Read "A Spy Among Friends" authored by Ben Macintyre. Fantastic summary with new information and take on the whole shitty mess. A great read, tough to put down. Book also shows how Philby's support group consisting of all his friends within the English upper classes, passed Philby through with a nod and a wink to get him the job at MI6, then assisted as he marched up through the ranks. His "public school" educated friends looking the other way or joining him. They always assumed because he was "one of them" he would never lie to them, never mind pass secrets to the Russians from 1933 to 1963. He used and betrayed and/or fornicated with every friend he had. Was married 4 times. He was "the greatest actor that ever lived" said the head of the MI5 at the time of his defection in 1963. Books states that MI5 wanted to arrest him in 1951 but he was protected by the "club men" of MI6. Cheers.
Reading it now its fascinating.Amazing how Elliot then got him the job in Beirut and got him back into MI6.Seems someone from an upper class background can do no wrong no matter how obvious it is that they are guilty
The game of espionage is played on all courts; it doesn't matter what side you're on, barring the idea of national loyalty, which I'm not discounting, it only matters how you play the game, and Philby was a master player. Any player of this game can learn from him.
i’d heard of the old boy network but it wasn’t until this book could i understand how infuriating it must feel to those seeking justice or opportunities based on their abilities, not their class
If you're interested in Oleg Gordievsky, this anecdote may be of interest. John le Carré described Ben Macintyre's fact based novel, The Spy and The Traitor, as "the best true spy story I have ever read". It was about Kim Philby's Russian counterpart, a KGB Colonel named Oleg Gordievsky, codename Sunbeam. In 1974 Gordievsky became a double agent working for MI6 in Copenhagen which was when Bill Fairclough aka Edward Burlington unwittingly launched his career as a secret agent for MI6. Fairclough and le Carré knew of each other: le Carré had even rejected Fairclough's suggestion in 2014 that they collaborate on a book. As le Carré said at the time, "Why should I? I've got by so far without collaboration so why bother now?" A realistic response from a famous expert in fiction in his eighties! Gordievsky never met Fairclough, but he did know Fairclough's handler, Colonel Alan McKenzie aka Colonel Alan Pemberton. It is little wonder therefore that in Beyond Enkription, the first fact based novel in The Burlington Files espionage series, genuine double agents, disinformation and deception weave wondrously within the relentless twists and turns of evolving events. Beyond Enkription is set in 1974 in London, Nassau and Port au Prince. Edward Burlington, a far from boring accountant, unwittingly started working for Alan McKenzie in MI6 and later worked eyes wide open for the CIA. What happens is so exhilarating and bone chilling it makes one wonder why bother reading espionage fiction when facts are so much more breathtaking. Len Deighton and Mick Herron could be forgiven for thinking they co-wrote the raw noir anti-Bond narrative, Beyond Enkription. Atmospherically it's reminiscent of Ted Lewis' Get Carter of Michael Caine fame. If anyone ever makes a film based on Beyond Enkription they'll only have themselves to blame if it doesn't go down in history as a classic espionage thriller.
He was a man that genuinely hated fascism and really believed socialism would save the world. He stayed loyal to Russia. He did not do it for money but he had a fascination with spying. My father an ex British diplimat had a similiar fascination with socialism and spying. They had their own brand of integrity.
@@slickrick2420 nice try misdirecting but it’t not going to work. If you want imperialism look at USSR taking all of Eastern Europe. Back to the drawing board for you, chump.
@@slickrick2420 Russia and China to this day continually make aggressive imperialist moves around the world lmao. Them and their supporters are always hypocrites
Hundreds trying to infiltrate communist Albania in the late 1940's and 1050's. Dozens maybe hundreds of agents in Russia and the former Eastern Block. Untold others through his tell-all drunken ramblings with James Jesus Angleton who was the head of Counterintelligence at the CIA for 25 years. Angleton also attended British Public schools but was an American citizen.
This man had the world handed to him on a silver platter. He could have sailed through his life but the believed in something better and worked tirelessly
Treason against Britain and the U.S is a good thing. "Traitors" to Britain and America are heroes to every country those two disgusting nations have victimised.
@Adam Campbell Kim Philb's mind and conscience saw clearly the dispicable nature of the English class system, the subjugation and cruelty to the ordinary people of Britain and overseas and sought a socialist alternative. If that's not a principaled position then what is? As for traitor, well, see above. As for causing deaths. Apart from Hitler and other nazi's, who exactly. Think carefully before you answer I'm growing tired of your stupidity
Hello traitor my name is George. Unlike you traitors of the revolution we are loyal to the cause, we serve Socialism and world's advance against the human exploitation of capitalism.
