@Barbara Mulvaney Barbara, you get this broadcast content entirely for free. It's one thing not to want to watch the content for its monetisation, it's another thing to actively sabotage a channel because you feel they shouldn't try to make money for their content. Putting this stuff up costs money. I'm sorry, but that's the truth. What more do you think you're owed, exactly?
@@ObviousCleft yes ads pay the bills but this video easily had 5x the normal amount. That is overkill and the reason I'm finding another video to watch right now.
@@supercriceto I believe George Carey. There is a bishop who has some pretty despicable views with the same name, so if you want to search use the term "George Carey (filmmaker)"
Kim Philby-public school, Trinity, promised immunity for a full confession . Anthony Blunt-public school, Trinity, given immunity for a full confession. John Cairncross public school, Trinity, given immunity for a full confession. George Blake- no public school. didn`t go to Trinity, full confession and given 42 years in prison. surprise ,surprise.
And that's one reason he supported Communism, the concept of universal equality. Which did not exist in reality in the USSR, I know, I was there in the 1980s
This is interesting, but not really representative of the truth. It's overlooking the most obvious and crucial part of this analysis which is the value of the individuals. While I'm sure there is plenty of classicism in the British Public Service, it's not to the point where they would intentionally harm their own intelligence-gathering efforts just to give a kick back to some guy who went to the same school as them. The reason why they offer immunity to some people and not to others is because they believe that that will get them a lot more information. it's the same reason why during the war whenever one side captured an enemy General they didn't start torturing them to find out what they knew, but instead treated them very well with the hope that they could coax information out of them. The British did this with a number of captured German pilots, who they simply put into nice lodgings, which of course has been thoroughly rigged to record everything that they said, and allow the information to come out that way.
@@Laotzu.Goldbug i think in terms of value Blake was still a spy with current up to date info on techniques, KGB hierarchy etc. Philby,Cairncross and Blunt had all ceased to be spies so there info would have been out of date. I think my evaluation is valid based on value ,the old school tie ruled.
I first became aware of Kim Philby from the book "Great True Spy Stories" which I read in the late 1970s. He intrigued me and I became attentive to any scrap of news about him that was publicized up to the time of his death in 1988. I would later read Philby's book "MY SILENT WAR: The Autobiography of a Spy" and very recently, Ben Macintyre's fantastic book "A SPY AMONG FRIENDS: Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal." Philby was an unrepentant believer in the Soviet Union (to whom he pledged fealty in the early 1930s) until his death.
The irony is that had he behaved towards USSR as he did towards UK, he would have had a bullet in the back of his head...and any family he had would have suffered the same fate. This is what he gave his allegiance to. What a fool.
@@HueyPPLong yt wont let me post the link but you can translate it from binary, and also be sure to use an ad blocker for the site 01101000 01110100 01110100 01110000 01110011 00111010 00101111 00101111 01110000 01110101 01110100 01101100 01101111 01100011 01101011 01100101 01110010 01110011 00101110 01100110 01101101 00101111 01110111 01100001 01110100 01100011 01101000 00101111 01110001 01110110 01101111 01110010 00110101 00111000 01100100 01101100 00101101 01100011 01100001 01101101 01100010 01110010 01101001 01100100 01100111 01100101 00101101 01110011 01110000 01101001 01100101 01110011 00101101 01110011 01100101 01100001 01110011 01101111 01101110 00101101 00110001 00101110 01101000 01110100 01101101 01101100
@@markbaz yes yes good movie that one. I love spy stuff especially adaptations after John le Carré (the Smiley series) Search the Web for a translator from binary into English. It just give you the link.
Reginald Graves story is Brita intentionally let him skip to escape the embarrassment of a show trial which would have exposed Brit Intel's incompetence
During the 1950's, Western intelligence services recruited individuals in Europe and America who had been native Lithuanians, Estonians, and Latvians. They were parachuted into those countries to act as agents. Philby gave their names to the NKVD. These agents were then arrested and brutally tortured and executed by the Soviets.
That side of it, is cruel & desperately yielding ; like "publish or perish"is for college professors~gone deadly. He would always remain an outsider, suspect & in the world/land of Stalin purges.
@@marthacain1468 I had a dear friend who complained to me years ago about the pressure to publish papers . And this was a professor who had already published maybe at least five or six books . He retired early due to how ugly things had gotten in his Department... it wasn't just competitive , he described it as unbearable and cut throat . The worst part is he was a really kind and decent person . It gives the impression that to be a successful Professor nowadays one has to be a monster
John le Carré described Ben Macintyre's fact based novel, The Spy and The Traitor, as "the best true spy story I have ever read". It was about Kim Philby's Russian counterpart, a KGB Colonel named Oleg Gordievsky, codename Sunbeam. In 1974 Gordievsky became a double agent working for MI6 in Copenhagen which was when Bill Fairclough aka Edward Burlington unwittingly launched his career as a secret agent for MI6. Fairclough and le Carré knew of each other: le Carré had even rejected Fairclough's suggestion in 2014 that they collaborate on a book. As le Carré said at the time, "Why should I? I've got by so far without collaboration so why bother now?" A realistic response from a famous expert in fiction in his eighties! Gordievsky never met Fairclough, but he did know Fairclough's handler, Colonel Alan McKenzie aka Colonel Alan Pemberton. It is little wonder therefore that in Beyond Enkription, the first fact based novel in The Burlington Files espionage series, genuine double agents, disinformation and deception weave wondrously within the relentless twists and turns of evolving events. Beyond Enkription is set in 1974 in London, Nassau, Port au Prince and the Americas. Edward Burlington, a far from boring accountant, unwittingly started working for Alan McKenzie in MI6 and later worked eyes wide open for the CIA. What happens is so exhilarating and bone chilling it makes one wonder why bother reading espionage fiction when facts are so much more breathtaking. Len Deighton and Mick Herron could be forgiven for thinking they co-wrote the raw noir anti-Bond narrative, Beyond Enkription. Atmospherically it's reminiscent of Ted Lewis' Get Carter of Michael Caine fame. If anyone ever makes a film based on Beyond Enkription they'll only have themselves to blame if it doesn't go down in history as a classic espionage thriller.
Soviets and Russia have excellent risk management. remember Korolev the rocket scientist? he was only known as "chief designer'. His name was only known after his death.
@@CARLIN4737The tie could have been used as a noose. Is there a reliable count of the dead caused by their activities? I know about the Albanians. Who else was there?
People are acting surprised that his connections and high birth got him off but it’s not some dumb accident on his part. It’s a masterful way of using classic British arrogance and elitism against them. People seem to forget Churchill didn’t skip a beat after the soviets captured Berlin he was ordering mass executions of Greek communists. The British elites were always more fond of fascism than socialism and Philby was deeply aware of it.
John Le Carré holds up in many interpretations. His Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy seems to dovetail well with this story. The BBC series with Alec Guiness as Smiley is also an insightful version, and as a mini-series, it can take the time to get into the details.
