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Film star Dirk Bogarde was warned by MI5 that he could be the target of a gay “entrapment” attempt by the KGB, according to newly-declassified intelligence files. Documents released to the ...

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MI5 feared that Bogarde could have been the target of a gay 'entrapment' by the KGB, after it was claimed his name was on a list of 'six practising British homosexuals' passed to Russians.

Film star Dirk Bogarde was warned by MI5 that he could be the target of a gay “entrapment” attempt by the KGB, according to newly-declassified intelligence files. Documents released to the National ...

As a senior MI5 officer during the Second World War, he passed vast quantities of secret intelligence to his KGB handlers. However, he was allowed to keep his position at the heart of the British ...