="mw-redirect" title="Rubens">Rubens</a>), Michael Mahoney (former Curator of European Paintings at the <a href="/wiki/National_Gallery_of_Art" title="National Gallery of Art">National Gallery of Art</a>, Washington, D.C., and former Chair of the Art History Department at Trinity College, Hartford), <a href="/wiki/Lee_Johnson_(art_historian)" title="Lee Johnson (art historian)">Lee Johnson</a> (an expert on <a href="/wiki/Eug%C3%A8ne_Delacroix" title="Eugène Delacroix">Eugène Delacroix</a>), Phoebe Pool (art historian) and <a href="/wiki/Anita_Brookner" title="Anita Brookner">Anita Brookner</a> (an art historian and novelist). </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Honorary_positions">Honorary positions</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Anthony_Blunt&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Honorary positions"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Among his many accomplishments, Blunt also received a series of honorary fellowships, became the <a href="/wiki/National_Trust_for_Places_of_Historic_Interest_or_Natural_Beauty" class="mw-redirect" title="National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty">National Trust</a>'s picture adviser, curated exhibitions at the <a href="/wiki/Royal_Academy" class="mw-redirect" title="Royal Academy">Royal Academy</a>, edited and wrote numerous books and articles, and sat on many influential committees in the arts. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Works">Works</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Anthony_Blunt&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Works"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>A <span title="German-language text"><i lang="de"><a href="/wiki/Festschrift" title="Festschrift">festschrift</a></i></span>, <i>Studies in Renaissance and Baroque Art presented to Anthony Blunt on his 60th Birthday</i>, Phaidon 1967 (introduction by Ellis Waterhouse), contains a full list of his writings up to 1966. </p><p>Major works include: </p> <ul><li>Blunt, <i>Artistic Theory in Italy, 1450–1600</i>, 1940 and many later editions</li> <li>Anthony Blunt, <i>François Mansart and the Origins of French Classical Architecture</i>, 1941.</li> <li>Blunt, <i>Art and Architecture in France, 1500–1700</i>, 1953 and many subsequent editions.</li> <li>Blunt, <i>Philibert de l'Orme</i>, A. Zwemmer, 1958.</li> <li>Blunt, <i>Nicolas Poussin. A Critical Catalogue</i>, Phaidon 1966</li> <li>Blunt, <i>Nicolas Poussin</i>, Phaidon 1967 (new edition Pallas Athene, published, London, 1995).</li> <li>Blunt, <i>Sicilian Baroque</i>, 1968 (ed. it. Milano 1968; Milano 1986).</li> <li>Blunt, <i>Picasso's Guernica</i>, Oxford University Press, 1969.</li> <li>Blunt, <i>Neapolitan Baroque and Rococo Architecture</i>, London 1975 (ed. it. Milano 2006).</li> <li>Blunt, <i>Baroque and Rococo Architecture and Decoration</i>, 1978.</li> <li>Blunt, <i>Borromini</i>, 1979 (ed. it. Roma-Bari 1983).</li> <li>Blunt, <i>L'occhio e la storia. Scritti di critica d'arte (1936–38)</i>, a cura di Antonello Negri, Udine 1999.</li></ul> <p>Important articles after 1966: </p> <ul><li>Anthony Blunt, "French Painting, Sculpture and Architecture since 1500", in <i>France: A Companion to French Studies</i>, ed. D. G. Charlton (New York, Toronto and London: Pitman, 1972), 439–492.</li> <li>Anthony Blunt, "Rubens and architecture", <i>Burlington Magazine</i>, 1977, 894, pp. 609–621.</li> <li>Anthony Blunt, "Roman Baroque Architecture: the Other Side of the Medal", <i>Art history</i>, no. 1, 1980, pp. 61–80 (includes bibliographical references).</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Depictions_in_popular_culture">Depictions in popular culture</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Anthony_Blunt&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: Depictions in popular culture"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1251242444">.mw-parser-output .ambox{border:1px solid #a2a9b1;border-left:10px solid #36c;background-color:#fbfbfb;box-sizing:border-box}.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+style+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+style+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+link+.ambox{margin-top:-1px}html body.mediawiki .mw-parser-output .ambox.mbox-small-left{margin:4px 1em 4px 0;overflow:hidden;width:238px;border-collapse:collapse;font-size:88%;line-height:1.25em}.mw-parser-output .ambox-speedy{border-left:10px solid #b32424;background-color:#fee7e6}.mw-parser-output .ambox-delete{border-left:10px solid #b32424}.mw-parser-output .ambox-content{border-left:10px solid #f28500}.mw-parser-output .ambox-style{border-left:10px solid #fc3}.mw-parser-output .ambox-move{border-left:10px solid #9932cc}.mw-parser-output .ambox-protection{border-left:10px solid #a2a9b1}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-text{border:none;padding:0.25em 0.5em;width:100%}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-image{border:none;padding:2px 0 2px 0.5em;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-imageright{border:none;padding:2px 0.5em 2px 0;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-empty-cell{border:none;padding:0;width:1px}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-image-div{width:52px}@media(min-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .ambox{margin:0 10%}}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .ambox{display:none!important}}</style><table class="box-More_citations_needed plainlinks metadata ambox ambox-content ambox-Refimprove" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image"><div class="mbox-image-div"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Question_book-new.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/50px-Question_book-new.svg.png" decoding="async" width="50" height="39" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/75px-Question_book-new.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/100px-Question_book-new.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="399" /></a></span></div></td><td class="mbox-text"><div class="mbox-text-span">This section <b>needs additional citations for <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability">verification</a></b>.<span class="hide-when-compact"> Please help <a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Anthony_Blunt" title="Special:EditPage/Anthony Blunt">improve this article</a> by <a href="/wiki/Help:Referencing_for_beginners" title="Help:Referencing for beginners">adding citations to reliable sources</a> in this section. