Title: A Spy Among Friends Pdf Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal
Kim Philby was the greatest spy in history, a brilliant and charming man who rose to head Britain’s counterintelligence against the Soviet Union during the height of the Cold War—while he was secretly working for the enemy. And nobody thought he knew Philby like Nicholas Elliott, Philby’s best friend and fellow officer in MI6. The two men had gone to the same schools, belonged to the same exclusive clubs, grown close through the crucible of wartime intelligence work and long nights of drink and revelry. It was madness for one to think the other might be a communist spy, bent on subverting Western values and the power of the free world.
But Philby was secretly betraying his friend. Every word Elliott breathed to Philby was transmitted back to Moscow—and not just Elliott’s words, for in America, Philby had made another powerful friend: James Jesus Angleton, the crafty, paranoid head of CIA counterintelligence. Angleton's and Elliott’s unwitting disclosures helped Philby sink almost every important Anglo-American spy operation for twenty years, leading countless operatives to their doom. Even as the web of suspicion closed around him, and Philby was driven to greater lies to protect his cover, his two friends never abandoned him—until it was too late. The stunning truth of his betrayal would have devastating consequences on the two men who thought they knew him best, and on the intelligence services he left crippled in his wake.
Told with heart-pounding suspense and keen psychological insight, and based on personal papers and never-before-seen British intelligence files, A Spy Among Friends is Ben Macintyre’s best book yet, a high-water mark in Cold War history telling.
Kim Philby, Traitor Extraordinare. One of the best spy books I've eve read, and it has the added advantage of being true. This is what must be the definitive biography of Kim Philby, the British spy, whom everyone -- everyone -- felt was the last person who could ever commit treason. But as the book unfolds, the astonishing deeds he committed against his country are stunning. Philby was a senior intelligence executive for MI6 and, therefore, was in on just about everything the agency was doing over a decade or so. Bewildered MI6 and MI5 operatives simply couldn't fathom how almost every operation they launched against the Soviets failed. And in the failing, literally hundreds of operatives lost their lives.. Obviously, there was a mole in place but certainly not Kim Philby. How could it be? Well, all bad things must end and Philby's end came, although in a very sloppy manner. His escape to Russia robs us of closure. This is a fascinating book about a very dismal chapter in the history of British intelligence.
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