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. Part of the Daily Mail, The Mail on Sunday & Metro Media Group. Looking around Kims study now, past the proud photo of him with the local ice-hockey team, below one of his father and another of various key Soviet politicians shaking hands, my eye is drawn to a large black-and-white print of Che Guevara, which looks out from above one of the bookshelves in the far right-hand corner, like an all-seeing eye. History / World. Philby's less attractive personal qualities were matched by a charm to which many of his MI6 colleagues succumbed. Mid-morning, wrapped against the cold in Kims old bear hat and a matching coat (its too cold here for animal rights), I set off from my hotel with a map and enough money for the metro and taxi Ill need to take me from the station to the cemetery off the Mozhaisk highway. Today, this pedestrianised street is only accessible by a coded gate, and the faade of the building has been tarted up almost beyond recognition. 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. 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. But again, it was justifiable in his mind. Slowly but surely, he was turning himself into one of the most cunning and treacherous double agents of all time. 1929Enters Trinity College, Cambridge. But we visited Kim in Moscow and those holidays form some of my earliest memories, so it wasnt like he was a secret. He did all he could do for a cause he believed in: what was there to regret? Kim Philbys oldest son, has penned an extensive account of her memories of her grandfather. Were you always aware that your family had this extraordinary history? Grandpas flat is almost exactly as he left it: After Kim left, I didnt want to change anything, Rufa says. 23. 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. As for the drinking, Kim never needed an excuse to crack open a bottle; he was a drinker in good times and in bad. Heads to Vienna to serve the movement there. 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. Im conscious that his story belongs to different people in different ways, within our family and also more widely. But in Russia he is still admired as a hero. We searched every corner until Kim suddenly struck himself on the head with his hand, went to a cupboard and brought back the boot. I remember at the time feeling that something very dark was happening and that I didnt feel safe. Many times Ive pored over images of the tall, polished tombstone with the Cyrillic script, and the image of his face etched on its surface, in newspaper cuttings and family photos. 1942Marries Aileen Furse, with whom he has two daughters and three sons. To order A Spy Among Friends or Kim Philby, each at 14.99 with free UK p&p, call Guardian book service on 0330 333 6846 or go to guardianbookshop.co.uk. How easy did you find it to capture Kims voice?I spent so long with his letters and they gave me such an insight into the expressions he used, the way he spoke, how he flipped between being tender and reflective and witty and scathing, and his very English obsession with the weather. His drinking made him paranoid that his wife would abandon him. 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. When you look at the way Edith is referred to in the [security services] files as that foreign woman, I wonder whether theres a sense of embarrassment too. Princess Anne is the 'perfect' example of a spare thanks to her 'sense of duty', Charles's first royal RSVP! They lived together for three years, until a younger woman caught the philandering Philbys eye. 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. His cover story was that he was a political migr, a trade union leader persecuted in England for his political views. The Soviet authorities buried him with honors when he died in 1988. 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. 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. He became more optimistic once the family was deemed fully rehabilitated and they moved to Moscow in 1955. Did you feel that as you uncovered her story?I feel a huge amount of sympathy for her situation, and admiration, really. Philby still dismissed from Foreign Service for his association with Burgess. because he "didn't want his children, who were used to life of freedom, to suffer life of oppression". 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. While I was researching this article, Bennett also the author of An Englishman Abroad, in which he imagines Guy Burgesss final years in Moscow: lonely, pathetic and wholly unfulfilled responded to a shorter opinion piece I wrote for this paper last July in which I defended my grandfathers decision not to apologise publicly for his actions. November 16, 2017. Cambridge-educated Nicholas Elliott and Kim Philby became close friends in 1940, when they were both working in separate departments of the British Intelligence . 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. But so it was. The central post office, where Kim would come every morning to pick up his mail and a stack of British and American newspapers, stands halfway up on the left. 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. The two men in the front seat my guards of honour peer out in silence, squinting their eyes against the sunlight as it pours in through the canopy of trees above. When author Charlotte Philby's partner ended their relationship, her world fell apart. In 1963, having been exposed in Britain as the notorious Third Man in the Cambridge Spy Ring, Kim fled to Moscow, never again to set foot from behind the Iron Curtain. But at the famous Secret Trial in 1952, he convinced his MI5 interrogator Buster Milmo that he was not a Soviet agent. 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. Kim Philby, the most successful of the Cambridge spies, tried to drink himself to death in Moscow because he was disillusioned with communism and tortured by his own failings, his last wife has said in an interview. 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. "It was winter and we were going out for a walk and I found one of my boots had disappeared. 