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a crisis head singleton's. us with top stories next a story of a british double agent to spend years fine for the saudi kenyan. his life was shrouded in secrecy and he left a remarkable legacy. he received the 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 the 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 a 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 a role in 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 and i think that the fall so this was the first time that these privileged students with actually seen working class people they felt guilt 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 their students the economics is the most radical object in cambridge in the twenty's and that love not the economics was being discussed. 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 beheld smuggle just grazed communists out of the country. sunny's cheyanne and first sight looks nonassertive he's

a typical bookworm he's reaching to key thing for some of those he for 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 agent an old village after his first encounter with kim philby. the second meeting would take long moscow decides to recruit him the timing couldn't have been better as philby isabelle to join the communist party of great britain a 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. body recruit to exactly the opposite you have to build up my fashions front and then you can proceed to your lifelong sun

the russian intelligence penetrate the british intelligence of those. philby agrees without further consideration the cambridge graduate takes on the role of a fascist but upholding the cause of communism. he joined the anglo german fellowship he began to cover himself off from these socialist wanted friends. and gradually formed a new persona for himself. with the help of new contacts philby 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 accredits philby's report that was 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 other jeep was hit with a near it a mortar shell there were four of them in that shape 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 interested to fill but he was supposed to shoot him or something like that but the plan was aborted the reasoning was that in order fastest would simply step into franco's shoes near her fill me begin to enjoy it more trust from both soviets and british however he isn't recruited by british intelligence until the start of world war two. in one nine hundred forty poland is occupied and france surrenders. philby joined m i 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 has in theory he gets access to the archives there is virtually nothing in my six archives hearings or two which probably does not have access. to whitfield who is in charge of the f.b.i. is not christ has become quite a friend of mine had a liking for pink gins which i shared this friendly 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 the peace fevers that came from germany towards britain during that

difficult period when it was doubtful whether britain could stand the attack came through the iberian peninsula. during world war two leslie park is a top secret location in britain the most valuable information comes from this including center. british forces can intercept decode. 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 can ignore cryptographic machines they can only decode messages if they recognize the key the problem is that the germans change that every day in a bid to prevent others from listening to their secrets. when you set up a machine to a p.c. there are a huge number of possible ones as you could use. the figure that he often

quoted is about one hundred fifty eight million million million different ways. british mathematicians solved the problem by inventing a machine cold 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 oversees doing is beating the whole process up and able to write that code within approximately fifteen to twenty minutes where it would take you several days during the conflict by. bicycle korea's take information to london as soon as it's processed in fact stolen quite often proceeds as many records decoded eventually as churchill sometimes is even the first to get them. to cooperate stone 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 harvest position of southern russia is essential since it allows for alternate 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 think believe that he must be swindling them because nobody could get hold of what they are as good as and they even send some to person to follow him or her to try see him making contact with the british because he was they were deceiving was having. a turning point in relations with the british agents follows a defining moment in the course of the war philby is the first to let stalin to operation citadel plans german advance against. the law just trying to battle

a world war two would involve twelve hundred tanks in a head on crash having been given advance warning soviet troops meant an offensive leaving enemy forces no chance of success. the germans call back after losing about half a million lives in the battle the soviet troops then forge ahead no longer on the retreat. and were still going to do so above everything else he reveled in the outcome of the course culch 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 way it was that i think it's he said you think. of no less importance is the fact that philby supplies dispatches about the situation in the allied camp as well as about the enemy. 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 their thoughts towards the next enemy between the walls the greater part of the services resources had been devoted to the tradition of the soviet union when they defeated the axis was in sight it's no use 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. kim philby exceeds expectations . six months. becomes haider the division charged with countering the soviet threat . in other words he's the person who is in a position to look at everything that we know. the soviet union and soviet intelligence is doing. and the context is with people in the communist party so that was an extraordinary achievement. by a twist of fate. for an award for his services to britain during world war two

the queen personally decorates him with the most of the british. the career of the intelligence officer continues to rise he becomes one of the candidates for the post of my six the highest ranking british intelligence. world with. its technology innovation all these developments around russia we. covered. pushers that so much. more when we cast the media middle east and beyond what is the condition of the arab spring are humanitarian interventions effective what about.

