Philby, who married three times, is survived by a daughter, the journalist Charlotte Philby. He testified before the Dies Committee (later to become the House Un-American Activities Committee) regarding Soviet espionage within the US. Following Eleanor's divorce, the couple married[58] in January 1959. "Kim" Philby, history, interviews, KGB, MI6, News, NKVD, Rufina Pukhova-Philby, UK, USSR. Please. He later wrote "she had got a tantalising scrap of information about a young English journalist whom the Soviet intelligence had sent to Spain during the Civil War. [3] St John was a member of the Indian Civil Service (ICS) and later a civil servant in Mesopotamia, and advisor to King Ibn Sa'ud of Saudi Arabia. Change), You are commenting using your Facebook account. But MI6 found it hard to believe that Philby could be a Soviet agent. The KGB would stamp the documents "top secret" and begin their circulation. She was later sent to a Swiss clinic for treatment. She noted that they produced an extraordinary wealth of information on German war plans but next to nothing on the repeated question of British penetration of Soviet intelligence in either London or Moscow. Then she drove off with the children. He also delivered clothes and money to refugees. When he died, in 1988, he was buried with honors by the Soviet authorities. Philby, one of the few British intelligence officers operating in America at the time, was an obvious possibility. John Philby, who has died aged 65, was the eldest son of the Russian spy Kim Philby, unmasked in 1963 as a double agent and the notorious Third Man in the Cambridge spy ring of the 1930s. When he died, in 1988, he was buried with honors by the Soviet authorities. Jun 27, 2019. [44] She was sent to a clinic in Switzerland to recover. Kim leapt up and shouted, 'Whoever is rude to my wife is rude to me!' Melinda returned to Donald, but two years later moved to her own apartment. Were working to restore it. A few days after her return to Switzerland, she told her mother she had run into an old friend in the local market and hed invited her and the children to stay with him for the weekend in his villa at the other end of Lake Geneva. ", His habit was fuelled by his sorrow over what he saw around him, she added. However, his son told The Telegraph that his fathers contribution to the physical demise of Western intelligence operatives is overstated: there is no information that anyone died as a result of Kim Philbys treachery, he said. Please, The subscription details associated with this account need to be updated. Upon her return to Istanbul in late 1948, she was badly burned in an incident with a charcoal stove and returned to Switzerland. [43][pageneeded] Clearly there had been leaks and Philby was later suspected as one of the leakers. His successor, Boris Bazarov, suffered the same fate two years later during the purges. He had the policy of never confessinga document in his own handwriting was dismissed as a forgery. "But he never got aggressive, and just went to bed. [25][26] Philby and Burgess ran a training course for would-be saboteurs at Brickendonbury Manor in Hertfordshire. Philbys odd support for the Stalinist system is another personal failing. This is absolutely the best place for us. [86][pageneeded]. regarding his possible Soviet affiliations continued. At the same time, Burgess was trying to get her into MI6. Nonetheless, the information was publicized in 1967 when Philby granted an interview to Murray Sayle of The Times in Moscow. All was reasonably well between them until Kim Philby the master-spy who recruited him back in their Cambridge days himself defected in 1963. [37], In February 1934, Philby married Litzi Friedmann, an Austrian Jewish communist whom he had met in Vienna. He said, 'Why do old people live so badly here? There, he underwent MI5 interrogation aimed at ascertaining whether he had acted as a "third man" in Burgess and Maclean's spy ring. The two-drink tradition remained but in time there was no longer a need to hide the bottle, she added. During the summer of 1945, a Soviet cipher clerk had reused a one-time pad to transmit intelligence traffic. [31], Philby's role as an instructor of sabotage agents again brought him to the attention of the Soviet Joint State Political Directorate (OGPU). In 1936 he began working at a failing trade magazine, the Anglo-Russian Trade Gazette, as editor. For the Soviets, Philby was an invaluable asset, ensuring the correct use of idiomatic and diplomatic English phrases in their disinformation efforts. Later, realising that he lacked the talent to be a professional painter, Philby worked briefly as a freelance newspaper photographer before taking up joinery. The NKVD received the same report from Richard Sorge but with an extra paragraph claiming that Hitler might seek a separate peace with the Soviet Union. He was 65. A similar lapse occurred with a report from the Imperial Japanese Embassy in Moscow sent to Tokyo. But, after a silence of nearly five years, here was the first actual sighting and confirmation that the runaways were alive. It has since been suggested that the whole confrontation with Elliott had been a charade to convince the KGB that Philby had to be brought back to Moscow, where he could serve as a British penetration agent of Moscow Centre. 