Kim Philby: Soviet Spy in the West
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- Опубліковано 26 лип 2024
- Our historical documentary series on the history of the Cold War continues with a video on the famous Cambridge Five and Donald Maclean in particular - a real Cold War-era spy story
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I think you should feature more on Bulgaria, specifically the zhivkov era and the assassination of Georgi Markov in London using an umbrella, a very unique and interesting story
Yes, a ricin pellet shot with a device hidden in an umbrella. Fiendish.
Kim Philby was a successful KGB spy,in the pivotal role of head of Soviet counter espionage in Mi6.
However,there was a 'Moriarty,' figure in a much higher position than Philby,Burgess and Blunt,who protected these men,obstructed all enquiries into them-and gave clearance to Klaus Fuchs,Sonya Kucyniski & other spies.
This was Philbys friend and opposite number-the head of Soviet counter espionage in wartime Mi5,Roger Hollis,who was the GRU spy 'Elli'.
He was the most prominent Soviet agent,rising to become Director General of Mi5.
His father John was not an “explorer” he was a British agent that served the UK a lot in Arabia. He was the King Abdulaziz’s adviser and the connection between him and Britain . He was a man that changed the face of the middle east.
Thank you.
eduard lapushchik
your welcome
He connected with the Sauds during WWI, and interacted with and gave advice to Ibn Saud, during and after the war, whom he correctly deduced had control of central Arabia. I would give Ibn Saud more credit in changing the landscape around the Middle East, since he did create Saudi Arabia (throwing out Hashemite allies of the British, beating the Rasheed dynasty, etc.); and ultimately was the one to sign off on the ARAMCO project with the Americans.
Now do Richard Meinhetzhagen
Michael Dunne
King Abdulaziz without British aid was nothing. He is just like any other tribal “sheik” or prince in the region.
The Rashid dynasty was on the losing side (ottomans) and so when the left Arabia they had no one to support them. Meanwhile Ibn Saud had British agents as advisers ( William Shakespeare and John Philby), British money aid, along with modern weapons and endless ammunition. Important factors the Rashid Dynasty lacked.
The Hashemites were no longer British allies when Hussien bin Ali declared himself “Chaliph of the Arabs” 1924 which resulted in Britian leaving Ibn Saud to deal with Hijaz.
Without Britain’s airforce he couldn’t deal with his tribal militant rebellion that almost ended his rule (1929-1930).
What I’m saying is he was not capable of establishing his kingdom without British minds and aid.
The ARAMCO project was signed to US because the UK wasn’t interested in searching for oil in Saudi. A no brainier would obviously sign for a project to search oil at that time.
"Wait, it's all double agents?"
*Cocks gun* "Always has been."
Hope you guys will cover two legendary Vietnamese spies, Phạm Xuân Ẩn and Phạm Ngọc Thảo. One stayed hidden well after the end of Vietnam War, the other the thorn in the eyes of CIA.
No one cares about them
Man the soviet spy game was a different level when it came to having physical assets.
Can you please make a video on Indian Relations with the Soviet Union. I would love to see that covered in detail
Yes also india pakistan conflicts and ceato and sento
Mitrokhin Archives would be a good place to start.
Can't wait for the next! I'm really enjoying this series. Thank you! 😄👏
In the end it was discovered that Patrick Stewart ran them all
Ahh, Karla!
Very funny...
Make it so
Love this series!
great channel. keep up the good work
I wish to feature about the Philippines under Ferdinand Marcos
Nice story, and well told. Tks
Great stuff as always Cold War! Again really hoping you’ll get to interview Spy history author, Ben Macintyre one of these days.
I cracked at the medal award 🤣🤣 great and informative channel! Stay safe, i hope all is well!
Harold not Howard Macmillan. And that was a reel of Eden
Rory Gallagher brought me here .
Now ain't it strange that I feel like Philby,
There's a stranger in my soul
I'm lost in transit in a lonesome city
I can't come in from the cold
I'm deep in action on a secret mission
Contact's broken down
Time drags by, I'm above suspicion,
There's a voice on the telephone...
(Rory Gallagher "Philby" LP "Top Priority" ,1979)
Best content. Thank you.
Thanks for the video, I appreciate the detail and effort you put into it. If I ever have a house, with a home office, I will decorate it with a cold war look.
Cool videos, dude.
Great stuff! Suggestion for future episodes: The Stay Behind Networks (Gladio) and SOSUS-lines.
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.
These are excellent videos and great content. I occasionally catch myself wondering if David is sort of tilting his head back to look toward the camera and if adjusting the chair or the camera might help with this so that he could just slightly lower his chin 😅
Very interesting program. I am 19 so I missed all of the cold war, but it is fascinating.
I'm 39 and remember seeing the Soviet Army on TV during what was probably a may day parade and THAT'S ABOUT IT.
