But more importantly, every decision he made was done consciously. "It was winter and we were going out for a walk and I found one of my boots had disappeared. He was tall and fair; she was slight with curly, dark hair. 1937Joins The Times as foreign correspondent. His cover story was that he was a political migr, a trade union leader persecuted in England for his political views. 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'. Kim Philby and Nicholas Elliott. 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. In the living room, the same furs hang above the sofa, alongside a pair of Afghan guns a gift from the KGB colleague whom I spoke to earlier. . 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. ", 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 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. And sadness. 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. Charlotte Philby, daughter of John Philby, H.A.R. They're at it again! But that didnt mean the ideal itself was corrupt or not worth pursuing. 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. 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). Philby still dismissed from Foreign Service for his association with Burgess. But Maclean sobered up and went cold turkey in a detoxification clinic. Kim Philby, British intelligence officer and member of the Cambridge Five, defected to the Soviet Union in 1963. 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. The basic facts, after all, are well-documented. 1944Appointed head of Section IX, newly formed to operate against Communism and the Soviet Union. His drinking made him paranoid that his wife would abandon him. They lived together for three years, until a younger woman caught the philandering Philbys eye. Perhaps he hadnt always been right. Just beyond the crossroads which dominates Pushkin Square the spot where its said dissidents would meet, acknowledging each other by removing their hats is the former site of the Hotel Minsk (like much of the city, now under a lengthy reconstruction process), where Kim first met the journalist Murray Sayle in 1967. 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. Life is good here in every way.. With his brilliant mind and First from Cambridge, Maclean could bask in being the superior intellect to an under-educated, attractive woman who was both affectionate and popular, where he was withdrawn, giving nothing of himself away. 1958Marries Eleanor Brewer, an American. Aileen and the children also moved to America and the Philby's took a spacious, ramshackle two-storeyed place at 4100 Nebraska Avenue. 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. 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. But it wasnt true. Philby's less attractive personal qualities were matched by a charm to which many of his MI6 colleagues succumbed. Kim even duped his own children, and left them behind when he fled to Moscow. Slowly but surely, he was turning himself into one of the most cunning and treacherous double agents of all time. Laying flowers at my grandfather's grave. Kim Philby: new revelations about spy emerge in secret files UK government launched campaign to block memoirs being published fearing damaging disclosures Kim Philby had been secretly. We searched every corner until Kim suddenly struck himself on the head with his hand, went to a cupboard and brought back the boot. Find out where Kim Philby was born, their birthday and details about their professions, education, religion, family and other life details and facts. 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. Was that a selfish decision? Primary Sources. A large amount of the letters in the book are lifted verbatim from those. Doubtless Jeremiah faced similar problems.. Shes a sympathetic character in the novel. In the middle of the bookcase behind his desk, above his empty chair, just where Kims head would have rested, a single book looms out, cover first. But so it was. I feel as if I have been through some form of therapy, Ive purged these questions in a way. 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. He got drunk and roamed Kuybyshev looking for action, on one occasion having his teeth knocked out in a brawl. He married Litzi Friedman, a fellow activist and an Austrian Jew, to help her escape persecution. 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.' It was a miracle. In 1949 Kim Philby became SIS representative in Washington, as top British Secret Service officer working in liaison with the CIA and FBI. H. A. R. (Kim) Philby, the double agent whose betrayal of his country and his social class indelibly marked British politics, has died in Moscow, officials in London said yesterday. Kim was won over by the Communist cause while a student at Cambridge University, and upon graduation in 1933, travelled to Vienna to serve the international Communist organisation Comintern which was illegal in Austria with 100 in his pocket given to him by his father, St John, who was also a Cambridge graduate. Feeling a strong dissatisfaction with British policy in the Middle East, Kims father resigned from the Foreign Service in 1930, converting to Islam and taking the name Hajj Abdullah. "Kim believed in a just society and devoted his whole life to communism. 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.' 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. Melinda returned to Donald, but two years later moved to her own apartment. This is the first time Ive ever stood at the foot of my grandfathers grave, but I know it instantly. P&P free on orders over 15. 