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Anthony Blunt

NameAnthony Blunt
AllegianceSoviet Union Soviet Union
Codename1Johnson
Birth NameAnthony Frederick Blunt
Birth Date26 September 1907
BirthplaceBournemouth, Dorset, United Kingdom
Death Date26 March 1983(age 75)
DeathplaceWestminster, London, United Kingdom
NationalityBritish
ProfessionArt historian, professor, writer, spy
Alma MaterTrinity College, Cambridge

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Anthony Frederick Blunt (26 September 1907 � 26 March 1983), was a British art historian exposed as a Soviet spy.

Blunt was Professor of the History of Art at the University of London, director of the Courtauld Institute of Art, Surveyor of the King's Pictures and London. Known as Sir Anthony Blunt, KCVO between 1956 and 1979), he was exposed as a member of the Cambridge Five, a group of spies working for the Soviet Union from some time in the 1930s to at least the early 1950s.

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Court offices
Preceded by
Kenneth Clark		Surveyor of the Queen's Pictures
1945 - 1973		Succeeded by
Oliver Millar
Academic offices
Preceded by
T. S. R. Boase		Director of the Courtauld Institute of Art
1947-1974		Succeeded by
Peter Lasko
Preceded by
John Pope-Hennessy		Slade Professor of Fine Art,
Cambridge University
1965		Succeeded by
John Summerson


Soviet/Russian spies

In
USA		Solomon Adler * Aldrich Ames * Joel Barr * Marion Davis Berdecio * Felix Bloch * David Sheldon Boone * Christopher John Boyce * Thomas Patrick Cavanaugh * Whittaker Chambers * Lona Cohen * Morris Cohen * Judith Coplon * Jack Dunlap * Samuel Dickstein * Bela Gold * David Greenglass * Theodore Hall * James Hall III * Robert Hanssen * Alger Hiss * Edward Lee Howard * Robert Lee Johnson * Clayton J. Lonetree * William Malisoff * Richard Miller * Carl Marzani * Harold James Nicholson * Isaiah Oggins * Ronald Pelton * William Perl * Victor Perlo * Earl Edwin Pitts * William Remington * Julius and Ethel Rosenberg * Alfred Sarant * Saville Sax * John Scott * Morton Sobell * Jack Soble * Myra Soble * Robert Soblen * Robert Thompson * George Trofimoff * John Anthony Walker * Bill Weisband * Harry Dexter White * Maria Wicher * Flora Wovschin
In
UK		Cambridge Five (Donald Maclean * Kim Philby * Guy Burgess * Anthony Blunt * John Cairncross) * Michael Bettaney * George Blake * David Crook * Tom Driberg * Ray Fletcher * Bernard Floud * Klaus Fuchs * Portland Spy Ring (Ethel Gee * Harry Houghton * Konon Molody * Lona Cohen * Morris Cohen) * James Klugmann * Guy Liddell (disputed) * Melita Norwood * Alan Nunn May * John Peet * Geoffrey Prime * Goronwy Rees * Michael John Smith * John Alexander Symonds * John Vassall



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