Philby betrayed many agents that MI6 were attempting to infiltrate into Albania. All of these people would have been executed. There was a lot of blood on his hands.
He wrote a book giving an "account" of his life in the Soviet intelligence services called My Silent War. The foreword to the book is written by Graham Greene who is very understanding of Philby's motivations. It is a very good book. It and Spycatcher by Peter Wright are two of the best books on espionage that one could read, I believe. Philby's motivation for spying was ideological. He didn't think the British upper class were much different from the Nazis, a fairly common view in the 1930's.
Ok; he was a cheat and a liar, and you can hate him for that, but he was obviously convinced about his own right, and he took action for it, so that makes him interesting. Like it or not.
in Blink - a book by Malcolm Gladwell - pages 211 and 212 examine his facial expressions in a dreadfully true and an inmistakable way. read that book. he draws attention to how he grins in 0.36 and 0.41an raises an eyebrow in 1.18 which relates to unhappiness.
@tortelli It's not an issue of his beliefs but his actions. Anyone is entitled to their own beliefs but I what I find so contemptible is that having decided he disagreed with the country, he set about to earn and then betray it's trust, an act which cost people their lives. People loyal to their beliefs.
He didn't respect other's beliefs, and conversely, it was him trying to help the USSR impose their beliefs on his country through deceit, treachery and a contempt for human life. Despicable man.
@numberstation Correct. The Cambridge Spy Ring passed on the German plans for Operation Zitadel (Kursk) to the Soviet Union. It played a key role in defeating the offensive - Nazi Germany's last in the East.
I was too brash in my last comment. What really worries me is how blood is on his hands? How many agents were killed due to his actions? Unfortunately, spies were often caught and killed in the line of duty, and only the lucky ones were repatriated back alive. But this guy, and the other four, actions ended the careers of many agents, including John le Carré, and must of been responsible for execution of agents. How does one sleep at night knowing that?
he should have been hanged. he knew the kind or regime the soviet union was. his actions were resposible for the deaths of many people. the british security services and govt were too embaressed and feeble to know what to do with him even though many were convinced of his guilt. To cover it all up they helped him secure a job as a journalist stationed in Beirut where he finally confessed before defecting in 1962.
This man was responsible for the death of hundred of people in communist countries. This man represent the scum of earth I hope he is burning forever in hell!
@MrLeovandermeer At the time Philby was recruited the USSR was an ally of the UK. His motivation was anti fascism, a good call at the time. However post war he was wrong and certainly a traitor, maybe he was in too deep by then.
This man fucked up the system.At least on personal level...I very much like his bloody self-control...One in a million.He is adrenaline addicted, then have a few scotches and the rest ensue...I like him for not being BRITISH traitor but for having such fucking will for taking risk.
These "double-agents"; unreal how someone could live like that...Philby was Graham Greene’s superior (& friend) @ MI6 when Greene worked there...sometimes real-life can be 'stranger than fiction'.
I just can't understand how Philby et. al. could be such brazen traitors, and so self-assured about it. I mean, by this time the full horrors of Stalin's brutal dictatorship were becoming well known--the Gulag, Katyn Forest, the cynical collaboration with Hitler. And it was obvious the Soviet Union was far from the utopia it had claimed to be. Weren't these guys aware of it? Or were they just cynical and amoral opportunists?
Left-wing idealists the world over truly believed the Soviets had found the answer to a just society. They put so much faith in it that they found it hard to believe it wasn't true.
Philby, I think, was an adventurer, a risk-taker and less of an idealist than the others. Blunt is the one that puzzles me. How could the grey monolith of Soviet totalitarianism ever have appealed to anyone with his exquisitely refined sensibilities?
Eleanor Philby wrote her story "The spy I loved" that portraits a selfish dangerous man who was drunk most of the time. I think the homosexual aspect of the spy-ring is highly exaggerated, though Blunt and Burgess kept an openly gay lifestyle. Watching this video I ask myself if Philby was here drunk as well. His movements are far from coherent. He was responsible for the death of hundreds of British run agents.