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed.<br /><small><span class="plainlinks"><i>Find sources:</i> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.google.com/search?as_eq=wikipedia&q=%22Anthony+Blunt%22">"Anthony Blunt"</a> – <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.google.com/search?tbm=nws&q=%22Anthony+Blunt%22+-wikipedia&tbs=ar:1">news</a> <b>·</b> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.google.com/search?&q=%22Anthony+Blunt%22&tbs=bkt:s&tbm=bks">newspapers</a> <b>·</b> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.google.com/search?tbs=bks:1&q=%22Anthony+Blunt%22+-wikipedia">books</a> <b>·</b> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=%22Anthony+Blunt%22">scholar</a> <b>·</b> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.jstor.org/action/doBasicSearch?Query=%22Anthony+Blunt%22&acc=on&wc=on">JSTOR</a></span></small></span> <span class="date-container"><i>(<span class="date">March 2019</span>)</i></span><span class="hide-when-compact"><i> (<small><a href="/wiki/Help:Maintenance_template_removal" title="Help:Maintenance template removal">Learn how and when to remove this message</a></small>)</i></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><i><a href="/wiki/A_Question_of_Attribution" title="A Question of Attribution">A Question of Attribution</a></i> is a play written by <a href="/wiki/Alan_Bennett" title="Alan Bennett">Alan Bennett</a> about Blunt, covering the weeks before his public exposure as a spy, and his relationship with Queen Elizabeth II. After a successful run in London's West End, it was made into a television play directed by <a href="/wiki/John_Schlesinger" title="John Schlesinger">John Schlesinger</a> and starring <a href="/wiki/James_Fox" title="James Fox">James Fox</a>, <a href="/wiki/Prunella_Scales" title="Prunella Scales">Prunella Scales</a> and <a href="/wiki/Geoffrey_Palmer_(actor)" title="Geoffrey Palmer (actor)">Geoffrey Palmer</a>. It was aired on the <a href="/wiki/BBC" title="BBC">BBC</a> in 1991. This play was seen as a companion to Bennett's 1983 television play about Guy Burgess, <i><a href="/wiki/An_Englishman_Abroad" title="An Englishman Abroad">An Englishman Abroad</a></i>. </p><p><i>Blunt: The Fourth Man</i> is a 1985 television film starring <a href="/wiki/Ian_Richardson" title="Ian Richardson">Ian Richardson</a>, <a href="/wiki/Anthony_Hopkins" title="Anthony Hopkins">Anthony Hopkins</a>, <a href="/wiki/Michael_Williams_(actor)" title="Michael Williams (actor)">Michael Williams</a>, and Rosie Kerslake, covering the events of 1951 when Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean went missing.<sup id="cite_ref-77" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-77"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>77<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><i><a href="/wiki/The_Untouchable_(novel)" title="The Untouchable (novel)">The Untouchable</a></i>, a 1997 novel by <a href="/wiki/John_Banville" title="John Banville">John Banville</a>, is a <span title="French-language text"><i lang="fr"><a href="/wiki/Roman_%C3%A0_clef" title="Roman à clef">roman à clef</a></i></span> based largely on the life and character of Anthony Blunt; the novel's protagonist, Victor Maskell, is a loosely disguised Blunt.<sup id="cite_ref-78" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-78"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>78<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>"I. M. Anthony Blunt" is a poem by Gavin Ewart, cleverly attempting a humane corrective to the hysteria over Blunt's fall from grace. Published in <i>Gavin Ewart, Selected Poems 1933–1993</i>, Hutchenson, 1996 (reprinted Faber and Faber, 2011). </p><p><i>A Friendship of Convenience: Being a Discourse on Poussin's "Landscape With a Man Killed by a Snake"</i>, is a 1997 novel by Rufus Gunn set in 1956 in which Blunt, then Surveyor of the Queen's Pictures, encounters <a href="/wiki/Joseph_Losey" title="Joseph Losey">Joseph Losey</a>, the film director fleeing <a href="/wiki/McCarthyism" title="McCarthyism">McCarthyism</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-79" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-79"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>79<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Blunt was portrayed by <a href="/wiki/Samuel_West" title="Samuel West">Samuel West</a> in <i><a href="/wiki/Cambridge_Spies" title="Cambridge Spies">Cambridge Spies</a></i>, a 2003 four-part BBC television drama concerning the lives of the Cambridge Four from 1934 to the defection of Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean to the Soviet Union. West reprised the role in <i><a href="/wiki/The_Crown_(TV_series)" title="The Crown (TV series)">The Crown</a></i> (2019), in "Olding", the first episode of the <a href="/wiki/The_Crown_(season_3)" class="mw-redirect" title="The Crown (season 3)">third season</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-80" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-80"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>80<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-81" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-81"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>81<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-82" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-82"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>82<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> At the end of the episode, a series of on-screen titles simply say, "Anthony Blunt was offered complete immunity from prosecution. He continued as Surveyor of the Queen's Pictures until his retirement in 1972. The Queen never spoke of him again." No mention is made of the Queen stripping him of his knighthood or his removal as an Honorary Fellow of Trinity College. </p><p><i>Liberation Square</i>, Gareth Rubin's alternative history of the UK, published in 2019, makes Blunt First Party Secretary of a 1950s Britain divided by US and Russian forces.<sup id="cite_ref-83" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-83"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>83<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-84" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-84"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>84<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Blunt is portrayed by <a href="/wiki/Nicholas_Rowe_(actor)" title="Nicholas Rowe (actor)">Nicholas Rowe</a> in the 2022 <a href="/wiki/ITVX" title="ITVX">ITVX</a> miniseries <i><a href="/wiki/A_Spy_Among_Friends" title="A Spy Among Friends">A Spy Among Friends</a></i>; an espionage drama based on <a href="/wiki/Ben_Macintyre" title="Ben Macintyre">Ben Macintyre</a>'s book of the same name.