At the same time, Burgess was trying to get her into MI6. You should have seen his face.". [9][pageneeded]. 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. [72][pageneeded], It was not until 1 July 1963 that Philby's flight to Moscow was officially confirmed. "" ( : Harold Adrian Russell "Kim" Philby ; 1 1912 - 11 1988) . Little Donald said perhaps he had gone to India because that would be a good place to hide.. Philby suffered only a minor head wound. Harry had 6 siblings: Mary B Philby, Kathleen V Philby and 4 other siblings. [70] The Dolmatova, a Soviet freighter bound for Odessa, had left Beirut that morning so abruptly that cargo was left scattered over the docks;[58] Philby claimed that he left Beirut on board this ship. (He is pictured, left, in Moscow with his father Kim, centre, and the escaped spy George Blake.). 14:46 GMT 17 Apr 2018, For 15 years, British diplomat Donald Maclean was passing state secrets to his KGB masters. In a way hes always just been my father. Philby was thus able to evade blame and detection. Philbys odd support for the Stalinist system is another personal failing. 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. He is widely considered history's most successful double spy. [39][5], The intervention of Philby in the affair and the subsequent capture of Volkov by the Soviets might have seriously compromised Philby's position. 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. But Maclean sobered up and went cold turkey in a detoxification clinic. 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. 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. In 1965, he was awarded the Order of the Red Banner. His cover story was that he was a political migr, a trade union leader persecuted in England for his political views. [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. "There was one funny incident," she remembered. By the time she left Russia, Maclean was in his final decline, in and out of hospital with cancer from his lifetime of smoking. [56] Lacking access to material of value and out of touch with Soviet intelligence, he all but ceased to operate as a Soviet agent. Philby died of heart failure in Moscow in 1988. He got himself a job teaching English in a school. [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. [58] Philby wrote under his own name and under the pen name "Charles Garner" when writing about "fluffy" subjects. His father Harold ''Kim'' Philby was a product of the British ruling class but, like his own eccentric father, the explorer and Arabist St John Philby, contemptuous of it. There, a tall man in a blue suit and red bow-tie held out his hand and said: I am Donald Maclean. With him in the room was Guy Burgess. [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. Interrogated repeatedly regarding his intelligence work and his connection with Burgess, he continued to deny that he had acted as a Soviet agent. They went to live with an aunt and uncle, and saw little of his father. We all loved him enormously. He also delivered clothes and money to refugees. And in 1951, as his spying activities unravelled and his Soviet masters told him to defect, she agreed the best course of action was for him to be ex-filtrated rather than try to brazen out the accusations of treachery that were soon to be levelled at him. However, Pukhova said the fear that she would leave had helped her husband temper his intake in later years. Original reporting and incisive analysis, direct from the Guardian every morning, Kim Philby in Russia in 1968, five years after defecting. [79]Mikhail Lyubimov, his closest KGB contact, explained that this was to guard his safety, but later admitted that the real reason was the KGB's fear that Philby would return to London. n ADAPTED from A Spy Named Orphan by Roland Philipps, to be published by The Bodley Head on April 26 at 20. Colonel David Smiley, an aristocratic Guards officer who had helped Enver Hoxha and his Communist guerillas to liberate Albania, now prepared to remove Hoxha. A new expedition honours Harry St John Philby's exploration of the kingdom more than 100 years ago.
The two men said very little and the interview lasted barely five minutes. A plaque in his honour was unveiled by the head of the foreign intelligence service at its headquarters in Moscow in December. Upon her return to Istanbul in late 1948, she was badly burned in an incident with a charcoal stove and returned to Switzerland. [75], Upon his arrival in Moscow in January 1963, Philby discovered that he was not a colonel in the KGB, as he had been led to believe. THE daughter of Kim Philby, the MI6 agent who spied for the Soviet Union, has broken her silence to describe the admiration she feels for her father, 50 years since he defected to Moscow in one of the most dramatic moments of the Cold War. [24], In 1940, on the recommendation of Burgess, Philby joined MI6's Section D, a secret organisation charged with investigating how enemies might be attacked through non-military means. Kim Philby, the most successful of the Cambridge spies, tried to drink himself to death in Moscow because he was disillusioned with communism and tortured by his own failings, his last wife has said in an interview. In 1940 he was interviewed by MI5 officers in London, led by Jane Archer. 