SYND 21 11 79 FORMER RUSSIAN SPY ANTHONY BLUNT INTERVIEW — Transcript

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1. 0:00were any lives put at risk during the
2. 0:03war when you were inside MI5 and also
3. 0:05working for the
4. 0:06Russians but own to me yes I think the
5. 0:10answer to that is categorically
6. 0:12no what kind of work were you doing for
7. 0:14the Russians then inside the Mii um with
8. 0:16the information that I passed to them
9. 0:19was almost exclusively about German
10. 0:22intelligence
11. 0:24Services uh and that was largely
12. 0:28information which again as I said in um
13. 0:31in my statement a lot of people in MI5
14. 0:33thought ought to have been given
15. 0:36officially uh I had in fact no
16. 0:39information about um British none about
17. 0:42British agents at all and I wasn't
18. 0:44connected with that aspect
19. 0:46of with the section of MI5 that would
20. 0:49have been connected with that aspect of
21. 0:50MI6 at all and I had no information um
22. 0:56about military defenses or military um
23. 1:00anything to do rarely with with the
24. 1:02military side when you made your
25. 1:04confession did the queen
26. 1:06know well this is a question again which
27. 1:09I shall I like I would rather not
28. 1:11discuss because my information is so to
29. 1:14speak second if not secondhand is rather
30. 1:16vague um and I can only say that as far
31. 1:20as I was told at the time and later she
32. 1:24was not but I I may be wrong about this
33. 1:27that was what I was told after 1964 you
34. 1:29were still working with and for the
35. 1:32royal family how did you reconcile that
36. 1:35with the fact that you are a
37. 1:37traitor simply um you may say this is
38. 1:40schizophrenic um but I felt that I was
39. 1:44I'd been given a job to do and I felt I
40. 1:47could go on doing it for the raw
41. 1:51collection how do you feel about being
42. 1:53called a traitor
43. 1:55now I can't deny it do you feel like a
44. 1:58traitor do you feel you betrayed Britain
45. 2:01I feel that I haven't betrayed my
46. 2:03conscience what do you mean by that I
47. 2:05mean that I originally I I realized I
48. 2:09made an appalling mistake but I uh acted
49. 2:12according to my conscience in doing this
50. 2:14in 19 whenever it was 35
51. 2:1736 uh and that meant disloyalty to this
52. 2:21country but as I've said it was I
53. 2:25believed it was the right thing in the
54. 2:26cause of anti-fascism I now realized
55. 2:29bitterly
56. 2:30uh this was totally wrong so you do have
57. 2:33regrets oh yes
58. 2:36bitter what will you do
59. 2:39now I hope to be able to go back and do
60. 2:41some work on art history