Great interview about Philby on Charlie Rose. Go to Google video and type
Charlie Rose July 22, 1994
It starts at 13 min and 22 sec into show.
"New York Times Magazine" reporter Ron Rosenbaum talks about the enigma of Kim Philby, the British double agent who provided classified information to the Soviet Union that resulted in the deaths of scores of agents.
This is the first time I see Philby on film , I had no idea he was so obviously gay . His imprudent association with Burgess was that they had sex , considering the anti homosexual atmosphere of the time its amazing that he went as high as he did in both governments and was able to compromise so many secrets .
No I am referring to his feminine manners , lisp has nothing to do with it ,,, and yes he admitted that he was gay in his first interview in Moscow of course in his new life he got married and lived happily ever after .
This Piece of shit Traitor was responsible for hundreds of our Agents being caught and executed by the KGB.
This coward who preached Socialism from the upper reaches of the Class system should have been treated in the same way Stalin used to treat his enemies.All of the Cambridge Spies did untold damage to our Countries security and standing in the World.President Eisenhower wanted to cut off "all" Diplomatic links between our two Countries because of this sack of shit.Hollis was the same.
If you read Peter Wright's Spycatcher, (which I highly recommend as a cracking read) the author is firmly of the opinion that Hollis is the 5th man. Lord Victor Rothschild, is a close confident of Wright's and, if he's ever proven to be the 5th man, he turns out to the best spy ever having duped the ever wary Wright.
Kenneth de Courcy, founder of the Imperial Policy Group that, under supervision by an informal group of members of the two Houses, began studying the foreign situation in 1935 (letter dated September, 1963): "Why won't the security outfit (the Security Service) investigate Vansitthart's documents on Soviet spies... the answer is that Roger Hollis is himself a Soviet agent. And Roger Hollis is backed by the powerful Victor Rothschild who recruited the whole outfit."
De Courcy was writing 18 years before Chapman Pincher (in association with P. Wright) 1ST made the case against Roger Hollis. And a few years before defector Anatoli Golitsyn decoded the names found on the Venona files; DAVID and ROSA: Victor and Tess Rothschild.
It follows from there how and why Philby was uncovered by Flora Solomon.
As to Rothschild&Wright Ltd., take a look at "The Intelligence Game" by former MI6 James Rusbridger.
V.R contributed to the newsletter that Burgess and R. Katz (German Communist) edited.
V.R. introduced Burgess to Macnamara (MP that made him his secretary).
Imperial Policy Group founder, Kenneth de Courcy (1963 letter): "Roger Hollis is backed by V. Rothschild who recruited the whole outfit."
In 1961, defector A. Golitsyn provided information which pointed to Philby,he also decoded the names found on the Venona files; DAVID and ROSA: Victor and Tess Rothschild.
J. Rusbridger (MI6): "Rothschild was fed information in 1962 that ended up 'in the wrong place', the Soviet Embassy in London."
The Marks-Sieff partnership went beyond business (Marks&Spencer) into Zionism, it led to the Balfour Declaration: "HMS government view with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people."
It was a letter from Foreign Secretary A. Balfour to W. Rothschild. Both, title and Zionist advocay, were inherited by his nephew, V. Rothschild.
A British-Jewish, Flora Solomon (working for Marks&Spencer), was attending a party in Tel Aviv (Israel), she was outraged by Philby's anti-Israeli articles and made a comment about how Philby tried to recruit her as a Soviet agent before the war. The MI5 sent (SURPRISE) Victor Rothschild to interview Ms. Solomon.
Armed with Solomon's information, N. Elliott confronted Philby in Beirut (1963), Philby admitted an "error of youth", fooled Eliott (or so it seems) and fled to Russia a week later.
jjwaltz, you tell us! :), no one in this thread has linked Baron Keynes of Tilton with the Philby affair.
J. M. Keynes was a Rothschild/Blunt type of British elitist, but he was no Marxist, a theory he criticized as repulsive and scientifically erroneous. Neither did he embrace Zionism like the 5th man. He was acquainted with all the Apostles for sure, and had dinner with Guy Burgess on occassion (Andrew Boyle's "The 4th Man"); I presume Keynes was too queer to be involved in any espionage.
