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Spies in Suburbia

Spies in Suburbia

A Soviet spy ring was uncovered operating from a London bungalow in 1961

Witness History: Archive 2014 · BBC World Service

November 10, 20149m 4s

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A Soviet spy ring was uncovered in London in 1961. Two of the spies, a married couple, were sending radio messages to Moscow from a transmitter in their bungalow. But British secret service agents were watching them from the bedroom of a teenage girl called Gay Search. Hear her story.

(Photo: The house where the spies lived in Ruislip, London)