Philby was also responsible for liaising with the CIA and promoting "more aggressive Anglo-American intelligence operations". [11][pageneeded], In February 1937, Philby travelled to Seville, Spain, then embroiled in a bloody civil war triggered by the coup d'tat of Falangist forces under General Francisco Franco against the democratic government of President Manuel Azaa. From April 1950, Maclean had been the prime suspect in the investigation into the Embassy leak. The new London rezident, Ivan Chichayev (code-name Vadim), re-established contact and asked for a list of names of British agents being trained to enter the Soviet Union. On the 50th anniversary of Philbys defection to Moscow, British newspaper The Daily Telegraph carried an article with excerpts of interviews with one of Philbys sons, Dudley Thomas Philby, and his Russian widow, Rufina Pukhova Philby. Alamy. After five years of silence, communications were re-established with family and friends. Please try again later. [19] Maly was one of the Soviet Union's most powerful and influential illegal controllers and recruiters. The double spys fourth wife and widow, Rufina Philby, told the paper that her British husband, whom she married in 1971, eight years after his defection, was disappointed about some of what he saw in the USSR. Melinda returned to Donald, but two years later moved to her own apartment. Born in Ambala, Punjab, British India, Harold Adrian Russell Philby was the son of Dora Johnston and St John Philby, an author, Arabist and explorer. In September 1949, the Philbys arrived in the United States. He said, 'Why do old people live so badly here? He was recruited by Soviet intelligence in 1934. [74] When the news broke, MI6 came under criticism for failing to anticipate and block Philby's defection, though Elliott was to claim he could not have prevented Philby's flight. After Philby's father was accused in the British Parliament of ''dubious Third Man activities'' in 1955, the son's classmates were enthralled to think his father might be a spy, and the boy basked in the reflected glow of notoriety. , updated In 1949 Philby was appointed first secretary to the British Embassy in Washington and served as chief British liaison with American intelligence agencies. After all, they won the war.'". Years later, Philby snr told his son that Burgess had kept his standard-issue KGB revolver and camera hidden under the boy's bed. LONDON Kim Philby, called the "spy of the century" because of his work for the Soviet Union while a senior officer in British intelligence, died Wednesday in Moscow, the Foreign Office said. He was paid 500 roubles a month (the average Soviet salary in 1960 was Rbls80.60 a month and Rbls122 in 1970)[76][77] and his family was not immediately able to join him in exile. [71] However, others maintain that he escaped through Syria, overland to Soviet Armenia and thence to Russia. Then she drove off with the children. harry george philby - dudley thomas philby Posted on by John Philby, who has died aged 65, was the eldest son of the Russian spy Kim Philby, unmasked in 1963 as a double agent and the notorious Third Man in the Cambridge spy ring of the 1930s, The spy who loved me: Charlotte Philby returns to Moscow Harry George Philby Harry Philby. [92] Melinda left Maclean and briefly lived with Philby in Moscow. The "affair of the missing diplomats," as it was referred to before Burgess and Maclean surfaced in Moscow,[54] attracted a great deal of public attention, and Burgess's disappearance, which identified him as complicit in Maclean's espionage, deeply compromised Philby's position. "If he continued drinking, he got inebriated quickly and changed in front of your eyes," she said. A person of high intelligence struggles to make sense of the world as it relates to morality, relationships, sex, and leaving her apartment. But the two men, for so long ideological comrades, fell out. The difference between the two concepts is important, as the information position of the two categories is rather different. BROWN:: St. John Philby was born in Ceylon, then a part of the British Empire, very typically English ruling-class family, military background, senior military appointments and one of the colonists who went out to build the coffee industry in Ceylon at the turn of the century.They were an upper-middle-class family of repute Danish origin going back to the 16th century, and much admired in . [3], Secret files released to the National Archives in late 2020 indicated that the UK government had intentionally conducted a campaign to keep Philby's spying confidential "to minimise political embarrassment" and prevent the publication of his memoirs, according to a report by The Guardian. "[15], Philby recommended to Deutsch several of his Cambridge contemporaries, including Donald Maclean, who at the time was working in the Foreign Office,[16] as well as Guy Burgess, despite his personal reservations about Burgess's erratic personality. Were working to restore it. [39][5], The intervention of Philby in the affair and the subsequent capture of Volkov by the Soviets might have seriously compromised Philby's position. He said that there was no discipline there; he made friends with the archivist, which enabled him for years to take secret documents home, many unrelated to his own work, and bring them back the next day; his handler took and photographed them overnight. He needed a secret sharer in his life as well as someone to admire him. You should have seen his face.". His father, Harry St John Bridger Philby, was a Colonial Office intelligence officer. 