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Bogarde warned by MI5 he could be target of gay ‘entrapment’ attempt by KGB, declassified files show
Actor and author Dirk Bogarde, September 19, 1990

FILM star Dirk Bogarde was warned by MI5 that he could be the target of a gay “entrapment” attempt by the KGB, according to newly declassified intelligence files.

Documents released to the National Archives at Kew, west London, show that the actor was “clearly disturbed” after being told that his name was on a list of “six practising British homosexuals” passed to Russians.

But after he was interviewed in south of France, MI5 concluded that he was a “retiring, serious” man who was unlikely to fall victim to any kind of KGB sting operation.

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