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Cedric Belfrage — Hollywood promoter, superstar film critic, newspaper proprietor, philanderer and consummate self-publicist — was the unlikeliest of Soviet spies.
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A trove of newly declassified documents, released on Friday by the British security service MI5, reveal him as a “sixth man” to stand alongside the notorious Cambridge Five spy ring that sat at the heart of British intelligence during the second world war and the early years of the atomic age.
Unlike the more famous quintet of his contemporaries, however, Mr Belfrage has been almost lost to history. He never defected to Moscow and he was never prosecuted for his crimes.
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