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). We all loved him enormously. The two-drink tradition remained but in time there was no longer a need to hide the bottle, she added. I replied 100, which I hoped would last me about a year in Vienna. Hed been worried about leaving her and their children to carry on without him, but shed given him the all-clear to go. All was reasonably well between them until Kim Philby the master-spy who recruited him back in their Cambridge days himself defected in 1963. Philby suffered only a minor head wound. For the Soviets, Philby was an invaluable asset, ensuring the correct use of idiomatic and diplomatic English phrases in their disinformation efforts. Pierre-Charles Path est un journaliste franais n le 9 juillet 1910 Boulogne-sur-Mer et mort le 14 novembre 1997 1 Villejuif. Interrogated repeatedly regarding his intelligence work and his connection with Burgess, he continued to deny that he had acted as a Soviet agent. By the end of the Second World War he had become a high-ranking member. [67] When Nicholas Elliott met Philby in late 1962, the first time since Golitsyn's defection, he found Philby too drunk to stand and with a bandaged head; he had fallen repeatedly and cracked his skull on a bathroom radiator, requiring stitches. Registered office: 1 London Bridge Street, SE1 9GF. Philby had to help discover the identity of "Homer" but also wished to protect Maclean. That he could carry on a secret life without her being aware, while at the same time working his way up the ranks of the British Foreign Office, seemed perfectly possible. She made some calculations and announced, "That will leave you an excess of 25. The two men said very little and the interview lasted barely five minutes. After I had been wounded and decorated by Franco himself, I became known as 'the English-decorated-by-Franco' and all sorts of doors opened to me. [83] Philby claimed publicly in January 1988 that he did not regret his decisions and that he missed nothing about England except some friends, Colman's mustard and Lea & Perrins Worcestershire sauce. ", His habit was fuelled by his sorrow over what he saw around him, she added. There, a porter recalled taking their luggage to a waiting car with Salzburg number plates which drove off towards Vienna. [54][61] There, his journalism served as cover for renewed work for MI6. [10], Philby acted as a courier between Vienna and Prague, paying for the train tickets out of his remaining 75 and using his British passport to evade suspicion. His birth fell on Armistice day four years. As for Melinda the central figure in the circle of loyalty and secrecy, desertion and reconciliation, love and solitariness that was the human drama of Donald Macleans life she lived well into her 90s before dying in New York in 2010, silent to the end about her years with one of Britains most infamous traitors. "It was winter and we were going out for a walk and I found one of my boots had disappeared. The first was ignored as a provocation, but the second, when this was confirmed by the Russo-German journalist and spy in Tokyo, Richard Sorge, contributed to Stalin's decision to begin transporting troops from the Far East in time for the counteroffensive around Moscow. [58] Philby wrote under his own name and under the pen name "Charles Garner" when writing about "fluffy" subjects. Philby had been briefed on the situation shortly before reaching Washington in 1949; it was clear to Philby that the agent was Donald Maclean, who worked in the British Embassy at the time and whose wife, Melinda, lived in New York. 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars. "Once, a big group of us were on a trip on the Volga: Kim and I and, of course, his KGB escort, and the escort's daughter. [32] At this time, the German Abwehr was active in Spain, particularly around the British naval base of Gibraltar, which its agents hoped to watch with many detection stations to track Allied supply ships in the Western Mediterranean. Philby died of heart failure in Moscow in 1988. To the extent that I helped defeat them, even if it caused their deaths, I have no regrets. [88], While working as a correspondent in Spain, Philby began an affair with Frances Doble, Lady Lindsay-Hogg, an actress and aristocratic divorce who was an admirer of Franco and Hitler. [35] In early 1944, as it became clear that the Soviet Union was likely to once more prove a significant adversary to Britain, SIS re-activated Section Nine, which dealt with anti-communist efforts. 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. "There was one funny incident," she remembered. "If he did not act at once it would be too late," the telegram read, "because [Philby] would send his car to the scrap heap. "[69] Prompted by Elliott's accusations, Philby confirmed the charges of espionage and described his intelligence activities on behalf of the Soviets. 