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cost them their jobs but our t.v. is a town that's already given up on the crisis hit single currency and the next story of a british double agent who spent years by the soviet union. his life was shrouded in secrecy and he left a remarkable legacy. he received decorations from the spanish dictator franco and queen elizabeth of britain. he shook hands with a hitler and swiftly rose to the top of the british intelligence service. but the whole time he was in fact a soviet agent. many saw to one rebel that kim philby enigma during his life and a quarter of a century after his death is still the subject of continuing debate.

the cambridge graduate realizes what's in store for him when he agrees to go to regents park in the center of london for a secret meeting. but he couldn't even imagine how dramatically his life would change after that talk with a stranger. an economic crisis breaks out in the west in the one nine hundred thirty s. stock exchanges have collapsed heralding the beginning of the great depression the british labor party suffer the defeat hunger marches follow on the heels of one another in britain progressive minded young people begin to sympathize with communist ideals. there was a hunger about it came through cambridge in in february nine hundred thirty four so

this was the first time that these privileged students would actually seen working class people they felt guilty about being thorough privileged they felt horror at seeing the poverty in britain in the early one nine hundred. kim philby is among the aristocracy cambridge students helping to provide food for the hungry unemployed he's reading economics at trinity college philby becomes a member of cambridge university's socialist society where communist tutors have a good deal of political leverage with the students they can all mix with the most radical thug act in cambridge in the twenty's and that love mark the economics with being this go. hitler comes to power in germany in one thousand nine hundred thirty three europe becomes infected with nazi ideology. after graduating from college still behaves to a restless austria for the first time he sees the horrors of fascism with his own eyes filled to help smuggle just grazed communists out of the country. sunny's

cheyanne first sights looks nonassertive he's a typical bookworm he's reached to gazing for some nosy further consideration by nature she's prone to pessimism so she needs cheering up. the soviet intelligence headquarters receive that summary of character of the potential recruit from its agents arnold village after his first encounter with kim philby. the second meeting was to a long moscow decides to recruit him their timing couldn't have been better as philby isabelle to join the communist party of great britain but soviet intelligence has very different plans for him. george you must change. the perception people have you way from being a left wing possibly communist rule. the recruit to exactly the opposite you have to build up my fashions front and then you can proceed to your lifelong son

the russian intelligence penetrate the british intelligence of those. philby agrees without further consideration of the cambridge graduate takes on the role of a fascist but upholding the cause of communism. he joy in the anglo german fellowship he began to cover himself off from these socialist wanted friends. and gradually for. a new persona for himself. with the help of new contacts fill the heads for germany where he meets with foreign minister von ribbentrop. when soviet intelligence decides to send philby to spain a country being torn apart by civil war it was ribbentrop himself who helped get him the visa. and the times newspaper upgraded philby has its reporter with

franco's armed forces the young journalist and intelligence officer reaps the benefits of beginner's luck and christmas eve of nine hundred thirty seven he was writing and a jeep and the jeep was hit with a near it a mortar shell there were four of them in that jeep three were killed kim philby was not history would have been so different if he had died with the other three that day franco personally decorates the young journalist with a medal for valor he doesn't even suspect that the man is only too willing to assassinate him. the regional plan was to kill franco the job was interesting to fill because he was supposed to shoot him or something like that but the plan was awarded to the reasoning was that in order fastest would simply step into shrinkers shoes or near wheel be begins to enjoy more trust from those soviets and british however he isn't recruited by british intelligence until the start of world war two. in one hundred forty poland is

occupied and france surrenders. will be joined to my six we give lessons on sabotage and subversion philby once he gets into m i six positions himself in a way to get as much information as possible and housing pyrrhic and gets access to the archives there is virtually nothing in anti-sex archives touring the second world war there which will be does not have access. to whitfield who is in charge of the n.s.a.'s archives had become quite a friend of mine got a liking for pink gins which i shared this really connection paid off and i was usually in a position to get files rather more quickly and easily the many my colleagues. the rev of the rose to be. the british intelligence representative. in charge of the whole of the iberian peninsula which was quite an important job

because all of these fevers came from germany towards britain during that difficult period when it was doubtful whether britain could stand the nazi attack came through the iberian peninsula came through. during world war two leslie parker is a top secret location in britain the most valuable information comes from this including center. british forces can decode into said. the german radio messages faster than anyone else. but they're not prepared to share much information with a soviet allies. britain possesses several german made the need most cryptographic machines they can only decode messages if they recognize the key the problem is that the germans change them every day in a bid to prevent others from listening to their secrets. when you set up the

machine to a key there are a huge number of possible ones as you could use. the figure that he's often quoted is about one hundred fifty eight million million million different ways. british mathematicians solved the problem by inventing a machine called bomb for the express purpose of identifying the keys. it works around the clock processing millions of combinations in search of the only correct one overseas during a beating the whole process up and it would go right back both within approximately fifteen to twenty minutes where it would take you several days during the pendulum type of. bicycle korea's take information to london as soon as it's processed in fact stolen quite often receives as many records decoded leslie as churchill sometimes is even the first to get them. to come redstone in the future has come to

