British spy confessions and Queen's 'inkling' revealed in MI5 exhibition
Top secret MI5 files detailing first-hand accounts of confessions of three of Britain's most notorious double agents including Kim Philby and Anthony Blunt who spied for the Soviet Union were released for the first time on Tuesday.
Some of the files will form part of a special exhibition at the National Archives titled "MI5: Official Secrets," featuring case files, photographs, papers and equipment used by spies in the agency's 115-year history.
Declassified documents from Britain's domestic secret intelligence agency and made public by the National Archives detail investigations into the group whose shadowy activities have fascinated the public and were the inspiration for countless spy films and novels.
Among the papers is an incomplete six-page confession from 1963 of Philby, seen as the Cambridge Five's ringleader and who became a senior figure in Britain's foreign spy agency MI6, in which he finally admits his deception after years of suspicion.
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