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On the strength of his knowledge and experience of Franco's Spain, Philby was put in charge of the subsection which dealt with Spain and Portugal. by Ian Allen Once hed gone, she rode out the public furore, the door-stepping journalists, the MI5 questioning, the abuse and insinuations, the bullying of her sons at school. Change), You are commenting using your Facebook account. He was given a hero's funeral, and posthumously awarded numerous medals [87] by the Soviets: Order of Lenin, Order of the Red Banner, Order of Friendship of Peoples, Order of the Great Patriotic War, Lenin Medal and Jubilee Medal "Forty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 19411945". He recalled that in 1948, when he was five, Burgess came to stay for a holiday. The NKVD received the same report from Richard Sorge but with an extra paragraph claiming that Hitler might seek a separate peace with the Soviet Union. They had access to the special shops reserved for the Soviet elite, and were able to import canned goods and drinks from Denmark. Eleanor found Melinda amusing but nervous and highly strung and yearning for the luxuries of Western capitalism. I questioned her about it but she would give me no details. Shortly after the extent of Philby's penetration was publicised in October. children: Dudley Thomas Philby, Harry George Philby, John . The boys told a child they met on a beach that the photos he had taken could not be forwarded to them as we are going away and we dont know where we are going. When visiting Paris after the war, he was shocked to discover that the address that he used for Mlle Dupont was that of the Soviet embassy. [78][pageneeded] Philby was under virtual house arrest, guarded, with all visitors screened by the KGB. [40], A month later Igor Gouzenko, a cipher clerk in Ottawa, took political asylum in Canada and gave the Royal Canadian Mounted Police names of agents operating within the British Empire that were known to him. A new expedition honours Harry St John Philby's exploration of the kingdom more than 100 years ago. Their fifth child, Harry George, was born in 1950. He reported to the Soviet NKVD from the Spanish civil war under the guise of a correspondent for the Times, and in 1940 joined the Secret Intelligence Service (SIS, or MI6), becoming a double agent and passing many secrets to the Kremlin. He trained Albanian commandossome of whom were former Nazi collaboratorsin Libya or Malta. But it wasnt true. Solomon went to work for the British retailer Marks & Spencer. Opposites attracted. In 1946, Philby arranged a divorce from Litzi. [5] He won a scholarship to Trinity College, Cambridge, where he studied history and economics. Born in British India, Philby was educated at Westminster School and Trinity College, Cambridge. "[60], After being exonerated, Philby was no longer employed by MI6 and Soviet intelligence lost all contact with him. Donald Maclean, although arrogant and someone who liked a drink too, was regarded as more convivial. [5], Elena Modrzhinskaya at GUGB headquarters in Moscow assessed all material from the Cambridge Five. She sensed that the Macleans marriage was a difficult one again, with Donald on occasion still getting hopelessly drunk. Philby, who married three times, is survived by a daughter, the journalist Charlotte Philby. 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Philby was a 19-year-old art student when his father was exposed in 1963 as a traitor. Chicago-born Melinda, whom he married in France in 1940, knew all along that Donald was a spy. Working from genuine unclassified and public CIA or US State Department documents, Philby inserted "sinister" paragraphs regarding US plans. 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. By IAN ALLEN | intelNews.org | 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. 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His controller in Paris, the Latvian Ozolin-Haskins (code name Pierre), was shot in Moscow in 1937 during Joseph Stalin's Great Purge. [70] The Dolmatova, a Soviet freighter bound for Odessa, had left Beirut that morning so abruptly that cargo was left scattered over the docks;[58] Philby claimed that he left Beirut on board this ship. [62], In Lebanon, Philby at first lived in Mahalla Jamil, his father's large household located in the village of Ajaltoun, just outside Beirut. In 1940 he began working for the United Kingdom's Secret Intelligence Service (SIS or MI6). Fergie is horrified that [Donald] might have done something wrong at the office and the FO will be very angry when he returns. His mother resented Burgess and his close relationship with her husband, and began staging accidents to claim attention; she reported being mugged in her car; on another occasion she set fire to the living room, suffering serious burns. He was an agent-in-place or a penetration agent or a mole if you wish of the KGB/NKVD. Burgess' defection to Moscow with Maclean in 1951 cast suspicion on Philby snr. [5], Kim Philby, memorandum in Security Service Archives (1963). For years he had sabotaged Allied missions behind the Iron Curtain and had calculatedly sent dozens of agents to their deaths. I dont accept Philbys excuses. Born in 1946, Dudley Tommy Philby is the third of Kims five children with his second of four wives, Aileen Furse Philby. 