George Blake, who is still alive, got on well with him than with Philby. Hardcover. Donald is well and happy to be with his family again. The committee is serving as the unwitting instrument of the KGB." Kim Philby was a high-ranking member of British intelligence who worked as a double agent before defecting to Soviet Union in 1963. She has three children and lives in London. Of course, he made bold and hugely controversial decisions, some of which had fatal consequences, but he didnt do so lightly. En route, I pass some of Kims old haunts, and heeding his advice to visitors If you can no longer feel your nose, go inside stop off briefly for coffee at that famous Soviet hangout the Hotel Metropole. The central post office, where Kim would come every morning to pick up his mail and a stack of British and American newspapers, stands halfway up on the left. Part of the Daily Mail, The Mail on Sunday & Metro Media Group. She is also the granddaughter of, MI5missed early chance to expose Soviet agent Kim Philby, files reveal, 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. Eleanor Philby. Lets have another drink on it, old man. Good old Kim. I would like to have drawn Bennett further on his comments, but unfortunately, when I contacted his agent to request a meeting, my invitation was declined. Perhaps. They met each other socially but soon fell out. He betrayed his country yes, perhaps he did, Greene continues, but who among us has not committed treason to something or someone more important than a country? But whether that came with any sense of self-pity is something else entirely. 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. 1957Aileen Furse, Philbys second wife, dies. But above all, the problem was that Kims intelligence was too good, and to their detriment intelligence services are geared to believe that the better information is, the more it should be questioned. As I step in from the balcony, my eyes settle on a single point. Here, surrounded by an extensive library, he would sit for hours. Kims library, which he had shipped over soon after he emerged in the Soviet Union, is testimony to his complexities and to his contradictions: across four walls of bookshelves, Russian classics and key Communist texts stand side by side with Raymond Chandler and PG Wodehouse novels; there are 19 volumes of Cambridge Modern History and a Sherlock Holmes scrapbook. By the time she left Russia, Maclean was in his final decline, in and out of hospital with cancer from his lifetime of smoking. A large amount of the letters in the book are lifted verbatim from those. 1949Made SIS representative in Washington. In our final extract, she secretly joins him behind the Iron Curtain. One of Kims old KGB comrades, whom Id been in contact with during the course of my research for this article, told me that a gang of five or six of Kims former colleagues still meet up every month and raise a toast in his honour. He never promised to give up, but once, completely unexpectedly, he suddenly said, 'I'm afraid I'm going to lose you, I'm not going to drink any more.' The colourful characters of spymaster Gertrude Bell (the first female officer in the British Army), the legendary "Lawrence of Arabia," and the astute traitor St. John Philby (father of the notorious KGB double-spy Kim Philby) are all so dynamic that their heroics are hard to believe, but nevertheless true and soundly researched by a perceptive . They're at it again! Joins Cambridge University Socialist Society. "I said something to the escort and he just stayed silent, sitting, leafing through his magazine. Part of the Family and A Double Life are available now. Which author do you most admire?I dont have favourites, but I love Helen Dunmore. He was able to order new books from Bowes & Bowes bookshop in Cambridge, who checked with MI5 whether they should be supplying him. Prince Harry drops 45 points and Meghan Markle 36 points in just over a month in US public opinion poll Sadiq Khan faces furious backlash over plans for biggest transport and council tax rises in a decade as James Martin warns This Morning viewers why they should NEVER store their eggs in the fridge. Did you feel that as you uncovered her story?I feel a huge amount of sympathy for her situation, and admiration, really. He claimed he made the admission to her to excuse his lateness for their meetings when he was busy handling documents and rendezvousing with his Soviet handler. Kim even duped his own children, and left them behind when he fled to Moscow. Melinda translated Russian stories into English for the weekly English paper, Moscow News. There have been endless attempts to understand how this gregarious, public-school educated English chap and his fellow Cambridge spies could have been persuaded to betray their country, and dupe their family and their friends. Maclean was unsure