Guy Burgess left behind a battered leather briefcase when he fled to Moscow in 1951.
Sources
- Guy Burgess's briefcase among MI5 artefacts on display - BBC (bbc.com)
- https://www.expressandstar.com/uk-news/mi5-reveals-never-before-seen-spy-secrets-in-national-archives-exhibition-5710822 (expressandstar.com)
- https://www.cfg.cam.ac.uk/news/mi5-loan-never-before-seen-items-to-the-national-archives/ (cfg.cam.ac.uk)
- https://www.aol.com/news/classified-files-mi5-spy-artefacts-231905298.html (aol.com)
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