philby a sense to washington in nineteen 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. 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 saboteurs were regularly airdropped into those countries. british and americans exchanged 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. washington is to break 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 the united states is ready itself to become the world's first superpower with the help of the nuclear bomb but it soon after the soviet union had created an exact replica when the americans eventually decrease of your radio grams they learned that the nuclear leakage originated at the british embassy the circle begins to narrow the field defines the soviet agent donald mclean on a list of suspects he felt obliged to tell mclean partly to protect himself because he didn't know how much mclain knew about his role. so he did. philby seeks help from a friend and fellow soviet 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 him flee to the soviet union before he can be interrogated one of the things that kim philby had said to burgess go back and alert him but do not affect yourself because it will bring out of tension to me here in the united states what horrifies philby is the greatest. and the biggest promise that he wouldn't go as well and from that moment on would fill be as on the special shortly afterwards philby was 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 failed to uncover enough incriminating evidence to prosecute philby as an insider and a seasoned intelligence officer he knows all too well how the system works the 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 a minute not just be coincidence and he stonewalled brought the investigators a lot of words in there again is a lover's i couldn't pin him down you mean you will be suffered from vertigo he often said that 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 field is closed he's fired from his job at the intelligence service in one nine hundred fifty five washington insists that the case be real. opened 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 but there was

a third man worried back but you know i was not. after several years of activity philby rejoins the british intelligence service former fellow officers don't question his innocence to find a job for him in beirut where he fishley works as a reporter for the observer and the economist. who are covering. jordan egypt. most of the time traveling from beirut our base where we're covering thought occurred in 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 local britons have already heard a lot about the reputation of the man who could help soviet agents to defect. but nobody musters enough courage to ask the question point blank however the curiosity of the stones wife eventually gets the better of. without thinking a lot and she turned to him and said i really that man and he said i do

what would you do if if you have a great friend of yours who is going to get into trouble remarry a lot of your country. also your friendship. and so he really gave it away. it's not until nine hundred sixty two the to my six gets hold of credible information from a defector kim philby is finally revealed as a soviet agent. nicholas elliott his fellow officer travels to be read to interrogate him and philly makes a partial confession of. what he admitted was being russian agent up to one hundred forty six time. and so on but not after nineteen forty six and eliot and m i six believe that actually the head of m i five and the head of a joint three write a letter to the head of the f.b.i. j. edgar hoover saying we believe will be has told the truth only work for the

russians until forty six the few days later when philby leaves russia they realize that they're wrong it's all really rather embarrassing. philby's escaped to the country he spent thirty years spying for is now inevitable in january nine hundred sixty three he sets foot on soviet soil so philby spends his fifty first winter in moscow. is surrounded with care and attention and secrecy in the u.s. as the englishman becomes committed under a few of the rich margins. the interest in kim philby has never waned there was very significant efforts to try to monitor what he was doing in so union he was the comfortable life. eleanor's flats in the center of moscow mean the apartments of the foreign service offices he had

people to carry all these everywhere they want to go to the bolshoi tickets would arrive want to move the restaurant was known for. philby enjoys the perks but he's aching to get back into action. he seeks work befitting a general but instead all he gets is a general's pension. film is seen as a hero and is even awarded the order of lenin the country's highest decoration. yes he's not let out of his golden cage. going you know he would tell me that he had been overflowing with information she would write numerous memos but later she 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 to waive suicide and i suspect that initially he

might even have been doing it with that same interview. rufina tries to help him overcome his destructive habit jim calls her the woman of his life and boasts about her in letters to friends radio journalist eric to morning is one of them. alive boasting or abasing myself when i see that her mother is ten days younger than i am anyway i can attest that the giving of my life is called. griffin or was put off by the fact that she was twenty years cam'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 and in several socialist countries. guerrier is their favorite because of the cuisine the. gym is a talented cook but he's unable to show off his skills to the full given the widespread shortages in the serviette union. regime 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 start manager to sell us an entire goose and he complied that was our joint military. 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. and all you. do for each trip to denmark i would see the head of the intelligence department to get inspiration for you to buy a thousand dollars worth of goods for philby or for your material oxford fruit paste tweed jackets and of course we ski or 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 and downtown moscow at long last kim philby has been given the opportunity to lecture a grateful audience on the operations of the british intelligence service and teaches them how to analyze political events. it stated with you i love the brain teasers he gave us i remember philby posing as someone representing the fabric and

we were supposed to spot a tiny piece of very important information in what he was saying as it turned out it was contained in the pope's recent circular letter some of the political actions there could change public opinion and all of latin america something that would be a complete folly to ignore it really was a great analyst and scholar business 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 knightley 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. didn't understand. all the stories about living in poverty. going back to being a complete rubbish how can i be unhappy. i'm going to run the right.

one for colleagues not only in moscow but. wherever i go but i want them to be a burden for the country which i consider it to be my own country ever since nineteen thirty. thirty one three. he was disappointed with brezhnev but he thought well under poles things were going well and the future for socialism was bright. he didn't live to see the collapse of the soviet so it. kind of got humans told me he wanted to become an orchestral conductor that classical music inspired him he always won his arms while listening to it. we often listen to frank sinatra's my way together that. kim's life his character and his aspirations for in harmony with that song.

god. and the. soil. to find. his treasure he's an extremely able try to see regardless of old the names they call him i think the english are proud of phil de france to them only an englishman could be a man of such stature and such integrity. in the long run when you weigh as contributions to the intelligence who was. a major player people don't forget who came philby is here we are talking about a many died in one thousand eighty eight and they still talk about one says he had his own more immortality to. do were.