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	Anthony Blunt - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Anthony Frederick Blunt (September 26, 1907 – March 26, 1983) was an English art historian and the "Fourth Man" of the Cambridge Five, a group of spies working for the Soviet Union during the Cold War.
		Blunt is frequently spoken of as a distant relative of Queen Mary (Mary of Teck), generally Prince Michael of Hesse is given as their common cousin, however the exact lineage is never produced.
		Blunt confessed to MI5 on April 23, 1964, but his spying career remained an official secret until he was publicly named by Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in 1979.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Anthony_Blunt (734 words)

	Blunt - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In drug culture, a Blunt is a cigar filled with marijuana.
		Blunt, a Bluetooth protocol stack for Newton OS 2.1 devices.
		In biology, a Blunt end, a possible configuration of a DNA molecule.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Blunt (222 words)

	Excerpt \| Anthony Blunt: His Lives by Miranda Carter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Anthony Blunt is a deeply nuanced account of 50 years inside the British power elite, and an astonishing history of one of the century's greatest acts of duplicity.
		Blunt became defined as a caricature of his class (privileged, therefore overindulged), his calling (academic, therefore elitist and snobbish) and his sexual orientation (homosexual, therefore predatory and wedded to secrets).
		Blunt was a public-school rebel of a near-textbook type; in the 1920s he became a follower of Bloomsbury; in the 1930s a left-wing intellectual; in the 1950s and '60s an impeccably camouflaged man of the Establishment.
	www.januarymagazine.com /features/bluntexc.html (1671 words)

	Anthony Blunt
		Anthony Blunt, the son of a clergyman, was born in Bournemouth, Hampshire, in 1907.
		Blunt was one of the most damaging spies ever to operate in Britain, contrary to the common belief that, compared with Philby or Maclean, he was in the second division.
		Blunt was capable of slipping from art historian and scholar one minute, to intelligence bureaucrat the next, to spy, to waspish homosexual, to languid establishmentarian.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /SSblunt.htm (1346 words)

	screenonline: Blunt (1987)
		The role played by Anthony Blunt, art historian and advisor to the Royal family, in the defection of the KGB double agents Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean in 1951.
		Sir Anthony Blunt, celebrated art historian and Surveyor of the Royal family's pictures since 1945, was exposed in 1979 as a KGB traitor in Andrew Boyle's book The Climate of Treason.
		When this was confirmed in Parliament, Blunt was stripped of his knighthood, leading to much debate as to why this had been kept hidden for so long since he'd confessed to the authorities in 1964.
	www.screenonline.org.uk /tv/id/1009098 (428 words)

	ESR \| January 28, 2002 \| The mysterious spy - A review of Anthony Blunt: His Lives
		It's a testament to Miranda Carter's skill that a figure so publicly restrained and insular as Anthony Blunt, equally best known for his work in art history and his spying on England on behalf of the Soviet union, that she was able to complete as detailed an investigation into the man that she has managed.
		Blunt's treachery, however, was hidden because of the embarrassment it would have caused both the British establishment and the intelligence community.
		Blunt was a complicated man who managed to compartmentalize his life to an amazing degree and lapsing into simple answers to explain his motivations is a regrettable error for Carter to have made.
	www.enterstageright.com /archive/articles/0102/0102anthonyblunt.htm (826 words)

	The New Yorker: The Critics: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Anthony Blunt was the son of a vicar, an Evangelical Anglican who was in charge of the British Embassy church in Paris during the First World War, and of a shy, virtuous, dominant mother.
		Blunt was never taken seriously in left-wing Cambridge; in what seems a perfect paradigm of his life, he once left an anti-Fascist rally early in order to have tea at the Reform Club.
		Blunt began as a follower of Bloomsbury, and those atheistic devotees of sexual amorality and the primacy of the emotional life have come in for the usual amount of blame.
	www.newyorker.com /critics/books?020114crbo_books (2910 words)

	screenonline: Question of Attribution, A (1991)
		The final years in the career of Anthony Blunt, the celebrated art historian who for many years was a double agent in the employ of the KGB.
		At the end of the film Blunt is seen leaving his job at the Courtauld Institute after being publicly exposed as a spy in 1979, when actually he had retired from there five years earlier.
		This is contrasted with the second strand, in which Blunt is involved in historical research to try and uncover a figure apparently hidden in a painting of Titian and a Venetian Senator.
	www.screenonline.org.uk /tv/id/986784 (400 words)

	BBC - History - Anthony Blunt (1907 - 1983) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Anthony Blunt was the most aristocratic of the infamous Cambridge spy ring - which also included Kim Philby, Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean - that betrayed British secrets to the Soviet Union in the 30s, 40s and early 50s.
		Blunt joined the British army in 1939, and served as an officer in France until it was invaded by Germany.
		Blunt was offered immunity from prosecution and a promise of secrecy in return for information concerning everything he knew about the KGB.
	www.bbc.co.uk /history/historic_figures/blunt_anthony.shtml (490 words)

