But no matter; allowing myself plenty of time to get lost, Im soon heading towards the apartment where my grandfather lived out the final 25 years of his life under the watchful eye of Moscow and where his widow Rufa is currently preparing an enormous spread for our afternoon tea. Laying flowers at my grandfather's grave. Spy Among Friends : Philby and the Great Betrayal, Paperback by MacIntyre, Ben, ISBN 1408851784, ISBN-13 9781408851784, Brand New, Free shipping in the US<br><br> Today, Moscows main strip, Tverskaya Ryad which I remember from childhood holidays as a drab grey stretch clotted with queues of people who looked like they didnt know what they were waiting for (though it was usually oranges or ice cream) is barely recognisable: a knot of designer stores and mobile-phone shops, interspersed with garish billboards hanging between the buildings above the busy main road. Macmillan was, of course, Prime Minister by 1962, when the Soviet double agent George Blake was caught, and Kim could no longer hide the truth. In a written statement, they admitted they had been Communists since their Cambridge days and disingenuously described themselves as political refugees, not spies. Kim Philby: new revelations about spy emerge in secret files UK government launched campaign to block memoirs being published fearing damaging disclosures Kim Philby had been secretly. When Melinda and the children joined him, they moved into a small apartment and the children were put into the local Soviet schools. In 1983, a month or so after my parents took me as a newborn to meet him for the first time, Kim sent a copy of Lenins On the Dictatorship of the Proletariat, with a long, beautifully written letter to my maternal grandfather, whom he was unlikely ever to meet. After graduating from Washington University, she worked for the advertising agency J. Walter Thompson in San Francisco. And here he was struck by disappointment, brought to tears. Charlotte Philby, 39, is a former investigative reporter and the author of three critically acclaimed spy novels. Putting real historical characters into a novel is a minefield, especially those who existed within living memory. 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. He needed a secret sharer in his life as well as someone to admire him. A Double Life: The Times & Observers Thriller of the Month. Takes charge of British intelligence in Spain and Portugal. Kim Philby drank while Guy Burgess, who was gay, missed his friends in London, including Anthony Blunt whose spying activities, though known to the government, were kept under wraps until they. because he "didn't want his children, who were used to life of freedom, to suffer life of oppression". P&P free on orders over 15. Then she drove off with the children. The committee is serving as the unwitting instrument of the KGB." Kim Philby was a high-ranking member of British intelligence who worked as a double agent before defecting to Soviet Union in 1963. For another, hed made his bed. They took the train to Zurich, where they changed trains to Schwarzach in Austria. They had access to the special shops reserved for the Soviet elite, and were able to import canned goods and drinks from Denmark. ", His habit was fuelled by his sorrow over what he saw around him, she added. But such treatment did not last and they were quickly dispatched to the closed city of Kuybyshev, 600 miles east of Moscow far away, they were told, from British assassination squads. As previously noted, this has been taken as a sign along with his heavy drinking that in the end, Kim was left a broken man, disillusioned and dejected, having arrived in Moscow expecting to be given important assignments and a high-ranking role in the KGB, only to be left with very little to do, and plied with booze to keep him compliant. Amnesia in Literature and Film How? Charlotte Philby, daughter of John Philby, H.A.R. Part of the Family and A Double Life are available now. 1933Leaves Cambridge a convinced Communist. Viktor Suvorov . But at the famous Secret Trial in 1952, he convinced his MI5 interrogator Buster Milmo that he was not a Soviet agent. children: John David Philby Josephine F. Philby Dudley Thomas Philby Miranda Philby Harry George Philby Birth. What are you writing next?After publishing four novels in four years, Im taking more time to write the next one. But her latest article contains several interesting anecdotes, including an episode at Moscows Sheremetyevo International Airport, when Soviet airport staff scrambled frantically to work around the fact that they had accidentally scheduled [the Philbys, who were returning from visiting Kim,] on the same flight back to London as the British ambassador, who was wafting around the terminal in a pinstripe suit. One can hardly overlook the irony of a man who so resolutely betrayed his country, surrounding himself in his Soviet apartment with British condiments, newspapers and light-hearted English classics. 