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. I discovered much later from a photograph in MI5 files that the name he went by was Arnold Deutsch. LONDON Kim Philby, called the "spy of the century" because of his work for the Soviet Union while a senior officer in British intelligence, died Wednesday in Moscow, the Foreign Office said. Jubilee Statistical Yearbook]", "The national economy of the USSR for 70 years. It was ten years before he was given a minor role in the training of KGB recruits. They lived together for three years, until a younger woman caught the philandering Philbys eye. Matthew Tomkinson / Heart of Arabia Expedition. The gang of British spies who ended up in Moscow in the 1950s and 1960s were employed in KGB training schools and international research institutes. When her brother-in-law, Alan Maclean, asked her whether she would join Donald if she knew for sure that he was behind the Iron Curtain, she gave a firm No. (. [74] When the news broke, MI6 came under criticism for failing to anticipate and block Philby's defection, though Elliott was to claim he could not have prevented Philby's flight. On their first night in Moscow, an elated Burgess and Maclean had dined in style on a great hotel balcony on the first floor overlooking the Kremlin and got drunk on vodka. Melinda returned to Donald, but two years later moved to her own apartment. In 1936 he began working at a failing trade magazine, the Anglo-Russian Trade Gazette, as editor. Harry George Philby Birth. As a result of this accident, Philby, who was well-liked by the Nationalist forces whose victories he trumpeted, was awarded the Red Cross of Military Merit by Franco on 2 March 1938. He said, 'Why do old people live so badly here? 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. [11][pageneeded] After being evacuated from Boulogne on 21 May, he returned to France in mid-June and began representing The Daily Telegraph in addition to The Times. Philby resigned from MI6 in July 1951. Philby had been briefed on the situation shortly before reaching Washington in 1949; it was clear to Philby that the agent was Donald Maclean, who worked in the British Embassy at the time and whose wife, Melinda, lived in New York. In June 1934, Deutsch recruited him to the Soviet intelligence services. His successor, Boris Bazarov, suffered the same fate two years later during the purges. After leaving Cambridge, Philby worked as a journalist, covering the Spanish Civil War and the Battle of France. He told the paper that Kim eventually came to think that it was all wrong, implying that Philby grew disillusioned with the Soviet system. When Melinda and the children joined him, they moved into a small apartment and the children were put into the local Soviet schools. Registered office: 1 London Bridge Street, SE1 9GF. [68], Philby told Elliott that he was "half expecting" to see him. Registered office: 1 London Bridge Street, SE1 9GF. Though a convinced Communist, he had a strong humanistic streak. He warned the Soviets of the attempted defection and travelled to Istanbulostensibly to handle the matter on behalf of SIS but, in reality, to ensure that Volkov had been neutralised. But, after a silence of nearly five years, here was the first actual sighting and confirmation that the runaways were alive. "His alcoholism was suicide," she told the Moskovsky Komsomolets newspaper. P&P free on orders over 15. 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. He did a lot with us., Philby was sent to Beirut in 1956 to work for The Observer, leaving his children in London, after being. Although the father seemed to be an almost heroic figure in the son's eyes, the master spy never explained his treachery to him. He was a sad traitor. She told a BBC documentary: He was just dad. Yesterday, in our serialisation of an electrifying biography based on newly released papers, we heard how he fled to Moscow just as he was about to be arrested leaving behind his supposedly innocent wife. From 1952, Philby struggled to find work as a journalist, eventuallyin August 1954accepting a position with a diplomatic newsletter called the Fleet Street Letter. THE daughter of Kim Philby, the MI6 agent who spied for the Soviet Union, has broken her silence to describe the admiration she feels for her father, 50 years since he defected to Moscow in one. 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. 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To the frequent question, ''No relation, I hope? A person of high intelligence struggles to make sense of the world as it relates to morality, relationships, sex, and leaving her apartment. Were working to restore it. [61], It is unclear whether Philby had been alerted, but Eleanor noted that as 1962 wore on, expressions of tension in his life "became worse and were reflected in bouts of deep depression and drinking". [86][pageneeded]. Theirs had always been a stormy marriage, punctuated by bad behaviour on both sides and terrible rows. 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. He got drunk and roamed Kuybyshev looking for action, on one occasion having his teeth knocked out in a brawl. ", 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. Litzi lived in Paris before returning to London for the duration of the war; she ultimately settled in East Germany. 