	Spies Encyclopedia - Blunt, Anthony
		Blunt served in F Branch and was in charge of 'The Watchers' by the end of 1940.
		Blunt stated that he was the man they were looking for, the "Fourth Man," openly admitting that he had warned his friends, Philby, Burgess and Maclean.
		Blunt's treachery was later confirmed by the Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher in 1979.
	www.spyschool.com /spybios/blunta.htm (443 words)

	ArtScope.net: Anthony Blunt: His Lives (Book Review)
		Reading Anthony Blunt: His Lives, one cannot help but reflect that the great sorrow of Blunt's life is that his ten years of involvement with the Soviets, as talent spotter and then actual agent, almost wholly eclipsed thirty years of real and considerable talent in the art world.
		Blunt, however, was born in 1907, pre-Cold War, part of that generation which came of age in the Britain between the two World Wars.
		Anthony Blunt's story as portrayed in Anthony Blunt: His Lives is all the more interesting for that, and certainly worthy of the more objective examination Carter brings to it.
	www.artscope.net /VAREVIEWS/blunt030802.shtml (1392 words)

	Printable Version on Encyclopedia.com
		BLUNT, ANTHONY FREDERICK [Blunt, Anthony Frederick] 1907-83, English art historian and Soviet spy, grad.
		Cambridge Univ. Director of the Courtauld Institute of Art after 1947 and professor of the history of art at the Univ. of London, Blunt also served from 1952 as Surveyor of the Queen's Pictures and was one of the most powerful figures in the mid-20th-century art world.
		However, Blunt's activities did not come to official attention until 1979, when he was disgraced and stripped of his knighthood and other honors.
	www.encyclopedia.com /printable.aspx?id=1E1:Blunt-An (210 words)

	Anthony Blunt: His Lives -- book review
		A spy from an earlier era, Anthony Blunt, is the subject of a new biography by Miranda Carter.
		Blunt was part of the spy ring that included Kim Philby, Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean, diplomats and British intelligence officers who passed state secrets to the Russians from the 1930’s to the 1950’s.
		Anthony Blunt was born in 1907 to parents who were not wealthy but were nevertheless related to aristocracy.
	www.curledup.com /anthony.htm (871 words)

	Telegraph \| Arts \| The establishment enigma
		Blunt's "level of engagement in politics was so different to mine, or most people who become engaged in socialism.
		The play imagines Blunt giving a kind of apologia per sua vita, just after his exposure as a former Soviet spy by Margaret Thatcher in 1979, alone in his flat, besieged by the press and demonised, in Redgrave's words, as a monster somewhere between "a mass murderer and a child-molester".
		I wonder whether Blunt is more of a starting point for, for example, writing about his father's generation, than a figure he feels obliged to ground entirely in fact - the obligation of a biographer.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2002/07/20/btredg20.xml (1346 words)

	The Sunday Tribune - Spectrum - Books
		Now that Blunt is long dead, remembered at least as much as a spy as an art historian, his own testament locked away in the British Library, Carter has taken the opportunity to write a biography that provides a dispassionate account of his life.
		As a young don, Blunt was converted from the idea of art for art’s sake as espoused by his friends in Bloomsbury to an intellectual form of Marxism, which much influenced his critical writings in the Spectator.
		Blunt had always been more cosmopolitan than his contemporaries, having been brought up in France, and seems to have appreciated the contact that Marxism gave him with European refugees.
	www.tribuneindia.com /2001/20011209/spectrum/book4.htm (687 words)

	Powells.com Interviews - Judy Blunt
		In Blunt's evocative prose we encounter a life alternately brutal and breathtaking, a woman torn between the confining responsibilities of motherhood on an isolated family ranch and the contradictory desire for self-expression.
		Blunt: I was attempting to express another part of myself, a part of myself that was not necessary to the ranch.
		Blunt: People will announce that they think the book is about how I escaped from this life of cruel whatever it was, which is sort of a joke.
	www.powells.com /authors/blunt.html (4111 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Books \| By genre \| Review: Anthony Blunt: His Lives by Miranda Carter
		Yet she has written a picaresque tale of off-duty sailors and offstage chorus boys, of shady spies and melancholy dons, of guardsmen in brothels and intellectuals at war, of flunkies and art dealers - of the whole disillusioned crew, in fact, that was spawned by England during the 1930s.
		She shows that Blunt was paid by Soviet intelligence, and how easily he rationalised the Nazi-Soviet pact as he continued to spy.
		Blunt was less "gay" than "homosexual", the more clinical appellation seeming also the more appropriate for so austere an intelligence.
	books.guardian.co.uk /reviews/biography/0,6121,590539,00.html (1139 words)

