A Spy Among Friends tells the tale the friendship between British spies Kim Philby and Nicholas Elliott. 
In contrast to Blake, Philby and Burgess and to a less extent Maclean suffered from nostalgia for Britain. Rozy Philby, as she was known, had five children, although two died in infancy, a tragedy all too common in the region at that time. In his lifetime, Kim married four times, and had five children by his second wife Aileen Furse. He fled to the Soviet Union in 1963 - walking out on his wife and children He also delivered clothes and money to refugees. Journalist Ben Macintyre, author of several works on espionage, speculated that MI6 might have left open the opportunity for Philby to flee to Moscow to avoid an embarrassing public trial. This turned out to be identical with Barclay's dispatch, convincing the NKVD that Philby had seen the full Barclay report. [38] Nevertheless, Angleton's suspicions went unheard. We searched every corner until Kim suddenly struck himself on the head with his hand, went to a cupboard and brought back the boot. James Angleton and Kim Philby were friends for six years, or so Angleton thought. 
", His habit was fuelled by his sorrow over what he saw around him, she added. Aileen died in 1957, leaving him five children. WebFind out where Kim Philby was born, their birthday and details about their professions, education, religion, family and other life details and facts. His father had a distinguished past as an explorer and fixer for the regions movers and shakers, and any intelligence Kim could pick up through his fathers outstanding contacts would be useful to the bosses in London. Born in 1946, Dudley Tommy Philby is the third of Kims five children with his second of four wives, Aileen Furse Philby. Kim touched many corners of the Empire in his early years, from his birthplace in India to the deserts of the Arabian peninsula to the prestigious schools of England. He was a man of considerable cultural background. Philby occupied himself by writing his memoirs, which were published in the UK in 1968 under the title My Silent War; they were not published in the Soviet Union until 1980. One, Khalid Phiby, would become the UN special representative. Three sons survived and thrived. In July 1951, he resigned from MI6, preempting his all-but-inevitable dismissal.[55]. Most infiltrators were caught by the Sigurimi, the Albanian Security Service. Litzi lived in Paris before returning to London for the duration of the war; she ultimately settled in East Germany. [19] Maly was one of the Soviet Union's most powerful and influential illegal controllers and recruiters. At one point he said to me 'Mike, who is that boy who just won that hundred-yard race. Part of the Family and A Double Life are available now. He fled to the Soviet Union in 1963 - walking out on his wife and children [7][pageneeded], At Cambridge, Philby showed his "leaning towards communism," in the words of his father St John, who went on to write: "The only serious question is whether Kim definitely intended to be disloyal to the government while in its service. [3], On the evening of 23 January 1963, Philby vanished from Beirut, failing to meet his wife for a dinner party at the home of Glencairn Balfour Paul, First Secretary at the British Embassy. The minister told the House of Commons, "I have no reason to conclude that Mr. Philby has at any time betrayed the interests of his country, or to identify him with the so-called 'Third Man', if indeed there was one. Kim Philby drank while Guy Burgess, who was gay, missed his friends in London, including Anthony Blunt whose spying activities, though known to the government, were kept under wraps until they were exposed much later, in 1979. [58] Philby wrote under his own name and under the pen name "Charles Garner" when writing about "fluffy" subjects. At this point, however, Philby and Friedmann separated. ", "John le Carr, The Art of Fiction No. Philby's less attractive personal qualities were matched by a charm to which many of his MI6 colleagues succumbed. Philby himself thought this might have been the case. In her article, published yesterday in British daily The Independent, she describes Kim Philby as a proud man, and one who chose to publicly stand by his actions. He and Pukhova married in 1971, when he was 59 and she was 38. The first three missions, overland from Greece, were trouble-free. He volunteered to confront Philby to obtain a written confession of his espionage. [73] On 30 July, Soviet officials announced that they had granted him political asylum in the USSR, along with Soviet citizenship. It was a proposal to recreate his 1917 trek that changed everything. Kim Philby and Jim Angleton first met at Bletchley Park, in early 1944. Philby found that the award proved helpful in obtaining access to fascist circles: "Before then," he later wrote, "there had been a lot of criticism of British journalists from Franco officers who seemed to think that the British in general must be a lot of Communists because so many were fighting with the International Brigades. He His eldest son was my father, John who was himself a 19-year-old art student in 1963 when he first learnt of Kims