"I said something to the escort and he just stayed silent, sitting, leafing through his magazine. Eleanor Philby. How? He was tall and fair; she was slight with curly, dark hair. Melinda walked out on her husband, leaving the children with Donald, and moved in with Philby. According to a recent piece in the Daily Telegraph: For years Philby had sabotaged Allied missions behind the Iron Curtain and had calculatedly sent dozens of agents to their deaths. Most famously, he was almost certainly responsible for the tip-off which led to the deaths of the first British-sponsored Albanians who parachuted in to remove Enver Hoxhas Communist regime. "His alcoholism was suicide," she told the Moskovsky Komsomolets newspaper. He got himself a job teaching English in a school. Occasionally, the driver would draw a curtain around the inside of the windows, and attach a flashing blue light to the roof before setting off. "Kim believed in a just society and devoted his whole life to communism. Britain declares that Philby is the Third Man. 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! 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. A Double Life: The Times & Observers Thriller of the Month. Next to articles about him online, readers routinely describe him as evil and a cancer on society. Getty Images In the USSR, Philby essentially became an honorary pensioner: he passed on to Soviet intelligence everything he. The next day she notified the British Consul in Geneva. 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. Maclean accused Philby of being a double agent working for the British and they stopped speaking. The shiny black 44 rumbles slowly through the graveyard. 1912Harold Adrian Russell Kim Philby is born on 1 January in Amballa, India, the son of Dora and St John. Philby is summoned for interrogation and asked to resign from Foreign Service. Edith and Kim: The brilliant new historical spy novel based on the true story of the woman behind the Cambridge spies in Cold War espionage. The gang of British spies who ended up in Moscow in the 1950s and 1960s were employed in KGB training schools and international research institutes. Whatever you believe, Kim felt history would prove him right: Ill be remembered as a good man, he told my mum just two years before his death. Required to take new names and identities, Maclean chose to be Mark Petrovich Frazer (after the Cambridge anthropologist Sir James Frazer of Golden Bough fame, a 12-volume study of mythology and religion). There are two more mobile-phone shops inside the post-office building, and on the steps, a babushka swathed in heavy furs and surrounded by plastic bags counts out a handful of pennies. Shes a sympathetic character in the novel. 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. In 1951, Kim tipped off his fellow Cambridge spy Donald Maclean that Britain had caught wind of Macleans spying activities and a warrant had been issued for his arrest. Philby was a 19-year-old art student when his father was exposed in 1963 as a traitor. Philby was a 25-year-old reporter for The Times and had just returned from covering the Spanish Civil War when he met rebellious Aileen Furse in London in 1937. He was previously married to Rufina Ivanovna Pukhova, Eleanor Brewer, Aileen Furse and Litzi Friedmann. We searched every corner until Kim suddenly struck himself on the head with his hand, went to a cupboard and brought back the boot. The basic facts, after all, are well-documented. "His story does not really go away, because there is. Exposure showed me along with William Boyds Restless how you can write a novel that is ostensibly a spy story but is really about the people, and the families, at the heart of a great betrayal. I love those images of him as a real person; for me, thats where the clues as to who he really was can be found. In the programme for his play Single Spies, the writer Alan Bennett printed a claim that my dad had turned up late to his own fathers funeral, straight from the airport, and stood swaying behind a gravestone clutching bags of booze. We got together in our cabin to discuss our plans. Death. Who is going to check 55 volumes for the odd sentence? His wife Eleanor joined him in Moscow, and the Philbys and the Macleans spent a lot of time together, going to the ballet or just having dinner and playing bridge. 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 were exposed much later, in 1979. Image: Barney Beech, A Sunday Times best book of the year, here is Edith and Kim in review - and where to find signed first editions, An interview with Stephanie Merritt about Edith and Kim, the perils of writing about family, and why female spies often get overlooked, From a compendium of stories about life at the Bauhaus to a Modernist memoir by the founder of the iconic Isokon, here are some of the books that inspired my forthcoming novel, For the Telegraph, I wrote about the woman who recruited my grandfather to the Soviets - the subject of my forthcoming novel Edith and Kim, My tribute to the late - and truly great - master of spy fiction, for the i paper, From a celebration of the life of John le Carr at Cheltenham to an exploration of women and crime in Chiswick, please join me at one of the following events, across the country (and the internet!). Philby exposed. 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. In any case, even if an address had been known for grandpa, it may not have been much use in 2010. Of course, if there is a conflict, the political person comes first.. 