	BBC ON THIS DAY \| 16 \| 1979: Blunt revealed as 'fourth man'
		The Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher, has named Sir Anthony Blunt, a former security service officer and personal adviser on art to the Queen as the "fourth man" in the Cambridge spy ring.
		Anthony Blunt was art adviser to the Queen until he retired in 1972
		Professor Blunt made his own statement to the media on 20 November in which he claimed the decision to grant him immunity from prosecution was taken by the then prime minister, Sir Alec Douglas-Home.
	news.bbc.co.uk /onthisday/hi/dates/stories/november/16/newsid_3907000/3907233.stm (650 words)

	History News Network
		The historian Kenneth Rose discloses that George VI and his courtiers believed that Blunt was a traitor as early as 1948: three years after he was appointed Surveyor of the King's Pictures and 16 years before the government had proof of Blunt's treachery.
		Blunt was one of the "Ring of Five" who spied for Russia during and after the Second World War.
		Blunt was eventually exposed publicly as a spy in 1979, when his knighthood was annulled.
	hnn.us /readcomment.php?id=9185&bheaders=1 (502 words)

	JamesBowman.net \| He Spied Because He Had To?
		This is a book that Blunt’s mother might have written, if she had lived through the shame of his exposure as a spy for the Soviet Union and the “Fourth Man” in the Burgess-Maclean-Philby scandal.
		“Blunt’s consciousness of the illegality of homosexuality, which meant that his very identity broke the law, may well have helped to make acceptance of Burgess’s approach seem less of a big step,” she writes.
		Indeed, Blunt’s unhappiness at Marlborough has to be inferred from the testimony of friends and in spite of the fact that Blunt himself said he was really quite happy there.
	www.jamesbowman.net /articleDetail.asp?pubID=988 (713 words)

	A complete moral void by David Pryce-Jones
		It is late in the day now, but, in common with Blunt’s friends and admirers, she is determined not to do anything so naively bourgeois as pass a moral judgment.
		Blunt’s homosexuality involved the life-long abuse of intellectual and social inferiors, picked up and swiftly discarded once the rough-trade encounter was over.
		Blunt and his generation transformed this circle into a Shits Anonymous where they talked themselves into eliminating the distinction between right and wrong.
	www.newcriterion.com /archive/20/mar02/blunt.htm (1497 words)

	Telegraph \| Arts
		Anthony Blunt was always a curious mixture of insider and outsider.
		Again, when Blunt began passing MI5 documents to the Russians in January 1941, the country actively engaged in an "anti-fascist" war was the one he was betraying; the Soviet Union, on the other hand, was happily co-operating with Hitler in eastern Europe at the time.
		In 1950s London, when homosexual acts were criminal offences, Blunt was able to combine social success and respectability with an almost openly gay lifestyle; the rough trade tumbling out of the lift at the Courtauld Institute hardly raised an eyebrow from the staff.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2001/11/17/boblunt.xml (1214 words)

	Miranda Carter's Anthony Blunt: His Lives (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Anthony Blunt was one of England's preeminent art historians of the twentieth century.
		He was also a drinking buddy of the Queen Mum, a colleague of John Maynard Keynes, a second-wave Bloomsbury man, a firm friend of W H Auden, a member of MI5, the Surveyor of the Queen's Pictures, and a dear homosexual who spent most of his life repressing or compartmentalising his feelings of passion.
		Blunt was a man driven by his convictions, but compartmentalised so thoroughly that in the end, no even his judgement and integrity remained.
	home.iprimus.com.au /laurapalmer/hislives.htm (184 words)

	BBC America - Cambridge Spies Cast (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Born in Bournemouth, Hampshire, Anthony Blunt was educated at Marlborough School and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was made a Fellow in 1932.
		Blunt had been Director of Courtauld Institute of Art (1947-1974) and among his publications was Art And Architecture In France 1500-1700 (1953).
		He was educated at Westminster and Trinity College, Cambridge, where, like Anthony Blunt, Guy Burgess, and Donald Maclean, he became a Communist and was recruited as a Soviet Agent.
	www.bbcamerica.com /genre/drama_mysteries/cambridge_spies/cambridge_spies_cast.jsp (690 words)

	Countrybookshop.co.uk - Anthony Blunt (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Anthony Blunt, aesthete, communist, homosexual, MI5 agent, and Soviet mole, also made an enormous contribution to the establishment of art history as Director of the Courtald Institute.
		Anthony Blunt, aesthete, communist, homosexual, MI5 agent and Soviet mole, was Surveyor of the King's Pictures and Director of the Courtauld Institute.
		A human paradox, Blunt was a highly-regarded member of the British intelligentsia but his life as such and as a member of the British homosexual subculture of the 30s, 40s and 50s has hardly been explored.
	www.countrybookshop.co.uk /books?whatfor=0330367668 (352 words)

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