Those are the facts but there are plenty of question marks too. Maclean seemed totally at one with Soviet ways and believed to his death that the USSR and its new society has a much better prospect than the old of overcoming the major ills and injustices of our civilisation. Today, Moscows main strip, Tverskaya Ryad which I remember from childhood holidays as a drab grey stretch clotted with queues of people who looked like they didnt know what they were waiting for (though it was usually oranges or ice cream) is barely recognisable: a knot of designer stores and mobile-phone shops, interspersed with garish billboards hanging between the buildings above the busy main road. 1951Tips off fellow Cambridge Spy Donald Maclean that a warrant has been issued for his arrest. They even had a dacha a country cottage 20 miles from Moscow where the children could swim, fish, bicycle and forage for mushrooms. It was a mystery. Her mood changed, though, with Stalins death in March 1953 and the prospect that the Soviet Union might now become a more open place. "His alcoholism was suicide," she told the Moskovsky Komsomolets newspaper. He was 76. Debt-ridden couple killed their dog and then shot themselves dead with shotgun on the day they were due to Rishi Sunak says he is 'ensuring the safety of women and children' by blocking Scottish gender law as SNP Let them eat cake! The spy who loved us: what Kim Philby's personal letters revealed about his mind The double-agent's granddaughter, Charlotte Philby, on the correspondence of a man who betrayed his country. A new TV series highlights the part played by the UK intelligence service's Nicholas Elliott in unmasking the 1960s Cambridge spy ring - events he recalled years later over lunch at his club Damian. Cambridge-educated Nicholas Elliott and Kim Philby became close friends in 1940, when they were both working in separate departments of the British Intelligence . Did you feel that as you uncovered her story?I feel a huge amount of sympathy for her situation, and admiration, really. The reporter adds that Kim demonstrated an iron head for drink during the course of their subsequent meetings, which took place over a series of long, boozy meals: I could detect no change in his alertness or joviality as the waiter arrived with relays of 300 grams of vodka or 600 grams of Armenian brandy. Like my father, Kim had amazing stamina for drink; the pair of them would knock it back over games of chess at the flat in Moscow (while I ran around wreaking havoc in the living room) and on the long trips to Siberia and Bulgaria they took together. They met each other socially but soon fell out. Kim Philby, byname of Harold Adrian Russell Philby, (born January 1, 1912, Ambala, Indiadied May 11, 1988, Moscow, Russia, U.S.S.R.), British intelligence officer until 1951 and the most successful Soviet double agent of the Cold War period. In fact, he had arrived in Moscow days earlier, and can be seen on film standing just back from his fathers coffin. Which author do you most admire?I dont have favourites, but I love Helen Dunmore. Maclean was unsure how to act, feeling a mixture of guilt and love, not knowing where he stood with the children he had abandoned and not been able to contact. Her fourth novel, Edith and Kim, tells the linked stories of her grandfather and Edith Tudor-Hart, a Jewish photojournalist born in Vienna, who studied at the Bauhaus, married an Englishman, worked as a Soviet agent in London and introduced Kim to his Russian handler. "I tried everything to save him; after all, he was killing himself. . That was my dad leaving to go to Kims funeral [in 1988] and we were hounded by paparazzi. The next day she notified the British Consul in Geneva. In 1955, Harold Macmillan, then Foreign Secretary, issued a statement confirming that there was no evidence that Kim Philby was a Soviet agent. They're at it again! Laying flowers at my grandfather's grave. This is not the first time Charlotte Philby has written in defense of her grandfathers actions. The whole plan is being masterminded by Kim Philby in Moscow. "If he continued drinking, he got inebriated quickly and changed in front of your eyes," she said. Later she became a journalist at the Independent. Kim sacrificed everything he had: he risked his life and the lives of others, he betrayed his colleagues and duped his family and friends (even spying on his own father at one stage, as will be explained shortly) because he genuinely believed from the point when he joined the movement and set his sights against the seemingly irrepressible rise of Fascism that Communism was a cause worth holding dear above all else. But again, it was justifiable in his mind. Macleans outward calm in the face of exile was greatly bolstered by his wifes support. 