In the 1950s and 1960s, the British Intelligence community was shocked by a series of high-profile defections to the Soviet Union. 

These defections proved to be devastating to British intelligence during the Cold War and may have led to the death or imprisonment of hundreds of undercover British operatives. 

These defections changed Western intelligence gathering forever in ways that can still be felt today.

Learn more about the Cambridge Five and how they influenced the Cold War on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.

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