Molehunt: The Hunt for the Soviet Spy Inside MI5

Ever since that fateful day in May19511 when Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean defected to Russia, the British Security Service has been tormented by the knowledge that it had been penetrated at a high level by a Soviet mole.

Over the years, there has been much speculation about the identity of the person responsible for the tip-off. At first Kim Philby was blamed, but later it became evident that the original warning could not have come from him, and must have been given by someone inside MI5. Gradually, the evidence accumulated and it became clear to MI5's molehunters that a spy had climbed to the very highest echelons of their own organisation. A series of top-secret investigations were conducted, but their results, up until now, have never been fully revealed. The name of just one of the suspects, Sir Roger Hollis, has been leaked but, for legal reasons, it has never been possible to tell the full story.

Now, following submissions made in a bizarre court case in Australia and the recent deaths of two crucial witnesses, it is possible to expose the whole incredible truth: the plots, the molehunts and the cover-ups - even evidence that Peter Wright was not aware of.

Was Hollis really a spy? Why did Peter Wright break his oath of lifelong secrecy? What was Lord Rothschild's involvement? The answers are stranger than any spy fiction, and twice as compelling.