OK, was Baron Keynes a Fabian Socialist? He wrote many articles in their publications. He was close to Harry Dexter White exposed by the Vernona Project as a communist spy. The enigma here, pun intended, was his memorial service at Westminster Abbey and the suicide of Alan Turing, codebreaker of the Enigma machine, chemically castrated by the British for his homosexuality which was outlawed at the time. Turing, not an Apostle, was sponsored by JMK as a King's College Fellow.
Fabianism is but a clever euphemism for Marxism, in GB, the seed of the Labour Party. There are no shortage of authors who regard Keynes as a Fabian, and he did seek their friendship. However, it seems to me like mudding the waters for I see Keynes as a traditional Socialist, an authoritarian elitist entirely devoted to the unlimited expansion of the British Empire and HMS Government. Keynes, for instance, decried the Versailles Treaty (1919) as unsustainable; clearly not the Communist position.
who says all the guys were right wing terrorist.. were the communist any different. Absolutely not so the philby didn't do any good for anyone. He later became an alcoholic in Russia. Probably due to realizing that everything he believed was a bunch of lies.
Kim Philby was one of the best Soviet spies in the West, and a great man. His efforts signed the death warrants of the Nazi collaborator terrorists trained by the CIA and MI-6 in their anti-Soviet war drive.
What does Stalin have to do with it? Kim Philby made sure that far right-wing terrorists armed and trained by the CIA received the proper welcome wagon when they got there.
Great one!!!!! For sure I agree it was necessary for the USSR to be put on an equal footing so their was stalement during the Cold War, if the USA alone had the bomb a few more places may have gone the way of Hiroshima and Nagasaki!
Funny how Kim puts on this phony-stern officer-class diction in order to overcome his speech impediment. Normally his speech was higher, more chirrupy and stammering.
Thanks for this. What is said (and not said) here is more far reaching than most, read that, *almost all* people in the west may ever realize. That many things we now take for granted as 'it just happened' or 'that's how history played out' were actually engineered, and this one man had a very, very large part in it.
His was dead wrong ... To be a traitor to his country for the benefit of a cruel and monstruous dictatorship amounts not to courage but to sheer perversion of duties. You can speak freely today, it is in spite of his of his treason not thanks to it. Do not forget it.
@tortelli Definitely! He turned his back on a posh aristocratic life, to pursue his ideological goals. There aren't many people as loyal to themselves, and to their causes, as this man.
this is the first time i see philby on camera. on pictures he looks "as a rock." what you would expect from somebody being able to live under such pressure.here he moves all the time and has really odd facial expressions, almost hyperactive (coffee and cigarettes) and looks really fragile
Philby betrayed many agents that MI6 were attempting to infiltrate into Albania. All of these people would have been executed. There was a lot of blood on his hands.
ironpirites 3 weeks ago
He wrote a book giving an "account" of his life in the Soviet intelligence services called My Silent War. The foreword to the book is written by Graham Greene who is very understanding of Philby's motivations. It is a very good book. It and Spycatcher by Peter Wright are two of the best books on espionage that one could read, I believe. Philby's motivation for spying was ideological. He didn't think the British upper class were much different from the Nazis, a fairly common view in the 1930's.
ironpirites 3 weeks ago
He has communist hair.
jonathanpcampbell 1 month ago
Ok; he was a cheat and a liar, and you can hate him for that, but he was obviously convinced about his own right, and he took action for it, so that makes him interesting. Like it or not.
Willywaw 1 month ago
kim philby mother is from saudi arabia
ya3x5oz 2 months ago
in Blink - a book by Malcolm Gladwell - pages 211 and 212 examine his facial expressions in a dreadfully true and an inmistakable way. read that book. he draws attention to how he grins in 0.36 and 0.41an raises an eyebrow in 1.18 which relates to unhappiness.