<sup id="cite_ref-85" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-85"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>85<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/The_Endless_Game" title="The Endless Game">The Endless Game</a> featured a character based on Blunt. <a href="/wiki/Anthony_Quayle" title="Anthony Quayle">Anthony Quayle</a> played Herbert Glanville, an art critic dubbed the Fifth Man of a Cambridge spy ring who made a deal to get immunity from prosecution. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Anthony_Blunt&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap mw-references-columns"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-Carter_2001,_p._180-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Carter_2001,_p._180_1-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Carter_2001,_p._180_1-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Carter 2001, p. 180.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Carter 2001, p. 302.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-3">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Carter 2001, p. 319.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-4">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">GRO Register of Deaths: Mar 1983 15 2186 Westminster – Anthony Frederick Blunt, DoB = 26 September 1907; Varriano 1996.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Shone_2013-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Shone_2013_5-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Shone, Richard and Stonard, John-Paul, eds. <i>The Books that Shaped Art History</i>, Introduction. London: Thames & Hudson, 2013.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-6">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Hopkins, Andrew (2000). 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Retrieved <span class="nowrap">30 July</span> 2015</span> – via YouTube.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Press+Conference+of+Anthony+Blunt&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DmQX4LQM6thQ&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AAnthony+Blunt" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-21"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-21">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">BBC Television, 16 November 1979</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-22"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-22">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Andrews 2015, p. 112.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-23"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-23">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Carter 2001, p. 179.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-24"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-24">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Carter 2001, pp. 106–107.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-25"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-25">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFHennessy2002" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/Peter_Hennessy" title="Peter Hennessy">Hennessy, Peter</a> (2002). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/secretstatewhite00henn"><i>The Secret State: Whitehall and the Cold War</i></a>. London: Allen Lane. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-7139-9626-9" title="Special:BookSources/0-7139-9626-9"><bdi>0-7139-9626-9</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Secret+State%3A+Whitehall+and+the+Cold+War&rft.place=London&rft.pub=Allen+Lane&rft.date=2002&rft.isbn=0-7139-9626-9&rft.aulast=Hennessy&rft.aufirst=Peter&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Fsecretstatewhite00henn&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AAnthony+Blunt" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-26"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-26">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFHinsleyStripp2001" class="citation book cs1">Hinsley, F. H.; Stripp, Alan, eds. (2001). <i>Codebreakers: The Inside Story of Bletchley Park</i>. Oxford: Oxford University Press. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780192801326" title="Special:BookSources/9780192801326"><bdi>9780192801326</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Codebreakers%3A+The+Inside+Story+of+Bletchley+Park&rft.place=Oxford&rft.pub=Oxford+University+Press&rft.date=2001&rft.isbn=9780192801326&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AAnthony+Blunt" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-27"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-27">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFBoyle1982" class="citation book cs1">Boyle, Anthony (1982). <i>The Climate of Treason</i>. London: Hutchinson. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780091430603" title="Special:BookSources/9780091430603"><bdi>9780091430603</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Climate+of+Treason&rft.place=London&rft.pub=Hutchinson&rft.date=1982&rft.isbn=9780091430603&rft.aulast=Boyle&rft.aufirst=Anthony&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AAnthony+Blunt" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-:2-28"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-:2_28-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-:2_28-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFVerkaik2024" class="citation news cs1">Verkaik, Robert (28 April 2024). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/anthony-blunt-soviet-russian-spy-nazis-xsn37f8dx">"Soviet double agent Anthony Blunt may have helped Hitler too"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/The_Times" title="The Times">The Times</a></i>. <a href="/wiki/ISSN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISSN (identifier)">ISSN</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://search.worldcat.org/issn/0140-0460">0140-0460</a>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.today/20240428110929/https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/392db86e-7d65-4c5d-b2a9-b781d5ee7250?shareToken=0e7719b1ffebf636f87e03a7203e45e6">Archived</a> from the original on 28 April 2024<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">28 April</span> 2024</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+Times&rft.atitle=Soviet+double+agent+Anthony+Blunt+may+have+helped+Hitler+too&rft.date=2024-04-28&rft.issn=0140-0460&rft.aulast=Verkaik&rft.aufirst=Robert&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thetimes.co.uk%2Farticle%2Fanthony-blunt-soviet-russian-spy-nazis-xsn37f8dx&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AAnthony+Blunt" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-29"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-29">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Kitson.