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Mar 24, 2022 · Revealed as I read and re-read Kim’s musings from behind the iron curtain was a man of contradiction, in turn pensive and flippant, mundane and profound. My enduring fascination with espionage...
May 12, 2015 · Learn more about Great on Kindle, available in select categories. View Kindle Edition. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The epic true story of Kim Philby, the Cold War’s most infamous spy, from the “master storyteller” (San Francisco Chronicle) and author of Prisoners of the Castle.
Jan 30, 2023 · 30 Jan 2023. Soviet Spy Kim Philby. Harold Adrian Russell ‘Kim’ Philby was a British intelligence officer who rose to the top of MI6 while working as a double agent for the Soviet Union – and thus one of the most successful Soviet spies of the 20th century. In 1963 he was revealed to be a member of the ‘Cambridge Five’, a spy ring ...
Apr 4, 2016 · LONDON — Kim Philby, the double agent whose betrayal of his country to the Soviet Union still marks British life, boasted in a 1981 lecture that was recently discovered by the BBC and broadcast ...
Jul 27, 2014 · Kim Philby rose through the ranks of British intelligence. There was even talk of him becoming head of MI6. He was loved and admired by his colleagues, and he was a Soviet agent.
Jul 20, 2014 · Malcolm Gladwell on trust and paranoia among spies. Ben Macintyre’s “A Spy Among Friends” shows how Kim Philby’s high-level treason devastated Western intelligence.
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Apr 1, 2021 · Written from Moscow in 1967, My Silent War shook the world and introduced a new archetype in fiction: the unrepentant spy. It inspired John Le Carre's Smiley novels and the later espionage novels of Graham Greene. Kim Philby was history's most successful spy.
