Thomas has said that his father did not admit to being a communist spy, even when he was dying in hospital in 1979. However, Rees told Andrew Boyle, author of The Climate of Treason, his reflections on conversations held at All Souls College with Guy Burgess, his great friend. He told Boyle that he had ridiculed Guy Burgess's claim to be a spy. He also told Boyle that Anthony Blunt was the man to follow. Boyle's revelations in the Daily Mail led to the Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher announcing to the House of Commons in 1979 that the security services had long known that Blunt was a spy, due to Goronwy Rees's warnings to the security services the weekend that Burgess and Maclean fled to Russia. Nevertheless, Blunt had been knighted. In 1999, Vasili Mitrokhin, former KGB member, published the Mitrokhin archives that included a file on Rees, documenting his recruitment by Burgess at Oxford during the mid-1930s and two code names, "Fleet" and "Gross." The file also notes that he supplied no information to the Soviets and that he abandoned his communist affiliation at the outbreak of World War II. In her memoir, daughter Jenny relates that she learned the following from Oleg Tsarev while visiting Moscow: "...He [Rees] did not cooperate. Nothing happened actually." ...My father was supposed to provide political hearsay but that he did not co-operate, and after the Soviet-German pact nothing more was heard from him. Works Books The Summer Flood (1932) Where No Wounds Were (1950) A Bundle of Sensations: Sketches in Autobiography (1961) Multimillionaires: Six Studies in Wealth (1961) The Rhine (1967) St Michael: A History of Marks & Spencer (1969) The Great Slump: Capitalism in Crisis 1929–1933 (1970) (review) Conversations with Kafka by Gustav Janouch (1970) (translator) A Chapter of Accidents (1972) Brief Encounters (1974) Articles New York Review of Books: "Inside the Aquarium," (1967) The Spectator: "Pity," (1936) "Children From Spain," (1937) "In Defence of Welsh Nationalism," (1937) "The Unpeopled Spaces," (1937) "Standards of Greatness," (1938) "The Spectre," (1948) "Supreme Commander," (1949) "The Informer and the Communist," (1953) See also Guy Burgess Whittaker Chambers The Spectator Aberystwyth University References Sources External links From Warfare to Welfare (MYGLYW) - Goronwy Rees (1909-1979) Archives Wales - Goronwy Rees Papers Archives Wales - Goronwy Rees Enquiry Papers Page at Spartacus * 1909 births 1979 deaths Welsh military personnel 20th-century Welsh writers Welsh-speaking journalists Welsh