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. His wife Eleanor joined him in Moscow, and the Philbys and the Macleans spent a lot of time together, going to the ballet or just having dinner and playing bridge. 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. We searched every corner until Kim suddenly struck himself on the head with his hand, went to a cupboard and brought back the boot. In February 1947, Philby was appointed head of British intelligence for Turkey, and posted to Istanbul with his second wife, Aileen, and their family. Chicago-born Melinda, whom he married in France in 1940, knew all along that Donald was a spy. [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. He was recruited by Soviet intelligence in 1934. She cashed a substantial cheque, bought her toddler daughter some new clothes and settled an outstanding garage bill. In a written statement, they admitted they had been Communists since their Cambridge days and disingenuously described themselves as political refugees, not spies. 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. Donald Maclean, although arrogant and someone who liked a drink too, was regarded as more convivial. If one accepts Philbys propaganda one can repeat Philbys non-double agent claim. Known as Kim to his friends, Philby secretly defected to the USSR from his home in Beirut, Lebanon, in 1963. Now Josephine, the eldest of his five children, has described how his family coped with the aftermath of a betrayal that shocked the nation. He drank to excess, hit her, and often disappeared. [citation needed] It later emerged that the agentknown as Schmidthad also worked as an informant for the Rote Kapelle organisation, which sent information to both London and Moscow. From 1952, Philby struggled to find work as a journalist, eventuallyin August 1954accepting a position with a diplomatic newsletter called the Fleet Street Letter. He was a sad traitor. 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 recalled that in 1948, when he was five, Burgess came to stay for a holiday. And here he was struck by disappointment, brought to tears. By the end of the Second World War he had become a high-ranking member. I knew what I wanted to know and that was the end of the affair. Philby was given the task of dealing with Volkov by British intelligence. [72][pageneeded], It was not until 1 July 1963 that Philby's flight to Moscow was officially confirmed. Fergus announced to some children with whom he was playing that My Daddy wants to stop all wars. He trained Albanian commandossome of whom were former Nazi collaboratorsin Libya or Malta. This mistake made it possible to break the normally impregnable code. Philby had defected to the Soviet Union from Beirut in 1963, and was treated with respect, but felt isolated. 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. Philby, though, began seeing Melinda on the side, confessing as much to his wife and saying that he was just trying to make [Melindas] life happier as she had been miserable for the last 15 years. Philby's work led to the deaths of dozens of British agents, making him a reviled traitor once he was exposed in Britain. We are no longer accepting comments on this article. 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], In February 1937, Philby travelled to Seville, Spain, then embroiled in a bloody civil war triggered by the coup d'tat of Falangist forces under General Francisco Franco against the democratic government of President Manuel Azaa. The comments below have not been moderated, By And he kept his word to the end." 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. [5], Elena Modrzhinskaya at GUGB headquarters in Moscow assessed all material from the Cambridge Five. Burgess had to get to London to warn Maclean, who was under surveillance. And while on holiday in Majorca, she gave away a lot of her clothes to the maid of a family she was staying with. Contained in the traffic (intercepted and decrypted as part of the Venona project) was information that documents had been sent to Moscow from the British Embassy in Washington. I replied 100, which I hoped would last me about a year in Vienna. Life is good here in every way.. [11][pageneeded] Following the Austrofascist victory in the Austrian Civil War, Philby and Friedmann married in February 1934, enabling her to escape to the United Kingdom with him two months later. 