Soviet Spy Anthony Blunt Interviewed on News at Ten (1979)
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- On 20 November 1979, art historian and former Soviet spy Anthony Blunt was interviewed on ITN's News at Ten. Having been publicly revealed as the "fourth man" of the Cambridge spy ring, Anthony Blunt explained his decision to spy for Soviet Russia. Reading from a written statement at an intimate press conference, Blunt said he had put "conscience before country" in the cause of anti-fascism. He confirmed that he had been recruited at Cambridge in the 1930s by Guy Burgess, whose flight to Moscow along with fellow Soviet spy Donald Maclean in 1951 first revealed the Soviet Union's penetration of MI6 to the British public. Also interviewed was George Kennedy Young, formerly deputy director of the Secret Intelligence Service (SIS), who cast doubt of the sincerity of Blunt's statement.
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Privileged and entitled in every sense.
That privilege is the key here, probably. Here is a man that on a critical level saw this work mostly as a game, in an entirely self-centered way. This is why it is so dangerous to recruit diplomatic and intelligence staff entirely from the upper classes.
It’s that very same lefty ‘progressivist’ thinking that led him to betray his country.
He is lying through his teeth. Examine his language. Devious. I can’t watch anymore as he deceit makes me feel uncomfortable. I would not trust him as far as I can spit. When one hides the truth, plays a double game it still leaks out in your energy field, “vibe” as well as your language which you can never hide as your unconscious will always reveal the truth through language. To quote Hamlet” though murder hath no tongue it speaks with most miraculous organ” . The same with lies.
Really good work at the ITN Archive. And the transition from video to 16mm was super slick. Great stuff
All non digital film especially analogue tape for recording was infinitely better than soulless digital. ❤
Traitor pure and simple.
A Traitor? 😂 doubt it. He’s a good man. Uk is a shithole 😂
Interesting how Trolls take an interest in this traitor. They have never abandoned soviet way
@@TheFrewah Your very delusional unfortunately. 🟥
@@TheFrewahso are they trolls or not?
@@undercoverbrother67 Oh there was a response from one who was defending soviet. Now it’s gone.
He should have spent ten years in prison like any normal person would have.
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Thanks for this. An American with an interest in Cold War history.
Kim Phillby they still watch his videos today how to lie
Betrayal by a toff appears different to betrayal by a commoner. He relates his betrayal as if it’s some innocuous act. If this had been a commoner, someone from the ethnic minority there would have been a greater uproar. The establishment always covers itself
Ethnic minority may have been a get out of jail free card in 2024, just as being an aristo was 100 years ago.
@@hugolindum7728oh shut your rubbish mate. You live in an alternate world of right wing reactionary conspiracy
What an opening! When news was serious and sober unlike today.
About as convincing as randy Andy in his ill-fated interview. Jeezo.
Nothing to do with his conscience, probably more to do with the Soviets having information in relation to his sexuality, easily blackmailed in those days.
If I were homosexual and had been threatened with exposure by Russian agents, I wouldn't have sold out my country, just to avoid opprobrium, disgrace or humiliation. Most decent people wouldn't because betraying your own country is one of the worst and evil crimes that it is possible to commit.
Nobody held Blunt's mouth open and forced him to.... well, I don't need to go into detail. If he'd have just read his bible more frequently, he might have found the answers to the turmoil that went on in his depraved mind. Once, I nearly had an affair with my best friend's wife. I read the bible and was able to convince myself that to betray a friend was evil and I desisted. It was a tough decision but dignity prevailed. Blunt could have read the passages on homosexuality in the bible. Instead, he didn't and spied for a foreign country instead.
Blunt was a lousy, stinking, disgusting, degenerate, cheat and a traitor. I was brought up in a poor household and went to a government state school. I'm a thousand times more of a gentleman than fancy-talking Blunt ever was. Thanks to the bible, thanks to good teachers, thanks to a father and mother who taught me morality. (And thanks, most of all, to me not giving in to my urges at the drop of a hat.
These über privileged rich snobs never *lost* their moral compass. They probably never had a concept of decency in the first place.
He was even lying in this interview, there was a fifth man in the spy ring. John Cairncross, a civil servant.
Relieving oneself of one's conscience by admitting to spying is one indulgence, betraying one's country with the likelihood of affecting the deaths of many others is another, greater sin.