espionage; stepping off a ferry on the Isle of Wight, he was met by a billboard stating that Kim was a wanted man. In England in 1963, Nicholas Elliott works for MI6 but is left in turmoil when he learns his close friend and colleague Kim Philby had been secretly working as a double agent for the KGB and has defected to the Soviet Union. Stationed in Istanbul, he was instrumental in the recruitment of Erich Vermehren, who provided the British with detailed confidential information on the workings of German intelligence. After I had been wounded and decorated by Franco himself, I became known as 'the English-decorated-by-Franco' and all sorts of doors opened to me. The situation in Washington was tense. WebSpouse. [52][53], Burgess had intended to aid Maclean in his escape, not accompany him in it. British intelligence officer and Soviet double agent (19121988), Kim Philby, memorandum in Security Service Archives (1963). "[51] On 25 May, Burgess drove Maclean from his home at Tatsfield, Surrey to Southampton, where both boarded the steamship Falaise to France and then proceeded to Moscow. "There was one funny incident," she remembered. Amnesia in Literature and Film [62], In Lebanon, Philby at first lived in Mahalla Jamil, his father's large household located in the village of Ajaltoun, just outside Beirut. It is possible that it was a Viennese-born friend of Friedmann's in London, Edith Tudor Hart herself, at this time, a Soviet agent who first approached Philby about the possibility of working for Soviet intelligence. Philby replied that none had been sent and that none was undergoing training at that time. Elizabeth Holberton. Wages and incomes of the population. His career in secret intelligence came by chance, like many before and after him. Language links are at the top of the page across from the title. In the same interview, she confirmed that Philby was a heavy drinker when they first met, but later became sober. Philby had to help discover the identity of "Homer" but also wished to protect Maclean. [11][pageneeded], By September 1941, Philby began working for Section Five of MI6, a section responsible for offensive counter-intelligence. George Blake, who is still alive, got on well with him than with Philby. The Anglo-German Fellowship, at this time, was supported both by the British and German governments, and Philby made many trips to Berlin. Philby lives in Bristol with her husband and three children. Aileen Philby resented him and disliked his presence; Americans were offended by his "natural superciliousness" and "utter contempt for the whole pyramid of values, attitudes, and courtesies of the American way of life". On 23 May, concerned that Maclean had not yet fled, Philby wired Burgess, ostensibly about his Lincoln convertible abandoned in the Embassy car park. 
Photograph: Daily Mail/Rex Features, MI5missed early chance to expose Soviet agent Kim Philby, files reveal, Charlotte Philby: We visited Kim in Moscow, Love and Deception: Philby in Beirut by James Hanning review the spy who loved, maybe, ASplinter of Ice review Graham Greene and Kim Philby clink glasses, Graham Greenes showdown with Soviet spy Kim Philby: A Splinter of Ice review, KimPhilby: new revelations about spy emerge in secret files, George Blake exemplified the desolation, waste and treachery of the cold war, Moscow names square after British double agent Kim Philby, Athriller of spies and betrayal: by Kim Philbys granddaughter. WebHarold Adrian Russell "Kim" Philby ORB, OL ODN (1 January 1912 11 May 1988) was a British intelligence officer and a double agent for the Soviet Union. Of the five, Philby is believed to have been most successful in providing secret information to the Soviets.[2]. Aileen died of influenza in December 1957. The Soviets, who had reported a diver in trouble near the stern, did not complain but also denied responsibility for Crabb's death. 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. [1], According to author Ben Macintyre, who wrote a book on Philby, it is possible that Philby was allowed to flee to Moscow to avoid an embarrassing trial and records suspicions that a typical British Establishment old boy network had intervened for the mutual convenience of MI6 and Philby. Modrzhinskaya concluded that all were double agents, working essentially for the British. Could they have overlooked Philby's Communist wife?" [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. It would be wrong, also, to think of his grandmother as a stay-at-home wife, Englebach says. We got together in our cabin to discuss our plans. For the Soviets, Philby was an invaluable asset, ensuring the correct use of idiomatic and diplomatic English phrases in their disinformation efforts. Kim touched many corners of the Empire in his early years, from his birthplace in India to the deserts of the Arabian peninsula to the prestigious schools of England. [9][pageneeded]. [14] Philby later recalled: Lizzy came home one evening and told me that she had arranged for me to meet a "man of decisive importance". [1], After leaving Trinity College, Cambridge, Elliott was offered a post in 1938 as Honorary Attache at The Hague by Sir Nevile Bland. She lived separately from Philby, settling with their children in Crowborough while he lived first in London and later in Beirut. John Nicholas Rede Elliott (15 November 1916 13 April 1994) was an MI6 Intelligence Officer. [31], Philby's role as an instructor of sabotage agents again brought him to the attention of the Soviet Joint State Political Directorate (OGPU). Putting real historical characters into a novel is a minefield, especially those who existed within living memory. Nonetheless, the information was publicized in 1967 when Philby granted an interview to Murray Sayle of The Times in Moscow. 