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. In 1955, Harold Macmillan, then Foreign Secretary, issued a statement confirming that there was no evidence that Kim Philby was a Soviet agent. Kims case was not helped by the fact that several of his Soviet controllers including Mar, the man who recruited him had later been executed as enemies of the people. She liked it that he was a man with strong beliefs, and agreed to stand by him. Maclean seemed totally at one with Soviet ways and believed to his death that the USSR and its new society has a much better prospect than the old of overcoming the major ills and injustices of our civilisation. But the two men, for so long ideological comrades, fell out. He passed over 900 British documents to the KGB. It had been a long time coming. 1962George Blake is caught. The pair returned to England in May and, by this point already an appointed Soviet agent, Kim found work as a foreign correspondent. It was bad enough with Kim and the Cambridge spies showing up the British establishment, but the idea that this foreign Jewish woman might run rings around men in positions of authority, perhaps that was embarrassing for them. But even then, having made calculated decisions based on deeply-felt political ideals, I still dont think he would have done things any differently. Perhaps he hadnt always been right. So, perhaps, by the time he died, a year before the fall of the Berlin Wall and knowing what he must have known by then he did feel disappointed. November 16, 2017. When you look at the way Edith is referred to in the [security services] files as that foreign woman, I wonder whether theres a sense of embarrassment too. The extent of these contrasts can be seen by comparing two articles appearing on consecutive days in the Moscow Times. 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. [1] Philby began his work for the Soviet Union as a spy in 1934. Original reporting and incisive analysis, direct from the Guardian every morning, Kim Philby in Russia in 1968, five years after defecting. He fell for her the moment he met her among the bohemian set he socialised with in Paris, where he was a British diplomat. But so it was. H. A. R. (Kim) Philby, the double agent whose betrayal of his country and his social class indelibly marked British politics, has died in Moscow, officials in London said yesterday. 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. Like your own Holy Writ, it is open to many different (and often conflicting) interpretations, according to the tastes and prejudices of the reader., In the accompanying letter, he adds: The difficulty is that [Lenin] was always writing at white-heat on burning questions of the day (or even hour); and naturally his strategy and tactics changed to meet changing circumstances My Russian edition has 55 large volumes, so there is ample room for selective quotation and even spurious interpolation. 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. Kim Philby was probably the most successful double spy in history. The fight against Fascism and the fight against imperialism were fundamentally the same fight.. After five years of silence, communications were re-established with family and friends. I am going to England in July for a Filby reunion at the town Filby. Create a free website or blog at WordPress.com. Many of the street names have changed since the collapse of the Soviet Union. 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. Journalists look after their own and Philby masqueraded as a devil-may-care drunken newspaperman and so was treated more indulgently by those in his profession.. And perhaps he felt that he certainly resented having to be escorted pretty much wherever he went for his first years in Moscow, as Rufa attests. She has been described as "tall and slim, sweet-natured, and restless". Grandpas flat is almost exactly as he left it: After Kim left, I didnt want to change anything, Rufa says. Image: Barney Beech, Kim's graveside, at Kuntsovo Cemetry. The kitchen where he would ritualistically make his daily breakfast of bacon, eggs and toast (another English habit he never broke), and spent hours cooking every evening, is now rich with the smell of the savoury pancakes Rufa is preparing for our five-hour feast. Thanks Darryl.I live in Australia. In the capital, he became a magazine correspondent, then a teacher and analyst in a research institute for foreign and economic affairs. Some could never quite come to terms that he was a traitor. 1958Marries Eleanor Brewer, an American. Hed been worried about leaving her and their children to carry on without him, but shed given him the all-clear to go. It is an old-fashioned home, not like the homes of new Russia, where everything is modern and imported. She cannot imagine what Kim would have made of this new world, where a minority have benefited so enormously while many outside the capital, the vast majority live in abject poverty with little support from the state. Agent Stanley, as he was known, was ruthless without doubt. 