1929Enters Trinity College, Cambridge. Our driver makes various calls en route, each consisting of just a few short sentences, before turning into a different burial ground up the road, manned with armed guards. In the middle of the bookcase behind his desk, above his empty chair, just where Kims head would have rested, a single book looms out, cover first. One of Kims old KGB comrades, whom Id been in contact with during the course of my research for this article, told me that a gang of five or six of Kims former colleagues still meet up every month and raise a toast in his honour. Given a heros burial in Moscows Kuntsevo Cemetery. He wasnt one to care what others thought: Never be boring, and dont be afraid of offending people was one of the last things he told me before he died. Melinda fitted the bill. Joins Cambridge University Socialist Society. I think part of the appeal of writing this book was trying to reconcile the ways in which Ive come to understand him: as a grandfather; a father; a friend; a traitor; an idealist. But as the author Graham Greene my grandfathers close friend and a fellow British intelligence officer, who worked under him at MI6 wrote in the introduction to Kims autobiography, My Silent War: The end, of course, in his eyes is held to justify the means, but this is a view taken, perhaps less openly, by most men involved in politics, if we are to judge them by their actions, whether the politician be a Disraeli or a Wilson. But that didnt mean the ideal itself was corrupt or not worth pursuing. Image: Barney Beech, The courtyard outside Kim's flat. He had got afraid that I would leave, and hidden the boot.". Melinda put the bravest of faces on her situation when she wrote to her still grief-stricken mother that she understood the suffering she had caused. All was reasonably well between them until Kim Philby the master-spy who recruited him back in their Cambridge days himself defected in 1963. But the two men, for so long ideological comrades, fell out. Shes always cast as a bit player if shes mentioned at all, but she was a remarkable woman. Kim Philby was unmasked as a Soviet double agent in July 1963 when . document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); The Philby case has always fascinated me. He was tall and fair; she was slight with curly, dark hair. She was an object of both pity and fascination, and to get away from it all, she moved from their house on the Kent-Surrey border to Switzerland, with her mother. Little Donald said perhaps he had gone to India because that would be a good place to hide., Donald Maclean with his wife Melinda Marling and his two sons Ronald and Fergus in the 50s, Wanted pictures are posted at a Berlin checkpoint for Donald Maclean and Guy Burgess, Guy Burgess (pictured) did not cope well to life in the Soviet Union - he got drunk and roamed Kuybyshev looking for action, on one occasion having his teeth knocked out in a brawl. The basic facts, after all, are well-documented. Melinda translated Russian stories into English for the weekly English paper, Moscow News. Charlotte Philby. He got drunk and roamed Kuybyshev looking for action, on one occasion having his teeth knocked out in a brawl. 21 offers from $10.67. No doubt your grandfather would have disapproved of the sharp contrasts in present-day Russia, he said. Your email address will not be published. Find out where Kim Philby was born, their birthday and details about their professions, education, religion, family and other life details and facts. 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. Perhaps he hadnt always been right. ", Pukhova, now 78, said she was irritated by stories about Philby's drink problem, but admitted he wasn't always able to stick to his two-glass rule. Kim Philby and Nicholas Elliott. They're at it again! Recently I found a paparazzo shot of my dad with a suitcase getting into a car and me, aged five, looking into the camera, and I had this moment of recognition. The whole plan is being masterminded by Kim Philby in Moscow. But whether that came with any sense of self-pity is something else entirely. Kim was not nave; he knew that his ideal, like any other, was susceptible to corruption. Then, with no more information to be had, the story of the Macleans went dead. Harold Adrian Russell " Kim " Philby ORB, OL ODN (1 January 1912 - 11 May 1988) [1] was a British intelligence officer and a double agent for the Soviet Union. Kim Philbys granddaughter describes memories of her grandfather. He believed in freedom of speech and thought that Stalinism and all that were temporary and obviously, the outcome proved otherwise. As for the drinking, Kim never needed an excuse to crack open a bottle; he was a drinker in good times and in bad. Did your father, John, talk about his father?We never had a family meeting where he said: Right, Im going to explain to you who your grandfather was. That was not at all the kind of person he was. 1934Marries Communist Jew Litzi Friedman. . While I was researching this article, Bennett also the author of An Englishman Abroad, in which he imagines Guy Burgesss final years in Moscow: lonely, pathetic and wholly unfulfilled responded to a shorter opinion piece I wrote for this paper last July in which I defended my grandfathers decision not to apologise publicly for his actions. Lets have another drink on it, old man. Good old Kim. I would like to have drawn Bennett further on his comments, but unfortunately, when I contacted his agent to request a meeting, my invitation was declined. The spy novelist, whose latest book tells the story of her grandfather Kim Philby and the Soviet agent Edith Tudor-Hart, talks about the perils of writing about family, and why female spies get overlooked. Kims library, which he had shipped over soon after he emerged in the Soviet Union, is testimony to his complexities and to his contradictions: across four walls of bookshelves, Russian classics and key Communist texts stand side by side with Raymond Chandler and PG Wodehouse novels; there are 19 volumes of Cambridge Modern History and a Sherlock Holmes scrapbook. A large amount of the letters in the book are lifted verbatim from those. I am going