Bob Stewart - the Dundee Folk Hero who spied for Stalin

Bob Stewart was a folk hero in Dundee where he championed the poor and unemployed. As a joiner he worked on building the Discovery, became a Dundee trade union leader and was elected to Dundee Town Council as a Prohibition councillor.

But after World War One he became a dedicated revolutionary and a spy for Stalin. Even continuing in his activities when his own son-in-law was shot by the Russian dictator. With new access to MI5 files and KGB archives we learn that Bob Stewart and his family acted as international agents for Moscow and would serve at the heart of the famed Cambridge spy ring. And there are two intriguing and surprising references to Broughty Ferry…!

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