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  Guy Burgess - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Guy Francis De Moncy Burgess (1911-1963) was a flamboyant, homosexual, British-born intelligence officer and double agent who worked for the Soviet Union, was part of the Cambridge Five spy ring within the MI5.
Burgess was the son of a naval officer and although he attended Royal Naval College, Dartmouth he failed in attempting to follow in his father's footsteps.
Nonetheless, Burgess was irrepressible, once insulting the wife of a high-ranking CIA official at one of Philby's dinner parties.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Guy_Burgess   (802 words)

  
 BBC - History - Guy Francis De Moncy Burgess (1911 - 1963)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Guy Burgess was a leading member of the infamous 'Cambridge ring' of Soviet spies that operated in Britain between the mid-1930s and the early 1950s.
Burgess, recruited when he was still at Cambridge, at first appeared to be in no position to pass any major secrets to Moscow.
Burgess, for his part, did not take well to the austere life of Moscow, missed his London haunts, and until his death continued to order his clothes from his Savile Row tailor.
www.bbc.co.uk /history/historic_figures/burgess_guy.shtml   (495 words)

  
 Donald Duart Maclean - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Two of the others were known to be homosexuals, Guy Burgess and Anthony Blunt, and it is sometimes stated that MacLean was too.
The story of the Burgess and Maclean defection, and the subsequent implication of Philby, is a fascinating one of code-breaking, detection, and discovery.
The Philby-Burgess plan was for Burgess to visit Maclean in his Foreign Office quarters, give him a note identifying a place where the two could meet - it was assumed that Maclean, now under suspicion and denied sensitive documents, had a bugged office - and Burgess would explain the situation.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Donald_Duart_Maclean   (1508 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Guy Burgess   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
After he was unmasked as a double agent, Burgess moved to Moscow on a moonlit flit with Donald Maclean arranged by Yuri Modin.
Another Country is a play by Julian Mitchell loosely based upon the life of the spy Guy Burgess, called Guy Bennett in the play, examining the effect that his homosexuality and his exposure to Marxism have on him and the hypocrisy and snobbery of the British public school system.
Cambridge Spies was a 2003 four-part BBC drama concerning the lives of the Cambridge Five from 1934 to the defection of Guy Burgess and Donald MacLean to the Soviet Union.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Guy-Burgess   (2476 words)

  
 AIAON | BBC ON THIS DAY | 11 | 1956: 'Cambridge spies' surface in Moscow
Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean handed a statement to four representatives from the press in a hotel room overlooking Moscow's Red Square.
Burgess, 44, was also known to have a drink problem and had earlier been recalled from Washington for "serious misconduct".
Burgess and Maclean were part of a spy ring involving five men who studied at Cambridge University during the 1930s.
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 acspies   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Burgess' first job was as financial adviser to the Rothschilds and through them he met many prominent people, among them Winston Churchill.
In 1951 Burgess was recalled from his post as Second Secretary of Embassy in Washington and was asked to resign because of the growing disorderliness of his life.
He was recruited by Burgess, into his group of antifascist activists, on the basis that art was doomed to wither away in the bourgeois society.
www.anitaspages.net /html/acspies.htm   (1193 words)

  
 Guy Burgess   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Guy Burgess was born in Devonport, Devon, in 1910.
Guy Burgess, though he preferred the company of the able to the artistic, also moved on the edge of the same world.
Guy Burgess wanted intensely to be liked and was indeed likeable, a good conversationalist and an enthusiastic builder-up of his friends.
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /SSburgessG.htm   (2030 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Guy Burgess was arguably the most dangerous gay who ever lived.
Burgess was unorthodox in his approach, selecting the most handsome of young men and then attempting to sexually seduce them.
Both Burgess and Maclean denied ever having spied and that they were merely "peace lovers" who had become disillusioned with the West.
www.365gay.com /lifestylechannel/intime/months/05-May/Burgess.htm   (956 words)

  
 Guy Burgess - Wikipedia
Guy Francis de Moncy Burgess (* 1911 in Devonport, Enland; † 1963 in Moskau, Sowjetunion) war ein britischer Geheimagent und Doppelagent, der gleichzeitig für die Sowjetunion arbeitete.
Wie viele Angehörige der britischen Oberschicht durchlief Burgess das Eton College, die königliche Marine Akademie Dartmouth und studierte später am Trinity College in Cambridge.
Kim Philby warnte 1951 Burgess und Donald Maclean, daß Maclean in Verdacht geraten ist und beide wahrscheinlich enttarnt werden.
de.wikipedia.org /wiki/Guy_Burgess   (319 words)