Agreed. That is a great book, serial, and a movie. Although not in the same context, John Le Carrie’s The LittleDrummerGirl, illustrates how once sympathetic views can be used for espionage.
john Le Carre quit spy work to become a novelist, becauae Philby sold him out. Don/t feel too sorry for Mr. Le Carre. Most of the people Philby sold out were murdered.
Spending 90% of the time on the Beirut years is missing the crucial story, which is Philby's roles in the war and then in the late 40s in Washington. His relationship with J Angleton is fascinating; I wish there were documentaries on that. Btw, by far the most damage to British/Western interests was done by Maclean, without whom the Soviets might not have developed atomic weapons until the 60s. History's focus on Philby is odd.
My mum is a very mild mannered retired teacher of 84 and remembers when this story broke. When I asked her about it I have never seen her respond as she did - she called him a 'despicable traitor, a jumped up chinless toff playing at being a working class saviour whilst enjoying every privilege his class status awarded him. He got more working people killed than he helped and then ran off crying to the Soviets when he got caught, he was a coward and a traitor a spoilt adventurer.' she would have used the F word if my kids weren't in the room at the time I'm sure. Interesting to hear the reactions of people alive at the time. She also said his class meant he would have pretty much got off scot free, unlike George Blake who was given 40 years simply because 'he wasn't one of them' .
@@luisgarza9198 I agree that it was still going on, and out of necessity, we were trying cooperate with Putin post 9/11 for oil/gas. He simply doesn’t want that. His goal is destruction of the United States. My point is that the U.S.S.R. is no longer…That’s why he’s so damned bitter.
@@MPresheva They lost. Period. Their economic system being corrupt, as it now, contributed to that, but the bottom line is that they lost the Cold War.
Philby was never vetted... they knew "his people". I'm sure that it still happens. Look how Johnson got into power.. The worst kind of middle class, intellectual Socialist. They had no idea what Soviet Russia was like.
The interesting part of this saga is that the Soviets believed that the Cambridge spy ring was a setup by British intelligence. In the light of what has happened since, one must wonder if they were right.
Leo Peridot it was unlikely that Philby et al could have been turned; in letting them escape so easily the soviets inherent mistrust of any information provided was reinforced. Philby was never given the status of "officer" by the Soviets, only that of "Agent". In addition, of course, all the costs and hassle of keeping these people in jail. They all led thoroughly miserable lives in the USSR.....poetic justice? Blunt, of course, was terrified of being exported to the USSR. Despite many books suggesting that he was never properly investigated, his love of Art made him very vulnerable.
I hear ya. At the end they ask if his hatred of fascism condones embracing communism. But going from far right to far left merely takes one passed the middle.
Hitler's government was most definitely radical left-wing because everything was under the control of the state. The only difference between National Socialism and Communism is the racism element.
Yes would have loved to have spoken with Kim Philby but the first question I would have asked is did you know about the gulags Kim ! Remember fighting fascism was a good idea but not for a country that killed many of its own
I think he did get punishment. The punishment he faced was far worse than what Britain could have done. He was shown that what he did, sell out his own country, was for nothing. He was treated like a criminal in the country he risked everything for. As the British knew this, I think they were more satisfied as it also showed would be traitors that in the end, is it really worth it?
It's one thing to complain about ads with a shell channel. It's another when someone posts numerous videos without ads, and links to detailed construction builds in the videos, which took many hours to post.
A very fascinating documentary. I remember the time well. The British class system is still alive and well.....contrast the case of the Cambridge Five, of which Philby was one, with that of Geoffrey Prime.
If you're interested in Oleg Gordievsky, this anecdote may be of interest. John le Carré described Ben Macintyre's fact based novel, The Spy and The Traitor, as "the best true spy story I have ever read". It was about Kim Philby's Russian counterpart, a KGB Colonel named Oleg Gordievsky, codename Sunbeam. In 1974 Gordievsky became a double agent working for MI6 in Copenhagen which was when Bill Fairclough aka Edward Burlington unwittingly launched his career as a secret agent for MI6. Fairclough and le Carré knew of each other: le Carré had even rejected Fairclough's suggestion in 2014 that they collaborate on a book. As le Carré said at the time, "Why should I? I've got by so far without collaboration so why bother now?" A realistic response from a famous expert in fiction in his eighties! Gordievsky never met Fairclough, but he did know Fairclough's handler, Colonel Alan McKenzie aka Colonel Alan Pemberton. It is little wonder therefore that in Beyond Enkription, the first fact based novel in The Burlington Files espionage series, genuine double agents, disinformation and deception weave wondrously within the relentless twists and turns of evolving events. Beyond Enkription is set in 1974 in London, Nassau and Port au Prince. Edward Burlington, a far from boring accountant, unwittingly started working for Alan McKenzie in MI6 and later worked eyes wide open for the CIA. What happens is so exhilarating and bone chilling it makes one wonder why bother reading espionage fiction when facts are so much more breathtaking. Len Deighton and Mick Herron could be forgiven for thinking they co-wrote the raw noir anti-Bond narrative, Beyond Enkription. Atmospherically it's reminiscent of Ted Lewis' Get Carter of Michael Caine fame. If anyone ever makes a film based on Beyond Enkription they'll only have themselves to blame if it doesn't go down in history as a classic espionage thriller.
I've enjoyed watching this documentary about Kim Philby. I'm English and l live in Krasnagorsk, Moscow. My wife and family are Russian. My wife is actually quite facinated about Kim Philby, natural she thinks he's wonderful because oh his work for the Soviets. Said she would like to sit and speak with him. Hero of the Soviet Union and all that jazz.
adithya shankar he did see that, but he wasn't in the public domain for it, if you look after Russia, she looks after you. If England did the same he wouldn't of left in the first place
Worth listening to is Alan Bennett’s play ‘An Englishman Abroad’ about Guy Burgess, giving a pretty clear picture of the British traitors’ miserable, solitary lives in Moscow, distrusted and sidelined by the Soviets. No marmite, no marmalade, no getting together with each other, constantly watched. And why not, their stock in trade was betrayal. So comforting, they risked everything … and for what?
You got to love a story so interesting that Miles Copeland III and his mom are interviewed and there’s no mention of him running IRS Records nor managing his brother Stewart’s band, The Police.
As an American I've always been intrigued by the Russians! It's too bad we couldn't be allies and overcame the Cold War and things that has happened afterwards.
You couldn't, you cultures are different, for US the individual liberty is important, for Russia the leader liberty to do whatever he wants is important
imagine there's no countries, as the The Beatles would say hahahahahahahaha (nice thought, but unfortunately not possible), writing this as an Serbian :*
It would not work, especially not Americans because you are fundamentally so different culturally and way of thinking. And they will not be able to forget or condemn all the wars you started all over the world so an alliance will be very problematic. Additionally US can not change their politic because this is what they are and the way they can keep their position and income to avoid ruin. Us swedes have always tried to stay neutral to Russia because we are neighbours and they the same to us, I like the people but the culture is complex. A lot of Asian influence and their different versions of history must all be read to truly understand them. For an American and Russian I honestly think it will be difficult to accept each other as individuals, most of them also have underlying conservative thoughts which clash with US.
