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  "textContent": "\n\n\n\n##### This week, don’t miss: the five Cambridge grads who spied for Stalin, how birds evolved from dinosaurs, and a W.W.II novel following two Black U.S. soldiers and a Jewish boy\n\nBy Jim Kelly\n\nThere is no more infamous spy ring than the Cambridge Five, the group of friends who met at Cambridge University in the 1930s, were recruited by Soviet agents, and then proceeded to feed intelligence to Moscow from their various perches in British government. The best known, certainly, was Kim Philby, the model for the traitor in _Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy;_ the fact that Philby knew the author as fellow spy David Cornwell and blew his cover, leading Cornwell to begin a new career as a novelist under the pen name John le Carré, is the only good thing Philby READ ON",
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