In his lecture Philby claimed he helped prevent World War Three
Russia's foreign intelligence agency unveils a plaque to UK double agent Kim Philby, who defected to the Soviet Union in 1963.
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. With those two words spoken in an impeccable upper-class English accent, one of Britain's most famous spies and its greatest traitor begins a masterclass in betrayal to a select audience of East German spies.Philby's hour-long address was preserved on video tape and never seen in public until now.The BBC unearthed it in the official archives of the Stasi in Berlin.It was never made for public consumption (and the grainy video and poorly synchronised sound shows the limits of technology at the time), but that means the former MI6 officer is open about his career in a way never heard before.After an introduction from East German spymaster Markus Wolf, who was so elusive to western spy agencies that he was known for many years as "the man without a face", Philby makes his way to the lectern to a hero's welcome.
That I did regularly year in year out.
NATIONAL ARCHIVE FILES: In a list provided by Kim Philby to the MI6 as he fled the country for Moscow in 1963, the spy claimed he had urged the KGB to contact many of his contemporaries. He was apparently responsible for the deaths of many Western agents whose activities he betrayed to the Soviets during the 1940s and early ’50s.
"There is one episode which is usually cited to illustrate the human cost of Philby's treachery.When he was posted to Washington DC as MI6's liaison with the CIA and FBI, he betrayed an operation to secretly send thousands of Albanians back into their country to overthrow the communist regime.In his lecture, Philby tries to turn it to his credit - even claiming he helped prevent World War Three.He claims that if he had not compromised the operation and it had succeeded, the CIA and MI6 would have tried it again in countries like Bulgaria.He says the Soviet Union would then have become involved, leading to an all-out war.While he was in Washington, two fellow Cambridge spies, Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean, fled to Moscow, leading to suspicions about Philby and his interrogation.He says there were two reasons why he got away with his espionage for so long.The first was the British class system, which could not accept one of their own was a traitor.The second was the fact that so many in MI6 had so much to lose if he was proven to be a spy.Philby did officially leave MI6 but remarkably was soon taken back.He became an agent based in Beirut under cover of being a newspaper journalist. History at your fingertips
No immediate results were expected or could have been expected.
Kim Philby önéletírásában azt vallja, hogy 1933 júniusától volt hivatásos szovjet hírszerző, és beszervezésére Közép-Európában került sor. "I used to hand them to my Soviet contact in the evening.
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"I have to admit that was the most blatant intrigue against a man I rather liked and I admired but the instructions stood and nothing I could do would alter them.
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