It should NEVER be forgotten that people died because of that man's deceit, he literally sent English men, and allied partners to they're deaths with his tongue. Absolute traitor, and what for? He died in Russia not being trusted at all, with a kgb minder watching his every move, with nothing. I say may those who perished whilst serving they're country, due to his betrayal, may they RIP✝️ (I will also say though that his daughter is hugely brave to talk publicly about this, she must feel so conflicted)
The russions did trust him, the minder was not to spy, he was used to brief future agents and english=isms, you should read about Oleg Gordeivsky, they stilla dored him.
I presume the reference was the Suez Crisis where Britian and France used the Israeli invasion as an excuse to protect the Suez Canal which Egypt had nationalized.
I find this whole story amazing. Re. the daughter- she lived in denial and died, as did her father, in denial. "A life not examined is a life not worth living." This history exemplified the the shallowness of the English class system: "He's one of us." ...to the end! I can only hope that in 2020, the British class system no longer rules, at least not in the world of spying. Seeing on the telly their former colonists speaking in perfect, although sometimes too perfect, schoolboy English has hopefully abused the Brits of judging a book by its cover. I truly believe in his simple minded way he believed in Marxism- not communism- but how much intelligence does it take to see that what was occurring in the communist ruled countries was not what his idealistic mind had foreseen.
Given the top slots are taken from the top officer class, I'd say the system still lives on. Christ just look at UK politics, almost every one is from Eaton , Oxbridge.
My people are from the East Midlands in the UK, and were part of the working class. They lived lives far removed from what was the very privileged background and life of Philby. As his daughter stated, I, too, would like to know why Philby did what he did. While I do understand being idealistic, that's no excuse for the fact that by divulging secrets to the Soviets this undoubtedly led to the deaths of an unknown number of men and women. Some of those men and women may have been my (or your) own family that were giving their all for their country while he was giving his all for a foreign power. Philby may have gotten away with a lot while he was alive, but one day the truth will be told about what his actions caused his own people.
You have to read the part of his biography’s that describe the history of his Father and Philbys following of his Fathers contrary nature to understand Philby himself.
I am sorry, but the way Philby's "interrogation" was handled was very British. Questioning him, granting him immunity, letting him go, with one of the agents going off to the ski slopes, with Philby promising to return later on. Ha! The Soviets or Americans would have thrown someone like Philby into a car trunk, then loaded them onto a plane to take them back to their country.
Yep It really irks me, when someone uploads an historically important documentary like this, then fills it with so so many ads... Yep I can't help thinking if the uploader is British, as am I, that I should be more annoyed that they've filled it with ad's ‼️
High functional narcissism. Classism. Bohemian tastes. And the contempt for truth. I think he had alot in common with Bernard Madoff the 2008-09 conartist. Madoff had 100 million when he started his con. He did not need the money. He just loved beeing a liar.
I'm pretty sure the Miles Copeland mentioned in this who worked for the CIA was the father of Stewart Copeland, best known as the founder of and drummer for the band The Police. The woman interviewed, Lorraine Copeland, was his mother. And, of course, Miles Copeland III, is his brother.
holy cow. just did some background on stewart copeland and you nailed it on his parents. and, his parents and HE did indeed live in beirut at exactly the same time as "good" ole philby! and OMG all the huge named (R.E.M., The Bangles, Berlin, The Cramps, Dead Kennedys, The Alarm, The Go-Go's, and others) bands under miles copeland III's label ~ WOW! fascinating.
@@albaproductions9602 and Russia is a paradise for the ordinary citizen where people get free things and have good health care and run in the sunshine all day and eat ice cream!!
@@soniarose1983 If you meant the USSR, there was practically no unemployment, the most of them got an apartment 'for free' and no one could throw them out on the street. And all had access to higher education if they wanted to learn. Not a paradise for sure, especially not a consumer paradise.
There are three points in Philby's British Press meeting at his mothers Kensington flat where he denied he was "the third man," at each of these points Philby on careful observation pulls a face to himself when he denies being the third man, it is an inward facial reflex (part inward smirk), at the point he states he has not knowing spoken to "a communist since 1934," he pulls another inward smirk face of "what a porker I've told them." Interestingly at that meeting you may spot Alan Whicker sitting on Philby's right and taking notes. Philby is an enigma...
There is a song..."What I Did For Love" ; though unimaginable in concept a romantic, Harold A.R. "Kim" Philby loved her ~his Aileen & the ideology they espoused~forever
circa 2001, no one brought up "he did it for the money". Clearly lived well. I think 1963 'til his death was awful for him. 25yrs of misery, though I spose he was never punished
Well, had the Brits accused Philby of spying and been incorrect about his intentions. They would of appeared to be very Rude. Which is worse then looking lackadaisical. We are just very fortunate here in America that Philby stopped spying, as so bluntly stated, in 1949.🙈
Not really a debate.... he was a traitor, period. Might have been an ok man in private but still was a traitor to his country. Great documentary though, thank you!
Sounds like he was a traitor in every aspect of life. To his fellow man, class, country, self, family, freinds, etc. Even the soviets didn't trust him, & they knew him best.
If they knew that the guy was a foe, a traitor, why not to kidnap him and to bring him to London for investigation and etc.? To play gentleman with an enemy?
Intellectually he had a point. Maybe some those who condemned (and still do) millions of disadvantaged people to a life a despair could be said to behave traitorously to their own people. And have done for centuries. We are not an honourable nation.
All you need in that equation is Roger Hollis... Much closer to the thwarted anti-espionage schemes shared amongst only the highest M15 elite than Victor Rothschild. Of which, a number of such schemes were only known by several. Hollis revealed his guilt by simple process of elimination.
Why Kim did this is beyond me! The oppression of the masses is what always rules roost👍but he too was a poor when he first started. But he betrayed a generation☹️
I feel that every agent, working for a foreign nation against his own, believes him or herself to possess some knowledge that would radically change whatever Ill they perceive in their society at a stroke. That no one has listened to them is not so much a narcissistic wound as an enticement to act when an opportunity presents itself; that the opportunity involves betraying the government he or she holds responsible for the aforementioned I’ll is a kind of highly addictive drug. These days, masses are not so much oppressed as managed but, in the late 50’s and early 60’s, the direction paranoia had taken the western democracies, such as we stand, might have seemed sanctimonious, hypermoralistic, hypocritical, and repressive (rather than the restrictive they, for the most part, were if one avoided the “war on drugs” and the reasons for its origins) when combined, personally, I can see how Philby saw “fascist.” In contrast, the Walker’s might have been seen as cutthroat capitalists in the early 80’s, cutthroat, yes, but capitalists nonetheless. If Calvin Coolidge was as right as Gordon Gekko were right then, the Walkers, convinced that a war between the US and the Soviets was impossible, didn’t just take advantage of an opportunity, they traded something of questionable value for something of known value. Don’t get me wrong, I’d prefer to have them sentenced to a lifetime of being dragged by the balls over a bed of sharp gravel and a pool of brine, healed, and the treatment repeated until the world runs out of gravel and salt. My cruelty notwithstanding, they put my life, as well as countless others, at risk on what amounts to a commodities futures gamble writ large. If Philby was poor then what can we say to a person in Appalachia or an urban ghetto?