1937Joins The Times as foreign correspondent. We got together in our cabin to discuss our plans. He got drunk and roamed Kuybyshev looking for action, on one occasion having his teeth knocked out in a brawl. Perhaps. Donald Maclean pictured in 1937 while on a skiing holiday - in the Soviet Union he and Guy Burgess described themselves as political refugee, not spies, Donald Maclean with his daughter Mimsie near their country home in England - in the Soviet Union he assumed a new identity, chosing to be Mark Petrovich Frazer (after the Cambridge anthropologist Sir James Frazer), Donald Maclean, aged four, can be seen on the right of this picture on the right of this picture. On one occasion, when dropping us off at the airport, Kim and my dad were so sloshed they were shoved into a cupboard under the stairs with a bottle of vodka by staff to keep them quiet, while the British ambassador ambled around the main terminal building waiting for the same flight to London. But the two men, for so long ideological comrades, fell out. 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. Philby was recruited, it reveals, because it was mistakenly believed that his father, St John, was a British intelligence officer. Today, this pedestrianised street is only accessible by a coded gate, and the faade of the building has been tarted up almost beyond recognition. Maclean and Burgess escape to Russia. What counted though against Blunt, and Burgess too, was that they werent journo-friendly. Her fourth novel, Edith and Kim, tells the linked stories of her grandfather and Edith Tudor-Hart, a Jewish photojournalist born in Vienna, who studied at the Bauhaus, married an Englishman,. His eldest son was my father, John who was himself a 19-year-old art student in 1963 when he first learnt of Kims espionage; stepping off a ferry on the Isle of Wight, he was met by a billboard stating that Kim was a wanted man. He and Pukhova married in 1971, when he was 59 and she was 38. A retired CIA agent was once asked what he would say to Kim Philby, an MI5 agent who spied for Joseph Stalin, if he encountered the defector in Moscow. Philby is summoned for interrogation and asked to resign from Foreign Service. Kim Philby In Moscow: Not What He Wished For. The controversial civil rights leader was gunned down in front of his wife and children while making a speech in New York. 1962George Blake is caught. 1946Moves to Turkey, working as head of SIS there. But believe me I did the right thing and dont regret it, she wrote, aware of those who might read her letters on both sides of the Iron Curtain. Burgess did not cope well. Theirs had always been a stormy marriage, punctuated by bad behaviour on both sides and terrible rows. All was reasonably well between them until Kim Philby the master-spy who recruited him back in their Cambridge days himself defected in 1963. So Philby left his wife and children in England in September 1956, arriving in a country for which he had little natural sympathy. She was a horsey product of the. He had got afraid that I would leave, and hidden the boot.". The kitchen where he would ritualistically make his daily breakfast of bacon, eggs and toast (another English habit he never broke), and spent hours cooking every evening, is now rich with the smell of the savoury pancakes Rufa is preparing for our five-hour feast. To support the Guardian and Observer order your copy at guardianbookshop.com. Im reminded of a brief phone conversation I had earlier this morning with one of Kims old KGB comrades, whom Id been in contact with during the course of my research for this article, who told me that a gang of five or six of Kims former colleagues still meet up every month and raise a toast in his honour. Given a heros burial in Moscows Kuntsevo Cemetery. 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. But they were quasi-spy novels so I ended up talking about them in relation to his story anyway. Lets have another drink on it, old man. Good old Kim. I would like to have drawn Bennett further on his comments, but unfortunately, when I contacted his agent to request a meeting, my invitation was declined. He never promised to give up, but once, completely unexpectedly, he suddenly said, 'I'm afraid I'm going to lose you, I'm not going to drink any more.' death death: 1988-05-11. document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); The Philby case has always fascinated me. Your email address will not be published. By the time she left Russia, Maclean was in his final decline, in and out of hospital with cancer from his lifetime of smoking. In her article, published yesterday in British daily The