The Secret War
The Cambridge spies (named after the University they were students at when recruited) were Anthony Blunt, “Kim” Philby, Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean. They sent details of many British and American secrets to the USSR, while still being well respected among the capitalists. Blunt was a distant relative to the Queen, and Burgess and Maclean were diplomats to Washington. The Rosenberg couple managed to send secrets concerning the USA’s atomic weapons program to the Soviets, and became the first spies to be killed during supposed peacetime. These are just two examples of incidents from the continuous wars between capitalist and communist spy networks. The American CIA, the British SIS (also known as MI6) and the Russian KGB were all constantly trying to find out enemy intentions, plans and scientific developments, while at the same time battling against betrayal and corruption from double agents. These organisations had as much of an affect, if not more of an affect, on the Cold War than the soldiers in Vietnam, Berlin and Korea. They were also the influence of spy films today.