The funeral or ceremony was a show. If he was not treated with trust or noble when he was alive, one can only think it was a show for all who still alive.
Forget all of that garbage about Philby's concern for the plight of the working man pushing him into the arms of the Soviets. He and the rest of the Cambridge Five generally despised the British working class. Orwell had the measure of this type of treacherous and contemptible English toff well.
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@Barbara Mulvaney Barbara, you get this broadcast content entirely for free. It's one thing not to want to watch the content for its monetisation, it's another thing to actively sabotage a channel because you feel they shouldn't try to make money for their content.
Putting this stuff up costs money. I'm sorry, but that's the truth. What more do you think you're owed, exactly?
to many ads, halfway through, thinking of moving on
The amount of ads on this video was absurd after the 5th one in about 12 minutes I'm finding another video to watch.
@@ObviousCleft yes ads pay the bills but this video easily had 5x the normal amount. That is overkill and the reason I'm finding another video to watch right now.
I met Kim Philby in Beirut in 1961. I was six years old and lived with my parents and family in the same apartment building as him.
And?
likely knew the family of the police drummer
Extremely interesting.
I love this documentary. The narration, casual shooting style yet very well researched. It's very immersive.
@@supercriceto I believe George Carey. There is a bishop who has some pretty despicable views with the same name, so if you want to search use the term "George Carey (filmmaker)"
He wasn't an MI-6 agent who became a spy. He was a spy who became an MI-6 agent.
So until now, they didnt know that kim phylby was a russian spy in the first place who apply to becone m16 agent?
Seriously? Spy that became my huh!!!!?
MI-6 are corrupted scum, Putin friends
good point
A true master spy...
Thank you for this wonderful documentary..the last line spoken by his daughter closed the book in spectacular fashion.
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@@3arnaguadi5 no thanks Im not a thief
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Chapman Pincher died aged 100 in August 2014 so I presume this was filmed just before then. In this video, his recall is very clear and precise.
The woman sleeping on the sofa behind him is so delightful also
He told a lot of lies. Don’t let the articulacy fool you
Kim Philby-public school, Trinity, promised immunity for a full confession . Anthony Blunt-public school, Trinity, given immunity for a full confession. John Cairncross public school, Trinity, given immunity for a full confession. George Blake- no public school. didn`t go to Trinity, full confession and given 42 years in prison. surprise ,surprise.
Did George Blake serve the entire 42 yrs?
And that's one reason he supported Communism, the concept of universal equality. Which did not exist in reality in the USSR, I know, I was there in the 1980s
@@lizabethgussman331 No he escaped from Wormwood Scrubbs after serving 5 years.
This is interesting, but not really representative of the truth. It's overlooking the most obvious and crucial part of this analysis which is the value of the individuals. While I'm sure there is plenty of classicism in the British Public Service, it's not to the point where they would intentionally harm their own intelligence-gathering efforts just to give a kick back to some guy who went to the same school as them. The reason why they offer immunity to some people and not to others is because they believe that that will get them a lot more information.
it's the same reason why during the war whenever one side captured an enemy General they didn't start torturing them to find out what they knew, but instead treated them very well with the hope that they could coax information out of them. The British did this with a number of captured German pilots, who they simply put into nice lodgings, which of course has been thoroughly rigged to record everything that they said, and allow the information to come out that way.
@@Laotzu.Goldbug i think in terms of value Blake was still a spy with current up to date info on techniques, KGB hierarchy etc. Philby,Cairncross and Blunt had all ceased to be spies so there info would have been out of date. I think my evaluation is valid based on value ,the old school tie ruled.
The entire story of the Cambridge Five is pretty interesting.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambridge_Five
True. Anyone hoping to discover how the British Establishment operates needs to know the story.
I first became aware of Kim Philby from the book "Great True Spy Stories" which I read in the late 1970s. He intrigued me and I became attentive to any scrap of news about him that was publicized up to the time of his death in 1988. I would later read Philby's book "MY SILENT WAR: The Autobiography of a Spy" and very recently, Ben Macintyre's fantastic book "A SPY AMONG FRIENDS: Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal." Philby was an unrepentant believer in the Soviet Union (to whom he pledged fealty in the early 1930s) until his death.
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The irony is that had he behaved towards USSR as he did towards UK, he would have had a bullet in the back of his head...and any family he had would have suffered the same fate. This is what he gave his allegiance to. What a fool.
If he thought it was so great he should have moved to live there...
@@John_Wood_ He did in 1963 and never regretted it.
Traitor
There seems to be some sort of video mixed up in the ads🙄
there's a mini-series about this dude and 4 others titled "Cambridge Spies, well worth it.
Where to watch?
@@HueyPPLong yt wont let me post the link but you can translate it from binary, and also be sure to use an ad blocker for the site
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@@chrisrosenkreuz23 How does one “translate it from binary”?
Another good movie is “Breach”. Robert Hanseen FBI spy movie.
@@markbaz yes yes good movie that one. I love spy stuff especially adaptations after John le Carré (the Smiley series)
Search the Web for a translator from binary into English. It just give you the link.
Thank you
He was about as remarkable as the incompetence of the intelligence services of the UK allowed him to be.
Reginald Graves..Thats well said.
Fact
Reginald Graves story is Brita intentionally let him skip to escape the embarrassment of a show trial which would have exposed Brit Intel's incompetence
Communists infiltrate anti communist organisations like anti communists infiltrate communist organisations.
Facts
Parliament passed a law years ago that all main exits from a British Embassy must be located within 40 steps from a pub or bar.
During the 1950's, Western intelligence services recruited individuals in Europe and America who had been native Lithuanians, Estonians, and Latvians. They were parachuted into those countries to act as agents. Philby gave their names to the NKVD. These agents were then arrested and brutally tortured and executed by the Soviets.
Do you people not know what Snowden exposed??
They took the bounty and faced the risks. What is your point?
That side of it, is cruel & desperately yielding ; like "publish or perish"is for college professors~gone deadly. He would always remain an outsider, suspect & in the world/land of Stalin purges.
@@marthacain1468 I had a dear friend who complained to me years ago about the pressure to publish papers . And this was a professor who had already published maybe at least five or six books .
He retired early due to how ugly things had gotten in his Department... it wasn't just competitive , he described it as unbearable and cut throat . The worst part is he was a really kind and decent person . It gives the impression that to be a successful Professor nowadays one has to be a monster
@@riazhamdanmalik6036 We know, that doesn't mean that he didn't end up helping the Russians with what he exposed.
