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Cambridge Five Spy Ring — Part 28
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The x man Allen Dulles has called “the best spy the Soviets ever had” now tells in his
4 words the story of his incredible career. From his Moscow sanctuary, Philby disc
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of secret CIA and FBI operations in Washington, and finally tipped off Soviet
Donald Maclean and Guy Burgess before they could be arrested. Now Philby revea
explosive details of a thirty-year masquerade unmatched in the annals of espio
Kim Philby reveals |
in his own words...
Mi Why he became a Soviet agent — the
two-year conversion from Socialism to
Conusuniant
if How he escaped a firing squad Literally
by the akin of his teeth in the early part
of his career a
Bi How he advagfeed in British Secret
Service to the posk the Russians told hina
he muat get regardless (he got it)
EH OWhy J. Edgar Hoover was furious
when he heard Philby had been ap-
pointed to work with the FBI and the
against him, and why he wann't afraid
of the “burubling” Allen Dulles _
Mi What the CIA and FBI look like from
the inside to a Rusian spy =~
+
E How J, Edgar Hoover could have si-
Tenced Senator Joseph McCarthy — and
why he chose not to
How accused espionage agent Judith
Coplon so damaged the public image of
the F'Bi in court that Hoover was forced
to drop the charges againsther =“ fi
W How Philby. was abla to stand up > to
feared British investigator John Skar.
don, the man who forced a confession
front scientist Klaus Fuchs
W How Philby helped two imporlant So-
viet agents escape just hours before Brit-
ish jntelligence was ready to move in
What it was like entering the lion's
den in Washington, D.C,
i Wit happened when Phithy was sent,
to Istanbul to question @ Russian de-
fector whe promised information about
a Soviet spy in British counter-intelli-
gence (Philby himself) : 7
Mi Tow a leading British newspaper un+
wittingly made it possible for Philby ta
continua his undercover career for an+
other seven years
BM What Philby really thought of his as
sociates — candid, offen brutal observa-
tiona on J. Edgar Hoover (“a bubble
reputation if there ever was one"} 1...
tant Director of the FBI ("By
any objective standard, he was a drand-
ful man, but I could not help prawing
fond of him”)... the Chief of SIS ("In
my own field, counter-espionage, hin at-
titudes were achoviboyish -- bars, beards,
and blondes”) ... Maleotm Muggericdge
("His stubborn oppesition to the policy
of the day = whatever it was — Jent hu-
manity to cur lives") ...and many olhers
Thistsontya sampling of whatis surely .
one of the most fascinating, moat remark-
oble true glories evcr recorded, Once
you've reed Kim Philby, you'll never go
back to Jan F. feming.
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