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Cambridge Five Spy Ring — Part 32

121 pages · May 09, 2026 · Document date: May 11, 1966 · Broad topic: Intelligence Operations · Topic: Cambridge Five Spy Ring · 115 pages OCR'd
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wet oT mete ane aI } ‘ _ oo Los * completely against it, I thought 1 Phitby; “No, it is my? the whole thing was a’ regrel- } own idea. ] feck F would table reversion to the old spirit. A like to do whatever J can per| . Of course, they were guilty as i sanally to get these people aut{ = + charged. smuggling _ thelr 7 Perhaps two for onc scems ¥ criticism of the Soviet Union 1 bad bargain in the West, but we abroad in he published. They j will just have to face the fact should have got a weck in jatl, | that the Weslern side always or perhaps 4 public censure ! comes aut worst in this type of from their colleagues in the i exchange, for the simple reason Writers’ Union. What's the j that we have more, and hetter point of sending them to & t agents than you have. We get jabour camp? But you nave tt 4 Colonel Abcl, a first-class man, make some allowances for what 1 for Garry Powers, who was only these Russians have been : a pilot, for the simple reason _ through at the hands of foreign - po that you have no one as good “jnvaders—they're sensitive on 1 over here for us to catch.” ihe area of their own people Himself: * . petting involved with . | dimself: “1 love life, women foreigners. You can understand : and children, food and drink, I even if you con't aprce. The : > love all that and I want other old spirit survives here and t peaple to be able to enioy itt ythere, but you'll have to admit ; all to the full, foo" said Philby, these sentences were acainst - } asked him how ho felt about the whole direction things have +pPDOS aly : e a son and a political person. Of eight ages are political in the ‘ voitical there is & conflict. he sense es discussing the merits . itical person cames first.” j | said this sounded one of the of cone oo of became Dicakest. saddest things Thad ey ee ee the early ‘ heard anyone say for @ long Mhirties: the question, in my ” time. He shrugged his shoulders. case is why I remained one, and i Tasked pow re reacicd to the saw it throuch to the end, ope tray atta tn through the Stalin period and belong” he said. “1 never he- everyihing else, I make my tonced. Ihave followed ex arta osition eiear on these matters. : ‘the Le wheie af me The main part of my book is the same line the whole of my an account of my work with the adult life. The’ fight against S18 CIA and FBI in my fascism and the Aght against “earg in the West. I name imperialist were, | fundament- the colleagues 1 was involved | Haniel and AE avsky th with, but mot in an unkindly Imprisened writers: “L & why, I hope: just setting down ‘ NDE EE ne ihe ‘facts. I think the truth | | should come out.” « Laid, “ Your superiors must think this publication will help the Soviet side." Philby: “ of ‘course: 1 am a serving officer of the KGB. Naturally, I say noining about my work for the KGB in my book. and my his tory becomes rather general after ahout 1955-—-I have to =» think about protecting our own operations after that date.” rc. a . : . ae) | | en —_ . f a
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