This silly old queen was given the privilege of a top Cambridge education, handsome salaries thereafter, and access to the finest estates of the land. Also put in high trust to the people of Great Britain, including royalty.
He chose to betray it all for his "conscience", yet now expects us to take his word seriously.
William Joyce (Lord Haw-Haw) was hanged despite having Irish nationality.
He formally, and publicly, became a naturalised German citizen in 1940.
He too, chose to put his political conscience first over his loyalty to country.
But he was open and honest about his decision to do so.
None of this mattered.
The British hanged him as a traitor anyway.
Blunt led a privileged and entitled life as an aristocrat of the British establishment.
Like Philby, Burgess, MacLean and Cairncross, who were all shirt lifters, they betrayed the nation that had given them everything.
None of them paid for their treachery.
The British establishment really do look after their own.
Agreed whatever you may have thought of his politics Joyce was not a traitor - agent provocateur certainly. He would have been executed in both the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany in a heartbeat but we like to credit ourselves with upholding the rule of law and even justice otherwise we are just as bad as those regimes
William Joyce was Irish.
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At that time in history, being a shirt lifter, made them very vulnerable to being blackmailed by the Soviets.
Shirt lifters also knew who their fellow Shirt lifters were, thus making it much easier to recruit them into their cause.
So, their sexual preferences, along with their political leanings, were very relevant.
You are right about one thing, Kim Philby was not a shirt lifter.
@@SteveCondron
Yes.
That is why I said "he was hanged despite having Irish nationality".
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Self importance. Unshakable, despite some technical, local difficulties.
This brings back memories!
The whole saga STILL MAKES ME SICK, EVEN AFTER ALL THESE YEARS!!!
No question about Poussin? :/
Never trust a spy, any spy.
Blunt, Philby, Burgess, MacLean and Cairncross, The Cambridge Five as they became known, all enjoyed privileged backgrounds and educated at Cambridge. None ever truly paid for their crimes. Now compare them to Geoffrey Prime who was sentenced to 35 years for espionage in 1982. Prime left state education with one O level in languages. The class system thrives in UK.
Many otherwise intelligent people were flying a flag for Soviet Russia before the war. We had huge unemployment in our own country and democracy seemed unable to do anything about it. It's understandable that some people were flirting with extremist solutions (Blunt and co on the left and Mosley and co on the right). With fascism on the march in Germany it must have seemed to many that Soviet Russia might be our only bulwark in any coming war. And for a short time between the end of the Nazi Soviet pact and the entry of America into the war that was indeed the case. Did Blunt know of Stalin's purges? If so he was no worse than Churchill and Eisenhower who must also have known about these things but chose to ignore them in order to grasp Uncle Joe to their bosoms as an ally. The key question is, did Blunt go on spying after 1945 when Britain elected a much more egalitarian government who started the process of "levelling up" ? (more successful than recent Tory administrations have managed!). It's easy to be condemning, decades after the event, but you only have to read Orwell's diaries of the 1930s to realise what a class-ridden society this was and how worried we were about a coming war. Would the monarchy high-tail it to Canada or some safe haven? Would the big landowners and the press barons throw in their lot with Hitler if he were to invade? Mosley and his people would almost certainly have provided willing gauleiters for Hitler, turning in Jews, trade union leaders and dissidents of one sort or another. In 1940 even Churchill's wartime Tory/Labour cabinet were discussing whether we should try and do a deal with Germany.
Yes, well said. I by no means share Blunt’s politics but I came around to a similar view after reading a (critical) biography of Guy Burgess. The Cambridge 5(+?), like many other bright young people then and now, believed in international socialism as the answer to capitalism’s failings and the rise of fascism. They believed that sharing information with the Soviets would best further that cause. With the notable exception of Philby, they seem to have shared mostly diplomatic and political material, rather than military - they weren’t, for example, facilitating a Soviet attack on Britain. And this was before the Cold War when the Soviet Union was not yet an enemy, and before Stalin’s crimes were well known. I don’t condone the behaviour, but I no longer deplore it. As you say, their actions would have seemed very different at the time compared with how we view them in the wake of the Cold War, and I see nothing inconsistent or hypocritical in wanting to aid the progress of a communist neighbour while remaining in England.
@@jamesnaughton5657far too sensible a comment, it'll never catch on.
@@jamesnaughton5657 any idea who the others were, he implies someone died around 1964 ?