In 1940 he was interviewed by MI5 officers in London, led by Jane Archer. [5] He won a scholarship to Trinity College, Cambridge, where he studied history and economics. Maclean bequeathed Blake his library of books, including Trollope, Macaulay's History of England, Morley's Life of Gladstone, and the Macmillan and Eden memoirs. He became a member of the Anglo-German Fellowship, an organization aiming at rebuilding and supporting a friendly relationship between Germany and the United Kingdom. Philby lives in Bristol with her husband and three children. The new London rezident, Ivan Chichayev (code-name Vadim), re-established contact and asked for a list of names of British agents being trained to enter the Soviet Union. Born in India in the British Raj, his father was the famed explorer St John Philby. Shortly afterward, Philby was moved to the job as chief SIS representative in Washington, D.C., with his family. Aileen Philby had suffered since childhood from psychological problems which caused her to inflict injuries upon herself. In Gabriela and Isobel, Philby develops two fascinating characters who have to face challenges that women the world over will recognise, but rarely get to read about on the page. [87], In a 1981 lecture to the East German security service (the Stasi), Philby attributed the failure of the British Secret Service to unmask him as due in great part to the British class systemit was inconceivable that one "born into the ruling class of the British Empire" would be a traitorto the amateurish and incompetent nature of the organisation, and to so many in MI6 having so much to lose if he was proven to be a spy. In January 1963, having finally been unmasked as a Soviet agent, Philby defected to Moscow, where he lived until his death in 1988. Charlotte Philby, daughter of John Philby, H.A.R. [3] After the war he became head of station for the Secret Intelligence Service at the British Embassy in Bern in 1945 and then head of station in Vienna in 1953. Donald Maclean, although arrogant and someone who liked a drink too, was regarded as more convivial. Charlotte Philby's grandfather was the double agent Kim Philby. [71] However, others maintain that he escaped through Syria, overland to Soviet Armenia and thence to Russia. In 1971, Philby married Rufina Pukhova, a Russo-Polish woman 20 years his junior, with whom he lived until his death in 1988.[5]. [5] He also began working for both the Soviet and British intelligence, which usually consisted of posting letters in a crude code to a fictitious girlfriend, Mlle Dupont in Paris, for the Russians. Interrogated repeatedly regarding his intelligence work and his connection with Burgess, he continued to deny that he had acted as a Soviet agent. He He [4][5], Nicknamed "Kim" after the boy-spy in Rudyard Kipling's novel Kim,[3] Philby attended Aldro preparatory school, an all-boys school located in Shackleford near Godalming in Surrey, England, United Kingdom. No connection with Philby was made at the time, and Krivitsky was found shot in a Washington hotel room the following year. Englebach would visit his grandparents at their London flat at Drayton Gardens in fashionable Chelsea, where Philby was a visitor from Saudi Arabia. WebBefore he was exposed, Philby was the mentor of James Jesus Angleton, one of the central figures in the early years of the CIA who became the long-serving chief of the counter-intelligence staff of the Agency. "Kim said to me, 'I came here totally fully of information, I wanted to give everything I had but no one was interested," explained Pukhova. I was serving the interests of the Soviet Union and those interests required that these men were defeated. Kim Philby was a man of the British Empire. WebBefore he was exposed, Philby was the mentor of James Jesus Angleton, one of the central figures in the early years of the CIA who became the long-serving chief of the counter-intelligence staff of the Agency. He married Aileen Furse a week later. His own comment was "I do not say that people were happy under the regime but the CIA underestimated the degree of control that the Authorities had over the country. John Nicholas Rede Elliott (15 November 1916 13 April 1994) was an MI6 Intelligence Officer. By the time he arrived in Turkey, three weeks later, Volkov had been removed to Moscow. Angleton remained suspicious of Philby, but lunched with him every week in Washington. [83] Philby claimed publicly in January 1988 that he did not regret his decisions and that he missed nothing about England except some friends, Colman's mustard and Lea & Perrins Worcestershire