16.08...the whopper, eyes shifted and he masked a smirk then a smile. Huge "tells" in body language.
Ahh the benefit of hindsight
John le Carré described Ben Macintyre's fact based novel, The Spy and The Traitor, as "the best true spy story I have ever read". It was about Kim Philby's Russian counterpart, a KGB Colonel named Oleg Gordievsky, codename Sunbeam. In 1974 Gordievsky became a double agent working for MI6 in Copenhagen which was when Bill Fairclough aka Edward Burlington unwittingly launched his career as a secret agent for MI6. Fairclough and le Carré knew of each other: le Carré had even rejected Fairclough's suggestion in 2014 that they collaborate on a book. As le Carré said at the time, "Why should I? I've got by so far without collaboration so why bother now?" A realistic response from a famous expert in fiction in his eighties!
Gordievsky never met Fairclough, but he did know Fairclough's handler, Colonel Alan McKenzie aka Colonel Alan Pemberton. It is little wonder therefore that in Beyond Enkription, the first fact based novel in The Burlington Files espionage series, genuine double agents, disinformation and deception weave wondrously within the relentless twists and turns of evolving events. Beyond Enkription is set in 1974 in London, Nassau, Port au Prince and the Americas. Edward Burlington, a far from boring accountant, unwittingly started working for Alan McKenzie in MI6 and later worked eyes wide open for the CIA. What happens is so exhilarating and bone chilling it makes one wonder why bother reading espionage fiction when facts are so much more breathtaking.
Len Deighton and Mick Herron could be forgiven for thinking they co-wrote the raw noir anti-Bond narrative, Beyond Enkription. Atmospherically it's reminiscent of Ted Lewis' Get Carter of Michael Caine fame. If anyone ever makes a film based on Beyond Enkription they'll only have themselves to blame if it doesn't go down in history as a classic espionage thriller.
Fiction
@@top3misterioyterrorzapoyot571 The Burlington Files series is fact based.
Your post is solid gold for those of us who admire and read spy fiction that is real......or truth is more imaginative than fiction.
@@moccasinlanding That is a compliment worth receiving! Thank you from all at HQ
47:00 He's treated with suspicion when he gets to Moscow. Gee, he sold out his country. What will he do to his new country?
Soviets and Russia have excellent risk management. remember Korolev the rocket scientist? he was only known as "chief designer'. His name was only known after his death.
Jodonho Funny, there is another Timeline doco that state the exact opposite.
If a guy cheats on his first wife, whats the second tuh look forward to, huh?
The enemy likes treason but despises the traitor.
Once a traitor always a traitor. "You have my absolute loyalty - until something better comes along"
Blake gets 42 years in jail, while the 'establishment' 'to the manor born' other 5 all get the chance to scoot.
What is amazing the establishment never tracked them down and bumped them off.
old school tie dear boy
Quite
@@CARLIN4737The tie could have been used as a noose. Is there a reliable count of the dead caused by their activities? I know about the Albanians. Who else was there?
People are acting surprised that his connections and high birth got him off but it’s not some dumb accident on his part. It’s a masterful way of using classic British arrogance and elitism against them.
People seem to forget Churchill didn’t skip a beat after the soviets captured Berlin he was ordering mass executions of Greek communists. The British elites were always more fond of fascism than socialism and Philby was deeply aware of it.
This was a very productive and useful video. Thank you for making it.
John Le Carré holds up in many interpretations. His Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy seems to dovetail well with this story. The BBC series with Alec Guiness as Smiley is also an insightful version, and as a mini-series, it can take the time to get into the details.
Good recommendation. RIP John Le Carré
Agreed. That is a great book, serial, and a movie. Although not in the same context, John Le Carrie’s The LittleDrummerGirl, illustrates how once sympathetic views can be used for espionage.
The BBC series with Alec guineas is pure genius, a master piece, the movie made years later doesn't come close, nothing like the BBC mini series
@@vedantmehra6970 Nah the movie is one of the best ever made.
john Le Carre quit spy work to become a novelist, becauae Philby sold him out. Don/t feel too sorry for Mr. Le Carre. Most of the people Philby sold out were murdered.
Spending 90% of the time on the Beirut years is missing the crucial story, which is Philby's roles in the war and then in the late 40s in Washington. His relationship with J Angleton is fascinating; I wish there were documentaries on that. Btw, by far the most damage to British/Western interests was done by Maclean, without whom the Soviets might not have developed atomic weapons until the 60s. History's focus on Philby is odd.
Both had ties to rome and were Knight's of Malta.
The KGB had spies in the Manhattan project
@The Unyielding The Manhattan project was 1944
@@chrisoliver4757 true, but none had visibility over the entire project, nor could they contact Moscow unaided. Maclean was the key conduit
@@CNCTEMATIC must admit, most of the stuff on them all is probably still classified. Biggest embarrassment to the British establishment ever.
Never blame malice when incompetence will do. In other words it's not incompetence, it's central planning.
My mum is a very mild mannered retired teacher of 84 and remembers when this story broke. When I asked her about it I have never seen her respond as she did - she called him a 'despicable traitor, a jumped up chinless toff playing at being a working class saviour whilst enjoying every privilege his class status awarded him. He got more working people killed than he helped and then ran off crying to the Soviets when he got caught, he was a coward and a traitor a spoilt adventurer.' she would have used the F word if my kids weren't in the room at the time I'm sure. Interesting to hear the reactions of people alive at the time. She also said his class meant he would have pretty much got off scot free, unlike George Blake who was given 40 years simply because 'he wasn't one of them' .
The man in charge of "Anti Soviet Section" is in face a "Soviet Agent"
My Goodness KGB, you guys were Pure Artists lol
They lost the Cold War. 😏
@@sarahs2288 actually seeing how America is I say they just kept lowkey and we thought we won not knowing it was still going on
@@luisgarza9198 I agree that it was still going on, and out of necessity, we were trying cooperate with Putin post 9/11 for oil/gas. He simply doesn’t want that. His goal is destruction of the United States. My point is that the U.S.S.R. is no longer…That’s why he’s so damned bitter.
@@MPresheva They lost. Period. Their economic system being corrupt, as it now, contributed to that, but the bottom line is that they lost the Cold War.
Sarah L Why does Putin want destruction of USA? Shouldn't he try to bury the hatchet and let bygone be bygone?
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That old school tie attitude at that time really exposed how inept british intelligence was
I'll bet it hasn't changed one bit.
Philby was never vetted... they knew "his people". I'm sure that it still happens. Look how Johnson got into power.. The worst kind of middle class, intellectual Socialist. They had no idea what Soviet Russia was like.
The interesting part of this saga is that the Soviets believed that the Cambridge spy ring was a setup by British intelligence. In the light of what has happened since, one must wonder if they were right.
Leo Peridot it was unlikely that Philby et al could have been turned; in letting them escape so easily the soviets inherent mistrust of any information provided was reinforced. Philby was never given the status of "officer" by the Soviets, only that of "Agent". In addition, of course, all the costs and hassle of keeping these people in jail. They all led thoroughly miserable lives in the USSR.....poetic justice? Blunt, of course, was terrified of being exported to the USSR. Despite many books suggesting that he was never properly investigated, his love of Art made him very vulnerable.
