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Reviews highlight intensive use of intelligence files from U.S. records, extensive cross-checking with interviews, and coverage of Blunt’s role within the Cambridge spy ring. The book also situates Soviet-directed communist subversion in the interwar and postwar periods, emphasizing new revelations about recruitment methods, exposures, and institutional vulnerabilities.","JOHN COSTELLO  \nREVISED AND UPDATEDThe Dossieron Blunt,BuckinghamPalace,M15and SovietSubversiOnPan  \n# Some reviews of Mask of Treachery\n\nHe has established beyond reasonable doubt that Blunt was not the fourth butthe first man,and themoving spirit among the Cambridge spies.The result isachanged picture of Anthony Blunt.Burgess did not recruithim:he  \nrecruited Burgess.The major key to his success was sexual blackmail and hisnetwork ofhomosexual contacts within the British Establishment.It wasBlunt who wormed his way into British intelligence and inserted Communistagents in the State Department and OSS;as a result theCIA hired agents whoin fact were working for the Soviet Union.When Blunt was in MIs,hehadthejob of rifling the diplomatic pouches of Allied embassies.Frominformation Blunt gave the Russians from this source they were able toliquidate nationalsin Easten Europe who were hostile to them.Then in I95IBlunt helped Burgess and Maclean to escape and covered their tracks.  \nBut Costello's book is no mere biography of Blunt.It covers the activities ofall the British spies as well as the upheavals in America aroused by thetestimony of Elizabeth Bentley and Whittaker Chambers.The  \ndocumentation is prodigious.Costello's editor told him to dig in the archivesbefore he interviewed sources,and he did both to considerable effect.Hisbookisa formidable achievement,as comprehensive a review as exists of theoperations and exposure of thepre-and postwar Soviet spy rings.Whateverreservations I have about his methods and conclusions,no praise can be toohigh for his research.  \n# Noel AnnanThe New York Review\n\nCostello's book is,as he puts it,'the first documented dossier on Blunt,MIsand Soviet subversion',and as such is researched indefatigably.  \nCostello takes a sweeping historical view ofhis subject and places Bluntwithin the larger context of subversionof Western govenments by Russian-directed communist agents and cells in the I92os and I93os.He dealsexhaustively with both the Cornintern and the Homintern.The result is abook packed with information,much ofit shattering in its revelations of ournational vulnerabiliry to Soviet intelligence operations ...  \nCostellohas unearthed a mass of material of thegreatest interest with praise-worthy energy and acuteness.Its fullimplications will take time to assess...  \nAnthony CurtisFinancial Times  \nJohn Costello sets out to reconstruct the treasonable activities of AnthonyBlunt...and other associates in the...Cambridge spy ring...contains agreat deal of fascinating material.  \nIts great virtue is the amount of new material that Mr Costello hasassembled.His biggest haul comes from American archives-the files ofthe State Department,where he tracked down a large volume of BritishMI5(counterintelligence)reports.  \nJohn GrossThe New York Times  \n...in I979I cornered and flushed out the then Sir Anthony Blunt,asmooth,tough and seasoned spy ifever there was one.Now Mask ofTreachery,John Costello's...biography...stillcauses my heart to miss abeat or two.Idoubt if any rival could match his thoroughness anddetermination.This Anglo-American contemporary historian hasuncovered some revealing insights.  \nAndrew BoyleDailyTelegraph  \n..new and explosive material emerges about the post-war activities ofAnthony Blunt.  \nCostello,by diligently seeking out intelligence files now available in theUS,shows how the old spy became a homosexual mole for Stalin insideBuckingham Palace...when he carried out a secret mission to Hesse inthe American occupation zone of Germany on behalf of King George VI.Blunt recovered royal family papers from the castles of the German cousinsand the beliefis that among the documents was hardevidence about thedangerous political flirtationbetween the Duke of Windsor and Hitler.Asa reward Blunt became Keeper of the King's Pictures and allegedly usedhis position to provide Stalin with information from the pinnacle of theBritishestablishment.  \nThisfascinating book asserts that Blunt's kn","cbCait9iLA4ikdYb","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCait9iLA4ikdYb","pdf",24524206,6,1,718,"English","en",105,"# Some reviews of Mask of Treachery\n## Noel Annan (The New York Review)\n## Anthony Curtis (Financial Times)\n## John Gross (The New York Times)\n## Andrew Boyle (Daily Telegraph)\n## Ronald Payne (DailyMail)\n## Nigel Clive (Times Literary Supplement)\n## Henry Pugh (The Standard)\n## Nigel West (Catholic Herald)\n## Michael Hartland (The Times)","[{\"question\":\"What is Mask of Treachery mainly concerned with?\",\"answer\":\"It focuses on the treasonable activities of Anthony Blunt and the broader operations of the Cambridge spy ring, as well as related Soviet subversion in Britain and the United 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