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. And he kept his word to the end." Donald Maclean pictured in his teens whilst at Gresham School - he fell for Melinda the moment he met her among the bohemian set he socialised with in Paris, Donald Maclean Soviet was Third Secretary in Paris for the British Embassy and stood head and shoulders above his contemporaries in the back row, (second from the right), Donald Maclean (arrowed in the second rank) taking part in an anti-war march in Cambridge in 1933. Required to take new names and identities, Maclean chose to be Mark Petrovich Frazer (after the Cambridge anthropologist Sir James Frazer of Golden Bough fame, a 12-volume study of mythology and religion). But it wasnt true. Life in Moscow. Rebuilding it meant forging a unique friendship with the very woman he left her for. . In 1983, a month or so after my parents took me as a newborn to meet him for the first time, Kim sent a copy of Lenins On the Dictatorship of the Proletariat, with a long, beautifully written letter to my maternal grandfather, whom he was unlikely ever to meet. Prince and Princess of Wales pay tribute to Auschwitz survivor Zigi Shipper, who dedicated his life to No rest for Anne! 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? 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. 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. 1946Moves to Turkey, working as head of SIS there. She was an object of both pity and fascination, and to get away from it all, she moved from their house on the Kent-Surrey border to Switzerland, with her mother. He went on to serve the KGB for 54 years. Those are the facts but there are plenty of question marks too. He wasnt one to care what others thought: Never be boring, and dont be afraid of offending people was one of the last things he told me before he died. Then, with no more information to be had, the story of the Macleans went dead. The fight against Fascism and the fight against imperialism were fundamentally the same fight.. "His alcoholism was suicide," she told the Moskovsky Komsomolets newspaper. The pair returned to England in May and, by this point already an appointed Soviet agent, Kim found work as a foreign correspondent. 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. Then she drove off with the children. Edith and Kim: The brilliant new historical spy novel based on the true story of the woman behind the Cambridge spies in Cold War espionage. Melinda put the bravest of faces on her situation when she wrote to her still grief-stricken mother that she understood the suffering she had caused. 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. 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. He sounded in good health and expressed the strong hope that she would join him in. 21 offers from $10.67. Agent Stanley, as he was known, was ruthless without doubt. 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. Philby is summoned for interrogation and asked to resign from Foreign Service. 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? Life is good here in every way.. And it is to these that my mind turns as I make my way from my hotel, across Red Square, the following day towards Kims flat, following the route marked out in pencil on a rather vague map drawn up from the combined memories of various family members, none of whom has been here in more than 20 years. Philby exposed. In this article for The Independent Magazine, I returned to Moscow to discover the truth about my grandfather, the infamous Third Man. Kim Philby was born on January 1, 1912 in Ambala, Punjab, British India [now Haryana, India]. 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. Perhaps he hadnt always been right. Which author do you most admire?I dont have favourites, but I love Helen Dunmore. She has three children and lives in London. 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. Understandably, as a consequence, he is loathed by many. On the eve of his 99th birthday, I spent, At Kim's flat with his partner, Rufina. Philby was a chap. For one thing, Kims life behind the Iron Curtain wasnt bad. Eleanor Kearns was born in Seattle in 1914. That summer, friends thought her distracted. Melinda returned to Donald, but two years later moved to her own apartment. Today, as Kims widow greets me at the door, offering me a pair of woollen slippers, the atmosphere is quiet and calm. Burgess predeceased him by 20 years, carried off by angina, an abused liver and hardening of the arteries. I am going to England in July for a Filby reunion at the town Filby. Getty Images In the USSR, Philby essentially became an honorary pensioner: he passed on to Soviet intelligence everything he. Donald Maclean, although arrogant and someone who liked a drink too, was regarded as more convivial. But even then, having made calculated decisions based on deeply-felt political ideals, I still dont think he would have done things any differently. Despite the number of times we visited Kim in Moscow, no one in the family was ever allowed to have his address. 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 . Charlotte Philby, daughter of John Philby, H.A.R. 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. He claimed he made the admission to her to excuse his lateness for their meetings when he was busy handling documents and rendezvousing with his Soviet handler. Kim Philby was unmasked as a Soviet double agent in July 1963 when . Image: Barney Beech, Kim's graveside, at Kuntsovo Cemetry. This is absolutely the best place for us. "But he never got aggressive, and just went to bed. For one thing, like all the men in the Philby family, he was bloody-minded. His ashes were brought back to England, as he had requested, and buried in his parents grave after dark and by torchlight so that the press would not get wind of it. Philby lives in Bristol with her husband and three children. Kim Philby, British intelligence officer and member of the Cambridge Five, defected to the Soviet Union in 1963. 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). 