Nice Job on this topic, looking forward to more!
Thank you ,
Thank you, I was waiting for many weeks
I like these documentaries on spies and dissidents. I hope there will also be documentaries on spies who worked for the United States and high-ranking officials of the USSR who passed to the West. I read a book recently for the highest-ranking Russian diplomat who went to the other side, Arkadi Chevtchenko, and I think stories of men like him would deserve a documentary. And if there are high officials on the western side that passed to the USSR, it should also be interesting to learn more about them.
I think one of the covers blown was Philby was the one of David Cornwell. He then turned full time author under the name John le Carre.
Richard Sorge also brought key information about Japan's intent on attacking the Soviets
Also I’d like sometime see a video on The CCP invasion of Tibet, the Dalai Lama’s escape to India, and the CIA campaign supporting Tibetan anti-CCP resistance.
fio fio I care about human rights abuses in China as well as Tibet, Xinjiang and Hong Kong.
fio fio I blame governments, not people.
Ah yes, you mean when CCP ended slavery in Tibet and slavers with Dalai Lama fled the country?
"And have subverted the bell button"
There was a real life guy named Don Maclean? Awesome. Die Hard never dies.
You should make an video about Abel trial in the US. And also about U2 airplanes
In a classic cop-out Kim Philby remarked, “to betray, one must first belong. I never belonged.”
I mean his life was spent all over the world......
Yeah big time cop out. Lol. Though it’s probably true but still doesn’t work that way. 😂
George Blake said that.
Interesting.
There is a square in Moscow named after Kim Philby
Please make some videos about cold war Japan , the rebuilding ,the JSDF and so on
Absolute legend
Prilično loše urađen video. Filbi u Moskvi nije bio ni u kakvom kućnom pritvoru. Radio je kao instruktor u KGB. Obučavao je nove generacije sovjetskih obaveštajaca, prenoseći im sopstvena iskustva i znanje. Ovaj voditelj je, razumljivo, politički pristrastan.
Extraordinary real life story!
Could you covered about a possible Soviet spy codename Perseus ?
Need an episode on Deutche
Hey what happened to the guy who claimed Thomas Dewey had 5 spies in his proposed cabinet prior to the 1948 presidential election?
Kim Philby: I serve the Soviet Union
Why didn’t the channel mention the Space Race??
He's playing both sides so he always comes on top.
And spends the rest of his days in the Soviet Union under house arrest. GREAT....
"I fucking love Berlin"
Achteraf gezien was zijn bijdrage om het fascisme te verslaan de juiste en zonder het communisme hadden de mensen in GB nu Duits gesproken dus de Engelsen hebben juist veel aan hem te danken en de overige Four.
British Inteigence Service - phatetic.
Another spy at last ! 😍
Actually the Venona decrypts were possible because during WW2, soviet spies outside of the USSR were not able to obtain new 'one time pads'..........so they started to re-use them in unorthodox manners...........upside down, back to front, even diagonally as per Moscow's instructions. This meant that there were many 'repeats' which appeared in intercepted transmissions which of course in cryptography is very bad. Venona effort was able to crack the one-time pads which then allowed the unscrambling of multiple messages,from multiple agents. It uncovered a huge soviet spy network planted into the heart of many western governments. The white house in particular was riddled with soviet spies and sympathizers. For example, Harry Hopkins circumvented the export ban on Uranium, sourcing it from Canada and shipping it to the USSR on lend-lease flights from Alaska. Hopkins was in regular contact with a KGB Colonel in lend lease and facilitated the removal of all the Manhattan project secrets from the office of General Groves, which then was freighted as diplomatic baggage on lend-lease flights.
It is said that Philby did in fact give a confession in writing to Elliot expecting an immunity from prosecution, after a few meetings between the two. Elliot attempted to persuade him to admit he stopped working for KGB in 1949 (right before he went to Washington in September 1949) in exchange for full immunity and the truth would be kept under hush, so that they could reassure the Americans that Philby was not actively spying on them at the time.
The confession he gave to Elliot was formulated in a way where it was rendered useless for prosecution as it was hard to decipher the truth from the lies, but did state that he stopped spying for soviet union in 1949. (of course this was a lie) Although no evidence is found, its possible Anthony Blunt (a member of Cambridge 5) and you're typical quintessential Brit who was the queens surveyor of pictures, could have tipped off Philby during his trip to Beirut in December 1962, where upon he had started meeting Nicholas Elliot in Jan 1963. There was no record of the following meetings but some leaks had confirmed that a written confession had in fact been procured from Philby. This is right before he defected to soviet union on a Russian freighter, supposedly out of fear for sharing too much information enough to placate in London.