how to act, feeling a mixture of guilt and love, not knowing where he stood with the children he had abandoned and not been able to contact. I remember Kims words: I have followed exactly the same line the whole of my adult life. A plaque in his honour was unveiled by the head of the foreign intelligence service at its headquarters in Moscow in December. To order A Spy Among Friends or Kim Philby, each at 14.99 with free UK p&p, call Guardian book service on 0330 333 6846 or go to guardianbookshop.co.uk. Elliott was born in London, the son of Claude Aurelius Elliott, a don at Cambridge and Headmaster at Eton, where Nicholas was sent after Durnford School, a prep school on the Isle of Purbeck in Dorset.. After leaving Trinity College, Cambridge, Elliott was offered a post in 1938 as Honorary Attache at the Hague by Sir Nevile Bland.His career in secret intelligence came by chance . 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). But as the months turned into years and no word came from him, she sank into depression at the realisation that she was now bringing up their children alone. Theirs had always been a stormy marriage, punctuated by bad behaviour on both sides and terrible rows. Perhaps he hadnt always been right. Once hed gone, she rode out the public furore, the door-stepping journalists, the MI5 questioning, the abuse and insinuations, the bullying of her sons at school. The spy who beat his wife: The tall, charming and Russian pro-war fanatic warns Britain could be 'wiped off the map'. Opposites attracted. We searched every corner until Kim suddenly struck himself on the head with his hand, went to a cupboard and brought back the boot. Required fields are marked *. In fact, he had arrived in Moscow days earlier, and can be seen on film standing just back from his fathers coffin. The Soviet authorities buried him with honors when he died in 1988. Then, with no more information to be had, the story of the Macleans went dead. When I happened upon the story of Edith Tudor-Hart, I knew that she was the person I had to write about. Philby's work led to the deaths of dozens of British agents, making him a reviled traitor once he was exposed in Britain. 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. Philby is summoned for interrogation and asked to resign from Foreign Service. . She liked it that he was a man with strong beliefs, and agreed to stand by him. Jeremy Hunt is mocked over toe-curling 'inflation explainer' video by ordering How much will YOUR broadband go up in price? No doubt your grandfather would have disapproved of the sharp contrasts in present-day Russia, he said. While working as a senior member of British intelligence, he spied on behalf of the Soviet KGB and NKVD from the early 1930s until 1963, when he defected to Moscow. Rather than angrily confront Philby, the American stated he would ask with considerable satisfaction, "How do . In this article for The Independent Magazine, I returned to Moscow to discover the truth about my grandfather, the infamous Third Man. Burgess did not cope well. His eldest son was my father, John - who was himself a 19-year-old art student in 1963 when he first learnt of Kim's espionage; stepping off a ferry on the Isle of Wight, he was met by a billboard stating that Kim was a wanted man. In a written statement, they admitted they had been Communists since their Cambridge days and disingenuously described themselves as political refugees, not spies. He would say we and our when speaking of the Soviet Union and defended his adopted countrys brutal crushing of the Hungarian Uprising in 1956 an event that disgusted many Left-wing supporters back in the UK. Her fourth novel, Edith and Kim, tells the linked stories of her grandfather and Edith Tudor-Hart, a Jewish photojournalist born in Vienna, who studied at the Bauhaus, married an Englishman,. Perhaps its too early to judge; after all, Communism, according to its followers, is the final epoch, inevitable only once all other systems have eaten themselves which, of course, they will. She was incredibly brave, incredibly loyal; she was completely faithful to the things she loved and believed in, and she had a firm belief that she had to do the right thing. Where do you write?I wrote Edith and Kim all over the place because weve been in the process of moving house for the past couple of years, but now I have a shed at the bottom of our garden where I can feel Im in the middle of nowhere, and Im never leaving! Philby lives in Bristol with her husband and three children. Heads to Vienna to serve the movement there. Online calculator reveals how inflation-busting 14.4% hike will Do not sell or share my personal information. Philby exposed. Despite the number of times we visited Kim in Moscow, no one in the family was ever allowed to have his address. It was a miracle. Kim Philbys oldest