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in a tragedy the media's take on the u.s. soldier accused of turning a sleeping afghan village into a bloodbath with washington's again apologizing for the actions of its military. next a gripping story for you of a former british secret service agent who worked as a spy for the soviet union at the same time. as 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 a negro 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 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. 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 and i think that the fall so this was the first time that these privileged students could actually seen working class people they felt guilty about being thorough privileged they felt horror at seeing the poverty in britain in the early ninety's that you. kim philby is among the aras to crush the 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. economics was the most radical object in cambridge in the twenty's and that love marxist economics was being discussed. hitler comes to power in germany in nineteen thirty three europe becomes infected with nazi ideology. after graduating from college philby 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 cyclops nonassertive he's a typical bookworm he's reaching to catering for some of those he further consideration by nature she's prone to pessimism so she needs cheering up. the sylvia's intelligence headquarters received that summary of character of the potential recruit from its agent arnold deutsch 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 but soviet intelligence has very different plans for him. george you must change. the 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 lifelong son of the russian intelligence penetrate the british intelligence of. philby agrees without further consideration of 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 call them so often 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 written trump himself who helped get

him the visa. and the times newspaper recruited philby's its report that was franco's armed 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 intrusted to field he was supposed to shoot him or something like that but the plan was aborted the reasoning was that another fastest would simply step into franco's shoes. while 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 where he gives 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 through 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 s i s archives i become quite a friend of mine had 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 than many of 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 attack came through the iberian peninsula came through. 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 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 made can ignore cryptographic machines they can only decode messages if they recognise the chief 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 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 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 doing the pendulum by. bicycle korea's take information to london as soon as it's processed in fact still it quite often receives as many reports decoded leslie as

churchill sometimes he's even the first to get them. to cooperate stone and if europe has come to the conclusion that the rapid campaign against the soviet union business is serious 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. it's notably kim philby think believe that he must be swindled because nobody could get hold of it there and it's got his eyes and even his and some appear to britain to follow him or. to try him making contact with the british deceivers who are deceiving his every. 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 stalin to operation citadel plans german advance against course the largest trying to battle of world war two would involve twelve hundred francs in a head on crash having been given the funds morning soviet troops mount 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 treat. we're still got it you also 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 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 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 but really was the greater part of the services resources and be devoted to the protection 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 less than six months the soviet agent becomes head of the division . of threats in other words he's the person who is in a position to look at everything that we know. what the soviet union and soviet intelligence is doing. and the conflicts that it has with people in the

communist party so vast was an extraordinary achievement. by a twist of fate filled. in for an award for his services to britain during world war two the queen personally decorates him with the most excellent order of the british empire the career of the intelligence officer continues to rise to become one of the candidates for the post of head of m i six the highest ranking british intelligence. wealthy british style. that's not on. the. market. find out what's really happening to the global economy for a no holds barred look at the global financial headline news to report on our.

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 saboteurs were regularly dropped into 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. washington is to wartime

soviet codes. kim philby looks on as the americans pinpoint the source leaking intelligence about the development of the 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 turns out that the soviet union had created an exact replica when the americans eventually secret pursuit of youth radio grams they learned that the nuclear leak had originated in the british embassy the circle begins to narrow field he finds a soviet agent donald mclean on a list of suspects he. blood's. partly to protect himself because he didn't know much 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 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 bird is go back and alert him but do not affect yourself because it'll bring out attention to me here in the united states what horrifies filmy is that this goes well and we're just promised him that he wouldn't go as well and from that moment on woods philby is on the 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 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

a 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 play he would say i condominium not just a coincidence and he stonewalled block. the investigators a lot of words interrogators a lover's 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 is closed he's fine from his job at the intelligence service in nine hundred fifty five in washington insists that the case. be reopened the media using a cop rule 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 we're back but no i 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 where he officially works the reporter for the observer and the economist. are covering. their door egypt. most of the time are traveling 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 could help soviet agents to defect. but nobody musters enough courage to ask the question point blank however the curiosity

of peace times wife eventually gets the better of her. we're going out drinking a lot and she turned to him and said are you really the man. he said what would you do if you have a great friend of yours who is going to get into trouble remarry a lot as your country. alter your friendship and so you really gave it away. it's not until nine hundred sixty two with a gemini 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 a russian agent up to one hundred forty six great. and so on but not after nine forty six and elliott and m i six believe that they are actually the head of m i

five and the head of a by six joint three private letter to the head of the f.b.i. j. edgar hoover saying we believe will be has told the truth and only worked for the russians until ninety forty six the few days later when phil green leaves russia they realize the payroll 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 set foot on soviet soil will be spent his fifty first winter in moscow. is surrounded with care and attention and secrecy. in the us as an englishman becomes comrade under a few other bitch emotions. 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 being the apartment of the foreign service offices he had stage of the people to carry on these everywhere you want to go to the bolshoi i think it's one rod and one of the table restaurant was done for. philby enjoys the perks but he's aching 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 sticker ration . 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 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 kim coles other 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 a basic 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 cam's junior but she succumbs to his english charm came proposes to her after just a couple of dates. and she told me right away he wanted to take me to siberia. i thought it was

a funny proposal was not to pay anyone would laugh at the prospect of spending one's honeymoon in siberia they'd let it fly go into exile. they travel a lot together both across the vast soviet union and in several socialist countries . gary or 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. once we try to buy goods we were told each of us was entitle 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 she complied that was our joint victory.

while living in the soviet union will be mrs some of the home comforts of england. be set aside a special funds to pay for them. and oh you know. before each trip to denmark i would see the head of the intelligence department to get his permission your wife thousand dollars worth of goods for a field or for oxford troop paste tweed jackets and of course whiskey or some of his favorite things if you were. 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 grateful audience on the operations of the british intelligence service and teaches them how to analyze political events. but stated with 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 a turned out it was contained in the pope's recent circular matter 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 what it really was a great analyst and scholar business school or phillip knightley is the only western journalist to be allowed to see can fill the the opportunity comes only in one thousand nine hundred eighty eight when perestroika is the order of the day nightly 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. didn't understand. only a story of a. long back to mean i'm

a complete rubbish how can i be unhappy. i'm going to run. i've got one for colleagues not only in moscow but. wherever i go i wanted to be buried in a fair bit of the country which i considered three my own country ever since nineteen thirty and 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 ought to have a good. i don't get the she once told me she wanted to become an orchestra conductor that classical music inspires him she always won his arms while listening to it. we often listened to frank sinatra's my way together that.

kim's life his character and his aspirations for in harmony with that song. and the. soil. of fine. 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 phil great to them only an englishman could be a man of such stature and such integrity. in the long run when you use the contribution to the intelligence who was. a major player people don't forget who kim philby is here we are talking about of me died in one thousand eighty eight and they still talk about him us as he had his own immortality did.

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