23. He had got afraid that I would leave, and hidden the boot.". [33] Thanks to British counter-intelligence efforts, of which Philby's Iberian subsection formed a significant part, the project (Abwehr code-name Bodden) never came to fruition. Kim leapt up and shouted, 'Whoever is rude to my wife is rude to me!' But as the months turned into years and no word came from him, she sank into depression at the realisation that she was now bringing up their children alone. With the goal of potentially arranging Franco's assassination, Philby was instructed to report on vulnerable points in Franco's security and recommend ways to gain access to him and his staff. The son, too, embraced left-wing politics and joined the Young Socialists when he was 17, after he enrolled at the Hornsey School of Art to study painting and sculpture. Pierre-Charles Path. Philby found that the award proved helpful in obtaining access to fascist circles: "Before then," he later wrote, "there had been a lot of criticism of British journalists from Franco officers who seemed to think that the British in general must be a lot of Communists because so many were fighting with the International Brigades. Aileen Philby had suffered since childhood from psychological problems which caused her to inflict injuries upon herself. Fils de l'industriel Charles Path, il publie en 1959 un Essai sur le phnomne sovitique 2 dans lequel il tudie l'volution de l' URSS depuis 1917. [84] Despite reports to the contrary, Philby's wife claimed in a 1997 interview that the idea of Philby becoming depressed and destitute in Moscow was "a myth". He had the policy of never confessinga document in his own handwriting was dismissed as a forgery. Melinda walked out on her husband, leaving the children with Donald, and moved in with Philby. This entailed responsibility for a network of undercover operatives in several cities such as Madrid, Lisbon, Gibraltar and Tangier. Original reporting and incisive analysis, direct from the Guardian every morning, Kim Philby in Russia in 1968, five years after defecting. [11][pageneeded] Following the Austrofascist victory in the Austrian Civil War, Philby and Friedmann married in February 1934, enabling her to escape to the United Kingdom with him two months later. In December 1937, during the Battle of Teruel, a Republican shell hit just in front of the car in which Philby was travelling with the correspondents Edward J. Neil of the Associated Press, Bradish Johnson of Newsweek, and Ernest Sheepshanks[21] of Reuters. He fell for her the moment he met her among the bohemian set he socialised with in Paris, where he was a British diplomat. Change). the title escapes me at the moment. He and Aileen were married on 25 September 1946, while Aileen was pregnant with their fourth child, Miranda. [citation needed], The SIS planned to interrogate Maclean on 28 May 1951. Krivitsky claimed that two Soviet intelligence agents had penetrated the Foreign Office and that a third Soviet intelligence agent had worked as a journalist for a British newspaper during the civil war in Spain. He didn't seem to mind. Larger numbers were landed by sea and air under Operation Valuable, which continued until 1951, increasingly under the influence of the newly formed CIA. 894646. [47] His dissolution had a troubling effect on Philby; the morning after a particularly disastrous and drunken party, a guest returning to collect his car heard voices upstairs and found "Kim and Guy in the bedroom drinking champagne. The rendezvous took place in Regents Park. The photographs depict many of the protagonists in this political and military struggle, including Colonel T.E. I hope you've enough decency left to understand why. In 1948, troubled by the heavy drinking and frequent depressions that had become a feature of her husband's life in Istanbul, she experienced a breakdown of this nature, staging an accident and injecting herself with urine and insulin to cause skin disfigurations. Roland Philipps For The Daily Mail "" ( : Harold Adrian Russell "Kim" Philby ; 1 1912 - 11 1988) . A plaque in his honour was. 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. In the same interview, she confirmed that Philby was a heavy drinker when they first met, but later became sober. He was a man of considerable cultural background. 4 Comments. [44] She was sent to a clinic in Switzerland to recover. [90] Aileen suffered from psychiatric problems, which grew more severe during the period of poverty and suspicion following the flight of Burgess and Maclean. But though his love affair with the cause never wavered, his love affair with Melinda did. Philby was posted to the United States the following year, and Burgess, who was second secretary at the British Embassy, lodged with the Philbys at their ramshackle house in Washington. He got himself a job teaching English in a school. He told the paper that Kim eventually came to think that it was all wrong, implying that Philby grew disillusioned with the Soviet system. Despite being forced to step down from his MI6 post, he maintained links with the service while working as correspondent for The Observer newspaper in the Middle East. He was very good when he was around. 