son, has penned an extensive account of her memories of her grandfather. In his lifetime, Kim married four times, and had five children by his second wife Aileen Furse. Thanks Darryl.I live in Australia. Little Donald said perhaps he had gone to India because that would be a good place to hide., Donald Maclean with his wife Melinda Marling and his two sons Ronald and Fergus in the 50s, Wanted pictures are posted at a Berlin checkpoint for Donald Maclean and Guy Burgess, Guy Burgess (pictured) did not cope well to life in the Soviet Union - he got drunk and roamed Kuybyshev looking for action, on one occasion having his teeth knocked out in a brawl. They even had a dacha a country cottage 20 miles from Moscow where the children could swim, fish, bicycle and forage for mushrooms. You should have seen his face.". Burgess predeceased him by 20 years, carried off by angina, an abused liver and hardening of the arteries. document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); The Philby case has always fascinated me. And all along he was handing information straight back into the hands of the Russians. Kim Philby: new revelations about spy emerge in secret files UK government launched campaign to block memoirs being published fearing damaging disclosures Kim Philby had been secretly. The gramophone, in front of which Kim would take a seat to listen to the World Service at 7pm every evening with a cup of coffee, makes a tremendous groan as it comes to life, but its still very much in working nick. How easy did you find it to capture Kims voice?I spent so long with his letters and they gave me such an insight into the expressions he used, the way he spoke, how he flipped between being tender and reflective and witty and scathing, and his very English obsession with the weather. At the sight of our car, the men leap from their posts, saluting and buzzing the electric gates; one jumps into the front seat and calls out instructions as we roll off again. One of the first tasks he was given was to spy on his own father, which he did, without question digging up very little, because, though the Russians failed to believe it, there was nothing to dig up. He married Litzi Friedman, a fellow activist and an Austrian Jew, to help her escape persecution. Delivery charges may apply, Kim Philby: I got away with treachery because I was upper class, Original reporting and incisive analysis, direct from the Guardian every morning, Charlotte Philby: We visited Kim in Moscow, Charlotte Philby at her home in Bristol: Im trying to reconnect with what made me fall in love with books and the process of writing., harlotte Philby, 39, is a former investigative reporter and the author of three critically acclaimed spy novels. The shiny black 44 rumbles slowly through the graveyard. I am going to England in July for a Filby reunion at the town Filby. Edith and Kim: The brilliant new historical spy novel based on the true story of the woman behind the Cambridge spies in Cold War espionage. References. Some could never quite come to terms that he was a traitor. Entering through the front doors and under a rickety, freestanding metal detector, its like walking through a time-warp. Today, standing at last at his final resting place, surrounded by ex-prime ministers and national heroes in an isolated cemetery on the outskirts of Moscow, with two perfect strangers looming behind me, Im once again reminded of quite how different he was. Philby still dismissed from Foreign Service for his association with Burgess. In Spain, reports the Civil War from General Francos side, and is awarded the Red Cross of Military Merit by Franco. 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. children: Dudley Thomas Philby, Harry George Philby, John David Philby, Josephine F. Philby, Josephine Philby, Miranda Philby, Tommy Philby Born Country: India Spies British Men Died on: May 11, 1988 place of death: Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union Cause of Death: Heart Failure More Facts Recommended Lists: British Celebrities Russian Celebrities They gave a lot of parties. Was that a selfish decision? The whole plan is being masterminded by Kim Philby in Moscow. Occasionally, the driver would draw a curtain around the inside of the windows, and attach a flashing blue light to the roof before setting off. n ADAPTED from A Spy Named Orphan by Roland Philipps, to be published by The Bodley Head on April 26 at 20. That was my dad leaving to go to Kims funeral [in 1988] and we were hounded by paparazzi. Donald Maclean, although arrogant and someone who liked a drink too, was regarded as more convivial. It is an old-fashioned home, not like the homes of new Russia, where everything is modern and imported. She cannot imagine what Kim would have made of this new world, where a minority have benefited so enormously while many outside the