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-30"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-30">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Carter 2001, p. 304 (American edition).</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-ReferenceA-31"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-ReferenceA_31-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-ReferenceA_31-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Carter 2001, p. 305 (American edition).</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-32"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-32">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Carter 2001, p. 308 (American edition).</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Carter2001p311-33"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Carter2001p311_33-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Carter2001p311_33-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Carter2001p311_33-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Carter 2001, p. 311 (American edition).</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-34"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-34">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Bradford, p. 426</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-35"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-35">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Carter 2001, p. 312 (American edition).</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-36"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-36">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFHigham1988" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/Charles_Higham_(biographer)" title="Charles Higham (biographer)">Higham, Charles</a> (1988). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/duchessofwind00high/page/388"><i>The Duchess of Windsor: The Secret Life</i></a>. New York: McGraw-Hill Publishers. pp. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/duchessofwind00high/page/388">388–389</a>. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780070288010" title="Special:BookSources/9780070288010"><bdi>9780070288010</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Duchess+of+Windsor%3A+The+Secret+Life&rft.place=New+York&rft.pages=388-389&rft.pub=McGraw-Hill+Publishers&rft.date=1988&rft.isbn=9780070288010&rft.aulast=Higham&rft.aufirst=Charles&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Fduchessofwind00high%2Fpage%2F388&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AAnthony+Blunt" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-37"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-37">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Martin Allen, <i>Hidden Agenda: How the Duke of Windsor Betrayed the Allies</i> (London: Macmillan, 2000). <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780871319937" title="Special:BookSources/9780871319937">9780871319937</a>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Carter2001p313-38"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Carter2001p313_38-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Carter2001p313_38-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Carter 2001, p. 313 (American edition).</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-39"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-39">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Carter 2001, pp. 313–314 (American edition).</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-40"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-40">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Carter 2001, p. 315 (American edition).</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-41"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-41">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Carter 2001, pp. 315–316 (American edition).</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-42"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-42">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Carter 2001, p. 314 (American edition).</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Observer-43"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Observer_43-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Observer_43-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Observer_43-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2001/nov/11/biography.highereducation">"Scholar, gentleman, prig, spy"</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/The_Observer" title="The Observer">The Observer</a></i>, London, 11 November 2001</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-44"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-44">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFRees1972" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/Goronwy_Rees" title="Goronwy Rees">Rees, Goronwy</a> (1972). <span class="id-lock-registration" title="Free registration required"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/chapterofacciden0000rees"><i>A Chapter of Accidents</i></a></span>. London: Chatto & Windus. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780701115982" title="Special:BookSources/9780701115982"><bdi>9780701115982</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=A+Chapter+of+Accidents&rft.place=London&rft.pub=Chatto+%26+Windus&rft.date=1972&rft.isbn=9780701115982&rft.aulast=Rees&rft.aufirst=Goronwy&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Fchapterofacciden0000rees&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AAnthony+Blunt" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-45"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-45">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFMrs_Margaret_Thatcher1981" class="citation book cs1">Mrs Margaret Thatcher, The Prime Minister (9 November 1981). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://hansard.parliament.uk/commons/1981-11-09/debates/77ff1a3b-11cc-4a87-829e-c4f17dd7ba39/MrLeoLong">"Mr. Leo Long (Written Answers)"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/Hansard" title="Hansard">Parliamentary Debates (Hansard)</a></i>. House of Commons. col. 40W–42W.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.atitle=Mr.+Leo+Long+%28Written+Answers%29&rft.btitle=Parliamentary+Debates+%28Hansard%29&rft.pages=col.-40W-42W&rft.pub=House+of+Commons&rft.date=1981-11-09&rft.au=Mrs+Margaret+Thatcher&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fhansard.parliament.uk%2Fcommons%2F1981-11-09%2Fdebates%2F77ff1a3b-11cc-4a87-829e-c4f17dd7ba39%2FMrLeoLong&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AAnthony+Blunt" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-46"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-46">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.nytimes.com/1983/03/27/obituaries/anthony-blunt-fourth-man-in-british-spying-scandal-is-dead-at-75.html">"Anthony Blunt, fourth man in British spying scandal, is dead at 75"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/The_New_York_Times" title="The New York Times">The New York Times</a></i>. 27 March 1983<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">1 January</span> 2021</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=The+New+York+Times&rft.atitle=Anthony+Blunt%2C+fourth+man+in+British+spying+scandal%2C+is+dead+at+75&rft.date=1983-03-27&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F1983%2F03%2F27%2Fobituaries%2Fanthony-blunt-fourth-man-in-british-spying-scandal-is-dead-at-75.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AAnthony+Blunt" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-47"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-47">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/jul/23/blunt-soviet-spy-memoir">"Anthony Blunt memoir reveals spy's regret at 'the biggest mistake of my life'<span class="cs1-kern-right"></span>"</a>. <i>The Guardian</i>. 23 July 2009<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">30 December</span> 2020</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=The+Guardian&rft.atitle=Anthony+Blunt+memoir+reveals+spy%27s+regret+at+%27the+biggest+mistake+of+my+life%27&rft.date=2009-07-23&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theguardian.com%2Fworld%2F2009%2Fjul%2F23%2Fblunt-soviet-spy-memoir&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AAnthony+Blunt" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-burns-48"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-burns_48-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Burns, John F. "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/24/world/europe/24blunt.html">Memoirs of British Spy Offer No Apology</a>" <i>The New York Times</i>, 23 July 2009.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-49"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-49">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.nytimes.com/1983/03/27/obituaries/anthony-blunt-fourth-man-in-british-spying-scandal-is-dead-at-75.html">"ANTHONY BLUNT, FOURTH MAN IN BRITISH SPYING SCANDAL, IS DEAD AT 75"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/The_New_York_Times" title="The New York Times">The New York Times</a></i>. 27 March 1983<span class="reference-accessdate">. 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London: Picador. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780330339315" title="Special:BookSources/9780330339315">9780330339315</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bennett,_Alan" class="mw-redirect" title="Bennett, Alan">Bennett, Alan</a> (1988). <i>A Question of Attribution</i>, first theatre performance as the second part of a double-bill, with <i>An Englishman Abroad</i> about <a href="/wiki/Guy_Burgess" title="Guy Burgess">Guy Burgess</a> as the first part, London, 1988; broadcast as television play, 1991; both plays published in one volume as <i>Single Spies</i>, London, Faber, 1989, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-571-14105-6" title="Special:BookSources/0-571-14105-6">0-571-14105-6</a>.</li> <li>Bounds, Philip (2018). "A Spy in the House of Art: The Marxist Criticism of Anthony Blunt", <i><a href="/wiki/Critique:_Journal_of_Socialist_Theory" title="Critique: Journal of Socialist Theory">Critique: Journal of Socialist Theory</a></i>, vol. 46 no. 2, pp. 343–362.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Andrew_Boyle_(journalist)" title="Andrew Boyle (journalist)">Boyle, Andrew</a> (1979). <i>The Climate of Treason: Five Who Spied for Russia</i>. London: Hutchinson. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780091393403" title="Special:BookSources/9780091393403">9780091393403</a>.</li> <li><i>Burlington</i> (1974). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://burlington.org.uk/archive/back-issues/197409">"Editorial: Anthony Blunt and the Courtauld Institute"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/The_Burlington_Magazine" title="The Burlington Magazine">The Burlington Magazine</a></i>, vol. 116, no. 858 (September 1974), p. 501.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Carter,_Miranda" class="mw-redirect" title="Carter, Miranda">Carter, Miranda</a> (2001). <i>Anthony Blunt: His Lives</i>, London: Pan (609 pages). <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-330-36766-8" title="Special:BookSources/0-330-36766-8">0-330-36766-8</a>. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (590 pages). <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-374-10531-6" title="Special:BookSources/0-374-10531-6">0-374-10531-6</a>.</li> <li>Chastel, André (1983). "Anthony Blunt, art historian (1907–1983)", <i>The Burlington Magazine</i>, vol 125, no. 966 (September 1983), pp. 546–547.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Costello,_John_(historian)" class="mw-redirect" title="Costello, John (historian)">Costello, John</a> (1988). <i>Mask Of Treachery</i>, London, Collins. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-688-04483-2" title="Special:BookSources/0-688-04483-2">0-688-04483-2</a>.</li> <li>De Seta, Cesare (1991). "Anthony Blunt", in <i>Viale Belle Arti. Maestri e amici</i>, Milano, pp. 111–138.</li> <li>Foster, Henrietta (2008). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/newsnight/7205603.stm">"Unearthing an interview with a spy"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/Newsnight" title="Newsnight">Newsnight</a></i>. (23 January 2008). BBC. Retrieved 23 January 2008.