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the whole time he was in fact the soviet agent. many saw the one rebel that kim philby an equal during his life and a quarter of a century after his death it's still the subject of continuing debate. became bridge graduate realizes what's in store for him when he agrees to a go to regent's 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. one economic crisis breaks out in the west in the one nine hundred thirty s. stock exchanges have collapsed there all in the beginning of the great depression

the british labor party suffers 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 i think that before so this was the first time that these privileged students had actually seen working class people it felt guilt about being thorough privileged they felt horror at seeing the poverty in britain in the early one nine hundred thirty. kim philby is among the aras to crush the cambridge students helping to provide food for the hungry unemployed he's reading economics of trinity college philby becomes a member of cambridge university's socialist society where communist changes have a good deal of political leverage with the students the economics is the most radical the character in cambridge in the twenty's and thirty's love marxist economics with been disco. hitler comes to power in germany in one thousand nine

hundred thirty three europe becomes infected with nazi ideology. after graduating from college field he heads to a restless austria for the first time he sees the horrors of fascism with his own eyes filled to help smuggle disgraced communists out of the country. sunny's cheyanne first strike looks nonassertive he's a typical bookworm he's ready to do anything for his nose he further consideration by nature she's prone to pessimism so she needs cheering up. the sylvia's intelligence headquarters receive that summary of character of a potential recruit from its agent arnold village after his first encounter with kim philby. the second meeting which take long mosco decides to recruit him the 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. the edge you must change. the perception people have you way from being a left wing possibly communist. 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 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 for me as socialist wanted friends. and gradually for. a new persona for himself.

with the help of new contacts philby heads from 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 acquitted still because it's proposed that with franco's armed forces beyond journalist and intelligence of the reach the benefits of beginner's luck and christmas eve of one 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 sheet 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. gregory approached the regional plan was to kill frank carter which i 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 the begins to enjoy 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 runs he gets into m i six positions himself in a way to get as much information as possible and housing through it and gets access to the archives there is virtually nothing and i six archives during world war two which will be does not have access. to woodfield who is in charge of the s i s archives had become quite a friend of mine he had a liking for people 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 favors that came from germany towards britain during that difficult period when it was doubtful whether britain could stand the gutsy attack came through they are very belligerent. during world war two lesley park is a top secret location in britain the most valuable information comes from this including center. british forces can be coded into said. the german radio messengers faster than anyone else. but they're not prepared to share much information with a soviet allies. britain possesses several german made can ignite 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 the machine to a key there are a huge number of possible ones that could use a huge number 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 oversees doing is creating a whole process up and able to write that code 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 reports decoded bletchley as churchill sometimes he's 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 holist 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 be. fish agents notably kim philby they believe that he must be swindling them because nobody could get hold of the ferret has got his eyes and they even send some to person to follow

him around. to try him making contact with the british deceivers who are deceiving us every day. a turning point in relations with the british agents follows a defining moment in the course of the war philby is the first to alert stone into operation citadel plans german advance against. the largest tank battle of world war two would involve twelve hundred tanks in a head on clash having been given the chance morning 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 retreat . we're 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 waives that if he said. 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 this force towards the next enemy between the walls the greater part of the services resources had been devoted to the political of the soviet union with the defeat of the axis was in sight a 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 topic of penetrating into. kim philby exceeds expectations for six months.

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 in. the context of this with people in the communist party so that was an extraordinary achievement. twist of fate of. world war two. with the most excellent order of the british empire the career of the continues to rise becomes one of the candidates for the post of six. with. technology.

philby a sense to washington in nineteen forty nine to promote context 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 the socialist bloc in particular he learns about subversive plans in albania vogue area and the soviet union itself groups of saboteurs were regularly due to those countries.

british an 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 of american intelligence during the period where the field 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 be cripps soviet radio grahams they learned of the nuclear leak had originated at the british embassy the circle begins to narrow field he finds the soviet agents donald maclean on a list of suspects he. told mclain partly to protect

himself because he didn't know much about his role. so he did. fill the 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'll bring out attention to me here in the united states. is that. and what it is promised that he wouldn't go as well and from that moment onwards will be is on the special shortly afterwards philby was 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 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 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 explain he would say i come under a minute must just be coincidence and he stonewalled block so the investigators a lot of words in there again is a lover's i couldn't pin him down just between 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 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 fill the also has to make a public appearance but there was a third man we're back but you know i was not. after several years of interactivity philby rejoins the british intelligence service former fellow officers don't question his innocence to find a job for him in beirut where he physically works as a reporter for the observer and the economist. recovering. there are syria jordan egypt. most of the time traveling from beirut our base where we're covering some of the caribbean and 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 had hopes of youth agents to defect. but nobody musters enough courage to ask the question point blank however the curiosity of the easterns wife eventually gets the better of her. without thinking a lot and she turned to him and said are you really the man and he said what would you do if you have a great friend of yours that's going to get in trouble a lot of your country or your friendship. and 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 elliott his fellow officer travels to be read to interrogate him and fielding makes

a partial confession. what he admitted was being a russian agent up to one hundred forty six great. or time and so on but not after one hundred forty six and elliott and m i six believe that actually the head of m i five and the head of a by six 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 for billings russia they realize that they're wrong it's all really rather embarrassing. philby's escapes the country he spent thirty years spying for is now inevitable in january one thousand nine hundred sixty three he set foot on soviet soil so philby spends his fifty first winter in moscow. is surrounded with care and attention and secrecy. in the us as the englishman becomes come right 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 and 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 k.g.b. people to carry on these everywhere you want to go to the bolshoi to control ra one of the table restaurant was done for. filthy enjoys the perks but he's aging to get back into action. he seeks work fizzing in 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. 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 he might even have been doing it with that same interview. griffin or 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. i like posting 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 golden. refiner was put off by the fact

that she was twenty years ken's junior but she succumbs to his english. can propose to her after just a couple of dates. but he told me right away he wanted to take me to siberia. i thought it was a funny proposal not a penny one would laugh at the prospect of spending one's honeymoon in siberia it's like go into exile. they travel a lot together both across the vast soviet union banned 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. but 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 explained 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. before each trip to denmark i would see the head of the intelligence department to get his permission to buy a thousand dollars worth of goods for thirty or of oxford fruit paste tweed jackets and of course whisky were some of his favorite themes. 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 and grateful audience on the operations of the british intelligence service and teaches them how to analyze political events. it stated with the corner 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 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 it 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

knightley spent nearly a week with philby allowing him to make up his mind about the former agent it was an ideological and anybody who says was not. the didn't understand. only stories about living in poverty. longing to go back to being complete rubbish as an ip i'm happy. i'm going to run. i'm going to run for colleagues not only in moscow but. wherever i go i was in the to be buried in a fairly soon in the country which i considered three my own country ever since nineteen thirty. one thirty 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.

hugh lawrence told me he wanted to become an orchestral conductor that classical music inspired him he always won his arms by listening to it. we often listen to frank sinatra's my way together that. kim's life his character his aspirations were in harmony with that song. god. and the. saudi arabia. the final. he's trying to he's an extremely able try to see we're going to suppose the names they call him i think the english are proud of philby to them only an englishman could be a man of such stature and such integrity. in the long run when you weigh in as

a contribution to the intelligence from. a major player people don't forget who kim philby is here we are talking about a million died in one thousand maybe eight and they still talk about in one sense he had his own more immortality to. do were.

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