  
 Philby, Burgess, McLean - Cambridge Spy Ring FBI Files   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Guy Burgess and Donald MacLean were British diplomats who disappeared in 1951 and surfaced in Moscow in 1956.
Burgess and Maclean joined the British Foreign Office, from which they supplied secrets, including highly classified nuclear information and secrets relating to the formation of NATO.
Burgess and Maclean delivered a flow of information on Western policy to Moscow in the 1940s, including the West's intentions on the Marshall Plan.
www.paperlessarchives.com /philby.html   (289 words)

  
 Knitting Circle Guy Burgess
Guy Burgess was educated at Eton, the Royal Naval College at Dartmouth, and Trinity College, Cambridge.
For several months during 1963 Guy Burgess was given daily injections at his flat in Moscow, but was admitted to Botin Hospital, Moscow on 20th.
James Gardiner's "Who's a Pretty Boy Then?, (1996), shows a fl and white photograph of Guy Burgess in Cambridge in 1931 when he was 21 on page 55.
www.sbu.ac.uk /~stafflag/guyburgess.html   (488 words)

  
 Alan Bates Television Archive: "An Englishman Abroad"
Burgess met Browne during an intermission of "Hamlet" and invited her to lunch at his apartment seven years after he had disappeared and defected to the Soviet Union with fellow Cambridge alumnus and British diplomat Donald MacLean.
Burgess was a Marxist, but he liked good English tailoring too much to be a rabid revolutionary.
Witness Browne's realization on stage that it was the infamous Guy Burgess who had lurched into her dressing room looking for a place to be sick, or the way Burgess's matter-of-fact London tailor accepts a suit order as if the defector had been fitted only a day before.
alanbates.com /abarchive/tv/abroad.html   (1046 words)

  
 guest author | Burning Word   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Guy spun his stool around to take in a room full of sinister-looking mafia types, all of them sporting shaved heads and leather jackets.
Guy turned back to the TV screen, and he was astonished to see his own image on the screen -- albeit thinner, healthier, younger.
And, in an eye-blink, Guy is returned to the backseat of the Soviet car, which is idling outside of DeMens HQ in midtown Toronto.
www.burningword.com /guest_author   (4441 words)

  
 washingtonpost.com: The Enemies Within
Burgess, despite being a notorious drunk and a predatory homosexual, had been a wartime intelligence officer and was now serving in the British embassy in Washington.
When a Soviet defector reported Maclean and Burgess to have been longtime Soviet spies, Foreign Secretary Harold Macmillan responded with a formal document, a White Paper that said that Maclean (but not Burgess) had come under suspicion in the late spring of 1951, just before his flight.
In 1956 Maclean and Burgess surfaced in Moscow, holding a press conference to boast of aiding the Soviet Union in the struggle against capitalist imperialism.
www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A8045-2005Jan13?language=printer   (817 words)

  
 BBC - h2g2 - The Cambridge Spies - A1006570
In the case of Guy Burgess, it seemed that every time he disgraced himself his bosses gave him a more influential job, and Anthony Blunt was allowed to keep his job as Surveyor of the Queen's Pictures for 15 years after confessing to espionage for the Soviets.
Guy Francis de Moncey Burgess, the eccentric son of a naval commander, arrived at Cambridge in 1930 to study History.
Burgess was asked to make sure McLean stayed one step ahead of MI6, but back in London, the net was closing in.
www.bbc.co.uk /dna/h2g2/alabaster/A1006570   (4284 words)

  
 Guy Burgess - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Meets the rest of the spy-ring and becomes a supporter of the Communist party.
1951 Kim Philby warns Burgess and Donald Maclean that Maclean is under suspicion and will most likely be unmasked.
Deceiving the Deceivers: Kim Philby, Donald Maclean and Guy Burgess
encyclopedia.worldsearch.com /guy_burgess.htm   (221 words)

  
 (Harold Adrian Russell) Kim Philby
As part of a spy ring that included Guy Burgess, Donald Maclean, and Anthony Blunt, Philby penetrated the upper levels of British intelligence and passed vital information to the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) during the 1940s and 1950s.
He was recruited to the KGB while still a student at Cambridge, and along with other KGB recruits - Donald Maclean, Guy Burgess, Anthony Blunt - from the same university, eventually became infamous as a member of 'the Cambridge spy ring'.
F.O.I.A. Burgess, MacLean and Philby 3219 pages Guy Burgess and Donald MacLean were British diplomats who disappeared in 1951 and surfaced in Moscow in 1956.
www.mindcontrolforums.com /philby.htm   (743 words)

  
 All about The Cambridge Spies, by Russell Aiuto
The problem with portraying Burgess is that it is difficult to imagine a single actor who could embody all of his contradictory nature.
Guy Burgess was a flamboyant homosexual, strikingly handsome, charming, unpredictable, disheveled, and an intense alcoholic.
Burgess was the son of a naval officer who failed in attempting to follow in his father's footsteps.
www.crimelibrary.com /terrorists_spies/spies/cambridge/2.html   (1778 words)

