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Kim Philby, , . By the end of the Second World War he had become a high-ranking member. Were working to restore it. In the same interview, she confirmed that Philby was a heavy drinker when they first met, but later became sober. He had been ordered to investigate Maclean, another double agent who had been passing British secrets to the Soviets. Now Josephine, the eldest of his five children, has described how his family coped with the aftermath of a betrayal that shocked the nation. 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[34], During 194243, Philby's responsibilities were then expanded to include North Africa and Italy, and he was made the deputy head of Section Five under Major Felix Cowgill, an army officer seconded to SIS. He reported to the Soviet NKVD from the Spanish civil war under the guise of a correspondent for the Times, and in 1940 joined the Secret Intelligence Service (SIS, or MI6), becoming a double agent and passing many secrets to the Kremlin. To the frequent question, ''No relation, I hope? [43][pageneeded] Clearly there had been leaks and Philby was later suspected as one of the leakers. Harold Adrian Russell "Kim" Philby ORB, OL ODN (1 January 1912 11 May 1988)[1] was a British intelligence officer and a double agent for the Soviet Union. Melinda returned to Donald, but two years later moved to her own apartment. Director Susan Johnson Writers Kara Holden (screenplay by) Caren Lissner (based on the novel by) Stars Bel Powley Nathan Lane Scott Keiji Takeda See production, box office & company info Watch on Netflix Harold Adrian Russell Philby, ; 1 1912, , 11 1988, ) . Chicago-born Melinda, whom he married in France in 1940, knew all along that Donald was a spy. BROWN:: St. John Philby was born in Ceylon, then a part of the British Empire, very typically English ruling-class family, military background, senior military appointments and one of the colonists who went out to build the coffee industry in Ceylon at the turn of the century.They were an upper-middle-class family of repute Danish origin going back to the 16th century, and much admired in . After Philby defected to the Soviet Union in 1963, Eleanor visited him in Moscow. Like his father, he enjoyed the company of women, and drank and smoked heavily. This statement was underlined twice in red and marked with two question marks, clearly indicating their confusion and questioning of this, by disbelieving staff at Moscow Central in the Lubyanka, according to Genrikh Borovik, who saw the telegrams much later in the KGB archives. [62], In Lebanon, Philby at first lived in Mahalla Jamil, his father's large household located in the village of Ajaltoun, just outside Beirut. Philby confirmed that he had worked for the KGB and that "his purpose in life was to destroy imperialism".[80]. [81] In the book, Philby says that his loyalties were always with the communists; he considered himself not to have been a double agent but "a straight penetration agent working in the Soviet interest". [54][61] There, his journalism served as cover for renewed work for MI6. He and Aileen were married on 25 September 1946, while Aileen was pregnant with their fourth child, Miranda. His mother, Dora nee Johnston, was his father's first wife. [66] She recalled returning home to Beirut from a sight-seeing trip in Jordan to find Philby "hopelessly drunk and incoherent with grief on the terrace of the flat," mourning the death of a little pet fox which had fallen from the balcony. [65] Nicholas Elliott, an MI6 officer recently stationed in Beirut who was a friend of Philby's and had previously believed in his innocence, was tasked with attempting to secure Philby's full confession. However, Pukhova said the fear that she would leave had helped her husband temper his intake in later years. Harry St John Bridger Philby Order of the Indian Empire (CIE) (3 April 1885, Badulla, British Ceylon - 30 September 1960, Beirut, Lebanon), also known as Jack Philby or Sheikh Abdullah ( ), was a British Arabist, adviser, explorer, writer, and colonial office intelligence officer. He became more optimistic once the family was deemed fully rehabilitated and they moved to Moscow in 1955. Pierre-Charles Path est un journaliste franais n le 9 juillet 1910 Boulogne-sur-Mer et mort le 14 novembre 1997 1 Villejuif. Fergie is horrified that [Donald] might have done something wrong at the office and the FO will be very angry when he returns. It was a miracle. Burgess had to get to London to warn Maclean, who was under surveillance. Philby died in the city in 1988, 25 years after defecting to the Soviet Union, where he was employed as an occasional consultant to the KGB helping to prepare spies for missions to the west. During his career as an intelligence officer, he passed large amounts of intelligence to the Soviet Union, including a plot to subvert the communist regime of Albania. In 1948, troubled by the heavy