capital, the vast majority live in abject poverty with little support from the state. Seconds later, were hurtling at break-neck speed out of the cemetery, along the motorway, the driver making various calls en route, each consisting of just a few short sentences, before turning into a different burial ground up the road, manned with armed guards. And if a soldier is fighting for a cause he believes in, which he believes is worth sacrificing single human lives for, but then in the end his side loses the war, does that mean that he was wrong to have stood up and fought in the first place? Charlotte is the granddaughter of Kim Philby, Britain's most famous communist double-agent, the elusive 'third man' in the notorious Cambridge spy ring. Just five years ago, my mum and I were refused service in a shop in Arizona on account of the name on our credit cards. But that didnt mean the ideal itself was corrupt or not worth pursuing. After Donald Maclean fled to Moscow to escape arrest in Britain as the spy who, for 15 years, had passed state secrets to the Soviet Union, friends of his wife, Melinda, found it easy to believe that she knew nothing of her husbands treachery. There are two more mobile-phone shops inside the post-office building, and on the steps, a babushka swathed in heavy furs and surrounded by plastic bags counts out a handful of pennies. Hed been worried about leaving her and their children to carry on without him, but shed given him the all-clear to go. Cambridge-educated Nicholas Elliott and Kim Philby became close friends in 1940, when they were both working in separate departments of the British Intelligence . Ive recorded a podcast with the BBC that will be announced later this year, and my husband and I have bought an old pub that we want to turn into a creative space to make available to charities and people who wouldnt otherwise have access to that, so thats an ongoing project. Writing Edith and Kim alongside home schooling and everything else has been a big thing and I feel now is a good time to pause and reflect. Kim Philby with partner Melinda Maclean (who later returned to her husband and fellow spy, Donald Maclean) walk in the woods outside Moscow in the 1960's, photographed by his son John, Donald Maclean pictured in 1937 whilst on a skiing holiday - he fled to Moscow to escape arrest in Britain as the spy who, for 15 years, had passed state secrets to the Soviet Union, Melinda Maclean and her sons in their last European home in Geneva 1953 -she was slight with curly, dark hair, 'an under-educated, attractive woman who was both affectionate and popular'. Kim was not nave; he knew that his ideal, like any other, was susceptible to corruption. During our stay, more mourners piled in, their cries and moans ricocheting off the walls. The kitchen where he would ritualistically make his daily breakfast of bacon, eggs and toast (another English habit he never broke), and spent hours cooking every evening, is now rich with the smell of the savoury pancakes Rufa is preparing for our five-hour feast. The Philby talent for putting on an act has been inherited by Charlotte, in a sense: she worked in theatre as a child, training with Anna Scher, whose radical Islington theatre group has spotted such talent as Kathy Burke and Phil Daniels. 21 offers from $10.67. The boys told a child they met on a beach that the photos he had taken could not be forwarded to them as we are going away and we dont know where we are going. After graduating from Washington University, she worked for the advertising agency J. Walter Thompson in San Francisco. And here he was struck by disappointment, brought to tears. He worked as a journalist until 1940, when Guy . 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. 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. Life is good here in every way.. To order a copy for 15, visit mailshop.co.uk/ books or call 0844 571 0640. 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. Rebuilding it meant forging a unique friendship with the very woman he left her for. He didnt seem to mind that their marriage was over. There, a porter recalled taking their luggage to a waiting car with Salzburg number plates which drove off towards Vienna. But as the author Graham Greene my grandfathers close friend and a fellow British intelligence officer, who worked under him at MI6 wrote in the introduction to Kims autobiography, My Silent War: The end, of course, in his eyes is held to justify the means, but this is a view taken, perhaps less openly, by most men involved in politics, if we are to judge them by their actions, whether the politician be a Disraeli or a Wilson. Charlotte Philby, 39, is a former investigative reporter and the author of three critically acclaimed spy novels. But no matter; allowing myself plenty of time to get lost, Im soon heading towards the apartment where my grandfather lived out the final 25 years of his life under the watchful eye of Moscow and where his widow Rufa is currently preparing an enormous spread for our afternoon tea. ", Pukhova, now 78, said she was irritated by stories about Philby's drink problem, but admitted he wasn't always able to stick to his two-glass rule. Shes a sympathetic character in the novel. The little blue pill really is magic! The extent of these contrasts can be seen by comparing two articles appearing on consecutive days in the Moscow Times. But in Russia he is still admired as a hero. But out of a smaller window, in front of the door, the view of Moscow is interrupted by a throbbing neon Samsung advert. 