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. This role allowed him to conduct sabotage and instruct agents on how to properly conduct sabotage. He had five, one of whom, incidentally, was named after George Washington, the American president. They knew the risks they were running. by Ian Allen In Vienna, working to aid refugees from Germany, Philby met Litzi Friedmann (born Alice Kohlmann), a young Austrian communist of Hungarian Jewish origins. Harold Adrian Russell Philby, ; 1 1912, , 11 1988, ) . But the rezident (Russian term for spymaster) in France, probably Pierre at this time, suggested to Moscow that he suspected Philby's motives. Eventually, Melinda went back to her home country, the U.S., bringing to an end nearly 40 years of endurance, loyalty and betrayal. In late 1944 Philby, on instructions from his Soviet handler, maneuvered through the system successfully to replace Cowgill as head of Section Nine. Kim Philby attended Trinity College, Cambridge, where, in the early 1930s, with Guy Burgess, Donald Maclean and others, he espoused communism. These lapses by Philby aroused intense suspicion in Moscow. He valued his anonymity, but never changed his name from Philby. he was an agent of two services, namely MI5 and the Abwehr. She asked, "Could the SIS really be such fools they failed to notice suitcase-loads of papers leaving the office? Eleanor found Melinda amusing but nervous and highly strung and yearning for the luxuries of Western capitalism. [58] This retraction came about when Philby was officially cleared by Foreign Secretary Harold Macmillan on 7 November. But though his love affair with the cause never wavered, his love affair with Melinda did. by. She made some calculations and announced, "That will leave you an excess of 25. In June 1934, Deutsch recruited him to the Soviet intelligence services. No connection with Philby was made at the time, and Krivitsky was found shot in a Washington hotel room the following year. "[20], In 1938, Walter Krivitsky (born Samuel Ginsberg), a former GRU officer in Paris who had defected to France the previous year, travelled to the United States and published an account of his time in "Stalin's secret service". One of five siblings, he was born under a kitchen table during an air raid on London in World War II. Director Susan Johnson Writers Kara Holden (screenplay by) Caren Lissner (based on the novel by) Stars Bel Powley Nathan Lane Scott Keiji Takeda See production, box office & company info Watch on Netflix 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. "[23], Philby, "employed in a Department of the Foreign Office", was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 1946.[41]. 149", "Up on the Catwalk Lyrics Simple Minds", The Defence of the Realm: The Authorized History of MI5, Stalin's Englishman: The Lives of Guy Burgess, Annotated bibliography of the Philby Affair, File release: Cold War Cambridge spies Burgess and Maclean, "Kim Philby: The Spy Who Loved Me" by Charlotte Philby, 12 June 2018, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kim_Philby&oldid=1139360835, Belgian comic authors Olivier Neuray and Valerie Lemaire wrote a series of three historical comics entitled "Les Cinq de Cambridge" involving Kim Philby. George Blake, who is still alive, got on well with him than with Philby. She would be his silent witness for all the difficult years ahead. Born in British India, Philby was educated at Westminster School and Trinity College, Cambridge. Interrogated repeatedly regarding his intelligence work and his connection with Burgess, he continued to deny that he had acted as a Soviet agent. Philbys defection sent ripples of shock across Western intelligence and is often described as one of the most dramatic moments of the Cold War. In a way hes always just been my father. Philby told the British, after a direct question to Franco, that German troops would never be permitted to cross Spain to attack Gibraltar. That summer, friends thought her distracted. [3], On the evening of 23 January 1963, Philby vanished from Beirut, failing to meet his wife for a dinner party at the home of Glencairn Balfour Paul, First Secretary at the British Embassy. Aileen Philby had suffered since childhood from psychological problems which caused her to inflict injuries upon herself. Burgess did not cope well. Philby jnr admitted that when the news broke, he felt a sense of something approaching quiet approval. How? She hoped Donald would now find a way of getting in touch with her. In November 1964, after a visit to the United States, she returned, intending to settle permanently. [68], Philby told Elliott that he was "half expecting" to see him. He briefly reported from Cherbourg and Brest, sailing for Plymouth less than 24 hours before France surrendered to Germany in June 1940. 