drinking and frequent depressions that had become a feature of her husband's life in Istanbul, she experienced a breakdown of this nature, staging an accident and injecting herself with urine and insulin to cause skin disfigurations. He didnt seem to mind that their marriage was over. During the summer of 1945, a Soviet cipher clerk had reused a one-time pad to transmit intelligence traffic. "Once, a big group of us were on a trip on the Volga: Kim and I and, of course, his KGB escort, and the escort's daughter. Jun 27, 2019. JOHN Philby, the eldest son of Soviet spy Kim Philby, who was a double agent and the notorious Third Man in the Cambridge spy ring of the 1930s, has died in England. Then, with no more information to be had, the story of the Macleans went dead. The two-drink tradition remained but in time there was no longer a need to hide the bottle, she added. Philby replied that none had been sent and that none was undergoing training at that time. Two years later, a Sunday Times correspondent was in Moscow and about to pack his bags after an unsuccessful attempt to interview the Soviet leader, Nikita Khrushchev, when, out of the blue, he was invited to a room in his hotel. [89], In 1940, he began living with Aileen Furse in London. [33] Thanks to British counter-intelligence efforts, of which Philby's Iberian subsection formed a significant part, the project (Abwehr code-name Bodden) never came to fruition. On the strength of his knowledge and experience of Franco's Spain, Philby was put in charge of the subsection which dealt with Spain and Portugal. His wife Eleanor joined him in Moscow, and the Philbys and the Macleans spent a lot of time together, going to the ballet or just having dinner and playing bridge. My God, how I despise you now. He was 65. Philby admired the strength of her political convictions and later recalled that at their first meeting: A frank and direct person, Litzi came out and asked me how much money I had. The organization was one of several fronts operated by German communist Willi Mnzenberg, a member of the Reichstag who had fled to France in 1933. Find out where Kim Philby was born, their birthday and details about their professions, education, religion, family and other life details and facts. Eventually, Melinda went back to her home country, the U.S., bringing to an end nearly 40 years of endurance, loyalty and betrayal. But in Russia he is still admired as a hero. In a written statement, they admitted they had been Communists since their Cambridge days and disingenuously described themselves as political refugees, not spies. However, his son told The Telegraph that his fathers contribution to the physical demise of Western intelligence operatives is overstated: there is no information that anyone died as a result of Kim Philbys treachery, he said. Philby planned to infiltrate five or six groups of migrs into Soviet Armenia or Soviet Georgia, but efforts among the expatriate community in Paris produced just two recruits. Volkov's defection had been discussed with the British Embassy in Ankara on telephones which turned out to have been tapped by Soviet intelligence. But such treatment did not last and they were quickly dispatched to the closed city of Kuybyshev, 600 miles east of Moscow far away, they were told, from British assassination squads. In January 1963, having finally been unmasked as a Soviet agent, Philby defected to Moscow, where he lived until his death in 1988. Philby had other less damaging routines: a cup of Russian tea at 7am and English tea with milk at 5pm, drunk from a fine porcelain cup. Philby told the British, after a direct question to Franco, that German troops would never be permitted to cross Spain to attack Gibraltar. [31], Philby's role as an instructor of sabotage agents again brought him to the attention of the Soviet Joint State Political Directorate (OGPU). In our final extract, she secretly joins him behind the Iron Curtain. She was an object of both pity and fascination, and to get away from it all, she moved from their house on the Kent-Surrey border to Switzerland, with her mother. Required to take new names and identities, Maclean chose to be Mark Petrovich Frazer (after the Cambridge anthropologist Sir James Frazer of Golden Bough fame, a 12-volume study of mythology and religion). He also delivered clothes and money to refugees. But it wasnt true. But, after a silence of nearly five years, here was the first actual sighting and confirmation that the runaways were alive. Philby's less attractive personal qualities were matched by a charm to which many of his MI6 colleagues succumbed. From April 1950, Maclean had been the prime suspect in the investigation into the Embassy leak. 00:50 GMT 17 Apr 2018 From 1947, they infiltrated the southern mountains to build support for former King Zog. [58] Another meeting was scheduled to take place in the last week of January. 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