Exactly. These morons calling him a "traitor" are laughable. No, the real traitors are the ones allowing the 3rd world to invade and take over Britain, and in 30 years white schoolchildren, when they're a minority in their own homeland will ask, "what traitors did this to us?".
How is it going over there, inequality still rising, prices off the roof, it's a matter of a couple decades before the revolution starts brewing again.
*@grancorso.* The Soviets used and paid him that's it, but they definitely despised him and his mentality, they are nobody's fools. A traitor to his country is no hero to anyone.
@@fulcrum1126 Good question Fulcrum. Richard Sorge had a dual citizenship, his father was German and his mother was Russian. Plus if you read about what he said, he was working against the Nazis devastating regime, not against Germany as a Doctor in Political Science, he knew that Germany will lose and destroyed and he hated the fact that the Fuhrer was above the German nation and above her constitution, the people and ALL the Military gave allegiance to the Fuhrer and not to Germany and her constitution, Sorge motivation was also ideological, he was genuinely anti-wars, he was a convinced communist, not necessarily a Bolshevik nor Stalinist, and also very anti-imperialist, for him the insane WWI was purely imperialists war. German chancellor Willy Brand was also working in Norway then Sweden against the Nazi regime, not against Germany. He was German chancellor between 1969-1974. Phil Kirby was a journalist and a very skilled sabotage instructor, which interested the Soviets who then approached and recruited him, there is no apparent motivation beside a financial one, there is no indication about him having any ideology or other motives, beside marrying an Austrian communist Litzi Friedmann, at least as far as I know. And by way I am a convinced anti-communist.
@@brahim119 Thank you for your response. Philby was known to be an ideological communist and he was helping the reds in Czechoslovakia during the invasion by Nazi Germany, putting himself in danger. Maybe it was because Sorge was German and the Soviets always understood a German communist more than perhaps they did a British one. Although they still took an interest in British communism and tried to help it. Maybe because Sorge fought Nazism whereas Philby fought liberal democracy the former may have been seen as a real hero. Ultimately Sorge gave his life for the USSR whereas Philby didn't. In the end they both wanted the same ideological outcome, that their countries become communist and allies of the Soviet Union.
At the end of the speech he saying..... never confess....always lie.... yet he’s wiping his mouth with his 🤚... body language wise-.... like after stating - that the dreadful after taste of his treachery is still there
very poetic lord byron, you should write a collection, but I see it as an old man wiping saliva, as you should see him as the hero who preserved the worker's revolution against its enemies.
You will die a lonely drink tony, Kim died in a russian mansion (one you can never afford in such economy) surrounded by his wife and friends. Get a hold of yourself mate.
@@maximilianrobespierre8365 He died a drunk. He had no friends, the Russians never really trusted him. I do find it funny, that you a communist, making a big deal about mansions. There are no fortresses that Bolsheviks cannot storm'
Philby was a true Hero of the Working Class. He devoted his life to overthrowing the criminal thugs who rule England and its colonies, and who have brought death and misery to hundreds of millions of people all over the earth.
@@elmersbalm5219 always the most brainwashed who tell others to think for themselves. I live in Poland, I've spoken to those of the older generation who lived through communism. fuck communism.
@@ThomasBusby I'm not disagreeing about the failures of the Soviet Union. Blaming communism for ALL the suffering across the curtain is misplaced and stupid. You lot are fucking up Europe with your misplaced anger. Grow up. Keep on repeating the usual age old antagonism. We really need more wars on the continent. I guess you're one of the holdouts who still blames Cuba's economic problems on communism too. 70 years of US sanctions has nothing to do with it.
@@elmersbalm5219 communism is a morally and economically bankrupt ideology. Even nazism can't hold a candle to the level of human destruction and misery that your utopian experiment has inflicted on the world. Fuck communism, fuck communists.
TRIBEZ He was a drunk pedarist. Look up the word because I'm sure you don't know it's occult true definition. He died alone in a failed state of bunglers. Everything the Soviets had, we gave to them... with the intent and knowledge of doing it. So his spying meant nothing. I see you still believe the BULLSHIT HISTORY TOLD AND TAUGHT. You're not only gullible you're a joke for thinking any of these boy lovers are important. TYPICAL know nothing. LOL.
