Betrayal and Failure in Espionage

The former MI5 double agent, Anthony Blunt, was unmasked as a Soviet mole in 1979 but the full extent of what he did isn’t known. Could he have been more dangerous than we thought? A new book has uncovered how he may have helped Hitler during the Second World War. 

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Guest: Robert Verkaik, Author of The Traitor of Arnhem. 

Host: Luke Jones. 

Producer: Olivia Case.

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