She put the two boys into the International School in Geneva and finally explained to them what had happened to their father, reporting to her sister that their worst fear seems to be that I might vanish too. 1929Enters Trinity College, Cambridge. Pukhova said he was a "special" and principled man. 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. "I said something to the escort and he just stayed silent, sitting, leafing through his magazine. 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. But the place where Kims presence looms largest from every corner is in his study. But though his love affair with the cause never wavered, his love affair with Melinda did. 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. Those are the facts but there are plenty of question marks too. And here he was struck by disappointment, brought to tears. He was previously married to Rufina Ivanovna Pukhova, Eleanor Brewer, Aileen Furse and Litzi Friedmann. Eleanor Philby. But again, it was justifiable in his mind. 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. Did you feel that as you uncovered her story?I feel a huge amount of sympathy for her situation, and admiration, really. birth date: 1912-01-01. birth place: Ambala. He drank to excess, hit her, and often disappeared. 1942Marries Aileen Furse, with whom he has two daughters and three sons. He sounded in good health and expressed the strong hope that she would join him in. 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. What are you writing next?After publishing four novels in four years, Im taking more time to write the next one. 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. When Melinda and the children joined him, they moved into a small apartment and the children were put into the local Soviet schools. 1912Harold Adrian Russell Kim Philby is born on 1 January in Amballa, India, the son of Dora and St John. 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. Kim Philby was unmasked as a Soviet double agent in July 1963 when . "It was winter and we were going out for a walk and I found one of my boots had disappeared. 23. In contrast to Blake, Philby and Burgess and to a less extent Maclean suffered from nostalgia for Britain. 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. 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. 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. 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. He was my grandfather, and then as I grew older it became apparent that he was someone else, too. She liked it that he was a man with strong beliefs, and agreed to stand by him. He did all he could do for a cause he believed in: what was there to regret? 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? History / World. 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. . 1962George Blake is caught. As Kim told my mother when she asked him if he felt any remorse, he believed he was a soldier, fighting a bloody war in the bloodiest century in history. "If he continued drinking, he got inebriated quickly and changed in front of your eyes," she said. document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); The Philby case has always fascinated me. His father had a distinguished past as an explorer and fixer for the region's movers and shakers, and any intelligence Kim could pick up through his father's outstanding contacts would be useful to the bosses in . Recently I found a paparazzo shot of my dad with a suitcase getting into a car and me, aged five, looking into the camera, and I had this moment of recognition. Image: Beech Beech. 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. But out of a smaller window, in front of the door, the view of Moscow is interrupted by a throbbing neon Samsung advert. The view from one of the windows is notably different, too. Finally the car grinds to a halt, and the driver, catching my eye in his rear-view mirror, gives a nod. Kim Philby and Nicholas Elliott. Were you always aware that your family had this extraordinary history? 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. (4 children) Litzi Friedmann (24 February 1934 - 1946) (divorced . Chicago-born Melinda, whom he married in France in 1940, knew all along that Donald was a spy. 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. 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). 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. He always knew what he was risking his family, his friends, his reputation and he made his choices accordingly. 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. Kim Philby was born on January 1, 1912 in Ambala, Punjab, British India [now Haryana, India]. But even then, having made calculated decisions based on deeply-felt political ideals, I still dont think he would have done things any differently. The shiny black 44 rumbles slowly through the graveyard. After all, they won the war.'". The colourful characters of spymaster Gertrude Bell (the first female officer in the British Army), the legendary "Lawrence of Arabia," and the astute traitor St. John Philby (father of the notorious KGB double-spy Kim Philby) are all so dynamic that their heroics are hard to believe, but nevertheless true and soundly researched by a perceptive . Personal life. Kim Philby met his first wife the Jewess, Litzi Friedman in Vienna, and it was Friedman, a dyed-in-the-wool communist, who convinced Philby to become a fellow KGB . 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. 