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. [73] On 30 July, Soviet officials announced that they had granted him political asylum in the USSR, along with Soviet citizenship. Registered office: 1 London Bridge Street, SE1 9GF. Date of birth/Age: Jan 16, 2000 (23) Citizenship . 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. The man described himself as Otto. "[60], After being exonerated, Philby was no longer employed by MI6 and Soviet intelligence lost all contact with him. Their fifth child, Harry George, was born in 1950. 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. By Philby had repeated his claim that there were no such agents. [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. Born in British India, Philby was educated at Westminster School and Trinity College, Cambridge. Pierre-Charles Path est un journaliste franais n le 9 juillet 1910 Boulogne-sur-Mer et mort le 14 novembre 1997 1 Villejuif. It seemed a fitting finale for such a notable spy. As he states in his autobiography, he . He joined (1917) the British foreign service, was sent on a special mission to Arabia, and became the first European to visit the southern provinces of the Nejd. [89], In 1940, he began living with Aileen Furse in London. After Philby defected to the Soviet Union in 1963, Eleanor visited him in Moscow. He became more optimistic once the family was deemed fully rehabilitated and they moved to Moscow in 1955. In January 1963, having finally been unmasked as a Soviet agent, Philby defected to Moscow, where he lived until his death in 1988. He and his sister Josephine were flown to Moscow by the Russians for his father's funeral in 1988. Donald refused to become part of the twilight brigade community of defectors, down-at-heel, disillusioned and wondering how they had got there. (. 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. "I said something to the escort and he just stayed silent, sitting, leafing through his magazine. "Kim believed in a just society and devoted his whole life to communism. [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. In 1946, Philby arranged a divorce from Litzi. Philby worked at first as a freelance journalist; from May 1937, he served as a first-hand correspondent for The Times, reporting from the headquarters of the pro-Franco forces. [58] Golitsyn proceeded to confirm White's suspicions about Philby's role. A person of high intelligence struggles to make sense of the world as it relates to morality, relationships, sex, and leaving her apartment. After leaving Cambridge, Philby worked as a journalist, covering the Spanish Civil War and the Battle of France. I hope you've enough decency left to understand why. [50] Burgess was sent back to England, where he met Maclean in his London club. His own comment was "I do not say that people were happy under the regime but the CIA underestimated the degree of control that the Authorities had over the country. He died in 1983 at the age of 69, recording beforehand that I do not at all regret having done what seemed and still seems to me my duty. "He once even said that it was the easiest way to bring life to an end. Officially, his post was that of First Secretary to the British Embassy; in reality, he served as chief British intelligence representative in Washington. Half sister of Harold Adrian Russell "Kim" Philby. [ | ] 1912 ' ( '), . He was very good when he was around. She liked it that he was a man with strong beliefs, and agreed to stand by him. Birthdate: circa 1922. Melinda returned to Donald, but two years later moved to her own apartment. Born in India in 1912, Philby became a communist sympathiser after leaving Cambridge and began working as a KGB informer in the mid 1930s in London. The first three missions, overland from Greece, were trouble-free. Filed under A specialized intelligence website written by experts, since 2008 During the Phoney War from September 1939 until the Dunkirk evacuation, Philby worked as The Times' first-hand correspondent with the British Expeditionary Force headquarters. Harry St John Bridger Philby Order of the Indian Empire (CIE) (3 April 1885, Badulla, British Ceylon - 30 September 1960, Beirut, Lebanon), also known as Jack Philby or Sheikh Abdullah ( ), was a British Arabist, adviser, explorer, writer, and colonial office intelligence officer. J. Edgar Hoover complained that Burgess used British Embassy automobiles to avoid arrest when he cruised Washington in pursuit of homosexual encounters. document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); A specialized intelligence website written by experts, since 2008. Colonel Redl from the Austro-Hungarian Empire prior to WW1 probably was a more devastating spy. He was an agent-in-place or a penetration agent or a mole if you wish of the KGB/NKVD. Their first three children, Josephine, John and Tommy Philby, were born between 1941 and 1944. Tagged with Cold War, defectors, double agents, Dudley Thomas Philby, H.A.R. Philby was also responsible for liaising with the CIA and promoting "more aggressive Anglo-American intelligence operations". But it wasnt true. In the same interview, she confirmed that Philby was a heavy drinker when they first met, but later became sober. 