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. 58. Five minutes later, Im watching the shadow of a tall, leafless tree falling against the snow on the path in front of my grandfathers tombstone, wondering who it was whod been here in the past few hours and placed a bunch of brightly coloured flowers at the foot of his grave. He would say we and our when speaking of the Soviet Union and defended his adopted countrys brutal crushing of the Hungarian Uprising in 1956 an event that disgusted many Left-wing supporters back in the UK. But he also did it to impress her. Theirs had always been a stormy marriage, punctuated by bad behaviour on both sides and terrible rows. n ADAPTED from A Spy Named Orphan by Roland Philipps, to be published by The Bodley Head on April 26 at 20. I turn left, according to my map, away from Kims local grocery, where a creature of habit hed collect his daily supply of bread and whatever fruit and vegetables were available. So Philby left his wife and children in England in September 1956, arriving in a country for which he had little natural sympathy. But out of a smaller window, in front of the door, the view of Moscow is interrupted by a throbbing neon Samsung advert. 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. I remember Kims words: I have followed exactly the same line the whole of my adult life. In a written statement, they admitted they had been Communists since their Cambridge days and disingenuously described themselves as political refugees, not spies. En route, I pass some of Kims old haunts, and heeding his advice to visitors If you can no longer feel your nose, go inside stop off briefly for coffee at that famous Soviet hangout the Hotel Metropole. Viktor Suvorov . 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. Why British spy Donald Maclean's wife dumped him and their three children for fellow traitor Kim Philby The Maclean's marriage was stormy, with rows, infidelity and bad bahaviour Friends. 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. We are no longer accepting comments on this article. Why do you think she has been overlooked?Partly because her files were only released to the National Archive in 2015. Did you feel that as you uncovered her story?I feel a huge amount of sympathy for her situation, and admiration, really. 1934Marries Communist Jew Litzi Friedman. Photograph: Daily Mail/Rex Features, MI5missed early chance to expose Soviet agent Kim Philby, files reveal, Charlotte Philby: We visited Kim in Moscow, Love and Deception: Philby in Beirut by James Hanning review the spy who loved, maybe, ASplinter of Ice review Graham Greene and Kim Philby clink glasses, Graham Greenes showdown with Soviet spy Kim Philby: A Splinter of Ice review, KimPhilby: new revelations about spy emerge in secret files, George Blake exemplified the desolation, waste and treachery of the cold war, Moscow names square after British double agent Kim Philby, Athriller of spies and betrayal: by Kim Philbys granddaughter. He had got afraid that I would leave, and hidden the boot.". And if a soldier is fighting for a cause he believes in, which he believes is worth sacrificing single human lives for, but then in the end his side loses the war, does that mean that he was wrong to have stood up and fought in the first place? 4.1 out of 5 stars. Those are the facts but there are plenty of question marks too. A plaque in his honour was unveiled by the head of the foreign intelligence service at its headquarters in Moscow in December. The Second Woman: Best new fiction, Mail on Sunday. Like your own Holy Writ, it is open to many different (and often conflicting) interpretations, according to the tastes and prejudices of the reader., In the accompanying letter, he adds: The difficulty is that [Lenin] was always writing at white-heat on burning questions of the day (or even hour); and naturally his strategy and tactics changed to meet changing circumstances My Russian edition has 55 large volumes, so there is ample room for selective quotation and even spurious interpolation. Then, with no more information to be had, the story of the Macleans went dead. 1940Recruited by British Secret Services and attached to the Secret Intelligence Services (SIS) under Guy Burgess. 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. Charlotte Philby, daughter of John Philby, H.A.R. When the news broke in Britain that she, too, had defected, the Press rounded on Melinda, turning the pathetic and lonely figure theyd previously portrayed her as into a scheming deceiver. She sensed that the Macleans marriage was a difficult one again, with Donald on occasion still getting hopelessly drunk. Yesterday, in our serialisation of an electrifying biography based on newly released papers, we heard how he fled to Moscow just as he was about to be arrested leaving behind his supposedly innocent wife. We got together in our cabin to discuss our plans. Philby was a chap. Death. 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. For one thing, Kims life behind the Iron Curtain wasnt bad. Charlotte is the granddaughter of Kim Philby, Britain's most famous communist double-agent, the elusive 'third man' in the notorious Cambridge spy ring. 