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@tortelli It's not an issue of his beliefs but his actions. Anyone is entitled to their own beliefs but I what I find so contemptible is that having decided he disagreed with the country, he set about to earn and then betray it's trust, an act which cost people their lives. People loyal to their beliefs.
He didn't respect other's beliefs, and conversely, it was him trying to help the USSR impose their beliefs on his country through deceit, treachery and a contempt for human life. Despicable man.
JakePincombe 5 months ago
Right or wrong,like it or not,he had bigger balls than anyone commenting on here...
numberstation 6 months ago 4
@numberstation Correct. The Cambridge Spy Ring passed on the German plans for Operation Zitadel (Kursk) to the Soviet Union. It played a key role in defeating the offensive - Nazi Germany's last in the East.
MrHistoryman45 3 months ago
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We now know there are at least three lies in what he said here and a lot of humbug.
rafflesman 7 months ago
1:00 - 1:10, so that doesn't include the USSR then Philby?
The guy is full of sh!t!
Good riddance of him.
seahawk124 8 months ago 5
@seahawk124 it sucks balls when he is ur 4th cousin! lol
noahshortismyname 1 month ago
@noahshortismyname
I was too brash in my last comment. What really worries me is how blood is on his hands? How many agents were killed due to his actions? Unfortunately, spies were often caught and killed in the line of duty, and only the lucky ones were repatriated back alive. But this guy, and the other four, actions ended the careers of many agents, including John le Carré, and must of been responsible for execution of agents. How does one sleep at night knowing that?
seahawk124 1 month ago
putrescent scum of the earth.
Allen1029 9 months ago
Treasonous scum
StreetAvengerGS 10 months ago
Philby's sister Diana was a drunk,must run in the family.
nevanovna 11 months ago
@nevanovna i spoke to his granddaughter today and she wasnt drunk, she is a very clever woman, that is what runs in the family
SonicTractor 10 months ago
he should have been hanged. he knew the kind or regime the soviet union was. his actions were resposible for the deaths of many people. the british security services and govt were too embaressed and feeble to know what to do with him even though many were convinced of his guilt. To cover it all up they helped him secure a job as a journalist stationed in Beirut where he finally confessed before defecting in 1962.
daxis12 1 year ago 2
what he was should have been obvious to anyone: he LOOKS like a communist!
jfcemporium 1 year ago
defend borders that are ever changing? let me sign up-LOL men with their deficient brain structure
lmollot 1 year ago
he was a great spy.
masondarko 1 year ago
It's like he is reading a script...he chooses his words carefully
Eazeack 1 year ago
GOD FORGIVE US ALL BECAUSE WE DON;T KNOW WHAT WE ARE DOING!
Eazeack 1 year ago
This man was responsible for the death of hundred of people in communist countries. This man represent the scum of earth I hope he is burning forever in hell!
tony232cool 1 year ago
is a killer
bznabba 1 year ago
@001Dixie
(Bashing back/stuffing dumb stereotypes of what a gay man is "supposed to sound and look like"
back down the throat of the basher.)
Why are so many American televangelists homosexuals? They all seem to be incredibly
effeminate and decidedly gay.
Why are so many Americans so stupid? They seem to be incredibly
illiterate, anti-intellectual, over-religious and decidedly dumbed down.
Shall I continue, or has the message finally sunk in?
Hutchartwork 1 year ago
@MrLeovandermeer At the time Philby was recruited the USSR was an ally of the UK. His motivation was anti fascism, a good call at the time. However post war he was wrong and certainly a traitor, maybe he was in too deep by then.
haroldbhoy67 1 year ago
This man fucked up the system.At least on personal level...I very much like his bloody self-control...One in a million.He is adrenaline addicted, then have a few scotches and the rest ensue...I like him for not being BRITISH traitor but for having such fucking will for taking risk.
tubethe2be 1 year ago
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tubethe2be 1 year ago
These "double-agents"; unreal how someone could live like that...Philby was Graham Greene’s superior (& friend) @ MI6 when Greene worked there...sometimes real-life can be 'stranger than fiction'.
