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Cambridge Five Spy Ring — Part 20

82 pages · May 09, 2026 · Broad topic: Intelligence Operations · Topic: Cambridge Five Spy Ring · 82 pages OCR'd
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Shae i DeLoach 0-89 (ev. 12-09-66) ) fi 7 O theHea Mo he a we ei a a ane OS ee ee ee chit Mga ae agri, | Briti Dia Casper Callahan Conrad Felt Gale, Rosen Sullivan Tavel Trotter Tele. Room Hoimes Gandy ro. i oo rity: eee ener See eed aaah haat whys hs wal chan #* shSecurt ; eee eas ee a neues oad ” ET Baa Bee ” _ Disguised Spy y Slipped: . Past His Lax Superidrs.. BOER pg cg oe 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: ‘ © "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. C7 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/ | ? ly. eet ORT P96r ma Uo — 3 ff \ —
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