4.1 out of 5 stars. Those are the facts but there are plenty of question marks too. Im conscious that his story belongs to different people in different ways, within our family and also more widely. We got together in our cabin to discuss our plans. Looking around Kims study now, past the proud photo of him with the local ice-hockey team, below one of his father and another of various key Soviet politicians shaking hands, my eye is drawn to a large black-and-white print of Che Guevara, which looks out from above one of the bookshelves in the far right-hand corner, like an all-seeing eye. He travelled extensively, while also making his way up the ranks of the British intelligence services by 1944, Kim was appointed head of a newly formed anti-Soviet section, and was later sent to Washington where, as the top Secret Intelligence Service representative, he worked for several years in liaison with the CIA and FBI. P&P free on orders over 15. This article was amended on 31 March. He passed over 900 British documents to the KGB. Image: Barney Beech, The courtyard outside Kim's flat. 1955Government white paper on Burgess-Maclean affair. He said, 'Why do old people live so badly here? With his brilliant mind and First from Cambridge, Maclean could bask in being the superior intellect to an under-educated, attractive woman who was both affectionate and popular, where he was withdrawn, giving nothing of himself away. Spy Among Friends : Philby and the Great Betrayal, Paperback by MacIntyre, Ben, ISBN 1408851784, ISBN-13 9781408851784, Brand New, Free shipping in the US<br><br> It was a few years after this, in 1933, that Kim went to Vienna. How? Maclean and Burgess escape to Russia. Kim Philby was born on January 1, 1912 in Ambala, Punjab, British India [now Haryana, India]. 1942Marries Aileen Furse, with whom he has two daughters and three sons. He drank to excess, hit her, and often disappeared. She cashed a substantial cheque, bought her toddler daughter some new clothes and settled an outstanding garage bill. As the icy breeze hits our cheeks, he points towards a raised tomb set forward slightly from the rest: Yeltsins mama, he explains. Philby had defected to the Soviet Union from Beirut in 1963, and was treated with respect, but felt isolated. On the eve of his 99th birthday, I spent, At Kim's flat with his partner, Rufina. Kim Philby and Nicholas Elliott. Kims chair, on which no one else, under any circumstances, was ever allowed to sit while he was alive and for many years thereafter, Rufa adds remains just where it was, at the head of a low table. Elegant Princess of Wales is all smiles as she plays with children on visit to a nursery amid backlash over Thrifty Kate strikes again! Kim Philby, British intelligence officer and member of the Cambridge Five, defected to the Soviet Union in 1963. Kim sacrificed everything he had: he risked his life and the lives of others, he betrayed his colleagues and duped his family and friends (even spying on his own father at one stage, as will be explained shortly) because he genuinely believed from the point when he joined the movement and set his sights against the seemingly irrepressible rise of Fascism that Communism was a cause worth holding dear above all else. Indeed, when the leading Russian writer Genrikh Borovik was given access to Kims unseen KGB file in 1994 six years after his death the extent to which the Russians mistrusted him became clear. The first reports that Russia ranks 143rd in a list of the worlds freest economies, just one spot higher than countries with repressed economies like Vietnam, Ecuador, Belarus and Ukraine, while the next tells how oligarch Roman Abramovich, whose wealth is valued at 7 billion, has just snapped up 35 notable artworks to decorate his 560ft private yacht. She and her late father, the spy's eldest son, John, both had to live with continuing speculation about the motivation for Philby's treachery. Image: Barney Beech, Kim's graveside, at Kuntsovo Cemetry. Why do you think she has been overlooked?Partly because her files were only released to the National Archive in 2015. 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