PlayIt4MeAgainSam 1 year ago 3
I just can't understand how Philby et. al. could be such brazen traitors, and so self-assured about it. I mean, by this time the full horrors of Stalin's brutal dictatorship were becoming well known--the Gulag, Katyn Forest, the cynical collaboration with Hitler. And it was obvious the Soviet Union was far from the utopia it had claimed to be. Weren't these guys aware of it? Or were they just cynical and amoral opportunists?
frantic1971 1 year ago
@frantic1971
Left-wing idealists the world over truly believed the Soviets had found the answer to a just society. They put so much faith in it that they found it hard to believe it wasn't true.
Philby, I think, was an adventurer, a risk-taker and less of an idealist than the others. Blunt is the one that puzzles me. How could the grey monolith of Soviet totalitarianism ever have appealed to anyone with his exquisitely refined sensibilities?
4Topwood 1 year ago
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frantic1971 1 year ago
Eleanor Philby wrote her story "The spy I loved" that portraits a selfish dangerous man who was drunk most of the time. I think the homosexual aspect of the spy-ring is highly exaggerated, though Blunt and Burgess kept an openly gay lifestyle. Watching this video I ask myself if Philby was here drunk as well. His movements are far from coherent. He was responsible for the death of hundreds of British run agents.
dazimo 1 year ago
@dazimo I believe you are right. He could probably function more or less with a high blood alcohol level.
phillippatterson1 1 year ago
Commie Faggot Poms?
Well, if they were useful to the Soviet Union.
DeathlyReaper217 1 year ago
I thought Philby was a womaniser (the Cambridge Spies series potrays him as one) and that Cairncross was the fifth man
pertuk 1 year ago
@pertuk He was probably bisexual
urmo345 1 year ago
Great interview about Philby on Charlie Rose. Go to Google video and type
Charlie Rose July 22, 1994
It starts at 13 min and 22 sec into show.
"New York Times Magazine" reporter Ron Rosenbaum talks about the enigma of Kim Philby, the British double agent who provided classified information to the Soviet Union that resulted in the deaths of scores of agents.
jjwaltz 2 years ago
Someone should study his body language
nevanovna 2 years ago 12
@nevanovna he was closet gay
aure232 11 months ago
@nevanovna They say Colin Firth did preparing his role in Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy.
comtemuffat 2 months ago
Utterly chilling. His effortless charm and ruthless singlemindedness were a lethal combination.
He lived too long yet died too soon.
4Topwood 2 years ago 4
This is the first time I see Philby on film , I had no idea he was so obviously gay . His imprudent association with Burgess was that they had sex , considering the anti homosexual atmosphere of the time its amazing that he went as high as he did in both governments and was able to compromise so many secrets .
AntiEverything00 2 years ago
So the fact that he spoke with a lisp makes him "obviously gay"?
Please.
namrekus 2 years ago
namrekus
No I am referring to his feminine manners , lisp has nothing to do with it ,,, and yes he admitted that he was gay in his first interview in Moscow of course in his new life he got married and lived happily ever after .
AntiEverything00 2 years ago
This Piece of shit Traitor was responsible for hundreds of our Agents being caught and executed by the KGB.
This coward who preached Socialism from the upper reaches of the Class system should have been treated in the same way Stalin used to treat his enemies.All of the Cambridge Spies did untold damage to our Countries security and standing in the World.President Eisenhower wanted to cut off "all" Diplomatic links between our two Countries because of this sack of shit.Hollis was the same.
flanneryged 2 years ago
The Soviets suspected Philby of being a TRIPLE. W-o-w
send2meez 2 years ago
The 5th man is the most interesting: Lord Victor Rothschild, 3rd Baron Rothschild.
jaralero 2 years ago
If you read Peter Wright's Spycatcher, (which I highly recommend as a cracking read) the author is firmly of the opinion that Hollis is the 5th man. Lord Victor Rothschild, is a close confident of Wright's and, if he's ever proven to be the 5th man, he turns out to the best spy ever having duped the ever wary Wright.