Independent, she describes Kim Philby as a proud man, and one who chose to publicly stand by his actions. Once hed gone, she rode out the public furore, the door-stepping journalists, the MI5 questioning, the abuse and insinuations, the bullying of her sons at school. He didnt seem to mind that their marriage was over. As for the drinking, Kim never needed an excuse to crack open a bottle; he was a drinker in good times and in bad. Finally the car grinds to a halt, and the driver, catching my eye in his rear-view mirror, gives a nod. He reported to the Soviet NKVD from the Spanish civil war under the guise of a correspondent for the Times, and in 1940 joined the Secret Intelligence Service (SIS, or MI6), becoming a double agent and passing many secrets to the Kremlin. Amnesia in Literature and Film We walk on in silence; the others hold back, bowing their heads, as I take my place in front of another plot a few feet away. The first reports that Russia ranks 143rd in a list of the worlds freest economies, just one spot higher than countries with repressed economies like Vietnam, Ecuador, Belarus and Ukraine, while the next tells how oligarch Roman Abramovich, whose wealth is valued at 7 billion, has just snapped up 35 notable artworks to decorate his 560ft private yacht. After graduating from Washington University, she worked for the advertising agency J. Walter Thompson in San Francisco. The view from one of the windows is notably different, too. It was bad enough with Kim and the Cambridge spies showing up the British establishment, but the idea that this foreign Jewish woman might run rings around men in positions of authority, perhaps that was embarrassing for them. The committee is serving as the unwitting instrument of the KGB." Kim Philby was a high-ranking member of British intelligence who worked as a double agent before defecting to Soviet Union in 1963. Kims case was not helped by the fact that several of his Soviet controllers including Mar, the man who recruited him had later been executed as enemies of the people. In contrast to Blake, Philby and Burgess and to a less extent Maclean suffered from nostalgia for Britain. Guarded night and day by KGB troops, and rigorously de-briefed to make sure they were not double agents, to all intents and purposes they were under house arrest. In our final extract, she secretly joins him behind the Iron Curtain. But that didnt mean the ideal itself was corrupt or not worth pursuing. The basic facts, after all, are well-documented. I am going to England in July for a Filby reunion at the town Filby. Macmillan was, of course, Prime Minister by 1962, when the Soviet double agent George Blake was caught, and Kim could no longer hide the truth. But out of a smaller window, in front of the door, the view of Moscow is interrupted by a throbbing neon Samsung advert. Kims chair, on which no one else, under any circumstances, was ever allowed to sit while he was alive and for many years thereafter, Rufa adds remains just where it was, at the head of a low table. "But he never got aggressive, and just went to bed. Then they boarded what was described as a small military-type aircraft which flew them to Moscow to be reunited with Donald. What are you currently reading?Im trying to reconnect with what made me fall in love with books and the process of writing so Im going back to reread some of the books that feel seminal for me: The Beach, The Child in Time, White Teeth, Disgrace, The Poisonwood Bible and The Peoples Act of Love. "Kim" Philby's oldest son, has penned an extensive account of her memories of her grandfather. St John, who had joined the British Foreign Service in 1917, when his only son was five years old, was also a non-conformist. Kim Philby was born on January 1, 1912 in Ambala, Punjab, British India [now Haryana, India]. We searched every corner until Kim suddenly struck himself on the head with his hand, went to a cupboard and brought back the boot. Getty Images In the USSR, Philby essentially became an honorary pensioner: he passed on to Soviet intelligence everything he. Who is going to check 55 volumes for the odd sentence? Image: Beech Beech. Kim leapt up and shouted, 'Whoever is rude to my wife is rude to me!' Inside, the atrium leading to the main sorting office and collection point is now dotted with stalls selling electronic goods, pricey mobile-phone accessories and flowers at 3 a stem. 1955Government white paper on Burgess-Maclean affair. There have been endless attempts to understand how this gregarious, public-school educated English chap and his fellow Cambridge spies could have been persuaded to betray their country, and dupe their family and their friends. In her article, published yesterday in