to England in July for a Filby reunion at the town Filby. Photograph: Daily Mail/Rex Features, MI5missed early chance to expose Soviet agent Kim Philby, files reveal, Charlotte Philby: We visited Kim in Moscow, Love and Deception: Philby in Beirut by James Hanning review the spy who loved, maybe, ASplinter of Ice review Graham Greene and Kim Philby clink glasses, Graham Greenes showdown with Soviet spy Kim Philby: A Splinter of Ice review, KimPhilby: new revelations about spy emerge in secret files, George Blake exemplified the desolation, waste and treachery of the cold war, Moscow names square after British double agent Kim Philby, Athriller of spies and betrayal: by Kim Philbys granddaughter. Pukhova said he was a "special" and principled man. I remember Kims words: I have followed exactly the same line the whole of my adult life. He married Litzi Friedman, a fellow activist and an Austrian Jew, to help her escape persecution. 1955Government white paper on Burgess-Maclean affair. And sadness. Seconds later, were hurtling at break-neck speed out of the cemetery, along the motorway, the driver making various calls en route, each consisting of just a few short sentences, before turning into a different burial ground up the road, manned with armed guards. Prince Albert of Monaco is the first Euro monarch to confirm he and his wife Keep calm and carry on! During our stay, more mourners piled in, their cries and moans ricocheting off the walls. By the time she left Russia, Maclean was in his final decline, in and out of hospital with cancer from his lifetime of smoking. Charlotte is the granddaughter of Kim Philby, Britain's most famous communist double-agent, the elusive 'third man' in the notorious Cambridge spy ring. Philby lives in Bristol with her husband and three children. "His alcoholism was suicide," she told the Moskovsky Komsomolets newspaper. Next to articles about him online, readers routinely describe him as evil and a cancer on society. After reading it briefly, my dad had simply shrugged and tossed the note in the bin. Perhaps its too early to judge; after all, Communism, according to its followers, is the final epoch, inevitable only once all other systems have eaten themselves which, of course, they will. Inside, however, the lift is as temperamental as it ever was, so I make the journey to his flat by foot, instantly recognising the strange studded-leather front door as I emerge from the stairwell. Death. Debt-ridden couple killed their dog and then shot themselves dead with shotgun on the day they were due to Rishi Sunak says he is 'ensuring the safety of women and children' by blocking Scottish gender law as SNP Let them eat cake! She would be his silent witness for all the difficult years ahead. There have been endless attempts to understand how this gregarious, public-school educated English chap and his fellow Cambridge spies could have been persuaded to betray their country, and dupe their family and their friends. Inside, the atrium leading to the main sorting office and collection point is now dotted with stalls selling electronic goods, pricey mobile-phone accessories and flowers at 3 a stem. Charlotte Philby was only five years old when Kim died, but says she vividly remembers her grandfathers small modest flat several floors above ground level, in central Moscow, as well as the epic games of chess [the double spy played with her] dad over several glasses of whiskey when the family would visit him in Russia. He drank to excess, hit her, and often disappeared. St John, who had joined the British Foreign Service in 1917, when his only son was five years old, was also a non-conformist. Melinda, now officially Natasha Frazer, hated Kuybyshev, which she found very primitive, and for a while Donald was depressed and disillusioned by the reality of Soviet Russia. On the eve of his 99th birthday, I spent, At Kim's flat with his partner, Rufina. He said, 'Why do old people live so badly here? I am a private person and a political person. It's Mr (coffee) Bean! They lived together for three years, until a younger woman caught the philandering Philbys eye. References. He worked as a journalist until 1940, when Guy . Life in Moscow. In the intervening years, there have been endless attempts to understand how this gregarious, public-school educated English chap and his fellow Cambridge spies Guy Burgess, Donald Maclean, Anthony Blunt and John Cairncross could have been persuaded to betray their country, and dupe their family and their friends. "Kim said to me, 'I came here totally fully of information, I wanted to give everything I had but no one was interested," explained Pukhova. Princess Royal honours Team GB curling stars and Scottish police chief at Palace of Peter Andre launches scathing attack on Prince Harry as he says Duke of Sussex is 'publicly trashing his Take note, Prince Harry! Rebuilding it meant forging a unique friendship with the very woman he left her for. Although she would be left pitied, even censured, and alone in a country in which she had spent barely one-tenth of her life, it might be better that he should be free to live a new life in Moscow than spend a decade behind bars. Where do you write?I wrote Edith and Kim all over the place because weve been in the process of moving house for the past couple of years, but now I have a shed at the bottom of our garden where I can feel Im in the middle of nowhere, and Im never leaving! But even then, having made calculated decisions based on deeply-felt political ideals, I still dont think he would have done things any differently. And