1933Leaves Cambridge a convinced Communist. She was a horsey product of the. He needed a secret sharer in his life as well as someone to admire him. This is the first time Ive ever stood at the foot of my grandfathers grave, but I know it instantly. I am learning more about my family everyday.. (4 children) Litzi Friedmann (24 February 1934 - 1946) (divorced . She cashed a substantial cheque, bought her toddler daughter some new clothes and settled an outstanding garage bill. Was he wrong to have continued on the Communist path once so many others had stepped off? In the living room, the same furs hang above the sofa, alongside a pair of Afghan guns a gift from the KGB colleague whom I spoke to earlier. There, a porter recalled taking their luggage to a waiting car with Salzburg number plates which drove off towards Vienna. And he kept his word to the end." 4.1 out of 5 stars. But it wasnt true. Edith and Kim by Charlotte Philby is published by HarperCollins (14.99). Today, standing at last at his final resting place, surrounded by ex-prime ministers and national heroes in an isolated cemetery on the outskirts of Moscow, with two perfect strangers looming behind me, Im once again reminded of quite how different he was. Opposites attracted. Kim Philby was unmasked as a Soviet double agent in July 1963 when . References. Burgess predeceased him by 20 years, carried off by angina, an abused liver and hardening of the arteries. When Burgess and Maclean fled to Moscow, avoiding capture, Kim was the chief suspect for having given them the heads-up. And here he was struck by disappointment, brought to tears. Part of the Family and A Double Life are available now. This is not the first time Charlotte Philby has written in defense of her grandfathers actions. Kim even duped his own children, and left them behind when he fled to Moscow. Back in England, begins to cover up his past, joining the Anglo-German Fellowship, editing its pro-Hitler magazine. Kim was not nave; he knew that his ideal, like any other, was susceptible to corruption. In a secluded area next to the domed restaurant (one of Kims favourites), the dimly lit bar is serviced by grey-skinned waiters; faux-marble columns run between clusters of heavy red and gold chairs, frequented by groups of men in out-dated suits, briefcases and thick-rimmed glasses, knocking back glasses of vodka, under a thick circle of cigarette smoke. Offer valid until May 1, 2018. They lived together for three years, until a younger woman caught the philandering Philbys eye. "He once even said that it was the easiest way to bring life to an end. Thanks for this post. Of course, he made bold and hugely controversial decisions, some of which had fatal consequences, but he didnt do so lightly. 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. No doubt your grandfather would have disapproved of the sharp contrasts in present-day Russia, he said. 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. Kim Philby In Moscow: Not What He Wished For. 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. Required fields are marked *. 1929Enters Trinity College, Cambridge. 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. 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. Your email address will not be published. Over the years he did everything that was asked of him: he gave everything he had to the cause, and yet still Moscow was deeply suspicious of a man who has been described as their finest and most loyal servant. Ive recorded a podcast with the BBC that will be announced later this year, and my husband and I have bought an old pub that we want to turn into a creative space to make available to charities and people who wouldnt otherwise have access to that, so thats an ongoing project. 1955Government white paper on Burgess-Maclean affair. Anthony Blunt referred to her as the grandmother of the Cambridge spies. ", 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. Burgess did not cope well. An Indian Civil Service officer turned Arabist and explorer, he spent 20 years travelling across the desert on camelback charting Saudis unexplored Empty Quarter, crossing paths with Lawrence of Arabia, and eventually marrying a slave-girl given to him by his friend King Ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia, to whom he spent many years as personal advisor. Philby, though, began seeing Melinda on the side, confessing as much to his wife and saying that he was just trying to make [Melindas] life happier as she had been miserable for the last 15 years. He reported to the Soviet NKVD from the Spanish civil war under the guise of a correspondent for the Times, and in 1940 joined the Secret Intelligence Service (SIS, or MI6), becoming a double agent and passing many secrets to the Kremlin. Charlotte Philby, 39, is a former investigative reporter and the author of three critically acclaimed spy novels. 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. 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. Prince and Princess of Wales pay tribute to Auschwitz survivor Zigi Shipper, who dedicated his life to No rest for Anne! Indeed, when the leading Russian writer Genrikh Borovik was given access to Kims unseen KGB file in 1994 six years after his death the extent to which the Russians mistrusted him became clear. They even had a dacha a country cottage 20 miles from Moscow where the children could swim, fish, bicycle and forage for mushrooms. Part of the Daily Mail, The Mail on Sunday & Metro Media Group. Your email address will not be published. And in 1951, as his spying activities unravelled and his Soviet masters told him to defect, she agreed the best course of action was for him to be ex-filtrated rather than try to brazen out the accusations of treachery that were soon to be levelled at him. Without a word, he steps out in his long dark trench coat and buffed-leather shoes, opening the back door for me to follow. I remember at the time feeling that something very dark was happening and that I didnt feel safe. He achieved the deception by employing his occasional stutter, so as to buy himself time to think before telling another bare-faced lie. Maclean bequeathed Blake his library of books, including Trollope, Macaulay's History of England, Morley's Life