</li> <li>Gatti, Andrea (2002). "La critica della ragione. sulla teoria dell'arte di Anthony Blunt", <i>Miscellanea Marciana</i>, vol. 17, pp. 193–205. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISSN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISSN (identifier)">ISSN</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.worldcat.org/search?fq=x0:jrnl&q=n2:0394-7866">0394-7866</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kitson,_Michael" class="mw-redirect" title="Kitson, Michael">Kitson, Michael</a>, rev. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFCarter" class="citation encyclopaedia cs1">Carter, Miranda. "Blunt, Anthony Frederick". <i><a href="/wiki/Dictionary_of_National_Biography#Oxford_Dictionary_of_National_Biography" title="Dictionary of National Biography">Oxford Dictionary of National Biography</a></i> (online ed.). Oxford University Press. <a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.1093%2Fref%3Aodnb%2F30829">10.1093/ref:odnb/30829</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.atitle=Blunt%2C+Anthony+Frederick&rft.btitle=Oxford+Dictionary+of+National+Biography&rft.edition=online&rft.pub=Oxford+University+Press&rft_id=info%3Adoi%2F10.1093%2Fref%3Aodnb%2F30829&rft.aulast=Carter&rft.aufirst=Miranda&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AAnthony+Blunt" class="Z3988"></span> <span style="font-size:0.95em; font-size:95%; color: var( --color-subtle, #555 )">(Subscription or <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.oxforddnb.com/help/subscribe#public">UK public library membership</a> required.)</span></li> <li>Lenzo, Fulvio (2006). <i>Napoli e l'architettura italiana ed europea negli studi di Anthony Blunt</i>, in Anthony Blunt, <i>Architettura barocca e rococò a Napoli</i>, ed. it. a cura di Fulvio Lenzo, Milano, pp. 7–15.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/MacNeice,_Louis" class="mw-redirect" title="MacNeice, Louis">MacNeice, Louis</a> (1965). <i>The Strings are False</i>, London, Faber. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-571-11832-1" title="Special:BookSources/0-571-11832-1">0-571-11832-1</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Penrose,_Barrie" class="mw-redirect" title="Penrose, Barrie">Penrose, Barrie</a> and Simon Freeman (1987). <i>Conspiracy of Silence: The Secret Life of Anthony Blunt</i>. New York. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780679720447" title="Special:BookSources/9780679720447">9780679720447</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Petropoulos,_Jonathan" class="mw-redirect" title="Petropoulos, Jonathan">Petropoulos, Jonathan</a> (2006). <i>The Royals and the Reich</i>. Oxford University Press. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0195161335" title="Special:BookSources/0195161335">0195161335</a>.</li> <li>Sorenson, Lee. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://arthistorians.info/blunta">"Blunt, Anthony"</a>. <i>Dictionary of Art Historians.</i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Straight,_Michael" class="mw-redirect" title="Straight, Michael">Straight, Michael</a> (1983). <i>After Long Silence: the Man Who Exposed Anthony Blunt Tells for the First Time the Story of the Cambridge Spy Network from the Inside</i>, London, Collins. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-00-217001-9" title="Special:BookSources/0-00-217001-9">0-00-217001-9</a>.</li> <li>Varriano, John (1996). "Blunt, Anthony", vol. 4, p. 182, in <i><a href="/wiki/The_Dictionary_of_Art" class="mw-redirect" title="The Dictionary of Art">The Dictionary of Art</a></i> (34 volumes), edited by <a href="/wiki/Jane_Turner" title="Jane Turner">Jane Turner</a>. New York: Grove. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9781884446009" title="Special:BookSources/9781884446009">9781884446009</a>. Also available at <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.oxfordartonline.com/subscriber/article/grove/art/T009392">Oxford Art Online</a> (subscription required).</li> <li><a href="/wiki/West,_Nigel" class="mw-redirect" title="West, Nigel">West, Nigel</a> (1999). <i>The Crown Jewels: The British Secrets Exposed by the KGB Archives</i>, London. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780300078060" title="Special:BookSources/9780300078060">9780300078060</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wright,_Peter_(MI5_officer)" class="mw-redirect" title="Wright, Peter (MI5 officer)">Wright, Peter</a> (1987). <i>Spycatcher: The Candid Autobiography of a Senior Intelligence Officer</i>. Toronto: Stoddart Publishers. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780773721685" title="Special:BookSources/9780773721685">9780773721685</a>.</li></ul> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Anthony_Blunt&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: External links"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://vault.fbi.gov/Anthony%20Blunt%20">FBI file on Anthony Blunt</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/player/nol/newsid_7200000/newsid_7206000/7206086.stm?bw=bb&mp=wm&news=1&ms3=6&ms_javascript=true&bbcws=2">BBC Newsnight: Blunt's art tapes revealed/Courtauld Institute</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20100313130951/http://www.oxonianreview.org/wp/blunt-instrument/">'Blunt Instrument', review of Blunt's memoir</a><sup><a href="/wiki/Template:Usurped/doc" title="Template:Usurped/doc">[usurped]</a></sup> in the <i><a href="/wiki/Oxonian_Review_of_Books" class="mw-redirect" title="Oxonian Review of Books">Oxonian Review of Books</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/BBC_Radio_4" title="BBC Radio 4">BBC Radio 4</a>'s <i>The Reunion</i>: Five past pupils of London's <a href="/wiki/Courtauld_Institute_of_Art" title="Courtauld Institute of Art">Courtauld Institute of Art</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0134z00/">remember Anthony Blunt</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y72xjISmCX4">Interview with biographer Miranda Carter on "Anthony Blunt: His Lives"</a></li></ul> <table class="wikitable succession-box noprint" style="margin:0.5em auto; font-size:small;clear:both;"> <tbody><tr> <th colspan="3" style="border-top: 5px solid #FF9966;">Court offices </th></tr> <tr style="text-align:center;"> <td style="width:30%;" rowspan="1">Preceded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><a href="/wiki/Kenneth_Clark" title="Kenneth Clark">Kenneth Clark</a></div> </td> <td style="width: 40%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1"><b> <a