![]() "About this title" may belong to another edition of this title. Army's Investigative Records Repository (IRR) file on the Soviet espionage network, being released under the Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act, contains documents related to an investigation of the Red Orchestra case during the early postwar period. Fifty years on, The Red Orchestra remains one of the most importantaspects of intelligence work in wartime. The Red Orchestra is perhaps one of the best known espionage cases of the Second World War. Students of covert action and military historians working on the 1939-45 conflict will find this is a well-researched, fully sourced examination, and the reader of adventure non-fiction will be absorbed by the detailed accounts of this real-life spy story. It is also the first account to give equal weight to all three apparats - the Grand Chef's Western circuit in France, Belgium and Holland the Berlin network and Die Rote Drei in Switzerland. This new study of this famous spy network destroys many of the myths perpetuated by earlier accounts and gives a new perspective to this important aspect of military intelligence in World War II. Though aware of the clandestine messages exchanged between the Orchestra "players" and their controllers, the Abwehr and Gestapo officers charged with tracking down the agents seemed helpless to stop the activity, until the damage was done. The Red Orchestra was established in 1937 on behalf of. From the dark back-streets of European cities, even within Germany and Berlin itself, this diverse band of multi-nationals waged their own hidden war on Nazi Germany. Code name for a Russian spy network that infiltrated German intelligence during World War II. This network, Die Rote Kapell- The Red Orchestra - had conducted a sweet tune of intrigue and covert intelligence to end a march of tyranny. By then its work had helped in the defeat of German forces on the Eastern Front, and had accelerated the demise of the Third Reich. Only after a two-year hunt did a combination of detective work, lucky breaks, interrogation and betrayal bring about the elimination of this spy group. Similarly, Venona cables show that Manhattan Project physicist Theodore Hall was also a Soviet spy, offering the KGB highly sensitive atomic information. In 1979, the story got out and Blunt was stripped of his knighthood.As early as the summer of 1941, German counter-intelligence agencies were aware of a GRU network operating inside Germany itself and the countries it had occupied. Richard Sorge was born in 1895 in southern Russia. ![]() In 1963, the British government discovered he was a spy but offered him immunity in return for information. of Soviet prisoners-of-war and second, a specific decision by the leaders of the SS that an Eastern Front guerrilla and spy organisation was needed, a determination that consolidated and gave final form to the pattern of development already underway in the Aussenorganisation. Within a few months, the activities of this man, who many regard as the most important spy of World War II, would provide information that enabled the Soviets to halt the Nazi blitzkrieg at the gates of Moscow, and altered the course of the war. He was director of the Courtauld Institute and Surveyor of the Queen's Pictures. After the war he had a distinguished career as an art historian. In 1963, he defected to the Soviet Union, and died there.īlunt worked for MI5 during the war. Grid on your weapon, down your equipment, summon your followers and ride forth to win glory on the revolution fields of Soviet. After Burgess and Maclean fled to the Soviet Union, Philby came under suspicion and was forced to resign. He later became chief British intelligence officer in the United States. Thus the man charged with running operations against the Soviets was a KGB agent. Just before the war ended, he was appointed head of SIS's anti-Soviet section. Philby was also a journalist but joined SIS (also known as MI6) in 1940. In 1951, tipped off by Philby that they were under suspicion, Burgess and Maclean defected to the Soviet Union, where they spent the rest of their lives. Maclean was in the Foreign Office during the same period. ![]() While teaching at Cambridge University, Blunt was influential in recruiting the other three, who were all students there.īurgess became a journalist after he left university, but on the outbreak of war joined MI6. Blunt became a communist in the early 1930s and was recruited by the NKVD (later KGB), the Soviet security agency. Several other people have been suggested as belonging to the ring, including John Cairncross. © Maclean, Burgess, Philby and Blunt were British members of a KGB spy ring that penetrated the intelligence system of the UK and passed vital information to the Soviets during World War Two and the early stages of the Cold War. ![]() Guy Burgess, one of the 'Cambridge Spies' ![]()
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