Tosty99 2 years ago
Tosty99,
Kenneth de Courcy, founder of the Imperial Policy Group that, under supervision by an informal group of members of the two Houses, began studying the foreign situation in 1935 (letter dated September, 1963): "Why won't the security outfit (the Security Service) investigate Vansitthart's documents on Soviet spies... the answer is that Roger Hollis is himself a Soviet agent. And Roger Hollis is backed by the powerful Victor Rothschild who recruited the whole outfit."
jaralero 2 years ago
De Courcy was writing 18 years before Chapman Pincher (in association with P. Wright) 1ST made the case against Roger Hollis. And a few years before defector Anatoli Golitsyn decoded the names found on the Venona files; DAVID and ROSA: Victor and Tess Rothschild.
It follows from there how and why Philby was uncovered by Flora Solomon.
As to Rothschild&Wright Ltd., take a look at "The Intelligence Game" by former MI6 James Rusbridger.
jaralero 2 years ago
According to Rusbridger, V. Rothschild was fed information in 1962, which ended up 'in the wrong place': the Soviet Embassy in London.
jaralero 2 years ago
TO: jaralero
I personally belive it was Hollis .This is the first time I hear about Rothschild being involved . What is your opinion based on ?
AntiEverything00 2 years ago
AntiEverything00,
At Cambridge, Rothschild (V.R.) joined The Apostles (Marxists) and became acquainted with Burgess, Blunt, Philby, Maclean and Cairncross.
V.R. was very generous with fellow Apostles, he gave Blunt £20,000 (i. adjusted) to purchase a painting.
V.R. leased to Burgess his London flat in Bentinc St. where all C5 and V.R. met.
V.R.'s mother made regular payments to Burgess (about £18,500 a month, i. adjusted), 5 times the usual stipend, for advice on investments.
jaralero 2 years ago
V.R contributed to the newsletter that Burgess and R. Katz (German Communist) edited.
V.R. introduced Burgess to Macnamara (MP that made him his secretary).
Imperial Policy Group founder, Kenneth de Courcy (1963 letter): "Roger Hollis is backed by V. Rothschild who recruited the whole outfit."
In 1961, defector A. Golitsyn provided information which pointed to Philby,he also decoded the names found on the Venona files; DAVID and ROSA: Victor and Tess Rothschild.
jaralero 2 years ago
J. Rusbridger (MI6): "Rothschild was fed information in 1962 that ended up 'in the wrong place', the Soviet Embassy in London."
The Marks-Sieff partnership went beyond business (Marks&Spencer) into Zionism, it led to the Balfour Declaration: "HMS government view with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people."
It was a letter from Foreign Secretary A. Balfour to W. Rothschild. Both, title and Zionist advocay, were inherited by his nephew, V. Rothschild.
jaralero 2 years ago
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jaralero 2 years ago
A British-Jewish, Flora Solomon (working for Marks&Spencer), was attending a party in Tel Aviv (Israel), she was outraged by Philby's anti-Israeli articles and made a comment about how Philby tried to recruit her as a Soviet agent before the war. The MI5 sent (SURPRISE) Victor Rothschild to interview Ms. Solomon.
Armed with Solomon's information, N. Elliott confronted Philby in Beirut (1963), Philby admitted an "error of youth", fooled Eliott (or so it seems) and fled to Russia a week later.
jaralero 2 years ago
Where does John Maynard Keynes fit into all of this Burgess affair other than the homosexual part?
jjwaltz 2 years ago
jjwaltz, you tell us! :), no one in this thread has linked Baron Keynes of Tilton with the Philby affair.
