In Addlestone, James Harcourt-Heath, a final-year Maths student at King’s College, Cambridge, is recruited by the British Secret Service, Section MI5. His first assignment is to infiltrate a Trinity College-based secret society called The Apostles. John Maynard Keynes, Bursar of King’s, believed the society’s members were Marxists whose ultimate aim was to align the UK with the Soviet Union.
At James’s first meeting, he encountered Anthony Blunt, Donald Maclean, Guy Burgess, Kim Philby, and John Cairncross. After graduating from Cambridge, all five secured sensitive and high-ranking positions within the British government: Maclean, Burgess, and Cairncross at the Foreign Office; Philby at MI6; and Blunt at MI5. During World War II and into the Cold War period of the 1950s, all passed classified information to the KGB.
Does this remind anyone of the stolen files Donald J. Trump kept at Mar-a-Lago and then refused to return to the FBI? It is clear he retained these documents for a reason and likely has more hidden, perhaps in the closet in his bedroom or the locked storeroom that the Secret Service failed to access despite holding a subpoena to search his private club. Trump frequently praises dictators such as Vladimir Putin, Viktor Orbán, and Xi Jinping. Did he take these documents with a purpose? Has he passed them or sold them to the enemies of the United States? Perhaps we will never know.