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. Elegant Princess of Wales is all smiles as she plays with children on visit to a nursery amid backlash over Thrifty Kate strikes again! And here he was struck by disappointment, brought to tears. They met each other socially but soon fell out. What are you writing next?After publishing four novels in four years, Im taking more time to write the next one. It seemed a fitting finale for such a notable spy. 1949Made SIS representative in Washington. My second novel is The Times' Book of the Month for July 2020, Chapman Pincher: The Spy-Catcher of Fleet Street, Edith Tudor-Hart: The grandmother of the Cambridge Spies, John le Carr: The writer who made me want to write, ELLE: An unexpected friendship with the other woman. He said, 'Why do old people live so badly here? Perhaps. And whenever we went to stay, wed be picked up from the airport and driven to his flat via a purposefully circuitous route in a KGB car so that no one could quite remember how we got there. 1957Aileen Furse, Philbys second wife, dies. There are so many ways that Kims choices have continued to occupy my mind since my dad died in 2009, but I do feel that this book draws a line under it. Eleanor Kearns was born in Seattle in 1914. He went on to serve the KGB for 54 years. 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. The Philby talent for putting on an act has been inherited by Charlotte, in a sense: she worked in theatre as a child, training with Anna Scher, whose radical Islington theatre group has spotted such talent as Kathy Burke and Phil Daniels. He got himself a job teaching English in a school. . Its my third day in Russia. 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. Amnesia in Literature and Film He passed over 900 British documents to the KGB. Which author do you most admire?I dont have favourites, but I love Helen Dunmore. The view from one of the windows is notably different, too. At the sight of our car, the men leap from their posts, saluting and buzzing the electric gates; one jumps into the front seat and calls out instructions as we roll off again. Having secured Kims first meeting with the Western press since his arrival in Moscow, Sayle says he finds him a courteous man [who] smiles a great deal, and his well-cut grey hair and ruddy complexion suggests vitality and enjoyment of life. 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. (4 children) Litzi Friedmann (24 February 1934 - 1946) (divorced . Without a word, he steps out in his long dark trench coat and buffed-leather shoes, opening the back door for me to follow. Given a heros burial in Moscows Kuntsevo Cemetery. Occasionally, the driver would draw a curtain around the inside of the windows, and attach a flashing blue light to the roof before setting off. 1951Tips off fellow Cambridge Spy Donald Maclean that a warrant has been issued for his arrest. I think part of the appeal of writing this book was trying to reconcile the ways in which Ive come to understand him: as a grandfather; a father; a friend; a traitor; an idealist. After all, they won the war.'". Just Stop Oil protester avoids jail after moaning that he had 'ruined his life' and damaged his relationship Millionaire businessman, 44, found with 10,000 worth of magic mushrooms growing in bathroom of his home in Was it all for the cameras? Being one of North Korea's elite, for the nation he was the highest profile defection since No Kum-sok (above . Your email address will not be published. In 1955, Harold Macmillan, then Foreign Secretary, issued a statement confirming that there was no evidence that Kim Philby was a Soviet agent. And all along he was handing information straight back into the hands of the Russians. Born in 1946, Dudley 'Tommy' Philby is the third of Kim's five children with his second of four wives, Aileen Furse Philby. Then she drove off with the children. In the capital, he became a magazine correspondent, then a teacher and analyst in a research institute for foreign and economic affairs. He worked as a journalist until 1940, when Guy . 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. She emphasised the strength and goodness of their fathers moral and political beliefs as a committed communist who wanted peaceful co-existence between East and West. Two years later, a Sunday Times correspondent was in Moscow and about to pack his bags after an unsuccessful attempt to interview the Soviet leader, Nikita Khrushchev, when, out of the blue, he was invited to a room in his hotel. As well as being my grandfather whom I remember from childhood trips to Russia as a funny old man with a beaming smile, who dressed almost exclusively in white vests and braces Kim Philby, to this day, remains one of the most significant double agents in modern history. 21 offers from $10.67. The fight against Fascism and the fight against imperialism were fundamentally the same fight.. The shiny black 44 rumbles slowly through the graveyard. Although she would be left pitied, even censured, and alone in a country in which she had spent barely one-tenth of her life, it might be better that he should be free to live a new life in Moscow than spend a decade behind bars. To the very end, as I find out when I set foot into his flat, Kim surrounded himself with things pertaining to British culture and life on the other side of the Iron Curtain: from PG Wodehouse novels to the Indian spices he used for his legendary curries. And while on holiday in Majorca, she gave away a lot of her clothes to the maid of a family she was staying with. Philby had defected to the Soviet Union from Beirut in 1963, and was treated with respect, but felt isolated. It was, in fact, those journeys to Kims flat which form some of my strongest early memories: flying down the third lane of the motorway in an unmarked car. She is also the granddaughter of Kim Philby, the notorious double-agent known as the third man in the Cambridge spy ring. 