the conclusion that the rapid campaign against the soviet union is necessary on the grounds that ukraine should be in german hands before hold this position of southern russia is essential since it allows for alternative base for advanced towards iraq. over the course of world war two fill the sense nine hundred fourteen documents to moscow even though his reports are so valuable that they're immediately sent on to stalin's desk there are times when moscow is distrustful of its by. agents notably kim philby they believe that he must be swindling them because nobody could get hold of what they are as good as it is and they even send something to person to follow him around. to try see him making contact with the british deceivers who are deceiving was very good. at selling point in relations with the british agents follows a defining moment in the course of the war philby is the first to let stone into

operation citadel plans german advance against post the largest tank battle of world war two would involve twelve hundred tanks in a head on crash i mean given the vast morning soviet troops meant an offensive leaving enemy forces no chance of success. the germans pulled back after losing about half a million lines of the battle the soviet troops then forge ahead no longer retreat . and were still going to do so above everything else he reveled in the outcome of the course. i did it he would say he was proud of the fact that he had supplied very detailed military tactical and strategic secrets that helped win that decisive battle he wins that i think it's the second. of no less importance is the fact that philby supplies dispatches about the situation in the allied camp as well as about the enemy is thoughts of the current union of allies would not last.

long before the end of the war with germany the secret intelligence service began to turn this force towards the next enemy between the walls the greater part of the services resources had been devoted to the penetration of the servian when the defeat of the axis was in sight and serious thinking reverted to its old channels. m i six sets up a special division for soviet studies moscow gives the talented british intelligence officer the tusk of penetrating into. in other words he's the person who isn't position to look at everything that we know. what the soviet union and soviet intelligence is doing. with people in the communist party so that was an extraordinary. twist of fate.

philby a sense to washington in one thousand nine hundred forty nine to promote contact between u.k. and u.s. secret services as a result of the soviet agent finds himself at the heart of every british and american intelligence operation during one of the most tense periods of the cold war. he is well aware of all undercover operations against countries of a socialist bloc in particular he learns about subversive plans in albania and the soviet union itself groups of seven terms were regularly dropped into those countries. british and american exchange precise information about the timing and geographical coordinates of their operations i do not know what happened to those groups but i can make an informed guess. the biggest breakthrough by far of american intelligence during the period where. russian. wartime

soviet codes. kim philby looks on as the americans pinpoint the source leaking intelligence about the development of a uranium bomb to the soviet union in one thousand nine hundred forty three united states is ready itself to become the world's first superpower with the help of the nuclear bomb but it soon so that the soviet union had created an exact replica when the americans eventually decrypt soviet radio grahams they learned that the nuclear leak originated of the british embassy the circle begins to narrow the field defines the soviet agent donald maclean on a list of suspects he felt obliged to tell mclean partly to protect himself because he didn't know much of his role. so he did. fill the thinks help from a friend and fellow service agent guy burgess like philby burgess is working in

washington at the same time moreover he's even living in philby's home. burgess's task is to meet mcclain in london to help in fleet of the soviet union before he can be interrogated one of the things that kim philby had said to bird is go back and alert him but do not affect yourself because it will bring out attention to me here in the united states horrifies philby is the buddhist goes as well and has promised him that he wouldn't go as well and from that moment on woods will be as on the this is special shortly afterwards philby is recalled to london to face a series of protected interrogations the british stage an on and off mock trial over the course of five years but they fail to want to cover enough incriminating evidence to prosecute philby as an insider and a seasoned intelligence officer he knows all too well how the system works a prosecutor cannot. give away the reason that he is suspicious of

you without also giving away. he came to receive that information as he said they would say how do you. he would say i come under many must just be coincidence and he stonewalled block. the investigators a lot of words in there again is a lot of i couldn't pin him down i mean yeah we'll be suffered from vertigo he often said better if british counterintelligence attempted to torture him with heights during interrogation in the early one nine hundred fifty s. he would completely spill the beans. even though the investigation into filby has closed his find from his job at the intelligence service in one nine hundred fifty five washington insists that the case be real. open to the media using aprile they depict philby as a victim of persecution the british foreign secretary is compelled to make a public statement clearing him of all suspicions phillipe also has to make

a public appearance there was a third man where he went back but you know it was not. after several years of interactivity philby rejoins the british intelligence service former fellow officers don't question his innocence they find a job for i mean they root we're here fishel he works as a reporter for the observer and the economist. for covering. egypt and so we're most of the time are travelling from verizon base where we're covering some war richard beeston is one of those who maintains close contact with philby in beirut the two men often drink and picnic together no doubt a local britons have already heard a lot about the reputation of the man who has helped soviet agents to defect. but nobody musters enough courage to ask the question point blank however the curiosity of these times wife eventually gets the better of her. will get out thinking

a lot and she turned to him and said are you really the third man and he said what would you do if if you have a great friend of yours who is going to get in trouble with wario laws and your country. or to your friendship. so he really gave it away. it's not until nine hundred sixty two with him i six gets hold of credible information from a defector kim philby is finally revealed as a soviet agent. nicholas staley of his fellow officer travels to be read to interrogate him and philly makes a partial confession. what he admitted was being russian agent up to one hundred forty six you know or type. and so on but not after my forty six and elliot and m i six believe that they are actually the head of m i five and the head of a bicycle joint they write a letter to the head of the f.b.i. j.

