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Moura's life still shrouded in mystery

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From: Sentinel, The (Stoke-on-Trent UK)
Date: 20080507
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My Secret Agent Auntie: Storyville BBC4, 10pm

SHE was one of the most spied-upon women in history, but Moura Budberg, a pretty Ukrainian aristocrat and socialite, may not have been the murderous Soviet agent that some accounts of her history suggest.

Here, her great-great-nephew Dimitri Collingridge heads behind the old Iron Curtain to uncover the truth about his ancestor, who married twice and had affairs with H G Wells, Russian literary giant Maxim Gorky, as well as Robert Bruce Lockhart, probably the most famous diplomat and spy Britain ever sent to Moscow.

In the early 1920s MI5 was ...

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