#346 | The Cambridge Five Part I | The Recruitment
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The Cambridge Spiring
The story of the Cambridge Five is filled with strange coincidences and luckiest games. Filby had no military training or experience, but was given a mission to assassinate Spanish dictator Franco in 1937. He then got lucky again when he was the sole survivor after a bomb landed in front of his car. As war in Europe began, British intelligence thought that their education, experiences and contacts would make them excellent candidates to be spies. They were recruited into MI6; some worked informally for British intelligence. Crucially owing to their privileged backgrounds and respected families, very little, if any, security checks were done on the men. What would turn out to be the most prolific and treacherous spy ring in
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