sauce. During the Phoney War from September 1939 until the Dunkirk evacuation, Philby worked as The Times' first-hand correspondent with the British Expeditionary Force headquarters. His father had a distinguished past as an explorer and fixer for the regions movers and shakers, and any intelligence Kim could pick up through his fathers outstanding contacts would be useful to the bosses in London. [84] Despite reports to the contrary, Philby's wife claimed in a 1997 interview that the idea of Philby becoming depressed and destitute in Moscow was "a myth". At the same time, Burgess was trying to get her into MI6. A Double Life is a wonderful novel. Holly Watt, winner of "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. [11][pageneeded], Philby provided Stalin with advance warning of Operation Barbarossa and of the Japanese intention to strike into southeast Asia instead of attacking the Soviet Union as Hitler had urged. Officially, his post was that of First Secretary to the British Embassy; in reality, he served as chief British intelligence representative in Washington. You can give that to the International Organisation for Aid for Revolutionaries. Born in 1946, Dudley Tommy Philby is the third of Kims five children with his second of four wives, Aileen Furse Philby. Then they were enemies for the rest of their lives. [47], Burgess, who had been given a post as Second Secretary at the British Embassy, took up residence in the Philby family home and rapidly set about causing offence to all and sundry. She has three children and lives in London. The NKVD complained to Cecil Barclay, the SIS representative in Moscow, that information had been withheld. It was published by Casterman in 2015, One of the earliest appearances of Philby as a character in fiction was in the 1974, In the 1987 adaptation of the novel, also named, Philby appears as one of the central antagonists in, Under the cover name of 'Mowgli' Philby appears in, Philby was the inspiration for the character of British intelligence officer Archibald "Arch" Cummings in the 2006 film, The song "Angleton", by Russian indie rock band, This page was last edited on 5 April 2023, at 12:15. United Kingdom. "[18], Philby continued to live in the United Kingdom with his wife for several years. Elliott, however, felt he could not have prevented Philby's flight. In December 1937, during the Battle of Teruel, a Republican shell hit just in front of the car in which Philby was travelling with the correspondents Edward J. Neil of the Associated Press, Bradish Johnson of Newsweek, and Ernest Sheepshanks[21] of Reuters. 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In contrast to Blake, Philby and Burgess and to a less extent Maclean suffered from nostalgia for Britain. Rozy Philby, as she was known, had five children, although two died in infancy, a tragedy all too common in the region at that time. In his lifetime, Kim married four times, and had five children by his second wife Aileen Furse. He fled to the Soviet Union in 1963 - walking out on his wife and children He also delivered clothes and money to refugees. Journalist Ben Macintyre, author of several works on espionage, speculated that MI6 might have left open the opportunity for Philby to flee to Moscow to avoid an embarrassing public trial. This turned out to be identical with Barclay's dispatch, convincing the NKVD that Philby had seen the full Barclay report. [38] Nevertheless, Angleton's suspicions went unheard. We searched every corner until Kim suddenly struck himself on the head with his hand, went to a cupboard and brought back the boot. James Angleton and Kim Philby were friends for six years, or so Angleton thought. ", His habit was fuelled by his sorrow over what he saw around him, she added. Aileen died in 1957, leaving him five children. WebFind out where Kim Philby was born, their birthday and details about their professions, education, religion, family and other life details and facts. His father had a distinguished past as an explorer and fixer for the regions movers and shakers, and any intelligence Kim could pick up through his fathers outstanding contacts would be useful to the bosses in London. Born in 1946, Dudley Tommy Philby is the third of Kims five children with his second of four wives, Aileen Furse Philby. Kim touched many corners of the Empire in his early years, from his birthplace in India to the deserts of the Arabian peninsula to the prestigious schools of England. He was a man of considerable cultural background. Philby occupied himself by writing his memoirs, which were published in the UK in 1968 under the title My Silent War; they were not published in the Soviet Union until 1980. One, Khalid Phiby, would become the UN special representative. Three sons survived and thrived. In July 1951, he resigned from MI6, preempting his all-but-inevitable dismissal.