A fascinating figure to study for Cold War era fans of history like myself.
Read "A Spy Among Friends" authored by Ben Macintyre. Fantastic summary with new information and take on the whole shitty mess. A great read, tough to put down. Book also shows how Philby's support group consisting of all his friends within the English upper classes, passed Philby through with a nod and a wink to get him the job at MI6, then assisted as he marched up through the ranks. His "public school" educated friends looking the other way or joining him. They always assumed because he was "one of them" he would never lie to them, never mind pass secrets to the Russians from 1933 to 1963. He used and betrayed and/or fornicated with every friend he had. Was married 4 times. He was "the greatest actor that ever lived" said the head of the MI5 at the time of his defection in 1963. Books states that MI5 wanted to arrest him in 1951 but he was protected by the "club men" of MI6. Cheers.
Reading it now its fascinating.Amazing how Elliot then got him the job in Beirut and got him back into MI6.Seems someone from an upper class background can do no wrong no matter how obvious it is that they are guilty
The game of espionage is played on all courts; it doesn't matter what side you're on, barring the idea of national loyalty, which I'm not discounting, it only matters how you play the game, and Philby was a master player. Any player of this game can learn from him.
Thanks for the suggestion I ended up reading the book after I saw your comment. Amazing book!!
i’d heard of the old boy network but it wasn’t until this book could i understand how infuriating it must feel to those seeking justice or opportunities based on their abilities, not their class
Responsible for many deaths
Source? No one comes close to being responsible for as many deaths as the mass murdering UK government
Like thousands of others on both sides.
traitors all through
British incompetentance at it's finest...
They don't like it up em
'British incompetentance at it's finest...' - And idiot spelling at its most embarrassing.
@@channelfogg6629 who cares? It's a stupid British language
@@tanishqsinghbajwa4542 you're literally typing in English
actually incompetence x 5 if in addition to Philby you add Burgess , Maclean , Blunt , Cairncross and lastly George Blake
If you're interested in Oleg Gordievsky, this anecdote may be of interest. John le Carré described Ben Macintyre's fact based novel, The Spy and The Traitor, as "the best true spy story I have ever read". It was about Kim Philby's Russian counterpart, a KGB Colonel named Oleg Gordievsky, codename Sunbeam. In 1974 Gordievsky became a double agent working for MI6 in Copenhagen which was when Bill Fairclough aka Edward Burlington unwittingly launched his career as a secret agent for MI6. Fairclough and le Carré knew of each other: le Carré had even rejected Fairclough's suggestion in 2014 that they collaborate on a book. As le Carré said at the time, "Why should I? I've got by so far without collaboration so why bother now?" A realistic response from a famous expert in fiction in his eighties!
Gordievsky never met Fairclough, but he did know Fairclough's handler, Colonel Alan McKenzie aka Colonel Alan Pemberton. It is little wonder therefore that in Beyond Enkription, the first fact based novel in The Burlington Files espionage series, genuine double agents, disinformation and deception weave wondrously within the relentless twists and turns of evolving events. Beyond Enkription is set in 1974 in London, Nassau and Port au Prince. Edward Burlington, a far from boring accountant, unwittingly started working for Alan McKenzie in MI6 and later worked eyes wide open for the CIA. What happens is so exhilarating and bone chilling it makes one wonder why bother reading espionage fiction when facts are so much more breathtaking.
Len Deighton and Mick Herron could be forgiven for thinking they co-wrote the raw noir anti-Bond narrative, Beyond Enkription. Atmospherically it's reminiscent of Ted Lewis' Get Carter of Michael Caine fame. If anyone ever makes a film based on Beyond Enkription they'll only have themselves to blame if it doesn't go down in history as a classic espionage thriller.
Believe Nothing You Hear, and Only One Half of That You See !
Kim Philby, British double agent (b. 1912)
He is the soviet agent. Right😀
He was a man that genuinely hated fascism and really believed socialism would save the world. He stayed loyal to Russia. He did not do it for money but he had a fascination with spying. My father an ex British diplimat had a similiar fascination with socialism and spying. They had their own brand of integrity.
Not loyal to Russia, he was loyal to the masters of gulags and forced re-education programs and Eastern European genocides.
@@spencerhopkinson9874 Meanwhile the UK is the masters of imperialism and slavery and genocide of Bengalis
@@slickrick2420 nice try misdirecting but it’t not going to work.