To paraphrase CP Snow... he thought he was playing the Great Game, but actually he was just a dirty little traitor.
With all the parties and drinking, when did these people find time to spy ?
Greg K. And how did they ever keep confidences?
They were getting the information at the parties....!
@Walter Burkhardt shaken not stirred
Constantly & prolifically, that is the best way~
@@frenchartantiquesparis424 no no, they were just getting drunk at the parties.
He saw the extremes of Fascism but was blind to the extremes of Stalin!
Just LIKE THIS STUPID Antifa!
I hear ya. At the end they ask if his hatred of fascism condones embracing communism. But going from far right to far left merely takes one passed the middle.
sutlers2day
Nothing at all like Antifia, but poor try.
@Tuco The Rat Fascism is on the right. Everyone knows that.
Hitler's government was most definitely radical left-wing because everything was under the control of the state. The only difference between National Socialism and Communism is the racism element.
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Philby, Burgess, Maclean
Jack Dowd Don't forget Hollis + HRH Edward v¡¡¡.
Tinker,Tailor,soldier,Burgess,Maclean,Philby and Hollis
There’s a mole, right at the very top of the Circus... he’s been there for years...
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The blood on his hands is a mirror of his greed and evil
Wow, the daughter comes off as such a great lady, classy and lively, would be fun to talk to I'm sure!
That old Russian spy at the end is awesome. Imagine the conversations you could have with that dude.
Yes would have loved to have spoken with Kim Philby but the first question I would have asked is did you know about the gulags Kim ! Remember fighting fascism was a good idea but not for a country that killed many of its own
What a sell-out!! He deserved nothing more than to live out his days unloved, distrusted and unwanted for what he did to the UK😠😡🤬🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
He is still alive and his son is a TV personality.
@@danielkelegian5306 who is his son?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Lyubimov
I'm still amazed he was able to fool Angelton the way he did. Old Jim went off the deep end after that.
Yeah. JJA definitely went sideways afterwards.
I think he did get punishment. The punishment he faced was far worse than what Britain could have done. He was shown that what he did, sell out his own country, was for nothing. He was treated like a criminal in the country he risked everything for. As the British knew this, I think they were more satisfied as it also showed would be traitors that in the end, is it really worth it?
Gabby Ferro if that’s punishment, sign me up
the real traitor is whoever put 300 advertisements in this video, thumbs down
Peter Clemmins it’s called business and that’s how you get customers and not for nothing and thank god for it
Adblocker is your friend
Peter, if you search adblocker plus for your chosen browser you will never see another ad on you tube ever again
Agreed. And too many poorly targeted ads that turn you away from the program is bad business.
It's one thing to complain about ads with a shell channel. It's another when someone posts numerous videos without ads, and links to detailed construction builds in the videos, which took many hours to post.
A very fascinating documentary. I remember the time well. The British class system is still alive and well.....contrast the case of the Cambridge Five, of which Philby was one, with that of Geoffrey Prime.
John Vassall served ten years. Not a university man
If you're interested in Oleg Gordievsky, this anecdote may be of interest. John le Carré described Ben Macintyre's fact based novel, The Spy and The Traitor, as "the best true spy story I have ever read". It was about Kim Philby's Russian counterpart, a KGB Colonel named Oleg Gordievsky, codename Sunbeam. In 1974 Gordievsky became a double agent working for MI6 in Copenhagen which was when Bill Fairclough aka Edward Burlington unwittingly launched his career as a secret agent for MI6. Fairclough and le Carré knew of each other: le Carré had even rejected Fairclough's suggestion in 2014 that they collaborate on a book. As le Carré said at the time, "Why should I? I've got by so far without collaboration so why bother now?" A realistic response from a famous expert in fiction in his eighties!
Gordievsky never met Fairclough, but he did know Fairclough's handler, Colonel Alan McKenzie aka Colonel Alan Pemberton. It is little wonder therefore that in Beyond Enkription, the first fact based novel in The Burlington Files espionage series, genuine double agents, disinformation and deception weave wondrously within the relentless twists and turns of evolving events. Beyond Enkription is set in 1974 in London, Nassau and Port au Prince. Edward Burlington, a far from boring accountant, unwittingly started working for Alan McKenzie in MI6 and later worked eyes wide open for the CIA. What happens is so exhilarating and bone chilling it makes one wonder why bother reading espionage fiction when facts are so much more breathtaking.
Len Deighton and Mick Herron could be forgiven for thinking they co-wrote the raw noir anti-Bond narrative, Beyond Enkription. Atmospherically it's reminiscent of Ted Lewis' Get Carter of Michael Caine fame. If anyone ever makes a film based on Beyond Enkription they'll only have themselves to blame if it doesn't go down in history as a classic espionage thriller.
If you want an amazing true spy story then read Ion Pacepa 🕊
Read it! amazing book
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@@МишаХопин Did i? What a mistaka to maka!
I've enjoyed watching this documentary about Kim Philby.
I'm English and l live in Krasnagorsk, Moscow. My wife and family are Russian. My wife is actually quite facinated about Kim Philby, natural she thinks he's wonderful because oh his work for the Soviets. Said she would like to sit and speak with him.
Hero of the Soviet Union and all that jazz.
“The custom in those days was to drunk before you drive”… wtf 😂
" one of us" reminds me of Humphrey Appleby.
"If one of us could be one of them then all of us could be..."
"All of them."
It's a shame that he could not see the downfall of Berlin Wall and soviet empire
adithya shankar he did see that, but he wasn't in the public domain for it, if you look after Russia, she looks after you. If England did the same he wouldn't of left in the first place
Neil Mathews That’s exactly the point he was making though. You just agreed with him. ?????
Worth listening to is Alan Bennett’s play ‘An Englishman Abroad’ about Guy Burgess, giving a pretty clear picture of the British traitors’ miserable, solitary lives in Moscow, distrusted and sidelined by the Soviets. No marmite, no marmalade, no getting together with each other, constantly watched. And why not, their stock in trade was betrayal. So comforting, they risked everything … and for what?
They fought for a cause they believed in. They were loyal to that cause, whether you agree with it or not, that's worth something.
Enough is not made that his father was St John Philby who had a strange life to say the least.
Yes Arabia was his calling. A very quirky guy. Multiple wives. Converted to Islam etc
The KGB guy and Philby's daughter are the smartest, most interesting characters in this sorry tale. And Chapman Pincher, super-sleuth, of course.
Phillip Knightly died 3 years after this was filmed :( he was such a good investigative journalist
One of the true originals
Read truth
the first causality by Philip knightly
Excellent documentary.
You got to love a story so interesting that Miles Copeland III and his mom are interviewed and there’s no mention of him running IRS Records nor managing his brother Stewart’s band, The Police.