[55]. Most infiltrators were caught by the Sigurimi, the Albanian Security Service. Litzi lived in Paris before returning to London for the duration of the war; she ultimately settled in East Germany. [19] Maly was one of the Soviet Union's most powerful and influential illegal controllers and recruiters. At one point he said to me 'Mike, who is that boy who just won that hundred-yard race. Part of the Family and A Double Life are available now. He fled to the Soviet Union in 1963 - walking out on his wife and children [7][pageneeded], At Cambridge, Philby showed his "leaning towards communism," in the words of his father St John, who went on to write: "The only serious question is whether Kim definitely intended to be disloyal to the government while in its service. [3], On the evening of 23 January 1963, Philby vanished from Beirut, failing to meet his wife for a dinner party at the home of Glencairn Balfour Paul, First Secretary at the British Embassy. The minister told the House of Commons, "I have no reason to conclude that Mr. Philby has at any time betrayed the interests of his country, or to identify him with the so-called 'Third Man', if indeed there was one. Kim Philby drank while Guy Burgess, who was gay, missed his friends in London, including Anthony Blunt whose spying activities, though known to the government, were kept under wraps until they were exposed much later, in 1979. [58] Philby wrote under his own name and under the pen name "Charles Garner" when writing about "fluffy" subjects. At this point, however, Philby and Friedmann separated. ", "John le Carr, The Art of Fiction No. Philby's less attractive personal qualities were matched by a charm to which many of his MI6 colleagues succumbed. Philby himself thought this might have been the case. In her article, published yesterday in British daily The Independent, she describes Kim Philby as a proud man, and one who chose to publicly stand by his actions. He and Pukhova married in 1971, when he was 59 and she was 38. The first three missions, overland from Greece, were trouble-free. He volunteered to confront Philby to obtain a written confession of his espionage. [73] On 30 July, Soviet officials announced that they had granted him political asylum in the USSR, along with Soviet citizenship. It was a proposal to recreate his 1917 trek that changed everything. Kim Philby and Jim Angleton first met at Bletchley Park, in early 1944. Philby found that the award proved helpful in obtaining access to fascist circles: "Before then," he later wrote, "there had been a lot of criticism of British journalists from Franco officers who seemed to think that the British in general must be a lot of Communists because so many were fighting with the International Brigades. He His eldest son was my father, John who was himself a 19-year-old art student in 1963 when he first learnt of Kims espionage; stepping off a ferry on the Isle of Wight, he was met by a billboard stating that Kim was a wanted man. In England in 1963, Nicholas Elliott works for MI6 but is left in turmoil when he learns his close friend and colleague Kim Philby had been secretly working as a double agent for the KGB and has defected to the Soviet Union. Stationed in Istanbul, he was instrumental in the recruitment of Erich Vermehren, who provided the British with detailed confidential information on the workings of German intelligence. After I had been wounded and decorated by Franco himself, I became known as 'the English-decorated-by-Franco' and all sorts of doors opened to me. The situation in Washington was tense. WebSpouse. [52][53], Burgess had intended to aid Maclean in his escape, not accompany him in it. British intelligence officer and Soviet double agent (19121988), Kim Philby, memorandum in Security Service Archives (1963). "[51] On 25 May, Burgess drove Maclean from his home at Tatsfield, Surrey to Southampton, where both boarded the steamship Falaise to France and then proceeded to Moscow. "There was one funny incident," she remembered. Amnesia in Literature and Film [62], In Lebanon, Philby at first lived in Mahalla Jamil, his father's large household located in the village of Ajaltoun, just outside Beirut. It is possible that it was a Viennese-born friend of Friedmann's in London, Edith Tudor Hart herself, at this time, a Soviet agent who first approached Philby about the possibility of working for Soviet intelligence. Philby replied that none had been sent and that none was undergoing training at that time. Elizabeth Holberton. Wages and incomes of the population. His career in secret intelligence came by chance, like many before and after him. Language links are at the top of the page across from the title. In the same interview, she confirmed that Philby was a heavy drinker when they first met, but later became sober. Philby had to help discover the identity of "Homer" but also wished to protect Maclean. [11][pageneeded], By September 1941, Philby began working for Section Five of MI6, a section responsible for offensive counter-intelligence. George Blake, who is still alive, got on well with him than with Philby. The Anglo-German Fellowship, at this time, was supported both by the British and German governments, and Philby made many trips to Berlin. Philby lives in Bristol with her husband and three children. Aileen Philby resented him and disliked his presence; Americans were offended by his "natural superciliousness" and "utter contempt for the whole pyramid of values, attitudes, and courtesies of the American way of