If you want imperialism look at USSR taking all of Eastern Europe. Back to the drawing board for you, chump.
@@slickrick2420 Russia and China to this day continually make aggressive imperialist moves around the world lmao. Them and their supporters are always hypocrites
RU and CN are the true fascists.
Had many British agents killed😠
Hundreds trying to infiltrate communist Albania in the late 1940's and 1050's. Dozens maybe hundreds of agents in Russia and the former Eastern Block. Untold others through his tell-all drunken ramblings with James Jesus Angleton who was the head of Counterintelligence at the CIA for 25 years. Angleton also attended British Public schools but was an American citizen.
1950's
@@noodlam You can edit your first comment and make it 1950
Not just British. Brave Albanian and Georgian anti-communists were sent to the slaughter too.
your dirty kingdom will end soon
Giving advice to the Stasi on how to do their job better... Pure evil.
Well done comrade
Commies are dogs who don’t know who their owners are.
Russian Intelligence must be paranoid about was Philby; was he a triple agent? Whisper who dare.
By 1988 the USSR was circling the drain I hope he realized that arrogant worthless pervert drunk......and murderer......
nobody watched the watchers, year in year out
1990pommie ....and who would wach the watcher who was watching the watcher ?
This man had the world handed to him on a silver platter. He could have sailed through his life but the believed in something better and worked tirelessly
Treason against Britain and the U.S is a good thing. "Traitors" to Britain and America are heroes to every country those two disgusting nations have victimised.
true words here
A principled and devoted chap
@Adam Campbell you wish
@Adam Campbell on the contrary, I would say capable of objective thought and an analytical assessment of political history.
@Adam Campbell Kim Philb's mind and conscience saw clearly the dispicable nature of the English class system, the subjugation and cruelty to the ordinary people of Britain and overseas and sought a socialist alternative. If that's not a principaled position then what is? As for traitor, well, see above. As for causing deaths. Apart from Hitler and other nazi's, who exactly. Think carefully before you answer I'm growing tired of your stupidity
To the enemy.
@@johndavies4919 oh dear, what are you smoking man. Or are you gender neutral?
This is my uncle spy agent.
TRAITOR
Он помог удержать Мир
Hello traitor my name is George. Unlike you traitors of the revolution we are loyal to the cause, we serve Socialism and world's advance against the human exploitation of capitalism.
People seriously believe they can ever know what's going on? How childish you can be!
Does British ppl really hate this guy or just don't care... ?
he did not do anything which would harm GB. He was a proud British man.
Deluded and confused traitor, just like his father.
Mordarg00 Nobody cares.
He was a traitor...and he can never be forgiven.
just leaded the British intelligence. nothing more :)
BBC always approved of Philby's treachery.
LOL Britain now is on its way to looking like Brazil, genetically and economically anyway.....he did Britain no harm in retrospect
Exactly. These morons calling him a "traitor" are laughable. No, the real traitors are the ones allowing the 3rd world to invade and take over Britain, and in 30 years white schoolchildren, when they're a minority in their own homeland will ask, "what traitors did this to us?".
Britannia has been invaded countless times in history. It's kind of tradition
How is it going over there, inequality still rising, prices off the roof, it's a matter of a couple decades before the revolution starts brewing again.
A hero
a sociopath with an obsession for power, yea indeed a "hero".
No
@@angusdog22 Jawohl
Very wise words from a great man!
My dad was stasi and told me about him
there is little that can be said at someone who is proud of a dad in the Stasi. It is sad.
@@tessd2578 hey you STFU about my dad. He was a good man and a wonderful dad.
Your Dad was a spineless, snivelling bedwetter, who will suck up to authority, no matter how evil.
@@Mpr91 you be quiet about my dad. He was a great person
@@tessd2578
Different from having a Dad in the CIA?
hero
Treason and treachery. May his loathsome name and memory rot in infamy.
Legend
A nasty piece of work!
"What a rotter, even whose mere existence is a bad show!" Terry-Thomas would've said!
hero helped the ussr win the battle of kursk
Another public school traitor..helped by the traitor Hollis
@yogi1kenobi
Roger Hollis was exonerated.
@@crose7412 hardly..
@@yogi1kenobi He literally was exonerated.
A real Soviet Hero Col. Philby :)
*@grancorso.* The Soviets used and paid him that's it, but they definitely despised him and his mentality, they are nobody's fools. A traitor to his country is no hero to anyone.