Its sad therefore that the West did not view the Soviets as a bulwark until far too late...They should have before 1939 had seen that Hitler (after Munich was a far worse prospect then Stalin)and put pressure on the Poles to accept Stalin's proposed Military pact with Poland which they refused to do so and which the Poles also would not countenance..A total disaster for both the West and Poland...
@@kailashpatel1706 My parents used to tell me that everyone was so affected by the horror of the trenches in the first world war that no-one wanted to see it happen again and as a result the west too easily appeased Hitler instead of stopping German re-armament in the 1930s. It was of course the wrong policy. We drove the Germans into a corner with reparations after WW1 and failed to see that this would result in a backlash, in this case Hitler. We got it wrong on each occasion.
As for the idea that four gays were best mates and there was never any sexual relationship between them is slim to none.
BS
all up each other like a daisy chain.
Translation tips:
No = yes
Yes = no
Definitely no = Most certainly yes
Don't know = Can't lie to you but yes.
It's important to remember the world these people grew up in. In a post 1929 stock market crash world which showed capitalism at its worst and faced with a Facist Nazi threat, they decided to aid the UK's socialist/communist allies in WW2 (Russia). This doesn't excuse the treachery but it does give one an idea as to where it came from.
It's always privileged people who become communist.
He'd have made a great addition to Starmer's front bench.
@ginskimpivot753 Actually he would have been more likely to be a member of the Conservative Friends of Russia, a pro-Putin, pro-Russia group which only disbanded after Putins illegal invasion of Ukraine. Not that Russia is too bothered as they still have Johnsons pal, Evgeny Lebedev, sitting in the House of Lords.
Blunt was a tory.
Interesting that he protected his friend Sir Roger Hollis by not admitting his role as a soviet agent in Mi5.
legendary. this is how toffs become comrades
In today's time he would have been accompanied by his lawyer. He is incriminating himself throughout the interview.
I just can’t understand why they couldn’t see how fascist Stalin’s regime was… ‘useful idiots’ indeed
Did he betray Operation Market Garden (Arnhem)?
A recent book claims he did.
My old headmaster Peter Blunt was his nephew
What made these people think something good would come from soviet. Present russia is as bad and now being sovietised.
Do you even know what a soviet is?
@@stickemuppunkitsthefunlovi4733soviet mindset I inow and it is something you should stay away from. Not abandoned in russia
@@TheFrewah a soviet is a council. You know like the ones who run Britain. The soviet United Kingdom.
@@stickemuppunkitsthefunlovi4733 Except they had no say just like the duma in russia. It’s just there to simulate a government.
Blunt - an utterly despicable man.
Saw this traitor's coffin and big entourage in Roehampton cemetary the same day my father was buried there.
Evil man!
These clowns tipped off Stalin about Arnhem who passed it on to Hitler, so there was a Panzer regiment waiting
Hard to believe that an individual as temperamentally unsound as Burgess would instill confidence in anyone he was trying to recruit particularly someone as full of himself as Blunt.
What a blunt!
Sandy Gall was a wonderful man
Got away with it because he was the Queen's blue eye boy. Any ordinary bloke would be banged up on a 20 year prison sentence, he gets a free pass to the Buck palace. This country stinks.
No, he got away because he had the goods on Edward VIII and other sensitive royal matters.
Good old Maggie exposed him the queenie didn’t want to
We still have the son of a KGB officer in the Lords in the U.K put in there by a former PM who went to his home in Italy, got hammered and potentially spewed state secrets without a security detail there.
Can I know his name please ? Thank You.
@@sebastianvella8992 do a search on the following.
Ex-KGB lieutenant-colonel Alexander Lebedev and his son Evgeny Lebedev.
@@sebastianvella8992He is referring to Evgeny Lebedev
@@RobertBurke-tq9zu thanks.
Liar liar pants on fire
Great guy
He wasn't a Russian spy, what he was was a traitor.
Big buddy of QE2 and her circle. What you would expect really : these people always put their own needs and have no sense of loyalty to friend or family
Two tier then also
Always been.
A traitorous snake
Very nice 1:10.
Mistake no.1: never look left to find your traitors.
This traitor should have been dealt with under Rule 303.
He’s a good man. Did rightly to defend the CCCP🚩
The most retarded system known to man and you haven’t been able to abandon it