life". On 23 May, concerned that Maclean had not yet fled, Philby wired Burgess, ostensibly about his Lincoln convertible abandoned in the Embassy car park. Photograph: Daily Mail/Rex Features, MI5missed early chance to expose Soviet agent Kim Philby, files reveal, Charlotte Philby: We visited Kim in Moscow, Love and Deception: Philby in Beirut by James Hanning review the spy who loved, maybe, ASplinter of Ice review Graham Greene and Kim Philby clink glasses, Graham Greenes showdown with Soviet spy Kim Philby: A Splinter of Ice review, KimPhilby: new revelations about spy emerge in secret files, George Blake exemplified the desolation, waste and treachery of the cold war, Moscow names square after British double agent Kim Philby, Athriller of spies and betrayal: by Kim Philbys granddaughter. WebHarold Adrian Russell "Kim" Philby ORB, OL ODN (1 January 1912 11 May 1988) was a British intelligence officer and a double agent for the Soviet Union. Of the five, Philby is believed to have been most successful in providing secret information to the Soviets.[2]. Aileen died of influenza in December 1957. The Soviets, who had reported a diver in trouble near the stern, did not complain but also denied responsibility for Crabb's death. 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. [1], According to author Ben Macintyre, who wrote a book on Philby, it is possible that Philby was allowed to flee to Moscow to avoid an embarrassing trial and records suspicions that a typical British Establishment old boy network had intervened for the mutual convenience of MI6 and Philby. Modrzhinskaya concluded that all were double agents, working essentially for the British. Could they have overlooked Philby's Communist wife?" [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. It would be wrong, also, to think of his grandmother as a stay-at-home wife, Englebach says. We got together in our cabin to discuss our plans. For the Soviets, Philby was an invaluable asset, ensuring the correct use of idiomatic and diplomatic English phrases in their disinformation efforts. Kim touched many corners of the Empire in his early years, from his birthplace in India to the deserts of the Arabian peninsula to the prestigious schools of England. [9][pageneeded]. [14] Philby later recalled: Lizzy came home one evening and told me that she had arranged for me to meet a "man of decisive importance". [1], After leaving Trinity College, Cambridge, Elliott was offered a post in 1938 as Honorary Attache at The Hague by Sir Nevile Bland. She lived separately from Philby, settling with their children in Crowborough while he lived first in London and later in Beirut. John Nicholas Rede Elliott (15 November 1916 13 April 1994) was an MI6 Intelligence Officer. [31], Philby's role as an instructor of sabotage agents again brought him to the attention of the Soviet Joint State Political Directorate (OGPU). Putting real historical characters into a novel is a minefield, especially those who existed within living memory. Nonetheless, the information was publicized in 1967 when Philby granted an interview to Murray Sayle of The Times in Moscow. In 1940 he was interviewed by MI5 officers in London, led by Jane Archer. [5] He won a scholarship to Trinity College, Cambridge, where he studied history and economics. Maclean bequeathed Blake his library of books, including Trollope, Macaulay's History of England, Morley's Life of Gladstone, and the Macmillan and Eden memoirs. He became a member of the Anglo-German Fellowship, an organization aiming at rebuilding and supporting a friendly relationship between Germany and the United Kingdom. Philby lives in Bristol with her husband and three children. The new London rezident, Ivan Chichayev (code-name Vadim), re-established contact and asked for a list of names of British agents being trained to enter the Soviet Union. Born in India in the British Raj, his father was the famed explorer St John Philby. Shortly afterward, Philby was moved to the job as chief SIS representative in Washington, D.C., with his family. Aileen Philby had suffered since childhood from psychological problems which caused her to inflict injuries upon herself. In Gabriela and Isobel, Philby develops two fascinating characters who have to face challenges that women the world over will recognise, but rarely get to read about on the page. [87], In a 1981 lecture to the East German security service (the Stasi), Philby attributed the failure of the British Secret Service to unmask him as due in great part to the British class systemit was inconceivable that one "born into the ruling class of the British Empire" would be a traitorto the amateurish and incompetent nature of the organisation, and to so many in MI6 having so much to lose if he was proven to be a spy. In January 1963, having finally been unmasked as a Soviet agent, Philby defected to Moscow, where he lived until his death in 1988. Charlotte Philby, daughter of John Philby, H.A.R. [3] After the war he became head of station for the Secret Intelligence Service at the British Embassy in Bern in 1945 and then head of station in Vienna in 1953. Donald Maclean, although arrogant and someone who liked a drink too, was regarded as more convivial. Charlotte Philby's grandfather was the double agent Kim Philby. [71] However, others maintain that he escaped through Syria, overland to Soviet Armenia and thence to Russia. In 1971, Philby married Rufina Pukhova, a Russo-Polish woman 20 years his junior, with whom he lived until his death in 1988.