In USSR, Philby was revered for his work and was considered the pride of soviet intelligence, but not trusted enough to ever set foot in the KBG Headquarters and was put in house arrest most of his time in Moscow. Source: Timeline
The first time I heard about Philby was in a Frederick Forsyth novel. Very interesting video.
Yes - "the greatest of the five" indeed. I like the part where he soberly reflects on his life and realizes that it has been nothing but black treason.
Will you make indo.pak war
*Can anyone suggest me a good book on KGB to read?*
I know Kim Philby’s autobiography “My Silent War” is worth reading.
"CIA and KGB"
by Allen W. Dulles
Well, I think there's sometimes a way too much focus on the KGB. Try Aquarium - Inside the GRU (Soviet military intelligence) by Viktor Suvorov.
"Spycatcher," by Peter Wright, former Assistant Director of MI5. Absolutely riveting.
the tv series of The company is nice en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Company_(miniseries)
He would be a Nice player in Among US.
Sus 😳
FYI Kim is the most common Korean name
This is so confusing
Double agent? I thought he was a traitor…he was a traitor.
The failure of the British to prosecute the Cambridge Five remains a matter of shame; the failure of the British Government to tell the truth to the British people was downright evil. Interestingly, if Pilby had been put on trial in 1965 he could have argued that his goals and convictions were the same of the Labour Government then in power.
You know Harold Wilson would have agreed
It`s probably not too much to say that Philby is the worst traitor to the British of all time.
lol
What an absolute joke the UK intelligence was (and still is surely)
Why did the British parden Philby?
They didn't.
You need a novel narrator.
I may not be the narrator you want but I am the narrator you get.
@@TheColdWarTV Purely Epic. Accepted. Bu arada, içerikler çok güzel. Teşekkürler.
We wish to Feature Spain under General Francisco Franco
What a thing to have happen. ESCAPE Britain to get to the USSR. And then free? No. HOUSE ARREST instead.
Regardless of Philby’s traitorous actions, one has to acknowledge the impressive act of being the ultimate double agent of all double agents, infiltrating the very top of MI-6 and managing together away with it.
Nothing compared to Trump after the help of Putin ;-)
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l'friest
The Soviets has the best spy operations before, during and after WWII and yet they lost the Cold War. The West depended on technology e.g. Ultra.
Were given all by his country, paid it back by betraying it 🙄
lol
A lot of western nations persecuted left wing opponents and marginalised them pushing the into the hands of their enemies.
What an awful human being
Ok so here I am again stating my respect for the show and the narrator but still the narration style is cringe like is the captain obvious gig an act? Or are you deadly serious when you say stuff like ‘the phony war-where not a lot happened...until it did’. Or Am I confused for no reason? Is this channel meant for teenagers and I happen to just be an adult with a serious man interest in history?
Orrrr am I just a crabby grumpy guy lol I hope not
Phony war is a one year period when UK and france didn't want military combat to occur in their home territory, even tho they had declared war on nazi Germany and Germans invaded Poland. The period had ended after germans invaded Denmark Norway France and the lowlands. So not a lot happened until it happened it makes perfect sense. And u seem to be a nice guy, if everyone was same the world would have been extremely boring.
Last time I was this early the Soviet union still existed
You mean he was a journalist and a communist?!?!🤦🏼♂️ Not shocking!
You made one mistake that i want to point out
Francisco Franco wasn't the leader of the fascists neither was the leadership of Spain fascist this is pure propaganda and anyone with a brain and internet connection can do some research into it and find that it wasnt.
Franco wasnt even the leader initially of the nationalists,he was a general so apolitical in essense and came to be the leader because he was asked to be by the nationalists due to his morocan shocktroops that might have won the war.
As for the compozition the nationalists were made of many factions namely -capitalists,monarchists,nationalists,fascists,the church and petty much anyone that was against starving and kneeling to moscow.
lol
Just one thing. Germany was not and had not a fascist government. Nazi Germany was and had a national socialist government. Fascism and National Socialism are not the same. Fascism is nationality based socialism, National Socialism is race based socialism and Marxist Socialism is class based socialism. Yes, it has similarities but has differences, too.
There’s no such thing as race based socialism
@@brandonk.4864 Of course there is. National socialism is race based. It was all about the German race. They always said they are “Übermenschen” or “Super Humans”. If that’s not race based then you are deluded.
@@toplak --- Well, that's your interpretation, eighty years after the events (I am going to presume you were not there) and it's unhistorical garbage, sorry. Read some books, would be my advice to you.
@@brandonk.4864 Socialism is the idea that the means of production and economy should be controlled by the community, how is it a hard concept that there is an ideology that states the economy and means of production should be controlled by only the ethnically German community? Even if Hitler was not true to his word, there is a very important alternative to him that really did support that, that being the ideals of Strasser and Rohm, who Hitler had killed like Stalin did to Trotsky and Bukharin.