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.' Offer valid until May 1, 2018. Indeed, when the leading Russian writer Genrikh Borovik was given access to Kims unseen KGB file in 1994 six years after his death the extent to which the Russians mistrusted him became clear. Two hours later, wind-battered and almost frozen solid, I finally arrive at the gates of the busy cemetery, where, hoping the guard might be able to point me in the right direction, I scrawl down my grandfathers name and the word Communist on an old tissue, and flash my driving licence. Aileen and the children also moved to America and the Philby's took a spacious, ramshackle two-storeyed place at 4100 Nebraska Avenue. He had got afraid that I would leave, and hidden the boot.". death death: 1988-05-11. Just five years ago, my mum and I were refused service in a shop in Arizona on account of the name on our credit cards. 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. P&P free on orders over 15. Bennett concludes: Charlotte Philby thinks her grandfather was more honest, but its a saloon-bar honesty. 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. How? Kim Philbys granddaughter describes memories of her grandfather. So Philby left his wife and children in England in September 1956, arriving in a country for which he had little natural sympathy. But whether that came with any sense of self-pity is something else entirely. In our final extract, she secretly joins him behind the Iron Curtain. Kim Philby was probably the most successful double spy in history. Life is good here in every way.. He fell for her the moment he met her among the bohemian set he socialised with in Paris, where he was a British diplomat. Laying flowers at my grandfather's grave. They even had a dacha a country cottage 20 miles from Moscow where the children could swim, fish, bicycle and forage for mushrooms. Elegant Princess of Wales is all smiles as she plays with children on visit to a nursery amid backlash over Thrifty Kate strikes again! One of the first tasks he was given was to spy on his own father, which he did, without question digging up very little, because, though the Russians failed to believe it, there was nothing to dig up. Heads to Vienna to serve the movement there. 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. He and Pukhova married in 1971, when he was 59 and she was 38. Heavy blankets of snow have settled across the plains of Moscow, and either side of our track, the ground is a brilliant white. But such treatment did not last and they were quickly dispatched to the closed city of Kuybyshev, 600 miles east of Moscow far away, they were told, from British assassination squads. 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. Back in England, begins to cover up his past, joining the Anglo-German Fellowship, editing its pro-Hitler magazine. 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. Amnesia in Literature and Film 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. But we visited Kim in Moscow and those holidays form some of my earliest memories, so it wasnt like he was a secret. Philby was recruited, it reveals, because it was mistakenly believed that his father, St John, was a British intelligence officer. A retired CIA agent was once asked what he would say to Kim Philby, an MI5 agent who spied for Joseph Stalin, if he encountered the defector in Moscow. 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. Image: Barney Beech, The courtyard outside Kim's flat. Then she drove off with the children. Maclean bequeathed Blake his library of books, including Trollope, Macaulay's History of England, Morley's Life of Gladstone, and the Macmillan and Eden memoirs. Philby still dismissed from Foreign Service for his association with Burgess. Entering through the front doors and under a rickety, freestanding metal detector, its like walking through a time-warp. Death. Prince and Princess of Wales pay tribute to Auschwitz survivor Zigi Shipper, who dedicated his life to No rest for Anne! After five years of silence, communications were re-established with family and friends. Without a word, he steps out in his long dark trench coat and buffed-leather shoes, opening the back door for me to follow. 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. n ADAPTED from A Spy Named Orphan by Roland Philipps, to be published by The Bodley Head on April 26 at 20. Burgess did not cope well. Later, I notice the same sign above a statue of Lenin near the former KGB headquarters. But in Russia he is still admired as a hero. The extent of these contrasts can be seen by comparing two articles appearing on consecutive days in the Moscow Times. The two men said very little and the interview lasted barely five minutes. In his own words: I am really two people. I remember at the time feeling that something very dark was happening and that I didnt feel safe. 1946Moves to Turkey, working as head of SIS there. "Kim said to me, 'I came here totally fully of information, I wanted to give everything I had but no one was interested," explained Pukhova. I am going to England in July for a Filby reunion at the town Filby. Perhaps. 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. Takes charge of British intelligence in Spain and Portugal. 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. Kim Philbys oldest son, has penned an extensive account of her memories of her grandfather. 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. Born in 1946, Dudley 'Tommy' Philby is the third of Kim's five children with his second of four wives, Aileen Furse Philby. Melinda fitted the bill. 