[5]. [5] He also began working for both the Soviet and British intelligence, which usually consisted of posting letters in a crude code to a fictitious girlfriend, Mlle Dupont in Paris, for the Russians. Interrogated repeatedly regarding his intelligence work and his connection with Burgess, he continued to deny that he had acted as a Soviet agent. He He [4][5], Nicknamed "Kim" after the boy-spy in Rudyard Kipling's novel Kim,[3] Philby attended Aldro preparatory school, an all-boys school located in Shackleford near Godalming in Surrey, England, United Kingdom. No connection with Philby was made at the time, and Krivitsky was found shot in a Washington hotel room the following year. Englebach would visit his grandparents at their London flat at Drayton Gardens in fashionable Chelsea, where Philby was a visitor from Saudi Arabia. WebBefore he was exposed, Philby was the mentor of James Jesus Angleton, one of the central figures in the early years of the CIA who became the long-serving chief of the counter-intelligence staff of the Agency. "Kim said to me, 'I came here totally fully of information, I wanted to give everything I had but no one was interested," explained Pukhova. I was serving the interests of the Soviet Union and those interests required that these men were defeated. Kim Philby was a man of the British Empire. WebBefore he was exposed, Philby was the mentor of James Jesus Angleton, one of the central figures in the early years of the CIA who became the long-serving chief of the counter-intelligence staff of the Agency. He married Aileen Furse a week later. His own comment was "I do not say that people were happy under the regime but the CIA underestimated the degree of control that the Authorities had over the country. John Nicholas Rede Elliott (15 November 1916 13 April 1994) was an MI6 Intelligence Officer. By the time he arrived in Turkey, three weeks later, Volkov had been removed to Moscow. Angleton remained suspicious of Philby, but lunched with him every week in Washington. [83] Philby claimed publicly in January 1988 that he did not regret his decisions and that he missed nothing about England except some friends, Colman's mustard and Lea & Perrins Worcestershire sauce. During the Phoney War from September 1939 until the Dunkirk evacuation, Philby worked as The Times' first-hand correspondent with the British Expeditionary Force headquarters. His father had a distinguished past as an explorer and fixer for the regions movers and shakers, and any intelligence Kim could pick up through his fathers outstanding contacts would be useful to the bosses in London. [84] Despite reports to the contrary, Philby's wife claimed in a 1997 interview that the idea of Philby becoming depressed and destitute in Moscow was "a myth". At the same time, Burgess was trying to get her into MI6. A Double Life is a wonderful novel. Holly Watt, winner of "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. [11][pageneeded], Philby provided Stalin with advance warning of Operation Barbarossa and of the Japanese intention to strike into southeast Asia instead of attacking the Soviet Union as Hitler had urged. Officially, his post was that of First Secretary to the British Embassy; in reality, he served as chief British intelligence representative in Washington. You can give that to the International Organisation for Aid for Revolutionaries. Born in 1946, Dudley Tommy Philby is the third of Kims five children with his second of four wives, Aileen Furse Philby. Then they were enemies for the rest of their lives. [47], Burgess, who had been given a post as Second Secretary at the British Embassy, took up residence in the Philby family home and rapidly set about causing offence to all and sundry. She has three children and lives in London. The NKVD complained to Cecil Barclay, the SIS representative in Moscow, that information had been withheld. It was published by Casterman in 2015, One of the earliest appearances of Philby as a character in fiction was in the 1974, In the 1987 adaptation of the novel, also named, Philby appears as one of the central antagonists in, Under the cover name of 'Mowgli' Philby appears in, Philby was the inspiration for the character of British intelligence officer Archibald "Arch" Cummings in the 2006 film, The song "Angleton", by Russian indie rock band, This page was last edited on 5 April 2023, at 12:15. United Kingdom. "[18], Philby continued to live in the United Kingdom with his wife for several years. Elliott, however, felt he could not have prevented Philby's flight. In December 1937, during the Battle of Teruel, a Republican shell hit just in front of the car in which Philby was travelling with the correspondents Edward J. Neil of the Associated Press, Bradish Johnson of Newsweek, and Ernest Sheepshanks[21] of Reuters. 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