Kim Philby - Documentary
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British (General) British (Received Pronunciation - RP, BBC)Transcript
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kim philby was the most notorious defector and soviet mole in the history of the british secret service agent, Double agent traitor and enigma. In the early years of the Cold War, he betrayed every secret of allied operations to the Russians, philby's two closest friends in this dark and secretive world, Nicholas Elliott of M. I. Six and James angleton, the CIA intelligence chief, both thought that they knew philby better than anyone, but they were to discover that they had not known him. This is a story of duplicity of loyalty, trust and treachery of class and conscience, of an ideological battle waged by men with cut glass accents and well made suits played out in the comfortable clubs and restaurants of London and Washington. A story of male friendships forged and systematically betrayed. This is the story of kim philby, the most notorious of all Cold War spies.