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. Princess Anne is the 'perfect' example of a spare thanks to her 'sense of duty', Charles's first royal RSVP! But the two men, for so long ideological comrades, fell out. [1] Philby began his work for the Soviet Union as a spy in 1934. 1965Awarded the Order of the Red Banner, one of the Soviet Unions highest military honours. In fact, he had arrived in Moscow days earlier, and can be seen on film standing just back from his fathers coffin. At one stage, in the programme for his play Single Spies, the writer Alan Bennett printed a claim that my dad John had turned up late to his own fathers funeral, straight from the airport, and stood swaying behind a gravestone clutching bags of booze. So, too, have I seen images of his cold body decorated with medals in an open coffin, armed guards at either side, as the lavish funeral procession made its way through Kuntsevo Cemetery to this very spot. 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. 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. The pair returned to England in May and, by this point already an appointed Soviet agent, Kim found work as a foreign correspondent. The extent of these contrasts can be seen by comparing two articles appearing on consecutive days in the Moscow Times. How? Kims library, which he had shipped over soon after he emerged in the Soviet Union, is testimony to his complexities and to his contradictions: across four walls of bookshelves, Russian classics and key Communist texts stand side by side with Raymond Chandler and PG Wodehouse novels; there are 19 volumes of Cambridge Modern History and a Sherlock Holmes scrapbook. Who is going to check 55 volumes for the odd sentence? But we visited Kim in Moscow and those holidays form some of my earliest memories, so it wasnt like he was a secret. In our final extract, she secretly joins him behind the Iron Curtain. Was he lamentable for still believing that a Communist state could ultimately exist, free from the corruption which plagues all systems, to the benefit of a fair, just society? 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. After five years of silence, communications were re-established with family and friends. 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. 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. Then they boarded what was described as a small military-type aircraft which flew them to Moscow to be reunited with Donald. While working as a senior member of British intelligence, he spied on behalf of the Soviet KGB and NKVD from the early 1930s until 1963, when he defected to Moscow. The spy novelist, whose latest book tells the story of her grandfather Kim Philby and the Soviet agent Edith Tudor-Hart, talks about the perils of writing about family, and why female spies get overlooked. Image: Barney Beech, The courtyard outside Kim's flat. 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. He liked the fact that you could only buy seasonal goods in Moscow, but asked family members to bring out the non-perishables he loved and couldnt get there marmalade, Marmite and Worcestershire sauce. Im conscious that his story belongs to different people in different ways, within our family and also more widely. Rather than angrily confront Philby, the American stated he would ask with considerable satisfaction, "How do . In the programme for his play Single Spies, the writer Alan Bennett printed a claim that my dad had turned up late to his own fathers funeral, straight from the airport, and stood swaying behind a gravestone clutching bags of booze. Original reporting and incisive analysis, direct from the Guardian every morning, Kim Philby in Russia in 1968, five years after defecting. Bennett concludes: Charlotte Philby thinks her grandfather was more honest, but its a saloon-bar honesty. But her latest article contains several interesting anecdotes, including an episode at Moscows Sheremetyevo International Airport, when Soviet airport staff scrambled frantically to work around the fact that they had accidentally scheduled [the Philbys, who were returning from visiting Kim,] on the same flight back to London as the British ambassador, who was wafting around the terminal in a pinstripe suit. The controversial civil rights leader was gunned down in front of his wife and children while making a speech in New York. He was able to order new books from Bowes & Bowes bookshop in Cambridge, who checked with MI5 whether they should be supplying him. When Bennett was pulled up on the matter, he wrote my father a note explaining that he stood by what hed said as the information had come from a reliable source a BBC journalist. Thanks for this post. Were you always aware that your family had this extraordinary history? Philby died in the city in 1988, 25 years after defecting to the Soviet Union, where he was employed as an occasional consultant to the KGB helping to prepare spies for missions to the west. Later arrives in Russia. Create a free website or blog at WordPress.com. Was he wrong to have continued on the Communist path once so many others had stepped off? "His story does not really go away, because there is. 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