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Crown Jewels is a Cold War espionage history built on documents released from the KGB archives, the files the service privately called its crown jewels. Nigel West, a prolific secret-services historian, wrote it with Oleg Tsarev, a former KGB lieutenant colonel, so the book pairs Western scholarship with an insider's knowledge of Soviet tradecraft. It covers the Cambridge ring (Philby, Burgess, Maclean, Blunt) and lesser-known recruiters, and reproduces many agent reports for the first time. Readers who want documented detail on Soviet penetration of the Foreign Office and London networks will find more primary material here than in most narrative accounts of the Cambridge spies.
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Crown Jewels is an account of Soviet foreign intelligence activity in Great Britain during the Cold War. It draws on documents newly released from the KGB archives, which the KGB unofficially called its "crown jewels" because they held its most valuable assets. The book reproduces many spy reports for the first time.
The book was written by Nigel West and Oleg Tsarev, a former KGB lieutenant colonel. It gives new information on well-known British pro-Soviet spies, including Kim Philby, Guy Burgess, Donald Maclean and Anthony Blunt, as well as many lesser-known spymasters and recruiters. It adds new details on the Cambridge ring, including Burgess's offer to murder his fellow conspirator Goronwy Rees.
It also covers a previously unknown Soviet network in London headed by a named Daily Herald journalist, and a previously unknown spy ring in Oxford. It describes the huge scale of Soviet penetration of the British Foreign Office from 1927 to 1951. It also tells of the key role Blunt played in supervising post-war Soviet espionage in London.