he kept his word to the end." Philby had other less damaging routines: a cup of Russian tea at 7am and English tea with milk at 5pm, drunk from a fine porcelain cup. In her article, published yesterday in British daily The Independent, she describes Kim Philby as a proud man, and one who chose to publicly stand by his actions. Macleans outward calm in the face of exile was greatly bolstered by his wifes support. Was that a selfish decision? Your email address will not be published. Maclean accused Philby of being a double agent working for the British and they stopped speaking. Fergie is horrified that [Donald] might have done something wrong at the office and the FO will be very angry when he returns. Kim Philby with partner Melinda Maclean (who later returned to her husband and fellow spy, Donald Maclean) walk in the woods outside Moscow in the 1960's, photographed by his son John, Donald Maclean pictured in 1937 whilst on a skiing holiday - he fled to Moscow to escape arrest in Britain as the spy who, for 15 years, had passed state secrets to the Soviet Union, Melinda Maclean and her sons in their last European home in Geneva 1953 -she was slight with curly, dark hair, 'an under-educated, attractive woman who was both affectionate and popular'. That summer, friends thought her distracted. It seemed a fitting finale for such a notable spy. In contrast to Blake, Philby and Burgess and to a less extent Maclean suffered from nostalgia for Britain. And whenever we went to stay, wed be picked up from the airport and driven to his flat via a purposefully circuitous route in a KGB car so that no one could quite remember how we got there. He never promised to give up, but once, completely unexpectedly, he suddenly said, 'I'm afraid I'm going to lose you, I'm not going to drink any more.' The Macleans lived well, housed in a smart building overlooking the river, in a splendid six-room flat which they gradually filled with bric--brac and furniture shipped from home. He travelled extensively, while also making his way up the ranks of the British intelligence services by 1944, Kim was appointed head of a newly formed anti-Soviet section, and was later sent to Washington where, as the top Secret Intelligence Service representative, he worked for several years in liaison with the CIA and FBI. However, Pukhova said the fear that she would leave had helped her husband temper his intake in later years. Maclean and Burgess escape to Russia. At one stage, in the programme for his play Single Spies, the writer Alan Bennett printed a claim that my dad John had turned up late to his own fathers funeral, straight from the airport, and stood swaying behind a gravestone clutching bags of booze. There are things I know for certain about my grandfather. At the sight of our car, the men leap from their posts, saluting and buzzing the electric gates; one jumps into the front seat and calls out instructions as we roll off again. Eleanor Kearns was born in Seattle in 1914. Without a word, he steps out in his long dark trench coat and buffed-leather shoes, opening the back door for me to follow. Britain declares that Philby is the Third Man. Here, surrounded by an extensive library, he would sit for hours. 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. Macleans study resembled that of a Cambridge professor, with copies of Trollope, biographies of Gladstone and airmail editions of The Times. I think Ive spent so long having other people project their versions of my grandfather and my family on to me that writing about it is a way of trying to reclaim the story. Kim leapt up and shouted, 'Whoever is rude to my wife is rude to me!' Being one of North Korea's elite, for the nation he was the highest profile defection since No Kum-sok (above . She flirted with other men and had affairs. Inside he wrote: Herewith a few extracts from our bible. Philby was a 19-year-old art student when his father was exposed in 1963 as a traitor. 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. In Spain, reports the Civil War from General Francos side, and is awarded the Red Cross of Military Merit by Franco. But we visited Kim in Moscow and those holidays form some of my earliest memories, so it wasnt like he was a secret. Standing on the balcony, you can see the same school playground, where children in heavy ski jackets are involved in a timeless game launching themselves from the top of a flight of concrete stairs to the ground below, cushioned with thick blankets of snow. In this article for The Independent Magazine, I returned to Moscow to discover the truth about my grandfather, the infamous Third Man. Kim Philby was probably the most successful double spy in history. The Soviet authorities buried him with honors when he died in 1988. He passed over 900 British documents to the KGB. Kim Philby, British intelligence officer and member of the Cambridge Five, defected to the Soviet Union in 1963. They gave a lot of parties. Shes a sympathetic character in the novel. He and Pukhova married in 1971, when he was 59 and she was 38. We got together in our cabin to discuss our plans. What are you currently reading?Im trying to reconnect with what made me fall in love with books and the process of writing so Im going back to reread some of the books that feel seminal for me: The Beach, The Child in Time, White Teeth, Disgrace, The Poisonwood Bible and The Peoples Act of Love. 1946Moves to Turkey, working as head of SIS there. So Philby left his wife and children in England in September 1956, arriving in a country for which he had little natural sympathy. Image: Barney Beech, Kim's graveside, at Kuntsovo Cemetry. Did you feel that as you uncovered her story?I feel a huge amount of sympathy for her situation, and admiration, really. Is it time Harry & Meghan accept Clarkson's apology and move on? Men with erectile dysfunction who take Viagra are 25% less likely to Money saving guru Martin Lewis reveals easy FIRST step to clearing thousands of pounds in debt. 