and failed to covertly interview the poet WH Auden over his connections with KGB double agent Guy Burgess, according to archive papers declassified on Friday.Burgess, part of the "Cambridge Five" spy ring that penetrated British intelligence during World War Two, had phoned Auden twice on the eve of his defection to the Soviet Union in May 1951.
from Reuters UK: Auden evaded MI5 quiz over links to spy
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