if you're just joining us a very warm welcome to you this is our t.v. time to headlines u.n. security council foreign ministers prepare a renewed effort to solve the deepening syrian crisis with the u.s. and its allies now reportedly considering into record intervention. resignations out al-jazeera the number of key staff of the qatar owned arabic news channel quit the network's reporting from syria is biased towards the opposition. plus afghanistan demands justice for the massacre of sixteen a civilians by a u.s.

soldier just weeks after the burning of the koran by military personnel ignited anti american sentiment across the country. up next a special story of a british double agent who spent years spying for the soviet union this is artsy. 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 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 erroll 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 had actually seen working class people they felt guilty about being thorough privileged they felt horror at seeing the poverty in britain in the early nineteenth. kim philby years among the aristocracy cambridge students helping to provide food for the hungry unemployed is reading economics of trinity college filled it becomes a member of cambridge university's socialist society where communist tutors have a good deal of political leverage with their students the economics was the most radical thought checked in cambridge in the twenty's and that love marks the economics was being discussed. is like comes to power in germany in one thousand nine hundred thirty three europe becomes infected with nazi ideology. after graduating from college will be hands to a restless austria for the first time he sees the horrors of fascism with his own

eyes will be held smuggle just grazed communists out of the country. sunny's shot and first sight looks nonassertive he's a typical bookworm he's reaching to keeping force from those he further consideration by nature she's prone to pessimism so she needs cheering up. the soviet intelligence headquarters received up summary of character of the potential recruit from its agent arnold deutsche after his first encounter with kim philby. the second meeting was to a long moscow decides to recruit him the timing couldn't have been better as philby as a bell to join the communist party of great britain the soviet intelligence has very different plans for him. the edge you must change. the perception people have you way from being left wing possibly communist. the recruit to exactly the opposite you have to build up early fashions front and then

you can proceed to your lifelong assignment the russian examinations penetrate the british intelligence of those. philby agree is without further consideration the table 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 recruited spill because it's reported that

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 the 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 frank are you getting 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. while he begins 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 six archives during the second world war which will be does not have access. to whitfield who is in charge of the s i s archives have become quite a friend of mine in the nikkei 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 of these fevers that came from germany towards britain during that difficult period where it was doubtful whether britain could stand the nazi attack came through the uglier than angel 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 way it can ignore 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

a machine to a key there are a huge number of possible ones that 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 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 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 koreas take information to london as soon as it's processed in fact still and quite often receives as many records decoded leslie as churchill sometimes he's even the first to get them. to cooperate ston and

if europe 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 says 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. his agents notably kim philby think believe that he must be swindling them because nobody could get hold of but they are as good as ice and they even send something to to britain to follow him or. to try him making contact with the british deceivers who are deceiving this country. but 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. the law just trying to battle a world war two would involve twelve hundred tanks in a head on crash having been given the bombs morning soviet troops meant an offensive leaving enemy forces no chance of success. the germans pulled back after losing about half a million lives in the battle the soviet troops then forge ahead no longer retreat . and were still got to use or 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. of no less importance is the fact that philby supplies dispatches about the situation in the allied camp as well as about

the enemy if 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 penetration of the soviet union when they defeated the axis was in sight and 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. in other words he's the person who is in a position to look at everything that we know. what the soviet. intelligence is doing. with people in the communist

so that was an extraordinary achievement. 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 service is 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 plan to help. 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 philby is in washington is to 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 turns out that the soviet union had created an exact replica when the americans eventually decrypt soviet radio grahams they learned that the nuclear leak had 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 inquiry knew about his role. so he dipped off. philby thinks 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 things that kim philby had said to burgess go back you know alert him but do not affect yourself because it will bring out attention to me here in the united states or horrifies philby is the buddhist goes as well. but has promised that he wouldn't go as well and from that moment onwards 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 and 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 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 claim he was say i come the minute must just be a coincidence and he stonewalled block. the investigators a lot of what's interesting is a lot of i couldn't pin him down he's the media philby 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 filby is closed he's fired from his job at the intelligence service in one nine hundred fifty five washington insists that the case be reopened the media is in 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 will be also has to make a public appearance there was a third man we're back but you know not. of the several years of interactivity philby rejoins the british intelligence service former fellow officers don't question his innocence they find a job for him in beirut we hear facially works as a reporter for the observer and the economist. for covering. your major there were most of the time traveling from where it was our base where we're covering. the 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 masters enough courage to ask the question point blank however the curiosity

of distance and. life the financially gets the better off. without thinking a lot and she turned to him and said are you really the man. he said what would you do if if you happened to a great friend of yours who is going to get in trouble with wario law it's your country. also your friendship and so he really gave it away. it's not until nine hundred sixty two the demo six gets hold of credible information from a defector kim philby is finally revealed as a sort of if they didn't. nicholas daily of his fellow officer travels to be read to interrogate him until he makes a partial confession. what he admitted was being russian agent two one hundred forty six great war time and so on but not after one hundred forty six and elliott and m i six believe that they had actually the head of m i five and the head of m i

six joint three write a letter to the head of the f.b.i. i j. edgar hoover saying we believe will be has told the truth the only worked for the russians until ninety forty six the few days later when for beings to russia they realized that it's all really rather embarrassing. philby's escaped to the country he spent thirty years spying for is now we never trouble in january one thousand nine hundred sixty three he sets foot on soviet soil so philby spends his fifty first winter in moscow and. is surrounded with care and attention and secrecy. in the us as the englishman becomes committed 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 he union he was the comfortable life. eleanor's flats in the

center of moscow they are the apartment of thor's of those offices he had k.g.b. payroll to carry out his every whim we want to go to the bolshoi tickets were offered 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 the fitting in general but instead or 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. he 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 and i suspect that initially you might even have been doing it with that same interview. tries to help him overcome his destructive habits kim coles the other woman of his life and boasts about her in letters to friends radio journalist eric to morning is one of them. posting or a basing myself when i see that her mother is ten days younger than i am anyway i can attest that the evening of my life is golden. ravinia was put off by the fact that she was twenty years chemistry here but she succumbs to his english charm kim 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 it's not that 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 there. came with a talented cook but he's unable to show off his skills to the full given the widespread shortages in the service union. as we try to buy goods we were told each of us was entitle it only to one half. the goose there was the rule in those days i still remember the miserable expression on cames 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 the k.g.b. sets aside a special funds to pay for them. and though you. before each trip to denmark i would see to head of the intelligence department to get his permission to buy a thousand dollars worth of goods for philby or for it for a true taste tweed jackets and of course whiskey or some of his favorite things. in the one nine hundred seventy s. nicholas behind the k.g.b. his 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's the eating which of course i love

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 and some of the political accents there could change public opinion and all of latin america something that would be a complete folly to ignore what 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 and 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 was not committed. did not understand all of it. only a story about living in poverty. longing to go back to england complete rubbish as

an idea i'm happy. i'm going to run. i got one for colleagues not only in moscow but. wherever i go i wanted to be buried in a favorite union of the country which i considered three my own country ever since nineteen thirty. and thirty three. he was disappointed with british love but he thought well under poles 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 good her she once told me she wanted to become an orchestral conductor classical music inspires him she 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 were in harmony with that song. in the novel the. saudi arabia. of find a girl. he's a traitor he's an extremely able try to see this we're going to fold the names they call him i think the english are proud to feel great to them only an englishman could be a man of such stature and such integrity. in the long run when you weigh as contribution to the intelligence who was. a major player people don't forget a kim philby as here we are talking about how many died in one thousand eighty eight and they still thought about it and one says he had his own immortality did

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