![]() Philby, though, betrayed both his friends and his country. Ben Macintyre prefaces his new book with E.M Forster’s famous quote about betrayal - ‘If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friends, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.’ ![]() For almost 30 years, during which time he rose almost to the top of MI6, Philby dutifully passed every interesting nugget of information straight on to his bosses in Moscow.Īll spies engage in deceit, of course, but none with quite such relish as Philby. The most successful Soviet spy in history, Philby spent most of his adult life hidden beneath thick layers of subterfuge. Third Man might have been even better, I suppose, but Deep Cover still seems remarkably apt. ![]() He was a good bowler - ‘with a distant air of meditation, even at the moment of releasing the ball’ - as well as a useful fielder, whose favourite position was Deep Cover. ![]() Traitor: Kim Philby before his defection to the Soviet Union in 1963Īs a pupil at Westminster School in the mid Twenties, Kim Philby became obsessed with cricket an obsession he retained all his life. ![]()
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