@@brahim119 But what was the difference between him and Richard Sorge? Was Sorge not a traitor to Germany as well?
@@fulcrum1126 Good question Fulcrum. Richard Sorge had a dual citizenship, his father was German and his mother was Russian. Plus if you read about what he said, he was working against the Nazis devastating regime, not against Germany as a Doctor in Political Science, he knew that Germany will lose and destroyed and he hated the fact that the Fuhrer was above the German nation and above her constitution, the people and ALL the Military gave allegiance to the Fuhrer and not to Germany and her constitution, Sorge motivation was also ideological, he was genuinely anti-wars, he was a convinced communist, not necessarily a Bolshevik nor Stalinist, and also very anti-imperialist, for him the insane WWI was purely imperialists war. German chancellor Willy Brand was also working in Norway then Sweden against the Nazi regime, not against Germany. He was German chancellor between 1969-1974.
Phil Kirby was a journalist and a very skilled sabotage instructor, which interested the Soviets who then approached and recruited him, there is no apparent motivation beside a financial one, there is no indication about him having any ideology or other motives, beside marrying an Austrian communist Litzi Friedmann, at least as far as I know.
And by way I am a convinced anti-communist.
@@brahim119 Thank you for your response. Philby was known to be an ideological communist and he was helping the reds in Czechoslovakia during the invasion by Nazi Germany, putting himself in danger. Maybe it was because Sorge was German and the Soviets always understood a German communist more than perhaps they did a British one. Although they still took an interest in British communism and tried to help it. Maybe because Sorge fought Nazism whereas Philby fought liberal democracy the former may have been seen as a real hero. Ultimately Sorge gave his life for the USSR whereas Philby didn't. In the end they both wanted the same ideological outcome, that their countries become communist and allies of the Soviet Union.
The Cambridge 5 spies
Bravo great man !!!
At the end of the speech he saying..... never confess....always lie.... yet he’s wiping his mouth with his 🤚... body language wise-.... like after stating - that the dreadful after taste of his treachery is still there
very poetic lord byron, you should write a collection, but I see it as an old man wiping saliva, as you should see him as the hero who preserved the worker's revolution against its enemies.
Cool! Trump?
Traitor
Dirtbag ….
Died a lonely drunk
You will die a lonely drink tony, Kim died in a russian mansion (one you can never afford in such economy) surrounded by his wife and friends. Get a hold of yourself mate.
@@maximilianrobespierre8365 He died a drunk.
He had no friends, the Russians never really trusted him.
I do find it funny, that you a communist, making a big deal about mansions.
There are no fortresses that Bolsheviks cannot storm'
Philby was a true Hero of the Working Class. He devoted his life to overthrowing the criminal thugs who rule England and its colonies, and who have brought death and misery to hundreds of millions of people all over the earth.
And yet it's communism that has a 100m+ death toll
@@ThomasBusby blaming communism for the excesses of colonial-capitalism is shameless propaganda. Grow a brain and start thinking for yourself.
@@elmersbalm5219 always the most brainwashed who tell others to think for themselves. I live in Poland, I've spoken to those of the older generation who lived through communism. fuck communism.
@@ThomasBusby I'm not disagreeing about the failures of the Soviet Union. Blaming communism for ALL the suffering across the curtain is misplaced and stupid. You lot are fucking up Europe with your misplaced anger. Grow up. Keep on repeating the usual age old antagonism. We really need more wars on the continent.
I guess you're one of the holdouts who still blames Cuba's economic problems on communism too. 70 years of US sanctions has nothing to do with it.
@@elmersbalm5219 communism is a morally and economically bankrupt ideology.
Even nazism can't hold a candle to the level of human destruction and misery that your utopian experiment has inflicted on the world.
Fuck communism, fuck communists.
A gay traitor. What could be worse?
Philby had four wives, so I think he’s pretty solidly heterosexual. Are you thinking of Guy Burgess and/or Anthony Blunt?
King Charles is gay, Philby was straight as a cane.
Legend
TRIBEZ He was a drunk pedarist. Look up the word because I'm sure you don't know it's occult true definition. He died alone in a failed state of bunglers. Everything the Soviets had, we gave to them... with the intent and knowledge of doing it. So his spying meant nothing. I see you still believe the BULLSHIT HISTORY TOLD AND TAUGHT. You're not only gullible you're a joke for thinking any of these boy lovers are important. TYPICAL know nothing. LOL.
TRIBEZ Philby was a legend. Even if he was a traitor.