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In 1948, troubled by the heavy drinking and frequent depressions that had become a feature of her husband's life in Istanbul, she experienced a breakdown of this nature, staging an accident and injecting herself with urine and insulin to cause skin disfigurations. 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. I liked her determination. Harold Adrian Russell "Kim" Philby, fdd 1 januari 1912 i Ambala, Provinsen Punjab, Brittiska Indien, dd 11 maj 1988 i Moskva, Sovjetunionen, var en brittisk stor spion och dubbelagent samt verste inom KGB . [32] At this time, the German Abwehr was active in Spain, particularly around the British naval base of Gibraltar, which its agents hoped to watch with many detection stations to track Allied supply ships in the Western Mediterranean. We all loved him enormously. Please try again later. ", 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. In 1965, he was awarded the Order of the Red Banner. 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. "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. Litzi lived in Paris before returning to London for the duration of the war; she ultimately settled in East Germany. [11][pageneeded]. 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. [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. From 1947, they infiltrated the southern mountains to build support for former King Zog. In 1956, Philby began an affair with Eleanor Brewer, the wife of New York Times correspondent Sam Pope Brewer. Colonel David Smiley, an aristocratic Guards officer who had helped Enver Hoxha and his Communist guerillas to liberate Albania, now prepared to remove Hoxha. To protect his family, still living in the USSR, Orlov said nothing about Philby, an agreement Stalin respected. [47], Burgess, who had been given a post as Second Secretary at the British Embassy, took up residence in the Philby family home and rapidly set about causing offence to all and sundry. birth date: 1912-01-01. birth place: Ambala. [47] His dissolution had a troubling effect on Philby; the morning after a particularly disastrous and drunken party, a guest returning to collect his car heard voices upstairs and found "Kim and Guy in the bedroom drinking champagne. After five years of silence, communications were re-established with family and friends. Original reporting and incisive analysis, direct from the Guardian every morning, Kim Philby in Russia in 1968, five years after defecting. She sensed that the Macleans marriage was a difficult one again, with Donald on occasion still getting hopelessly drunk. Harry Montague Philby was born in month 1857, at birth place, to Henry Adams Philby and Mary Philby (born Bridger). Philby replied that none had been sent and that none was undergoing training at that time. [6] Following in the footsteps of his father, Philby continued to Westminster School, which he left in 1928 at the age of 16. [11][pageneeded], In July 1939, Philby returned to The Times office in London. children: Dudley Thomas Philby, Harry George Philby, John . Mary was born circa 1824, in London, England. Philby was of course not a double spy or a double agent. Then, of course, there was Kim Philby's own children. '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? In 1971, Philby married Rufina Pukhova, a Russo-Polish woman 20 years his junior, with whom he lived until his death in 1988. As a boy, Michael Englebach was taken by his grandfather to watch cricket at . Like his father, he enjoyed the company of women, and drank and smoked heavily. Harry George Philby was so named after Harry Truman and George Washington, keeping with. The double spys fourth wife and widow, Rufina Philby, told the paper that her British husband, whom she married in 1971, eight years after his defection, was disappointed about some of what he saw in the USSR. He was able to order new books from Bowes & Bowes bookshop in Cambridge, who checked with MI5 whether they should be supplying him. Angleton, later chief of the Central Intelligence Agency's (CIA) Counterintelligence Staff, became suspicious of Philby when he failed to pass on information relating to a British agent executed by the Gestapo in Germany. It is also true, she said, that he tried to kill himself at one point. 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 Bridger Philby, 1885-1960, British explorer, official, and author. Maclean bequeathed Blake his library of books, including Trollope, Macaulay's History of England, Morley's Life of Gladstone, and the Macmillan and Eden memoirs. 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