'in Russian", "The Cambridge Spies' West Hampstead connection", "Kim Philby: new revelations about spy emerge in secret files", "Spies Philby's widow tells of an Englishman's life in exile", "Moscow square named after notorious British double agent Kim Philby", "A Cold War Mystery: Was the Soviet Mole Kim Philby a Double Agent or a Triple Agent? Born in Ambala, Punjab, British India, Harold Adrian Russell Philby was the son of Dora Johnston and St John Philby, an author, Arabist and explorer. His friend Malcolm Muggeridge regarded Philby as ''a real-life James Bond''. While working as a senior member of British intelligence, he spied on behalf of the Soviet NKVD and KGB from the early 1930s until his defection. Aileen Philby had suffered since childhood from psychological problems which caused her to inflict injuries upon herself. [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. [92] Melinda left Maclean and briefly lived with Philby in Moscow. And here she was plunked down in my midst! Golitsyn offered the CIA revelations of Soviet agents within American and British intelligence services. But MI6 found it hard to believe that Philby could be a Soviet agent. He said that at the time of his recruitment as a spy there were no prospects of his being useful; he was instructed to make his way into the Secret Service, which took years, starting with journalism and building up contacts in the establishment. There, a porter recalled taking their luggage to a waiting car with Salzburg number plates which drove off towards Vienna. Eventually, Tommy visited Kim five times in Moscow in the 1970s. From April 1950, Maclean had been the prime suspect in the investigation into the Embassy leak. While working in Section Five, Philby had become acquainted with James Jesus Angleton, a young American counter-intelligence officer working in liaison with SIS in London. In January 1963, having finally been unmasked as a Soviet agent, Philby defected to Moscow, where he lived until his death in 1988. "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. Their fifth child, Harry George, was born in 1950. His office oversaw a large amount of urgent and top-secret communications between the United States and London. Melinda put the bravest of faces on her situation when she wrote to her still grief-stricken mother that she understood the suffering she had caused. H. Saint John Philby, in full Harry Saint John Bridger Philby, (born April 3, 1885, Saint Johns, Badula, Ceylon [now Sri Lanka]died September 30, 1960, Beirut, Lebanon), British explorer and Arabist, the first European to cross the Rub al-Khali, or Empty Quarter, of Arabia from east to west. The news that Philby, a former MI6 officer, had been spying for the Russians since 1933 sounded an alarm in Whitehall. He was known to have been friends with the brazenly gay and immoderate Burgess, who had lived for a time in Philby's house on Nebraska Avenue in Washington. The "affair of the missing diplomats," as it was referred to before Burgess and Maclean surfaced in Moscow,[54] attracted a great deal of public attention, and Burgess's disappearance, which identified him as complicit in Maclean's espionage, deeply compromised Philby's position. She made some calculations and announced, "That will leave you an excess of 25. Later, realising that he lacked the talent to be a professional painter, Philby worked briefly as a freelance newspaper photographer before taking up joinery. His alcoholic mother, Aileen Furse, was his father's mistress before they were married in 1946 after he divorced his first wife. "It was winter and we were going out for a walk and I found one of my boots had disappeared. He was given a hero's funeral, and posthumously awarded numerous medals [87] by the Soviets: Order of Lenin, Order of the Red Banner, Order of Friendship of Peoples, Order of the Great Patriotic War, Lenin Medal and Jubilee Medal "Forty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 19411945". Harry St John Philby was devastated to not become the first westerner to cross the Empty Quarter. [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. Clear rating. [46], In January 1950, on evidence provided by the Venona intercepts, Soviet atomic spy Klaus Fuchs was arrested. Harry Montague Philby was born in month 1857, at birth place, to Henry Adams Philby and Mary Philby (born Bridger). The man described himself as Otto. He was paid 500 roubles a month (the average Soviet salary in 1960 was Rbls80.60 a month and Rbls122 in 1970)[76][77] and his family was not immediately able to join him in exile. Pukhova said he was a "special" and principled man. the title escapes me at the moment. He was 65. A more serious threat to Philby's position had come to light. He barely embraced his wife. Krivitsky claimed that two Soviet intelligence agents had penetrated the Foreign Office and that a third Soviet intelligence agent had worked as a journalist for a British newspaper during the civil war in Spain. Half sister of Harold Adrian Russell "Kim" Philby. , updated Burgess predeceased him by 20 years, carried off by angina, an abused liver and hardening of the arteries. [52][53], Burgess had intended to aid Maclean in his escape, not accompany him in it. 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. In February 1947, Philby was appointed head of British intelligence for Turkey, and posted to Istanbul with his second wife, Aileen, and their family. 