Its remarkable haw any of the 5 got anything done at all as drunk as they were
LOL. You are not the first to have made that observation about over the years!
Reading the original James Bond novels, British professional chaps seem to down gallons of booze monthly.
Well, the Soviets called them "Useless drunks".
As an American I've always been intrigued by the Russians! It's too bad we couldn't be allies and overcame the Cold War and things that has happened afterwards.
You couldn't, you cultures are different, for US the individual liberty is important, for Russia the leader liberty to do whatever he wants is important
imagine there's no countries, as the The Beatles would say hahahahahahahaha (nice thought, but unfortunately not possible), writing this as an Serbian :*
It would not work, especially not Americans because you are fundamentally so different culturally and way of thinking. And they will not be able to forget or condemn all the wars you started all over the world so an alliance will be very problematic. Additionally US can not change their politic because this is what they are and the way they can keep their position and income to avoid ruin.
Us swedes have always tried to stay neutral to Russia because we are neighbours and they the same to us, I like the people but the culture is complex. A lot of Asian influence and their different versions of history must all be read to truly understand them. For an American and Russian I honestly think it will be difficult to accept each other as individuals, most of them also have underlying conservative thoughts which clash with US.
@@Kannot2023more like the corporations liberty is whats important to the americans.
Mahler background music... bloody brilliant!
The only way to be loyal to a nation is to admonish it when it is going wrong.
Profoundly idealistic but perilously risky...I advise not.
Do that in America these days and Biden will send the FBI to visit you for being a subversive. You could be sent to prison without benefit of a trial.
Kim Philby's apartment still looked the same when I saw it 5 years ago.
Still the same today. I live in Moscow myself.
It should NEVER be forgotten that people died because of that man's deceit, he literally sent English men, and allied partners to they're deaths with his tongue. Absolute traitor, and what for? He died in Russia not being trusted at all, with a kgb minder watching his every move, with nothing. I say may those who perished whilst serving they're country, due to his betrayal, may they RIP✝️ (I will also say though that his daughter is hugely brave to talk publicly about this, she must feel so conflicted)
The russions did trust him, the minder was not to spy, he was used to brief future agents and english=isms, you should read about Oleg Gordeivsky, they stilla dored him.
Yea he's a dog. I wish he'd gone like the Rosenbergs.
His daughter may of been an agent too, that may have been his greatest rouge. For who, who knows.
A sewage crisis in Beirut?
I love the part when the narrator says 'the customs in those days were to drink before you drive'.....
I presume the reference was the Suez Crisis where Britian and France used the Israeli invasion as an excuse to protect the Suez Canal which Egypt had nationalized.
@@simonkevnorris Basically stolen by Egypt.
I find this whole story amazing. Re. the daughter- she lived in denial and died, as did her father, in denial. "A life not examined is a life not worth living." This history exemplified the the shallowness of the English class system: "He's one of us." ...to the end! I can only hope that in 2020, the British class system no longer rules, at least not in the world of spying. Seeing on the telly their former colonists speaking in perfect, although sometimes too perfect, schoolboy English has hopefully abused the Brits of judging a book by its cover. I truly believe in his simple minded way he believed in Marxism- not communism- but how much intelligence does it take to see that what was occurring in the communist ruled countries was not what his idealistic mind had foreseen.
Simple mind? Philby makes you seem an idiot
Given the top slots are taken from the top officer class, I'd say the system still lives on.
Christ just look at UK politics, almost every one is from Eaton , Oxbridge.
I have a lot of friends but I don’t think any of them would warrant my committing treason for them.
All I can say is you can never ever understand the incompetence and stupidity of human emotion
It comes with the suffering of others and it's impact on the individual
Fascinating. Thanks for uploading.
My people are from the East Midlands in the UK, and were part of the working class. They lived lives far removed from what was the very privileged background and life of Philby. As his daughter stated, I, too, would like to know why Philby did what he did. While I do understand being idealistic, that's no excuse for the fact that by divulging secrets to the Soviets this undoubtedly led to the deaths of an unknown number of men and women. Some of those men and women may have been my (or your) own family that were giving their all for their country while he was giving his all for a foreign power. Philby may have gotten away with a lot while he was alive, but one day the truth will be told about what his actions caused his own people.
hhhmm - and these toffs who supposed themselves to be communists never gave up their own comfortable life styles.
Anyone that takes the position of blackmail; is simply mistrusted.
Beautifully done. Never mind the story (epic tales), I listen again and again just to enjoy the narration !
You have to read the part of his biography’s that describe the history of his Father and Philbys following of his Fathers contrary nature to understand Philby himself.
I am sorry, but the way Philby's "interrogation" was handled was very British. Questioning him, granting him immunity, letting him go, with one of the agents going off to the ski slopes, with Philby promising to return later on. Ha! The Soviets or Americans would have thrown someone like Philby into a car trunk, then loaded them onto a plane to take them back to their country.
its the class system and its still there
Thanks for the ads!! Awesome!
Yep It really irks me, when someone uploads an historically important documentary like this, then fills it with so so many ads... Yep I can't help thinking if the uploader is British, as am I, that I should be more annoyed that they've filled it with ad's ‼️
One word... adblock
Traitors do not love any country.
Leo Peridot reddit tier comment
This doc is all over the place. All I've learned is that spies get drunk and hang out chatting. Must be nice to get paid for that!! 😂😂😂
47:28-47:30 Watch closely at how his original statement was edited out, and quite professionally, I might add.
Well spotted! I had to play back a few times, but yeah, very pro edited
Was their an original version of this film in which his admission was included?
as well as here ruclips.net/video/Pw_0cgO2JKE/видео.html
Big Daddy, yes & proves to me Kim Philby was that "honorable schoolboy" of humin legacy.
Your observation of that first omission, proves to me ; the old boys network in M5 &6 is still alive & well. Thanks BD
Life is stranger then fiction, this would make a great spy movie.
High functional narcissism. Classism. Bohemian tastes. And the contempt for truth. I think he had alot in common with Bernard Madoff the 2008-09 conartist. Madoff had 100 million when he started his con. He did not need the money. He just loved beeing a liar.
Like members of the British Government!
I was thinking the same thing. He sounded like he was a sociopath.
too true
My mother used to love ‘Sing Something Simple’ sung by the Cliff Adams on BBC Radio on Sunday at 1830hrs I think. A memory of my childhood.
I'm pretty sure the Miles Copeland mentioned in this who worked for the CIA was the father of Stewart Copeland, best known as the founder of and drummer for the band The Police. The woman interviewed, Lorraine Copeland, was his mother. And, of course, Miles Copeland III, is his brother.
holy cow. just did some background on stewart copeland and you nailed it on his parents. and, his parents and HE did indeed live in beirut at exactly the same time as "good" ole philby!
and OMG all the huge named (R.E.M., The Bangles, Berlin, The Cramps, Dead Kennedys, The Alarm, The Go-Go's, and others) bands under miles copeland III's label ~ WOW!
fascinating.