href="/wiki/Surveyor_of_the_Queen%27s_Pictures" class="mw-redirect" title="Surveyor of the Queen's Pictures">Surveyor of the Queen's Pictures</a> </b><br />1945 to 1973 </td> <td style="width: 30%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1">Succeeded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><a href="/wiki/Oliver_Millar_(art_historian)" class="mw-redirect" title="Oliver Millar (art historian)">Oliver Millar</a></div> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="border-top: 5px solid #DAA520;">Academic offices </th></tr> <tr style="text-align:center;"> <td style="width:30%;" rowspan="1">Preceded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><a href="/wiki/T._S._R._Boase" title="T. S. R. Boase">T. S. R. Boase</a></div> </td> <td style="width: 40%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1"><b> Director of the <a href="/wiki/Courtauld_Institute_of_Art" title="Courtauld Institute of Art">Courtauld Institute of Art</a> </b><br />1947 to 1974 </td> <td style="width: 30%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1">Succeeded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><a href="/wiki/Peter_Lasko" title="Peter Lasko">Peter Lasko</a></div> </td></tr> <tr style="text-align:center;"> <td style="width:30%;" rowspan="1">Preceded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><a href="/wiki/Kenneth_Clark" title="Kenneth Clark">Kenneth Clark</a></div> </td> <td style="width: 40%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1"><b> <a href="/wiki/Slade_Professor_of_Fine_Art" title="Slade Professor of Fine Art">Slade Professor of Fine Art</a>,<br /> Oxford University </b><br />1962 </td> <td style="width: 30%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1">Succeeded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><a href="/wiki/T._S._R._Boase" title="T. S. R. 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style="width:1%;font-weight:normal;">1940s and before</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/John_Abt" title="John Abt">John Abt</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joel_Barr" title="Joel Barr">Joel Barr</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Elizabeth_Bentley" title="Elizabeth Bentley">Elizabeth Bentley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Earl_Browder" title="Earl Browder">Earl Browder</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Boris_Bukov" title="Boris Bukov">Boris Bukov</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Whittaker_Chambers" title="Whittaker Chambers">Whittaker Chambers</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lona_Cohen" title="Lona Cohen">Lona Cohen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Morris_Cohen_(spy)" title="Morris Cohen (spy)">Morris Cohen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Judith_Coplon" title="Judith Coplon">Judith Coplon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Noel_Field" title="Noel Field">Noel Field</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Klaus_Fuchs" title="Klaus Fuchs">Klaus Fuchs</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Harold_Glasser" title="Harold Glasser">Harold Glasser</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Harry_Gold" title="Harry Gold">Harry Gold</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/David_Greenglass" title="David Greenglass">David Greenglass</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Theodore_Hall" title="Theodore Hall">Theodore Hall</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Herrmann" title="John Herrmann">John Herrmann</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Donald_Hiss" title="Donald Hiss">Donald Hiss</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_Koval" title="George Koval">George Koval</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Malisoff" title="William Malisoff">William Malisoff</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hede_Massing" title="Hede Massing">Hede Massing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Boris_Morros" title="Boris Morros">Boris Morros</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Isaiah_Oggins" title="Isaiah Oggins">Isaiah Oggins</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Perl" title="William Perl">William Perl</a></li> <li><a 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Peters</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Ward_Pigman" title="William Ward Pigman">William Ward Pigman</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lee_Pressman" title="Lee Pressman">Lee Pressman</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vincent_Reno" title="Vincent Reno">Vincent Reno</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Julius_and_Ethel_Rosenberg" title="Julius and Ethel Rosenberg">Julius and Ethel Rosenberg</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alfred_Sarant" title="Alfred Sarant">Alfred Sarant</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Saville_Sax" title="Saville Sax">Saville Sax</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Morton_Sobell" title="Morton Sobell">Morton Sobell</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alexander_Ulanovsky" title="Alexander Ulanovsky">Alexander Ulanovsky</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nadezhda_Ulanovskaya" title="Nadezhda Ulanovskaya">Nadezhda Ulanovskaya</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Julian_Wadleigh" title="Julian Wadleigh">Julian Wadleigh</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Harold_Ware" title="Harold Ware">Harold Ware</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bill_Weisband" title="Bill Weisband">Bill Weisband</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nathaniel_Weyl" title="Nathaniel Weyl">Nathaniel Weyl</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Harry_Dexter_White" title="Harry Dexter White">Harry Dexter White</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maria_Wicher" title="Maria Wicher">Maria Wicher</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nathan_Witt" title="Nathan Witt">Nathan Witt</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Flora_Wovschin" title="Flora Wovschin">Flora Wovschin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anatoli_Yatskov" title="Anatoli Yatskov">Anatoli Yatskov</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Cold_War_espionage" title="Cold War espionage">Cold War</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Rudolf_Abel" title="Rudolf Abel">Rudolf Abel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Aldrich_Ames" title="Aldrich