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. When Britain declared war on Germany in September 1939, Philby's contact with his Soviet controllers was lost and Philby failed to attend the meetings that were necessary for his work. There, he underwent MI5 interrogation aimed at ascertaining whether he had acted as a "third man" in Burgess and Maclean's spy ring. We need it desperately." Turkish intelligence took them to a border crossing into Georgia but soon afterwards shots were heard. They subsequently moved to Britain; however, as Philby assumed the role of a fascist sympathiser, they separated. Opposites attracted. "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. Wife of George Glen Carnegie Milne. "[59] Following this, Philby gave a press conference in whichcalmly, confidently, and without the stammer he had struggled with since childhoodhe reiterated his innocence, declaring, "I have never been a communist. In November 1964, after a visit to the United States, she returned, intending to settle permanently. Chicago-born Melinda, whom he married in France in 1940, knew all along that Donald was a spy. [38] Nevertheless, Angleton's suspicions went unheard. Melinda, now officially Natasha Frazer, hated Kuybyshev, which she found very primitive, and for a while Donald was depressed and disillusioned by the reality of Soviet Russia. I knew what I wanted to know and that was the end of the affair. For a large sum of money, Volkov offered the names of three Soviet agents inside Britain, two of whom worked in the Foreign Office and a third who worked in counter-espionage in London. [11][pageneeded] On a short trip back from Spain, Philby tried to recruit Flora Solomon as a Soviet agent; she was the daughter of a Russian banker and gold dealer, a relative of the Rothschilds, and wife of a London stockbroker. That he could carry on a secret life without her being aware, while at the same time working his way up the ranks of the British Foreign Office, seemed perfectly possible. [31], Philby's role as an instructor of sabotage agents again brought him to the attention of the Soviet Joint State Political Directorate (OGPU). Pierre-Charles Path. [58] He and Eleanor divorced and she departed Moscow in May 1965. Most intelligence historians believe that Philby was almost single-handedly responsible for the deaths of dozens even hundreds of Western intelligence officers and agents who perished during the Cold War while on missions in the USSR and Eastern Europe. He was recruited by Soviet intelligence in 1934. [90] Aileen suffered from psychiatric problems, which grew more severe during the period of poverty and suspicion following the flight of Burgess and Maclean. Philby had defected to the Soviet Union from Beirut in 1963, and was treated with respect, but felt isolated. ", His habit was fuelled by his sorrow over what he saw around him, she added. In her absence, Philby had begun an affair with Donald Maclean's wife, Melinda. Find out where Kim Philby was born, their birthday and details about their professions, education, religion, family and other life details and facts. He had the policy of never confessinga document in his own handwriting was dismissed as a forgery. Philby was also responsible for liaising with the CIA and promoting "more aggressive Anglo-American intelligence operations". Certain aspects of Soviet life did indeed disappoint Philby, with his wife claiming he was "particularly irritated by Brezhnev". Eventually, Melinda went back to her home country, the U.S., bringing to an end nearly 40 years of endurance, loyalty and betrayal. These lapses by Philby aroused intense suspicion in Moscow. 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. This mistake made it possible to break the normally impregnable code. We have noticed that there is an issue with your subscription billing details. Under a cloud of suspicion raised by his highly visible and intimate association with Burgess, Philby returned to London. burial place . Commenting on his sabotage of the operation to secretly send thousands of Albanian anti-communists into Albania to overthrow the communist government, which led to many being killed, Philby rebutted that he helped prevent another World War. [17], In London, Philby began a career as a journalist. One of five siblings, he was born under a kitchen table during an air raid on London in World War II. In 1963 he was revealed to be a member of the Cambridge Five, a spy ring which had divulged British secrets to the Soviets during World War II and in the early stages of the Cold War. Maclean seemed totally at one with Soviet ways and believed to his death that the USSR and its new society has a much better prospect than the old of overcoming the major ills and injustices of our civilisation. In fact, Philby and Maclean's fellow spy, Burgess, were intimate friends; tipped off by Philby, who organised their defection, they fled to Moscow. "If he did not act at once it would be too late," the telegram read, "because [Philby] would send his car to the scrap heap. All was reasonably well between them until Kim Philby the master-spy who recruited him back in their Cambridge days himself defected in 1963. 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. Macleans outward calm in the face of exile was greatly bolstered by his wifes support. She asked, "Could the SIS really be such fools they failed to notice suitcase-loads of papers leaving the office? To order a copy for 15, visit mailshop.co.uk/ books or call 0844 571 0640. [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. [22][23], Alexander Orlov (born Lev Feldbin; code-name Swede), Philby's controller in Madrid, who had once met him in Perpignan, France, also defected. Melinda, it turned out, had driven to Lausanne, where tickets were waiting and luggage had been left in a station locker. 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