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 w

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 the students they can all mix with the most radical thug act in cambridge in the twenty's and that love mark the economics with being this go. 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 to help smuggle just grazed communists out of the country. sunny's cheyanne first sights looks nonassertive he's a typical bookworm he's reached to gazing for some nosy further 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 agents arnold village after his first encounter with kim philb

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

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