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. 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. 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. 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. He believed in freedom of speech and thought that Stalinism and all that were temporary and obviously, the outcome proved otherwise. 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. That he could carry on a secret life without her being aware, while at the same time working his way up the ranks of the British Foreign Office, seemed perfectly possible. Shes a sympathetic character in the novel. When her brother-in-law, Alan Maclean, asked her whether she would join Donald if she knew for sure that he was behind the Iron Curtain, she gave a firm No. 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. Find out where Kim Philby was born, their birthday and details about their professions, education, religion, family and other life details and facts. Being one of North Korea's elite, for the nation he was the highest profile defection since No Kum-sok (above . 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. Later arrives in Russia. He drank to excess, hit her, and often disappeared. In the end despite having been what Allen Dulles (de facto head of the CIA from 1953 to 1961) once reluctantly described as the best spy Russia ever had Kim was watched over as much as looked after by his masters, and he was not used to his full potential. 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. It was a few years after this, in 1933, that Kim went to Vienna. The view from one of the windows is notably different, too. Edith and Kim by Charlotte Philby is published by HarperCollins (14.99). Kim even duped his own children, and left them behind when he fled to Moscow. 1912Harold Adrian Russell Kim Philby is born on 1 January in Amballa, India, the son of Dora and St John. 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. Macleans outward calm in the face of exile was greatly bolstered by his wifes support. George Blake, who is still alive, got on well with him than with Philby. 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. 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. On their first night in Moscow, an elated Burgess and Maclean had dined in style on a great hotel balcony on the first floor overlooking the Kremlin and got drunk on vodka. Image: Barney Beech, The courtyard outside Kim's flat. A few days after her return to Switzerland, she told her mother she had run into an old friend in the local market and hed invited her and the children to stay with him for the weekend in his villa at the other end of Lake Geneva. kims flat is several floors up, in an apartment block not far from Pushkin Square, marked out from the rest by a tiny balcony. I am learning more about my family everyday.. By JOSEPH FITSANAKIS | intelNews.org | Thanks Darryl.I live in Australia. document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); The Philby case has always fascinated me. ", 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. Laying flowers at my grandfather's grave. 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. Kim Philby In Moscow: Not What He Wished For. He didnt seem to mind that their marriage was over. It was a miracle. . 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. The controversial civil rights leader was gunned down in front of his wife and children while making a speech in New York. 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. Philby's work led to the deaths of dozens of British agents, making him a reviled traitor once he was exposed in Britain. In contrast to Blake, Philby and Burgess and to a less extent Maclean suffered from nostalgia for Britain. Over the years he did everything that was asked of him: he gave everything he had to the cause, and yet still Moscow was deeply suspicious of a man who has been described as their finest and most loyal servant. 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. Eleanor Philby. 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. John Philby, who has died aged 65, was the eldest son of the Russian spy Kim Philby, unmasked in 1963 as a double agent and the notorious Third Man in the Cambridge spy ring of the 1930s. 1937Joins The Times as foreign correspondent. Original reporting and incisive analysis, direct from the Guardian every morning, Kim Philby in Russia in 1968, five years after defecting. In 1949 Kim Philby became SIS representative in Washington, as top British Secret Service officer working in liaison with the CIA and FBI. He was tall and fair; she was slight with curly, dark hair. She is also the granddaughter of Kim Philby, the notorious double-agent known as the third man in the Cambridge spy ring. 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. Perhaps its too early to judge; after all, Communism, according to its followers, is the final epoch, inevitable only once all other systems have eaten themselves which, of course, they will. Philby, though, began seeing Melinda on the side, confessing as much to his wife and saying that he was just trying to make [Melindas] life happier as she had been miserable for the last 15 years. In fact, he had arrived in Moscow days earlier, and can be seen on film standing just back from his fathers coffin. No doubt your grandfather would have disapproved of the sharp contrasts in present-day Russia, he said. How? She flew to New York to see her daughter Annie, and it was there that several letters arrived from Philby. 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. 1949Made SIS representative in Washington. Burgess did not cope well. 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. But more importantly, every decision he made was done consciously. Amnesia in Literature and Film He had got afraid that I would leave, and hidden the boot.". However, Pukhova said the fear that she would leave had helped her husband temper his intake in later years. After five years of silence, communications were re-established with family and friends. 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