#Kim Philby

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Extremely niche post for the me community. I've connected the dots!

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David Oakes as Kim Philby in ‘Kim Philby - His Most Intimate Betrayal’.

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Fellas, is it gay to quietly have a breakdown at the theatre with your wife and vividly picture your best friend of twenty years singing a love song to you after he left for the Soviet Union on your watch?

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Kim Philby.

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A Spy Among Friends 1x01 Boom-Ooh-Yatatatah

Are you lonesome tonight? Do you miss me tonight? Are you sorry we drifted apart? Does your memory stray to a bright summer day When I kissed you and called you sweetheart?

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A Pik Among Mins

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Good afternoon

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On July 1st, 1963, the BBC reported that Harold ‘Kim’ Philby had been finally identified as ‘the third man’ of the Cambridge Spy Ring, which also included Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean. Philby had been working for the Soviets during his entire time with the British Foreign Office, which included an assignment at the British Embassy in Washington, liaising with the CIA. Ironically, in the late 1940s, Philby had worked as Britain’s head of Anti-Communist Counterespionage.

Lord Privy Seal, Edward Heath, told the Commons that while working for MI6 in Washington (around 1950-51), Philby had used his inside knowledge to warn Burgess and Mclean that they had been rumbled, allowing them time to escape to the Soviet Union. At that time Philby’s involvement was suspected, although not proven, but he was ousted from the Foreign Office on the orders of then Foreign Secretary, Anthony Eden, and the investigation remained open.

According to BBC reporting in July 1963;

"…British authorities had always suspected there was a "third man"…Mr Philby, often known as Kim, had been working as a journalist in Beirut when he disappeared four months ago…"

Philby subsequently turned up in Moscow, from where he denied that he had tipped off Burgess and Mclean, and said that Maclean had actually been alerted to the fact that the security services were onto him when the M15 agents tailing him got a little carried away and accidently bumped into his car.

Philby became a Russian citizen, a KGB General, and was awarded the Order of Lenin. He died in 1988 and was buried with Soviet military honours.

The Cambridge Spy Ring consisted of a group of 1930s university students who were recruited by Soviet agents. The motivation, according to the BBC, was ideological rather than financial, prompted by the belief that capitalism was corrupt and life beyond the Iron Curtain offered a ‘better model for society’.

“…The Cambridge spy ring was informally led by Harold 'Kim' Philby. He and his friends later moved into jobs in British Intelligence and the Foreign Office where they had access to top secret information. They spent their working lives passing valuable information to the Soviet Union…”

The identities of the fourth and fifth Cambridge Spies were not revealed until much later. Anthony Blunt was named in 1979, and John Cairncross in 1990. Cairncross had tipped off the Soviets in time for them to change their codes before Bletchley Park had cracked them, and it was believed the information he passed on about British and US atomic weapons programmes laid the foundations for the Soviets' nuclear capabilities.

There’s a little more on the Cambridge Spies in this 1999 BBC Report ( a classic piece of vintage internet);

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A Spy Among Friends (2022)

🎬In England in 1963, Nicholas Elliott works for MI6 as an intelligence officer 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, defecting to the Soviet Union.

📝A perfectly executed series that will have to you engaged from the beginning til the very end. Beautifully shot, acted and directed. Loved Guy Pearce but especially Damian Lewis who is just exceptional (as he normally is) in this show. He is so versatile. If you love your spy stories (this is based on Ben Macintyre's book of the same name) then you have to watch it.

It's just brilliant. I binge watched it in two days :-) Damian Lewis is taking a break from acting. We wish him a good time off and all the best and we hope he will return when he feels ready.

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Other people get songs stuck in their head. I get the 1955 Kim Philby press conference stuck in my head

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Review: Kim - by Rudyard Kipling

‘Kim’ is recognised as the greatest work of famous author Rudyard Kipling. This is a cult novel especially in espionage circles. It is fiction but documents the widely popular Great Game between the British Empire and Tsarist Russia, a clandestine cat and mouse conflict between the two powers fought out on in British India and the border territories which separated the two great powers. Indeed…

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[Kim] Philby's most abominable behaviour was towards his mentally fragile second wife, Aileen, by whom he had five children. Aileen Philby's psychiatrist told the Service that among her problems was her belief in her husband's guilt - which was at least partly responsible for Philby's attempts to "smash Aileen up": "He is convinced that she possesses important security information about her husband and her own Communist past... In [Aileen's] opinion and that of her psychiatrist, Philby had by a kind of mental cruelty to her 'done his best to make her commit suicide'."

Christopher Andrew, The Defence of the Realm

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Before heading back to Istanbul, Elliott was summoned to MI6 headquarters by the head of security, a former soldier newly appointed to oversee vetting and secrecy procedures within the diplomatic service and MI6. This was an issue that had never been raised before with Elliott, who was almost pathologically discreet. ‘At that time, secrets were secrets,’ he wrote. But he now wondered if he had let his guard down in some way, or spilled some information to the wrong person. He need not have worried. The ensuing conversation, which he wrote down afterwards, said a great deal about the organisation of which Elliott was now a most valued part:

Security officer: ‘Sit down, I’d like to have a frank talk with you.’

Nicholas Elliott: ‘As you wish colonel.’

Officer: ‘Does your wife know what you do?’

Elliott: ‘Yes.’

Officer: ‘How did that come about?’

Elliott: ‘She was my secretary for two years and I think the penny must have dropped.’

Officer: ‘Quite so. What about your mother?’

Elliott: ‘She thinks I’m in something called SIS, which she believes stands for the Secret Intelligence Service.’

Officer: ‘Good God! How did she come to know that?’

Elliott: ‘A member of the War Cabinet told her at a cocktail party.’

Officer: ‘Then what about your father?’

Elliott: ‘He thinks I’m a spy.’

Officer: ‘Why should he think you’re a spy?’

Elliott: ‘Because the Chief told him in the bar at White’s.’

And that, once again, was that.

Ben Macintyre, A Spy Among Friends: Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal 

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If they listened to Chappell roan none of this would happen

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Never Judge Two Angry Men by their Umbrellas

More A Spy Among Friends fanart from me! (Yippee……) . After drawing Damian-Elliott I was tempted to draw the three main characters of the cast (as advertised so that means no James Jesus 😢) so here they are, in different styles as well! For experimentation’s sake .It’s a very niche series on tumblr, it’s based off and draws heavily from Ben Macintyre’s book of the same name , if you’re a history buff, this book is a must !

Okay now on to the characters:

1. Kim Philby (yeah the guy mi6 uses footage of to train people about lying ) played by guy Pearce

2. Nicholas Elliott (was Philby’s best friend, note: was) played by Damian Lewis

3. Lily Thomas ( character with the most braincells in the series ) played by Anna Maxwell Martin 

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Vijftig jaar geleden: "Tinker, tailor, soldier, spy" (John Le Carré)

Vijftig jaar geleden verscheen “Tinker, tailor, soldier, spy” van John Le Carré. Continue reading Vijftig jaar geleden: “Tinker, tailor, soldier, spy” (John Le Carré)