codename death_date death_place birth_place allegiance nationality name birth_date article_title birth_name occupation alma_mater
johnson 26 march 1983 westminster , london bournemouth , hampshire , england , uk soviet union british anthony blunt 26 september 1907 anthony blunt
 anthony frederick blunt art historian , professor , writer , spy trinity college , cambridge
anthony blunt

anthony frederick blunt -lrb- 26 september 1907 -- 26 march 1983 -rrb- , known as sir anthony blunt , kcvo , from 1956 to 1979 , was a leading british art historian who in 1964 , after being offered immunity from prosecution , confessed to having been a soviet spy .
a closely held secret for many years , his status was revealed publicly by prime minister margaret thatcher in november 1979 , and he was stripped of his knighthood immediately thereafter .
blunt was professor of the history of art at the university of london , director of the courtauld institute of art , surveyor of the king 's pictures in london .
he was exposed as a member of the cambridge five , a group of spies working for the soviet union from some time in the 1930s to at least the early 1950s .