British daily The Independent, she describes Kim Philby as "a proud man, and one who chose to publicly stand by his actions". But the place where Kims presence looms largest from every corner is in his study. The extent of these contrasts can be seen by comparing two articles appearing on consecutive days in the Moscow Times. He was tall and fair; she was slight with curly, dark hair. Our driver makes various calls en route, each consisting of just a few short sentences, before turning into a different burial ground up the road, manned with armed guards. Charlotte Philby, daughter of John Philby, H.A.R. She and her late father, the spy's eldest son, John, both had to live with continuing speculation about the motivation for Philby's treachery. I love those images of him as a real person; for me, thats where the clues as to who he really was can be found. The gang of British spies who ended up in Moscow in the 1950s and 1960s were employed in KGB training schools and international research institutes. I feel as if I have been through some form of therapy, Ive purged these questions in a way. Writing Edith and Kim alongside home schooling and everything else has been a big thing and I feel now is a good time to pause and reflect. 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. Best thrillers for July 2021, The Times. Donald is well and happy to be with his family again. An Indian Civil Service officer turned Arabist and explorer, he spent 20 years travelling across the desert on camelback charting Saudis unexplored Empty Quarter, crossing paths with Lawrence of Arabia, and eventually marrying a slave-girl given to him by his friend King Ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia, to whom he spent many years as personal advisor. Philby was a 25-year-old reporter for The Times and had just returned from covering the Spanish Civil War when he met rebellious Aileen Furse in London in 1937. When Melinda and the children joined him, they moved into a small apartment and the children were put into the local Soviet schools. She was incredibly brave, incredibly loyal; she was completely faithful to the things she loved and believed in, and she had a firm belief that she had to do the right thing. He betrayed his country yes, perhaps he did, Greene continues, but who among us has not committed treason to something or someone more important than a country? Philby still dismissed from Foreign Service for his association with Burgess. Inside he wrote: Herewith a few extracts from our bible. In those days, correspondence had to be sent to a PO Box; and in his reply, Kim would sign off under a special code name, Panina (a combination of Pa and Nina, the alias used for Kims wife). Despite the number of times we visited Kim in Moscow, no one in the family was ever allowed to have his address. The shiny black 44 rumbles slowly through the graveyard. The last time I arrived at this flat, aged six, it was just a few days after Kims death, and my parents and I were met by a sea of swollen eyes. 1942Marries Aileen Furse, with whom he has two daughters and three sons. He was 65. And he kept his word to the end." He said, 'Why do old people live so badly here? But no matter; allowing myself plenty of time to get lost, Im soon heading towards the apartment where my grandfather lived out the final 25 years of his life under the watchful eye of Moscow and where his widow Rufa is currently preparing an enormous spread for our afternoon tea. Seconds later, were hurtling at break-neck speed out of the cemetery, along the motorway, the driver making various calls en route, each consisting of just a few short sentences, before turning into a different burial ground up the road, manned with armed guards. Life is good here in every way.. Kim Philby with partner Melinda Maclean (who later returned to her husband and fellow spy, Donald Maclean) walk in the woods outside Moscow in the 1960's, photographed by his son John, Donald Maclean pictured in 1937 whilst on a skiing holiday - he fled to Moscow to escape arrest in Britain as the spy who, for 15 years, had passed state secrets to the Soviet Union, Melinda Maclean and her sons in their last European home in Geneva 1953 -she was slight with curly, dark hair, 'an under-educated, attractive woman who was both affectionate and popular'. Being one of North Korea's elite, for the nation he was the highest profile defection since No Kum-sok (above . When its finally made clear that Ive come from England to visit the grave of my grandfather, Kim Philby, a Soviet agent who was given a heros burial somewhere on this land in the late 1980s, the old security man at the gate starts shouting, and shoos me through a private door, into the