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. Kim Philby on holiday with his last wife Rufina Pukhova, 1970s. 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. But that didnt mean the ideal itself was corrupt or not worth pursuing. Some could never quite come to terms that he was a traitor. They're at it again! No doubt your grandfather would have disapproved of the sharp contrasts in present-day Russia, he said. 1988Dies 11 May at the age of 76. 1925Attends Westminster School in London. 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. One of Kims old KGB comrades, whom Id been in contact with during the course of my research for this article, 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. His drinking made him paranoid that his wife would abandon him. In this article for The Independent Magazine, I returned to Moscow to discover the truth about my grandfather, the infamous Third Man. 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. 1933Leaves Cambridge a convinced Communist. Original reporting and incisive analysis, direct from the Guardian every morning, Kim Philby in Russia in 1968, five years after defecting. 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. 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? The Soviet authorities buried him with honors when he died in 1988. Writing Edith and Kim alongside home schooling and everything else has been a big thing and I feel now is a good time to pause and reflect. In the capital, he became a magazine correspondent, then a teacher and analyst in a research institute for foreign and economic affairs. 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. children: John David Philby Josephine F. Philby Dudley Thomas Philby Miranda Philby Harry George Philby Birth. That summer, friends thought her distracted. "But he never got aggressive, and just went to bed. She also helped find homes for Kindertransport children and during the Second World War helped set up the British Restaurants for people who had been bombed in the Blitz. In 1955, Harold Macmillan, then Foreign Secretary, issued a statement confirming that there was no evidence that Kim Philby was a Soviet agent. Halfway there, they switched cars and drove to a small airport in the Soviet zone of Austria. Rebuilding it meant forging a unique friendship with the very woman he left her for. The KGB's only object in the world is to destroy me and the agency. 1940Recruited by British Secret Services and attached to the Secret Intelligence Services (SIS) under Guy Burgess. Today, Moscows main strip, Tverskaya Ryad which I remember from childhood holidays as a drab grey stretch clotted with queues of people who looked like they didnt know what they were waiting for (though it was usually oranges or ice cream) is barely recognisable: a knot of designer stores and mobile-phone shops, interspersed with garish billboards hanging between the buildings above the busy main road. It was a miracle. Where do you write?I wrote Edith and Kim all over the place because weve been in the process of moving house for the past couple of years, but now I have a shed at the bottom of our garden where I can feel Im in the middle of nowhere, and Im never leaving! 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. 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. They met each other socially but soon fell out. 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? Kim was not nave; he knew that his ideal, like any other, was susceptible to corruption. As I walk towards it, the title of the Anthony Trollope novel jumps out at me: He Knew He Was Right. Regardless of what I think of her ideology, I greatly admire the fact that she was able to hold these various parts of her life being a photographer, being a single mother alongside being a revolutionary, feeling that she could change the world. In a written statement, they admitted they had been Communists since their Cambridge days and disingenuously described themselves as political refugees, not spies. Online calculator reveals how inflation-busting 14.4% hike will Do not sell or share my personal information. And perhaps he felt that he certainly resented having to be escorted pretty much wherever he went for his first years in Moscow, as Rufa attests. The comments below have not been moderated. But, after a silence of nearly five years, here was the first actual sighting and confirmation that the runaways were alive. Viktor Suvorov . When I happened upon the story of Edith Tudor-Hart, I knew that she was the person I had to write about. He had friends, a wife; he indulged himself in a culture he loved the concerts, the ballet, the galleries; he travelled to Cuba, East Berlin, around the Soviet Union, and spent weekends at his beloved dacha. You should have seen his face.". 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. However, Pukhova said the fear that she would leave had helped her husband temper his intake in later years. Charlotte Philby, daughter of John Philby, H.A.R. 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. They gave a lot of parties. In fact, he had arrived in Moscow days earlier, and can be seen on film standing just back from his fathers coffin. Of course, he made bold and hugely controversial decisions, some of which had fatal consequences, but he didnt do so lightly. The two-drink tradition remained but in time there was no longer a need to hide the bottle, she added. Part of the Family and A Double Life are available now. 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. 