We have different personalities and different skills and the kind of things that we do, we can do together that neither of us can do separately. We've been working together so closely that it's kind of hard to decide what's my work and what's her work, it's ours really.

Much of his time in the Soviet Union was spent in sanatoria on the Black Sea. as a second secretary of the British Embassy
1951: meets Michael Straight in D. He was recruited into the Cambridge Apostles a secret elite debating society at the University whose members at the time included Anthony Blunt.

Burgess Donald Maclean Anthony Blunt Kim Philby and another uncertain individual were the five members of the spy ring who contributed to the Communist cause with the transmission of secret Foreign Office and MI5 documents that described NATO military and Marshall Plan economic strategy. Guy Francis de Moncy Burgess (16 April 1911 – 30 August 1963) was a British radio producer intelligence officer and Foreign Office official.