  
 Guy Francis de Moncy Burgess
Given how Burgess ended bleary, sentimental, slobbering it is difficult to grasp how many serious people thought Guy Burgess the youth one of the most brilliant, compelling, promising human beings they had ever met.
He drifted to the right (or so it appeared, although Burgess' actions in the early 1930's may have been a planned KGB scenario, for, according to Blunt's later confession, Burgess was by then a KGB spy.) He joined the right-wing Anglo-German Fellowship and applied for a job with the Conservative Party.
Burgess then moved even deeper into the Foreign Office when he was hired by his old friend Hector McNeil who had risen to the position of Labor Minister of State at the Foreign Office.
www.geocities.com /layedwyer/guy.htm   (3960 words)

  
 An Englishman Abroad - Alan Bennett
In writing the play Bennett was able to rely on Burgess' letters to Browne, as well as "her original notes of his measurements and even his cheque (uncashed and for £ 6)".
The action centers on Browne's visit with Burgess in his Moscow flat, with a few scenes then following Browne on the London errands she runs for Burgess.
Burgess is a sad, lonely fellow in his Moscow exile, all too aware of his sad fate, but managing to make do.
www.complete-review.com /reviews/bennetta/eabroad.htm   (635 words)

  
 Burgess, Anthony --  Encyclopædia Britannica   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The British novelist, critic, and man of letters Anthony Burgess worked in a number of disciplines—fiction, music, journalism, and criticism among them—and was considered one of his generation's most original writers.
He was an associate of Guy Burgess, Kim Philby, and Donald Maclean.
Philby was recruited by Burgess and became a Communist.
www.britannica.com /eb/article-9018139   (692 words)

  
 The Cambridge Spies, Bibliography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
- Burgess, Guy, 1911-1963 - Maclean, Donald Duart, 1913-....
Burgess, Guy, 1911-1963 - Maclean, Donald Duart, 1913-....
- Burgess, Guy, 1911-1963 - Maclean, Donald Duart, 1915-....
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 Classical Voice of North Carolina
Thin and wiry Guy Burgess gave a regal performance as the mythical Greek hero Theseus, Duke of Athens; and tall and lean Jan Shepherd was a delight as Theseus' towering Amazon warrior-queen Hippolyta, conquered in battle but later smitten by Cupid's arrow.
Last Friday night, when Oberon's servant Puck (Guy Burgess) transformed Bottom into an ass, complete with donkey's ears, bray, and (it is hinted) amatory equipment, Tigg had the Duke Performances patrons laughing so hard that tears ran down many cheeks.
Guy Burgess also provoked bellylaughs with his impersonation of the fairies Peaseblossom and Moth.
www.cvnc.org /reviews/2004/november/MSND.html   (1433 words)

  
 boys clothing depictions in movies : Another Country   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Guy Bennett is a fictionalization of the Soviet spy Guy Burgess who defected to Moscow and Tommy Judd of the idealistic Communist John Carnford, who died fighting for the Republic in the Spanish Civil War.
Guy Bennett is a fictionalization of the Guy Burgess and his Soviet spy ring.
Guy is the romantic rebel His friend, Tommy, is a committed Communist who criticizes the values of the British upper classes from which he comes.
histclo.hispeed.com /the/movie/a/if/me-ac.html   (564 words)

  
 Commentary Magazine - Looking for Mr. Nobody by Jenny Rees   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
A gifted writer, a Marxist, and a fellow-traveler, he was briefly part of the notorious network of Soviet agents in Great Britain that included Guy Burgess, Donald Maclean, Anthony Blunt, and others known and unknown.
...This article, Burgess asserted, had "the heart of the matter in it," and he abruptly confided to Rees that at Cambridge he had become an active agent of the Comintern...
...When, at their meeting after the Nazi-Soviet pact, Rees told Burgess he was not going to continue as a Comintern agent, Burgess assured him that he, too, was ceasing his espionage...
www.commentarymagazine.com /Summaries/V111I4P64-1.htm   (2750 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.
Neither as charming or romantic a figure as 'Kim' Philby, nor as pitiable as Guy Burgess, Blunt has inspired fascination and anger in equal measure, due to his unrepentant yet seemingly contradictory nature.
Rees, whose academic career ended over his connection to Burgess, later helped Boyle expose Blunt, remaining convinced that Blunt was a 'controlled schizophrenic' who continued to lie about the full extent of his spying and of his relationship with Burgess.
www.screenonline.org.uk /tv/id/1009098   (428 words)

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