office where he regales the story to a tall man in a dark trench coat referred to as boss who in turn ushers me outside towards a brand new Range Rover with blackened windows. because he "didn't want his children, who were used to life of freedom, to suffer life of oppression". He fell for her the moment he met her among the bohemian set he socialised with in Paris, where he was a British diplomat. His cover story was that he was a political migr, a trade union leader persecuted in England for his political views. Eleanor Philby. She flirted with other men and had affairs. Banner-waving XR zealots let off smoke flares, pour black paint outside Home Office British tennis fans are kicked out for chanting 'You're just a s*** Andy Murray' during Cameron Norrie's Farmer, 71, who appeared on BBC documentary This Farming Life is killed by one of his own cows. ", His habit was fuelled by his sorrow over what he saw around him, she added. They gave a lot of parties. So, perhaps, by the time he died, a year before the fall of the Berlin Wall and knowing what he must have known by then he did feel disappointed. Kim was not nave; he knew that his ideal, like any other, was susceptible to corruption. Of course, he made bold and hugely controversial decisions, some of which had fatal consequences, but he didnt do so lightly. He sounded in good health and expressed the strong hope that she would join him in. Elliott was born in London, the son of Claude Aurelius Elliott, a don at Cambridge and Headmaster at Eton, where Nicholas was sent after Durnford School, a prep school on the Isle of Purbeck in Dorset.. After leaving Trinity College, Cambridge, Elliott was offered a post in 1938 as Honorary Attache at the Hague by Sir Nevile Bland.His career in secret intelligence came by chance . Two years later he was awarded the Order of the Red Banner. Kim even duped his own children, and left them behind when he fled to Moscow. Create a free website or blog at WordPress.com. Later arrives in Russia. 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. Many of the street names have changed since the collapse of the Soviet Union. Without a word, he steps out in his long dark trench coat and buffed-leather shoes, opening the back door for me to follow. There are two more mobile-phone shops inside the post-office building, and on the steps, a babushka swathed in heavy furs and surrounded by plastic bags counts out a handful of pennies. n ADAPTED from A Spy Named Orphan by Roland Philipps, to be published by The Bodley Head on April 26 at 20. In the capital, he became a magazine correspondent, then a teacher and analyst in a research institute for foreign and economic affairs. Indeed, when the leading Russian writer Genrikh Borovik was given access to Kims unseen KGB file in 1994 six years after his death the extent to which the Russians mistrusted him became clear. In a secluded area next to the domed restaurant (one of Kims favourites), the dimly lit bar is serviced by grey-skinned waiters; faux-marble columns run between clusters of heavy red and gold chairs, frequented by groups of men in out-dated suits, briefcases and thick-rimmed glasses, knocking back glasses of vodka, under a thick circle of cigarette smoke. Image: Barney Beech, The courtyard outside Kim's flat. Online calculator reveals how inflation-busting 14.4% hike will Do not sell or share my personal information. I am a private person and a political person. They took the train to Zurich, where they changed trains to Schwarzach in Austria. But more generally womens roles in espionage have been sidelined, and I wonder if thats because a lot of this history has been recorded by men. But whether that came with any sense of self-pity is something else entirely. There, a porter recalled taking their luggage to a waiting car with Salzburg number plates which drove off towards Vienna. The boys told a child they met on a beach that the photos he had taken could not be forwarded to them as we are going away and we dont know where we are going. Philby spied on his poor wife Aileen, the mother of his children His passage up to the highest levels of MI6 was so swift and easy that from time to time his Soviet controllers worried he must. Agent Stanley, as he was known, was ruthless without doubt. Philby's less attractive personal qualities were matched by a charm to which many of his MI6 colleagues succumbed. And in 1951, as his spying activities unravelled and his Soviet masters told him to defect, she agreed the best course of action was for him to be ex-filtrated rather than try to brazen out the accusations of treachery that were soon to be levelled at him. Everything has seen better days. In the intervening years, there have