Ames">Aldrich Ames</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/David_Sheldon_Boone" title="David Sheldon Boone">David Sheldon Boone</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Christopher_John_Boyce" title="Christopher John Boyce">Christopher John Boyce</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Patrick_Cavanaugh" class="mw-redirect" title="Thomas Patrick Cavanaugh">Thomas Patrick Cavanaugh</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jack_Dunlap" title="Jack Dunlap">Jack Dunlap</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_Hall_III" title="James Hall III">James Hall III</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Hanssen" title="Robert Hanssen">Robert Hanssen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Reino_H%C3%A4yh%C3%A4nen" title="Reino Häyhänen">Reino Häyhänen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edward_Lee_Howard" title="Edward Lee Howard">Edward Lee Howard</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Lee_Johnson_(spy)" title="Robert Lee Johnson (spy)">Robert Lee Johnson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Karl_Koecher" title="Karl Koecher">Karl Koecher</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Andrew_Daulton_Lee" title="Andrew Daulton Lee">Andrew Daulton Lee</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Lipka" title="Robert Lipka">Robert Lipka</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Clayton_J._Lonetree" title="Clayton J. Lonetree">Clayton J. Lonetree</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Richard_Miller_(agent)" title="Richard Miller (agent)">Richard Miller</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ronald_Pelton" title="Ronald Pelton">Ronald Pelton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Earl_Edwin_Pitts" title="Earl Edwin Pitts">Earl Edwin Pitts</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jack_Soble" title="Jack Soble">Jack Soble</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Myra_Soble" title="Myra Soble">Myra Soble</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Soblen" title="Robert Soblen">Robert Soblen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Oscar_Seborer" title="Oscar Seborer">Oscar Seborer</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Thompson_(spy)" title="Robert Thompson (spy)">Robert Thompson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_Trofimoff" title="George Trofimoff">George Trofimoff</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Anthony_Walker" title="John Anthony Walker">John Anthony Walker</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jerry_Whitworth" title="Jerry Whitworth">Jerry Whitworth</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;font-weight:normal;">Post-Soviet</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Evgeny_Buryakov" title="Evgeny Buryakov">Evgeny Buryakov</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anna_Chapman" title="Anna Chapman">Anna Chapman</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Peter_Debbins" title="Peter Debbins">Peter Debbins</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Hanssen" title="Robert Hanssen">Robert Hanssen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Harold_James_Nicholson" title="Harold James Nicholson">Harold James Nicholson</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Illegals_Program" title="Illegals Program">Illegals Program</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">In the <a href="/wiki/United_Kingdom" title="United Kingdom">UK</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Cambridge_Five" title="Cambridge Five">Cambridge Five</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Anthony Blunt</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Guy_Burgess" title="Guy Burgess">Guy Burgess</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Cairncross" title="John Cairncross">John Cairncross</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Donald_Maclean_(spy)" title="Donald Maclean (spy)">Donald Maclean</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kim_Philby" title="Kim Philby">Kim Philby</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Portland_spy_ring" title="Portland spy ring">Portland spy ring</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Lona_Cohen" title="Lona Cohen">Lona Cohen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Morris_Cohen_(spy)" title="Morris Cohen (spy)">Morris Cohen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ethel_Gee" title="Ethel Gee">Ethel Gee</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Harry_Houghton" title="Harry Houghton">Harry Houghton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Konon_Molody" title="Konon Molody">Konon Molody</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Michael_Bettaney" title="Michael Bettaney">Michael Bettaney</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_Blake" title="George Blake">George Blake</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/David_Crook" title="David Crook">David Crook</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Litzi_Friedmann" title="Litzi Friedmann">Litzi Friedmann</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Klaus_Fuchs" title="Klaus Fuchs">Klaus Fuchs</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Percy_Glading" title="Percy Glading">Percy Glading</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Melita_Norwood" title="Melita Norwood">Melita Norwood</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alan_Nunn_May" title="Alan Nunn May">Alan Nunn May</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Peet_(1915%E2%80%931988)" title="John Peet (1915–1988)">John Peet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Geoffrey_Prime" title="Geoffrey Prime">Geoffrey Prime</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Goronwy_Rees" title="Goronwy Rees">Goronwy Rees</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Michael_John_Smith_(espionage)" title="Michael John Smith (espionage)">Michael John Smith</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dave_Springhall" title="Dave Springhall">Dave Springhall</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Alexander_Symonds" title="John Alexander Symonds">John Alexander Symonds</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edith_Tudor-Hart" title="Edith Tudor-Hart">Edith Tudor-Hart</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Vassall" title="John Vassall">John 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