@@haroldofcardboard -- Berlin
-- The Dead Kennedys
-- CIA ties with record label
Wait a minute
Hence the name of the band .. The Police
@@destubae3271 dead Kennedys - both JFK and RFK were killed by KGB terrorists 🤫
Yesterday's history is tomorrow's future ? Super sensational and gripping saga. 5 Stars.
Philby giving a Master Class to the Russians: He started the whole thing in a very British way, with a joke!
Da, joke always goes down good with slap-happy KGB Directors.
I don't often learn something from a timeline doco. (one normally yells at the tv) I think I have this time, well done.
He was a traitor to his country
Not glamorous
Just seedy
It's the Game they play...Get over it....there were defectors to the West too...it wasn't One Way traffic...
Britain isn't the land of milk and honey some would like to believe.
@@albaproductions9602 and Russia is a paradise for the ordinary citizen where people get free things and have good health care and run in the sunshine all day and eat ice cream!!
@@soniarose1983 No never said that.
@@soniarose1983 If you meant the USSR, there was practically no unemployment, the most of them got an apartment 'for free' and no one could throw them out on the street. And all had access to higher education if they wanted to learn.
Not a paradise for sure, especially not a consumer paradise.
There are three points in Philby's British Press meeting at his mothers Kensington flat where he denied he was "the third man," at each of these points Philby on careful observation pulls a face to himself when he denies being the third man, it is an inward facial reflex (part inward smirk), at the point he states he has not knowing spoken to "a communist since 1934," he pulls another inward smirk face of "what a porker I've told them."
Interestingly at that meeting you may spot Alan Whicker sitting on Philby's right and taking notes.
Philby is an enigma...
Wow, Intelligence services were really good back then😢
There is a song..."What I Did For Love" ; though unimaginable in concept a romantic, Harold A.R. "Kim" Philby loved her ~his Aileen & the ideology they espoused~forever
There is so much in Graham Greene's writing that outs Philby in retrospect it must be one of the great literary jokes in jistory
He gave one oath, the 1st one, and he kept it, the rest was work! Great man!
circa 2001, no one brought up "he did it for the money". Clearly lived well. I think 1963 'til his death was awful for him. 25yrs of misery, though I spose he was never punished
All leftists are sociopathic traitors like philby
Living in Soviet Russia is punishment enough.
@@dandrago2631 I would argue that the one's on the Right seem to follow the money for fame and power more than anyone on the Left.
@@dandrago2631 right wingers = Hitler’s followers
@@dandrago2631 spoken like a thoroughly indoctrinated extremist with all the necessary hyperbole, absolutism and confidence
Too many ads.
Well, had the Brits accused Philby of spying and been incorrect about his intentions. They would of appeared to be very Rude. Which is worse then looking lackadaisical. We are just very fortunate here in America that Philby stopped spying, as so bluntly stated, in 1949.🙈
Sensational record and marvelous soundtrack!
Not really a debate.... he was a traitor, period. Might have been an ok man in private but still was a traitor to his country. Great documentary though, thank you!
Bill Haydon from Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy is based on him
Sounds like he was a traitor in every aspect of life. To his fellow man, class, country, self, family, freinds, etc. Even the soviets didn't trust him, & they knew him best.
The first book I read in English was a novel about Philby. I was 15 at the time, I was always interested in that character.
If they knew that the guy was a foe, a traitor, why not to kidnap him and to bring him to London for investigation and etc.? To play gentleman with an enemy?
Intellectually he had a point. Maybe some those who condemned (and still do) millions of disadvantaged people to a life a despair could be said to behave traitorously to their own people. And have done for centuries. We are not an honourable nation.
@@stephenreeds3672 well stated....thanks
Add Victor Rothschild's friendship and influence over Anthony Blunt, to the equation, and it all makes sense. Without, nothing will.
All you need in that equation is Roger Hollis... Much closer to the thwarted anti-espionage schemes shared amongst only the highest M15 elite than Victor Rothschild. Of which, a number of such schemes were only known by several. Hollis revealed his guilt by simple process of elimination.
How much do you have to drink to be called an alcoholic every five minutes in a British-made documentary?
Interesting to see Deryck Guyler at the press conference at 15:02 !
Why Kim did this is beyond me! The oppression of the masses is what always rules roost👍but he too was a poor when he first started. But he betrayed a generation☹️
I feel that every agent, working for a foreign nation against his own, believes him or herself to possess some knowledge that would radically change whatever Ill they perceive in their society at a stroke. That no one has listened to them is not so much a narcissistic wound as an enticement to act when an opportunity presents itself; that the opportunity involves betraying the government he or she holds responsible for the aforementioned I’ll is a kind of highly addictive drug. These days, masses are not so much oppressed as managed but, in the late 50’s and early 60’s, the direction paranoia had taken the western democracies, such as we stand, might have seemed sanctimonious, hypermoralistic, hypocritical, and repressive (rather than the restrictive they, for the most part, were if one avoided the “war on drugs” and the reasons for its origins) when combined, personally, I can see how Philby saw “fascist.” In contrast, the Walker’s might have been seen as cutthroat capitalists in the early 80’s, cutthroat, yes, but capitalists nonetheless. If Calvin Coolidge was as right as Gordon Gekko were right then, the Walkers, convinced that a war between the US and the Soviets was impossible, didn’t just take advantage of an opportunity, they traded something of questionable value for something of known value. Don’t get me wrong, I’d prefer to have them sentenced to a lifetime of being dragged by the balls over a bed of sharp gravel and a pool of brine, healed, and the treatment repeated until the world runs out of gravel and salt. My cruelty notwithstanding, they put my life, as well as countless others, at risk on what amounts to a commodities futures gamble writ large. If Philby was poor then what can we say to a person in Appalachia or an urban ghetto?
That's disgusting.
Very interesting, I was at school with Philby's son when he defected.
Wow amazing. Which one?
@@colinstewart1432 I cannot remember, it was a long time ago, he was senior to me and I just knew him as Philby.
@@adamsflyovers2166 Wow that's amazing.
Why are traitors being shown as some sort of a celebrity? Traitors are traitors. That’s it.
The British call Indians who helped Japanese traitors Philby was a communist
A treacherous scoundrel. The class system, is the only way he could have got away with it....CLASS BLINKERS
Haven't seen a single ad yet.
Ash Sarkar: "I'm literally a communist!"
Kim Philby: "That's cute."
The funeral or ceremony was a show. If he was not treated with trust or noble when he was alive, one can only think it was a show for all who still alive.
His first decade in Moscow, he was frozen. Then he was allowed to move freely until his death.
Maybe his alleged "poor treatment" was the show...😮
I think it is the worst thing to betray your Country. My heart does feel for his daughter, as it is her Dad and she loved him.
Forget all of that garbage about Philby's concern for the plight of the working man pushing him into the arms of the Soviets. He and the rest of the Cambridge Five generally despised the British working class. Orwell had the measure of this type of treacherous and contemptible English toff well.
Eric Arthur Blair was MI5