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Cambridge Five Spy Ring — Part 20
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LONDON — Harold (Kim) ~~ ~~“
-Philby’s achlevement in be- But above these qualities’
coming head of the Soviet . Philby had the capacity to... cou
“seetion of the British Secret dibguise his feelings ang in-' | ope
“Intelligence Service, while teptions, a crucial prpfes-|; soci
himself being # Soviet agent, ‘sifnal attribute of a spy.\For., the
‘must rank as one of the ' 30 years he lived as Aa pas- --
Shak Py eee
London Sunday Timea: ‘
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"caricature of ‘the establisn-: +
ment, and so this is an gc- *
of a great breach that |
d up the defenses of a.
V 00.2 THLE! 2h
NoT “RECORDED
class, and therefore }
fenses of the nation“ /. 47 (OCT 16 1967
y..was born,on New) |: oe
great professional coups in sionate Communist beMind | Year's Day, 1912, in imperial Of, a
the twisted history of the facade of a middle-class <= ——. +~-—-___—____*- — aa
espionage. — . Englishman with Liberal-to- :' | India. I y Phil.
Philby later went on Conservative opinions. ES Se erireeesteetrns oe
higher ‘hings rent he _ Tt ds stil! almost impos-. 2 bys indian play mate a nike The anil i ~2, 2.
came the linkman between sible to find chinks in the-, named him “Kim,” afler Times Herald
mask that Kim Philby first the half-caste boy of the mn. Washington Daily News
the SIS and the U.S. Central
Intelligence Agency, from
which position he could give
his Soviet spymasters thor-
ough general knowledge of
operations of both
m lor V Western | Antellig
nciés.
ut there is a else
quality about the earlier’
achievement. The selection
in 1944 of Philby, already a‘
Soviet agent of more than
ten years’ standing as the
man to’ conceive, build and
eontrol a new British opera-
tion against the Russians is!
an event embodying the
purest essence of espionage.
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a,
he’:
ce:
vhis inner thoughts,
Kipling book whose cent¥al .
put on when he was 22...
There are one or two clues: "- theme is intelligence work.
His writing was careful and -_ The boy's father, Harry.
restrained, and many people... St. John Bridger Philby, was
who knew him recall an’. . an Officer of the Indian,
flusive seise of distance or. — Civil service, a distinguished .
emoteness. Rarely did zhe . Arabist who, though he
low himself to be engaged , came of middle-class back-
such a way a& to. re aly | + ground, rejected its ordered. &
fe, we, for’ the passionate,’
The Evening Star (Washington)
The Sunday Star (Washington)
Daily News (New York)
Sunday News (New York)
New York Pest
The New York Times
World Journal Tribune
I
‘Had Philby been forced to | " egotis & culture of the (New York)
spend more time in first-; , Arablan deserts. St. John «3 The Sun (Baltimore)
class intellectual company: . ’ Philby, like T, E, Lawrence, : 5
during those 30 years, it is~ fought to free the Atab's The Worker
questionable” whether he~ lands: from Turkish rule'’ -The New Leader
could have kept up: the. " 8nd later came to share the The Wall Street Journal
Arab’ belief that Britain =
. Teneged‘on her promises at
“the end of World War I.”
“In 1929 Kim Philby entered | :
charade. But the ineptitude
of the British Intelligence -
Service helped to make his;
The National Observer
: i. .., fantastic career possible.
Well Equipped © ~* + “Because the SIS buresuc- : yxCambridge, where he met-
How was Phillj able todo” racy was protected by Jay-’: *- future colleagues Guy Bur- °
UP erg 1 | s of official mystery, Rhe - a Bess and Donald Macleag, . :
First,” he’ we superbly! agency was even less re ~ Phitby’s political ‘bent whs -f~ p
equipped for thefrole of spy: P4red than others in AS steadily leftwards, His views # °
His: marksmanship was ex-. 'B itish establishment ‘ ‘to 0 ere expressed more in pfi- ; <
cellent, his mind was swift; Cope with the mid-20th cen-.)"" though: with great
and clear, his nerves jere -. tury. The _ Service ', was -a ti, conviction. 2007). Biv “eC Ny
stréng, Despite some er. oo Re
ful drinking, he .remalned ? 3 $5 :
ec tough and bre. & / nt
silidnt. XPey 3/ | ?
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