1937Joins The Times as foreign correspondent. Hardcover. This is not the first time Charlotte Philby has written in defense of her grandfathers actions. because he "didn't want his children, who were used to life of freedom, to suffer life of oppression". . Exposure showed me along with William Boyds Restless how you can write a novel that is ostensibly a spy story but is really about the people, and the families, at the heart of a great betrayal. She has three children and lives in London. Macleans outward calm in the face of exile was greatly bolstered by his wifes support. It had been a long time coming. In Philbys own eyes he was working for the shape of things to come from which his country would benefit., Kim went to great efforts upon his return to England to cover the traces of his Communist background joining the Anglo-German fellowship in 1934, and editing its pro-Hitler magazine. Donald Maclean pictured in 1937 while on a skiing holiday - in the Soviet Union he and Guy Burgess described themselves as political refugee, not spies, Donald Maclean with his daughter Mimsie near their country home in England - in the Soviet Union he assumed a new identity, chosing to be Mark Petrovich Frazer (after the Cambridge anthropologist Sir James Frazer), Donald Maclean, aged four, can be seen on the right of this picture on the right of this picture. Maclean seemed totally at one with Soviet ways and believed to his death that the USSR and its new society has a much better prospect than the old of overcoming the major ills and injustices of our civilisation. Maclean was unsure how to act, feeling a mixture of guilt and love, not knowing where he stood with the children he had abandoned and not been able to contact. The last time I arrived at this flat, aged six, it was just a few days after Kims death, and my parents and I were met by a sea of swollen eyes. 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. She is also the granddaughter of Kim Philby, the notorious double-agent known as the third man in the Cambridge spy ring. Given a heros burial in Moscows Kuntsevo Cemetery. But above all, the problem was that Kims intelligence was too good, and to their detriment intelligence services are geared to believe that the better information is, the more it should be questioned. The basic facts, after all, are well-documented. Everything has seen better days. He got himself a job teaching English in a school. Philby exposed. As for the drinking, Kim never needed an excuse to crack open a bottle; he was a drinker in good times and in bad. He married Litzi Friedman, a fellow activist and an Austrian Jew, to help her escape persecution. Little Donald said perhaps he had gone to India because that would be a good place to hide., Donald Maclean with his wife Melinda Marling and his two sons Ronald and Fergus in the 50s, Wanted pictures are posted at a Berlin checkpoint for Donald Maclean and Guy Burgess, Guy Burgess (pictured) did not cope well to life in the Soviet Union - he got drunk and roamed Kuybyshev looking for action, on one occasion having his teeth knocked out in a brawl. Maclean accused Philby of being a double agent working for the British and they stopped speaking. Then, with no more information to be had, the story of the Macleans went dead. He feared that she would dump him because he was just a boring official in the British diplomatic service so to make myself look better and more important, I told her the reason why I led such a life. Getty Images In the USSR, Philby essentially became an honorary pensioner: he passed on to Soviet intelligence everything he. For one thing, Kims life behind the Iron Curtain wasnt bad. Princess Anne is the 'perfect' example of a spare thanks to her 'sense of duty', Charles's first royal RSVP! He was happy in Moscow and fulfilled by his work. Area of responsibility extended to include North African and Italian espionage. Which author do you most admire?I dont have favourites, but I love Helen Dunmore. References. "His alcoholism was suicide," she told the Moskovsky Komsomolets newspaper. He believed in freedom of speech and thought that Stalinism and all that were temporary and obviously, the outcome proved otherwise. Eleanor Kearns was born in Seattle in 1914. 58. Doubtless Jeremiah faced similar problems.. 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. And in 1951, as his spying activities unravelled and his Soviet masters told him to defect, she agreed the best course of action was for him to be ex-filtrated rather than try to brazen out the accusations of treachery that were soon to be levelled at him. But the two men, for so long ideological comrades, fell out. "His story does not really go away, because there is. Being one of North Korea's elite, for the nation he was the highest profile defection since No Kum-sok (above . Maclean and Burgess escape to Russia. As previously noted, this has been taken as a sign along with his heavy drinking that in the end, Kim was left a broken man, disillusioned and dejected, having arrived in Moscow expecting to be given important assignments and a high-ranking role in the KGB, only to be left with very little to do, and plied with booze to keep him compliant. 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. The views expressed in the contents above are those of our users and do not necessarily reflect the views of MailOnline. 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. It was a mystery. Perhaps he hadnt always been right. 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