edgar hoover saying we believe phil b. has told the truth the only worked for the russians until ninety forty six the few days later when for believes russia they realize that it's all really rather embarrassing. philby's escape to the country he spent thirty years spying for is now inevitable in january nine hundred sixty three he said fulton soviet soil to fill these benches fifty first winter in moscow. is surrounded with care and attention and secrecy. in the u.s.s.r. the englishman becomes comrade under a field of huge margins. the interest in kim philby has never waned there was very significant efforts to try to monitor what he was doing and so union he was the comfortable life. yellowknife flats in the

center of moscow in the apartment of the foreign service officers he had k.g.b. people to carry out these everywhere we want to go to the bolshoi tickets would arrive in one of the table restaurant was done for. phil b. enjoys the perks but he's aching to get back into action. he seeks work professing in general but instead he gets his a general's pension. filmy seen as a hero and is even awarded the order of lenin the country's highest decoration. yes he's not living out of his golden age. you would tell me that he had been overflowing with information he would write numerous memos but later he realized nobody needed all that you can imagine how that ground knowledgeable man must have felt it's no wonder he was prone to drinking bouts once he remarked that hard

drinking was the easiest way of suicide i suspect that initially she might even have been doing it with that same interview after. tries to help him overcome his destructive habit kim calls her the woman of his life and boasts about her in letters to friends radio journalist eric to morning is one of them. and like boasting or abasing myself when i see that her mother is ten days younger than i am anyway i can attest the big giving of my life is called a. regime that was put off by the fact that she was twenty years kim's junior but she succumbs to his english charm came proposes to her after just a couple of dates. she told me right away he wanted to take me to siberia i thought it was a funny proposal anyone would laugh at the prospect of spending one's honeymoon in

siberia it's like go into exile. they travel a lot together as across the vast soviet union camp in several socialist countries . guerrier is their favorite because of the cuisine there. came as a talented cook but he's unable to show off his skills to the full given the widespread shortages in the service of union. once we try to buy goods we were told each of us was entitle it only to one half. of a goose there was the rule in those days i still remember the miserable expression on kim's face but i can't cook half a goose he exclaimed so i had to plead with the shop's top manager to sell us an entire goose and he complied that was our joint victory.

while living in the soviet union will be mrs some of the home comforts of england k.g.b. set aside a special funds to pay for them. but no you. before each trip to denmark i would see that head of the intelligence department to get his permission to buy thousand dollars worth of goods for philby or for what a real ox for true taste tweed jackets and of course we ski were some of his favorite things. in the one nine hundred seventy s. nicholas behind the k.g.b.'s decision to open a school to train young men to be secret service operatives classes are held at a secret location downtown moscow at long last kim philby has been given the opportunity to lecture a great floridians on the operations of the british intelligence service and teaches them how to analyze political events. in whittaker i love all the brain

teasers he gave us i remember philby posing as someone representing the vatican we were supposed to spot a tiny piece of very important information in what he was saying as a turned out it was contained in the pope's recent circular letter like some of the political accents there could change public opinion and all of latin america something that would be a complete folly to ignore he really was a great analyst and scholar present at the school. phillip knightley is the only western journalist to be allowed to see kim philby the opportunity comes only in one thousand nine hundred eighty eight when perestroika is the order of the day and nightly spent nearly a week with philby allowing him to make up his mind about the former agent it was an ideological commitment and anybody who says it was not committed. didn't understand it. all the stories about living in poverty. longing to go back to being

a complete rubbish how can i be unhappy here i'm going to run the right. one for colleagues not only must. do and wherever i go i want to be a burden for june and to the country which i consider to be my own country ever since nineteen thirty one thirty three he was disappointed with brezhnev but he thought well under paul things were going well and that the future for socialism was bright. he didn't live to see the collapse of the soviet so it'll have a good head of geithner she once told me she wanted to become an orchestral conductor that classical music inspired him she always won his arms while listening to it. we often listen to frank sinatra's my way together. kim's life his character and

his aspirations were in harmony with that song. the knob. and the. saw in. the final. he's trying to he's an extremely able trucker see this we're going to fold the names they call him i think the english are proud of phil great to them only an englishman could be a man of such stature and such integrity. in the long run when you weigh ins and contributions to the intelligence who was. a major player people don't forget you can fill b.s. here we are talking about a million died in one thousand nine hundred eight and they still thought about one says he had his own immortality did it. were.

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