WI The Cambridge 5 (Philby, MacLean,Burgess, Blunt And A.N.Other) Are Not Turned?

What if Soviet talent spotter, Arnold Deutsch never got the lads on board!
So no Stanley, Homer, Hicks, Johnson or possibly Liszt to assist The Soviet Union act the maggot!
 
Who was A.N Other? The mythical fifth man? :D

Well to be serious Stalin does not get lots of good intel that he disbelieves. Philby, Maclean and Burgess die in the UK and Blunt retains his knighthood.
 
James Jesus Angleton doesn't fear a mole in the CIA as badly, maybe?

And how does this affect the respectability of Communist sympathies in high circles in the UK? Probably makes it more respectable, as it's harder to accuse sympathizers of being Soviet agents. Does this help the USSR more or less than the intelligence penetration did in OTL?

OTOH, more KGB agents in the West might be caught; even if the UK's counterintelligence chief is still sympathetic to some extent to Moscow, he's not actually taking orders from them.

Does the USSR act more cautiously, having less information from the West? Or do they act more hostile to the UK, knowing they have no inside men there?
 
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