for this. is the equivalent fire power of the world's nuclear arsenal today. thanks for being with us half past the hour these are the stories that shape the week here on our team as gollum's in syria shows no signs of abating a year after it began methods being used in another damaging battle are exposed but this time targeting people's minds. well rosso executes two men found guilty of the minsk metro bombing a move is strongly condemned by the e.u. which says the pair were never given a fair trial. and protests and arrests mark the occupy wall street movement six

month anniversary as the long arm of the wall means many wondering if classroom nations practice the democracy they preach next stop gripping story of a former british secret service agent who worked as a spy for the soviet union at the same time. his life was shrouded in secrecy and he left the remarkable legacy. he received decorations from the spanish dictator franco and queen elizabeth of britain. he shook hands with a hitler aide 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 suffered a 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 have actually seen working class people they felt guilt about being thorough privileged they felt 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 nineteen thirty three europe becomes infected with nazi ideology. after graduating from college will be heads to a restless austria for the first time he sees the horrors of fascism with his own eyes will be held smuggled disgraced communist out of the country. sunny's

shah in at first sight looks nonassertive he's a typical bookworm he's reaching to keeping force from those he for consideration by nature she's prone to pessimism so he needs cheering up. the soviet intelligence headquarters receive that summary of character of the potential recruit from its agent arnold village after his first encounter with kim philby. the second amazing words 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 your. perception people have you away 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 of the russian to. penetrate the british intelligence of. 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 minded 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 philby as its reporter with

franco's own forces the young journalist and intelligence officer reaps the benefits of beginner's luck on 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 the 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 to you the job was interested to fill but you were supposed to shoot him or something like that but the plan was aborted the reasoning was that in other fastest would simply step into franco's shoes you when you're hale be 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. fill the joint 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 how does he do it he gets access to the archives there is virtually nothing in six archives during the second world war two which will be does not have access. to woodfield who is in charge of the as i use archives have become quite a friend of my. 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 than many of my colleagues on the run of the roads 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 came. 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 decode into say. 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 that every day going to be to prevent others from listening to their secrets. when you say that machine to a key there are

a huge number of possible ones as you would use a huge. 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 strike 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 receives as many reports decoded eventually as churchill sometimes he's

even the first to get them. to cooperate stunning diffuser 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 homebased 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. jim's notably kim philby they believe that he must be swindling them because nobody could get hold of a fairly as good as that and they even send some to person to follow him around and to try him making contact with the british deceivers they were deceiving as having . a turning point in relations with the british asians follows a defining moment in the course of the war philby is the first to lead 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 crash having been given the funds morning soviet troops meant an offensive leaving enemy forces no chance of success. the germans called 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 got 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 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 is thought 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 such 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 toughest of penetrating into. kim philby exceeds expectations. 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. not simply in britain and the context that had passed with people in the communist party so that was an extraordinary. twist of fate.

in world war two the queen personally decorates him with the most excellent order of the british empire the career of the intelligence continues to rise. one of the candidates for the post of my six highest rank in british intelligence. with. technology.

philby a sense to washington in nineteen forty nine to promote concepts 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 the socialist bloc in particular he learns about subversive plans in albania and the soviet union itself groups of seven turns were regularly airdrome to to those countries. british and americans 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 they will be in washington is to grow

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 a 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 leakage originated at the british embassy the circle begins to narrow the field to find the soviet agent donald mclean on a list of suspects he felt obliged to tell mclain partly to protect himself because he didn't know much from clay knew about his role. so he tipped 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 on a plane 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 attention to me here in the united states what horrifies philby is that both his goals as well and what it was promised him that he wouldn't go as well and from that moment onwards philby is 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 other ministers be co-incidence and he stonewalled blah. the investigators a lot of words in there again is a lot i couldn't pin him down. 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 has 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. they do. 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 where you will act 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 him in beirut we hear fishel he works as a reporter for the observer and the economist. who are covering. syria or egypt. most of the time are traveling from beirut our base where we're covering some of 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 had helped soviet agents to defect. but nobody musters enough courage to ask the question point blank however the curiosity

of beast and 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 if you happened to a great friend of yours that's going to get into trouble we're very a lot of things your country or alter your friendship. so you really gave it away. it's not until nine hundred sixty two with the time 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 philly makes a partial confession. what he admitted was being russian agent up to one hundred forty six you know great time and so on but not after nine forty six. elliot and m i six believe that they are actually the head of m i five and the head of

a buy six joint three write a letter to the head of the f.b.i. i j. edgar hoover saying we believe that phil b. has told the truth the only work for the russians until ninety forty six the few days later when for we've been through russia they realize that 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 set foot on soviet soil to fill these planes his fifty first winter in moscow. is surrounded with care and attention and secrecy in the u.s. as the englishman becomes comrade under a view of the rich mountains. 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 these people live. illinois flats in the

center of moscow to be in the apartment of the foreign service officers he had k.g.b. people to carry on these everywhere they want to go to the bolshoi i think it's one rod one table restaurant was done for. philby enjoys the perks but he's aching to get back into action. he seeks work perfecting in general but instead all he gets is a general's pension. filmy seen as a hero and is even awarded the quarter of lenin the country's highest stake aeration. 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 a way of suicide i suspect that initially he might even have been doing it with that same interview. rufina tries to help him overcome his destructive habits kim coles other woman of his life and boasts about her in letters to friends radio journalist eric to morning is one of them. and i posting or abasing 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 called. griffin or 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. and he 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 but if it's like go into exile. they travel a lot together both across the vast soviet union and in several socialist countries . guerrier is their favorite because of the cuisine the. game is a talented cook but he's unable to show off his skills to the full given the widespread shortages in the serviette union. was 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 a little shops top manager to sell us an entire goose and she 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. before each trip to denmark i would see the head of the intelligence department to get his permission to buy thousand dollars worth of goods for philby or of him out of new oxford trade paste tweed jackets and of course whisky were 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 for the 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 grateful audience on the operations of the british intelligence service and teaches them how to analyze political events. pre-stated whitaker 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 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 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 commit and anybody who says it was not on the. did not understand. the only story of living in poverty. longleat back to being

a complete rubbish as i'd be unhappy. i'm going to wonderful wife. i got one for colleagues not only in moscow but. wherever i go i wanted to be a burden for june in the country which i considered three my career ever since nineteen thirty and then thirty three. he was disappointed with brezhnev but he thought with hundreds of things were going well and the future for socialism was bright. he didn't live to see the collapse of the soviet so it'll have a good had just got humans told me he wanted to become an orchestra conductor that classical music inspired him to 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. in the novel. and. sought. to find. his treasure 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 fielding to them only an englishman could be a man of such stature and such integrity and goodness in the long run who were new way is a contribution to the intelligence who was. a major player people don't forget who kim philby is here we are talking about a many died in one thousand maybe eight and they still talk about one says he had his own more immortality to. do were.

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