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. When Burgess and Maclean fled to Moscow, avoiding capture, Kim was the chief suspect for having given them the heads-up. It was a mystery. Thanks for this post. Grandpas flat is almost exactly as he left it: After Kim left, I didnt want to change anything, Rufa says. Slowly but surely, he was turning himself into one of the most cunning and treacherous double agents of all time. Feeling a strong dissatisfaction with British policy in the Middle East, Kims father resigned from the Foreign Service in 1930, converting to Islam and taking the name Hajj Abdullah. Banner-waving XR zealots let off smoke flares, pour black paint outside Home Office British tennis fans are kicked out for chanting 'You're just a s*** Andy Murray' during Cameron Norrie's Farmer, 71, who appeared on BBC documentary This Farming Life is killed by one of his own cows. (4 children) Litzi Friedmann (24 February 1934 - 1946) (divorced . She also helped find homes for Kindertransport children and during the Second World War helped set up the British Restaurants for people who had been bombed in the Blitz. She was a horsey product of the. He sounded in good health and expressed the strong hope that she would join him in. How easy did you find it to capture Kims voice?I spent so long with his letters and they gave me such an insight into the expressions he used, the way he spoke, how he flipped between being tender and reflective and witty and scathing, and his very English obsession with the weather. So, too, have I seen images of his cold body decorated with medals in an open coffin, armed guards at either side, as the lavish funeral procession made its way through Kuntsevo Cemetery to this very spot. Eleanor Philby. "He once even said that it was the easiest way to bring life to an end. Today, this pedestrianised street is only accessible by a coded gate, and the faade of the building has been tarted up almost beyond recognition. The spy who loved us: what Kim Philby's personal letters revealed about his mind The double-agent's granddaughter, Charlotte Philby, on the correspondence of a man who betrayed his country. "I said something to the escort and he just stayed silent, sitting, leafing through his magazine. Was he lamentable for still believing that a Communist state could ultimately exist, free from the corruption which plagues all systems, to the benefit of a fair, just society? As I walk towards it, the title of the Anthony Trollope novel jumps out at me: He Knew He Was Right. Kim even duped his own children, and left them behind when he fled to Moscow. Were you always aware that your family had this extraordinary history? 1963Disappears in Beirut on 23 January. He achieved the deception by employing his occasional stutter, so as to buy himself time to think before telling another bare-faced lie. He died in 1983 at the age of 69, recording beforehand that I do not at all regret having done what seemed and still seems to me my duty. Five minutes later, Im watching the shadow of a tall, leafless tree falling against the snow on the path in front of my grandfathers tombstone, wondering who it was whod been here in the past few hours and placed a bunch of brightly coloured flowers at the foot of his grave. When its finally made clear that Ive come from England to visit the grave of my grandfather, Kim Philby, a Soviet agent who was given a heros burial somewhere on this land in the late 1980s, the old security man at the gate starts shouting, and shoos me through a private door, into the office where he regales the story to a tall man in a dark trench coat referred to as boss who in turn ushers me outside towards a brand new Range Rover with blackened windows. Online calculator reveals how inflation-busting 14.4% hike will Do not sell or share my personal information. Donald is well and happy to be with his family again. And if a soldier is fighting for a cause he believes in, which he believes is worth sacrificing single human lives for, but then in the end his side loses the war, does that mean that he was wrong to have stood up and fought in the first place? Personal life. Just beyond the crossroads which dominates Pushkin Square the spot where its said dissidents would meet, acknowledging each other by removing their hats is the former site of the Hotel Minsk (like much of the city, now under a lengthy reconstruction process), where Kim first met the journalist Murray Sayle in 1967. She emphasised the strength and goodness of their fathers moral and political beliefs as a committed communist who wanted peaceful co-existence between East and West. Mid-morning, wrapped against the cold in Kims old bear hat and a matching coat (its too cold here for animal rights), I set off from my hotel with a map and enough money for the metro and taxi Ill need to take me from the station to the cemetery off the Mozhaisk highway. Observers Thriller of the macleans went dead silent witness for all the difficult years ahead going to England July. He got drunk and roamed Kuybyshev looking for action, on one occasion having his teeth knocked in. 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