of Gladstone, and the Macmillan and Eden memoirs. It was seeing those photos as a six-year-old child which helped first alert me to the fact that there was something a bit different about grandpa Kimsky. He betrayed his country yes, perhaps he did, Greene continues, but who among us has not committed treason to something or someone more important than a country? Melinda Maclean. She has three children and lives in London. Kim Philbys granddaughter describes memories of her grandfather. Charlotte Philby, daughter of John Philby, H.A.R. Kim Philbys oldest son, has penned an extensive account of her memories of her grandfather. In Philbys own eyes he was working for the shape of things to come from which his country would benefit., Kim went to great efforts upon his return to England to cover the traces of his Communist background joining the Anglo-German fellowship in 1934, and editing its pro-Hitler magazine. document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); The Philby case has always fascinated me. Kim Philby, British intelligence officer and member of the Cambridge Five, defected to the Soviet Union in 1963. That he could carry on a secret life without her being aware, while at the same time working his way up the ranks of the British Foreign Office, seemed perfectly possible. Then they boarded what was described as a small military-type aircraft which flew them to Moscow to be reunited with Donald. I am a private person and a political person. Kim went to great efforts upon his return to England to cover the traces of his Communist background joining the Anglo-German fellowship in 1934, and editing its pro-Hitler magazine; making repeated visits to Berlin for talks with the German propaganda ministry; even being personally presented with the Red Cross of Military Merit award by Franco in 1938. In 1963, having been exposed in Britain as the notorious Third Man in the Cambridge Spy Ring, Kim fled to Moscow, never again to set foot from behind the Iron Curtain. The first reports that Russia ranks 143rd in a list of the worlds freest economies, just one spot higher than countries with repressed economies like Vietnam, Ecuador, Belarus and Ukraine, while the next tells how oligarch Roman Abramovich, whose wealth is valued at 7 billion, has just snapped up 35 notable artworks to decorate his 560ft private yacht. 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. Did you feel that as you uncovered her story?I feel a huge amount of sympathy for her situation, and admiration, really. For one thing, like all the men in the Philby family, he was bloody-minded. Philby was a chap. But above all, the problem was that Kims intelligence was too good, and to their detriment intelligence services are geared to believe that the better information is, the more it should be questioned. Maclean was unsure how to act, feeling a mixture of guilt and love, not knowing where he stood with the children he had abandoned and not been able to contact. 1944Appointed head of Section IX, newly formed to operate against Communism and the Soviet Union. To order a copy for 15, visit mailshop.co.uk/ books or call 0844 571 0640. Jeremy Hunt is mocked over toe-curling 'inflation explainer' video by ordering How much will YOUR broadband go up in price? The gramophone, in front of which Kim would take a seat to listen to the World Service at 7pm every evening with a cup of coffee, makes a tremendous groan as it comes to life, but its still very much in working nick. He barely embraced his wife. 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 the place where Kims presence looms largest from every corner is in his study. 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.' Philby had defected to the Soviet Union from Beirut in 1963, and was treated with respect, but felt isolated. Area of responsibility extended to include North African and Italian espionage. Her mood changed, though, with Stalins death in March 1953 and the prospect that the Soviet Union might now become a more open place. But, after a silence of nearly five years, here was the first actual sighting and confirmation that the runaways were alive. She put the two boys into the International School in Geneva and finally explained to them what had happened to their father, reporting to her sister that their worst fear seems to be that I might vanish too. Perhaps. 1934Marries Communist Jew Litzi Friedman. Philby lives in Bristol with her husband and three children. 1940Recruited by British Secret Services and attached to the Secret Intelligence Services (SIS) under Guy Burgess. 1957Aileen Furse, Philbys second wife, dies. ", His habit was fuelled by his sorrow over what he saw around him, she added. 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. Melinda translated Russian stories into English for the weekly English paper, Moscow News. kims flat is several floors up, in an apartment block not far from Pushkin Square, marked out from the rest by a tiny balcony. 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. With his brilliant mind and First from Cambridge, Maclean could bask in being the superior intellect to an under-educated, attractive woman who was both affectionate and popular, where he was withdrawn, giving nothing of himself away. 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! On the eve of his 99th birthday, I spent, At Kim's flat with his partner, Rufina. On their first night in Moscow, an elated Burgess and Maclean had dined in style on a great hotel balcony on the first floor overlooking the Kremlin and got drunk on vodka. 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