been endless attempts to understand how this gregarious, public-school educated English chap and his fellow Cambridge spies Guy Burgess, Donald Maclean, Anthony Blunt and John Cairncross could have been persuaded to betray their country, and dupe their family and their friends. The pair returned to England in May and, by this point already an appointed Soviet agent, Kim found work as a foreign correspondent. Kim Philby drank while Guy Burgess, who was gay, missed his friends in London, including Anthony Blunt whose spying activities, though known to the government, were kept under wraps until they were exposed much later, in 1979. Part of the Family and A Double Life are available now. The gramophone, in front of which Kim would take a seat to listen to the World Service at 7pm every evening with a cup of coffee, makes a tremendous groan as it comes to life, but its still very much in working nick. After Donald Maclean fled to Moscow to escape arrest in Britain as the spy who, for 15 years, had passed state secrets to the Soviet Union, friends of his wife, Melinda, found it easy to believe that she knew nothing of her husbands treachery. Published: 00:50 GMT, 17 April 2018 | Updated: 14:46 GMT, 17 April 2018, For 15 years, British diplomat Donald Maclean was passing state secrets to his KGB masters. Kim Philby, British intelligence officer and member of the Cambridge Five, defected to the Soviet Union in 1963. His father had a distinguished past as an explorer and fixer for the region's movers and shakers, and any intelligence Kim could pick up through his father's outstanding contacts would be useful to the bosses in . Standing on the balcony, you can see the same school playground, where children in heavy ski jackets are involved in a timeless game launching themselves from the top of a flight of concrete stairs to the ground below, cushioned with thick blankets of snow. But though his love affair with the cause never wavered, his love affair with Melinda did. Harold Adrian Russell " Kim " Philby ORB, OL ODN (1 January 1912 - 11 May 1988) [1] was a British intelligence officer and a double agent for the Soviet Union. (4 children) Litzi Friedmann (24 February 1934 - 1946) (divorced . As for Melinda the central figure in the circle of loyalty and secrecy, desertion and reconciliation, love and solitariness that was the human drama of Donald Macleans life she lived well into her 90s before dying in New York in 2010, silent to the end about her years with one of Britains most infamous traitors. According to a recent piece in the Daily Telegraph: For years Philby had sabotaged Allied missions behind the Iron Curtain and had calculatedly sent dozens of agents to their deaths. Most famously, he was almost certainly responsible for the tip-off which led to the deaths of the first British-sponsored Albanians who parachuted in to remove Enver Hoxhas Communist regime. 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. History / World. But at the famous Secret Trial in 1952, he convinced his MI5 interrogator Buster Milmo that he was not a Soviet agent. But neither was entirely impervious. 21 offers from $10.67. He feared that she would dump him because he was just a boring official in the British diplomatic service so to make myself look better and more important, I told her the reason why I led such a life. After reading it briefly, my dad had simply shrugged and tossed the note in the bin. that Philby, with his Communist views in Vienna and his Austrian Communist wife, had been recruited for SIS and had sailed through its vetting procedures?. For another, hed made his bed. [1] Philby began his work for the Soviet Union as a spy in 1934. Later, I notice the same sign above a statue of Lenin near the former KGB headquarters. One of Kims old KGB comrades, whom Id been in contact with during the course of my research for this article, told me that a gang of five or six of Kims former colleagues still meet up every month and raise a toast in his honour. "I said something to the escort and he just stayed silent, sitting, leafing through his magazine. A timely, gripping and morally complex thriller. THE SECOND WOMAN - the third of three connected, stand-alone novels - is available now, A Double Life is included in the Times' critics' round-up of the best thrillers of 2020, 'Superbly crafted with heart-stopping twists and chills galore.' Heads to Vienna to serve the movement there. Back in England, begins to cover up his past, joining the Anglo-German Fellowship, editing its pro-Hitler magazine. The two-drink tradition remained but in time there was no longer a need to hide the bottle, she added. It's Mr (coffee) Bean! 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