Newly declassified files show the actor’s name was on a list of ‘practising British homosexuals’ passed to the Russians

The files about royal art historian Anthony Blunt are among a trove from the intelligence agency MI5 released Tuesday by Britain’s National Archives.

MI5 feared film star Dirk Bogarde could be target of KGB sting attempt - Newly declassified files show the actor’s name was on a list of ‘practising British homosexuals’ passed to the Russians.

The British secret service has declassified new documents about the famous spy who ended up fleeing to Moscow, where he died alone and drunk 25 years later

Queen Elizabeth II was not told officially for nearly a decade that one of her most senior courtiers had admitted he was a Soviet spy, newly declassified British files revealed Tuesday.

MI5 feared film star Dirk Bogarde could be the target of a KGB gay "entrapment" attempt after it emerged he was on a list of 'six practising British homosexuals' passed to the Russians

The archives of KGB defector Vasili Mitrokhin challenge ... Since the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, it had been widely accepted that French counter-espionage and its flagship, the Directorate ...

Recently declassified MI5 files have shed light on one of the most infamous chapters in Cold War espionage, revealing previously hidden details about Soviet infiltration in Britain's intelligence establishment and the royal household.