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. "[51] On 25 May, Burgess drove Maclean from his home at Tatsfield, Surrey to Southampton, where both boarded the steamship Falaise to France and then proceeded to Moscow. Maclean accused Philby of being a double agent working for the British and they stopped speaking. there is a new book on the shelves, a fictional account of philby and his recruitment when he went to vienna austria, then returning to Britain to carry out his duties. But Maclean sobered up and went cold turkey in a detoxification clinic. She told a BBC documentary: He was just dad. JOHN Philby, the eldest son of Soviet spy Kim Philby, who was a double agent and the notorious Third Man in the Cambridge spy ring of the 1930s, has died in England. But, after a silence of nearly five years, here was the first actual sighting and confirmation that the runaways were alive. Elliott confronted him, saying, "I once looked up to you, Kim. He testified before the Dies Committee (later to become the House Un-American Activities Committee) regarding Soviet espionage within the US. For some 30 years he was an adviser to King Ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia. "He once even said that it was the easiest way to bring life to an end. [68], Philby told Elliott that he was "half expecting" to see him. [11][pageneeded], Both the British and the Soviets were interested in analyzing the combat performance of the new Messerschmitt Bf 109 fighter planes and Panzer I and Panzer II tanks deployed with Falangist forces in Spain. [82] Philby continued to read The Times, which was not generally available in the USSR, listened to the BBC World Service, and was an avid follower of cricket. Half sister of Harold Adrian Russell "Kim" Philby. As a result of this accident, Philby, who was well-liked by the Nationalist forces whose victories he trumpeted, was awarded the Red Cross of Military Merit by Franco on 2 March 1938. Nonetheless, the information was publicized in 1967 when Philby granted an interview to Murray Sayle of The Times in Moscow. He barely embraced his wife. A more serious threat to Philby's position had come to light. [12][13] Philby had come to the Soviets' notice earlier that year in Vienna, where he had been involved in demonstrations against the government of Engelbert Dollfuss. Harry George Philby (Q96086099) No description defined edit Statements instance of human 0 references sex or gender male 1 reference given name Harry 0 references date of birth 1950 1 reference father Kim Philby 1 reference mother Aileen Amanda Furse 1 reference sibling Dudley Thomas Philby 1 reference John David Philby 1 reference 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. We retrace the steps of the vast desert's earliest western adventurers and uncover tales of rivalry, stealth and concern for the future of the Bedouin. His mother, Dora nee Johnston, was his father's first wife. We need it desperately." Then, of course, there was Kim Philby's own children. A similar lapse occurred with a report from the Imperial Japanese Embassy in Moscow sent to Tokyo. JOHN Philby, the eldest son of Soviet spy Kim Philby, who was a double agent and the notorious Third Man in the Cambridge spy ring of the 1930s, has died in England. Philby jnr admitted that when the news broke, he felt a sense of something approaching quiet approval. One historian said his work for the Soviets was ''beyond price''. Burgess was arrested in September for drunken driving and was subsequently fired,[29] while Philby was appointed as an instructor on clandestine propaganda at the SOE's finishing school for agents at the Estate of Lord Montagu[30][pageneeded] in Beaulieu, Hampshire. Eventually, Melinda went back to her home country, the U.S., bringing to an end nearly 40 years of endurance, loyalty and betrayal. Harry St John Bridger Philby, CIE (3 April 1885 - 30 September 1960), also known as Jack Philby or Sheikh Abdullah ( Arabic: ), was a British Arabist, adviser, explorer, writer, and a colonial intelligence officer who served as an advisor to King Abdulaziz al-Saud, the founder of Saudi Arabia . Philby was only an agent of one service, the KGB. His drinking made him paranoid that his wife would abandon him. Expert news and commentary on intelligence, espionage, spies and spying, January 24, 2013 However, when Elliott asked him to sign a written statement, he hesitated and requested a delay in the interrogation. These lapses by Philby aroused intense suspicion in Moscow. 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. But for intelligence history aficionados it marked the 50th anniversary of the escape to Moscow of notorious double spy Harold Adrian Russell Philby. 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