Anthony Blunt had been recruited by the NKVB, the Soviet Union's espionage service which later became the KGB, on the campus of Cambridge University. He was still a student at the time.

For the aesthetes who graced the Apostles society at Cambridge University in the 1930s ... at the heart of the British establishment. A KGB agent names the Cambridge spy ring's 'fifth man'.

During the cold war, it sometimes seemed that the KGB was better ... home of the Cambridge Five — a quintet of Soviet moles, including Kim Philby, educated at the university.

Blunt became a communist in the early 1930s and was recruited by the NKVD (later KGB), the Soviet security agency. While teaching at Cambridge University, Blunt was influential in recruiting the ...