J. M. Keynes was a Rothschild/Blunt type of British elitist, but he was no Marxist, a theory he criticized as repulsive and scientifically erroneous. Neither did he embrace Zionism like the 5th man. He was acquainted with all the Apostles for sure, and had dinner with Guy Burgess on occassion (Andrew Boyle's "The 4th Man"); I presume Keynes was too queer to be involved in any espionage.
jaralero 2 years ago
@jaralero
OK, was Baron Keynes a Fabian Socialist? He wrote many articles in their publications. He was close to Harry Dexter White exposed by the Vernona Project as a communist spy. The enigma here, pun intended, was his memorial service at Westminster Abbey and the suicide of Alan Turing, codebreaker of the Enigma machine, chemically castrated by the British for his homosexuality which was outlawed at the time. Turing, not an Apostle, was sponsored by JMK as a King's College Fellow.
jjwaltz 2 years ago
Fabianism is but a clever euphemism for Marxism, in GB, the seed of the Labour Party. There are no shortage of authors who regard Keynes as a Fabian, and he did seek their friendship. However, it seems to me like mudding the waters for I see Keynes as a traditional Socialist, an authoritarian elitist entirely devoted to the unlimited expansion of the British Empire and HMS Government. Keynes, for instance, decried the Versailles Treaty (1919) as unsustainable; clearly not the Communist position.
jaralero 2 years ago 2
who says all the guys were right wing terrorist.. were the communist any different. Absolutely not so the philby didn't do any good for anyone. He later became an alcoholic in Russia. Probably due to realizing that everything he believed was a bunch of lies.
groniga 2 years ago
Kim Philby was one of the best Soviet spies in the West, and a great man. His efforts signed the death warrants of the Nazi collaborator terrorists trained by the CIA and MI-6 in their anti-Soviet war drive.
hectorbolshevik 2 years ago
really.. kim philby a good guy.. How many people died under stalin?
groniga 2 years ago
What does Stalin have to do with it? Kim Philby made sure that far right-wing terrorists armed and trained by the CIA received the proper welcome wagon when they got there.
hectorbolshevik 2 years ago
Great one!!!!! For sure I agree it was necessary for the USSR to be put on an equal footing so their was stalement during the Cold War, if the USA alone had the bomb a few more places may have gone the way of Hiroshima and Nagasaki!
Keanetastico 2 years ago
Vassman is right he looks uneasy and shifty.
lorgain2 2 years ago
Philby... Ace of Spies
danoba6 2 years ago 2
Funny how Kim puts on this phony-stern officer-class diction in order to overcome his speech impediment. Normally his speech was higher, more chirrupy and stammering.
sallieparker 2 years ago
Thanks for this. What is said (and not said) here is more far reaching than most, read that, *almost all* people in the west may ever realize. That many things we now take for granted as 'it just happened' or 'that's how history played out' were actually engineered, and this one man had a very, very large part in it.
theschizoidman 2 years ago
Reminds me of Monty Pythons upper class twit sketches.
falconeaterf15 2 years ago
Spying under the smile.
MBrando2404 2 years ago 3
He hides it so well.
MBrando2404 2 years ago 2
He was also an abuser of little boys.
BigDuke6ixx 2 years ago
what proof do you have???
danielhewson 2 years ago
His was dead wrong ... To be a traitor to his country for the benefit of a cruel and monstruous dictatorship amounts not to courage but to sheer perversion of duties. You can speak freely today, it is in spite of his of his treason not thanks to it. Do not forget it.
valmont2044 2 years ago
Deadly!
RedLace2 2 years ago
The interviewer is Edwin Newman from NBC. This clip is actually patched together from the short Pathe newsreel and a couple of outtakes.
sallieparker 2 years ago
loyal to his beliefs, traitor to his country..
in my opinion, he made the right choice: he chose what his heart wanted, not what was imposed to him.
tortelli 3 years ago 9
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nubbs 1 year ago
@tortelli Definitely! He turned his back on a posh aristocratic life, to pursue his ideological goals. There aren't many people as loyal to themselves, and to their causes, as this man.
graknor 9 months ago
this is the first time i see philby on camera. on pictures he looks "as a rock." what you would expect from somebody being able to live under such pressure.here he moves all the time and has really odd facial expressions, almost hyperactive (coffee and cigarettes) and looks really fragile
diadorim1234 3 years ago
/double/tripple agent?
Loyal till the end or a traitor
dannycreighton 3 years ago
Traitor
MrJazMeow 3 years ago