Agencies engaged in frantic attempts to prevent information about Kim Philby and other spies from being disclosed to public and even to US governmentMI5 and MI6 engaged in a massive effort to cover up the activities of the notorious Cambridge spy ring and avoid hugely embarrassing prosecutions, newly released papers reveal.
The scale of the efforts to smother the unprecedented spy scandal emerges from more than 400 top-secret documents which hold been released at the National Archives after being suppressed for more than 50 years.
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Source: theguardian.com