The Private Life of Kim Philby; The Moscow Years

by Unknown

• ISBN13: 9780953615162
• ISBN10: 0953615162
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 2003-05-01
• Publisher: Little Brown Uk

Summary

Masterspy Kim Philby's secret life is far stronger than any spy fiction. Recruited by the Soviet KGB at Cambridge in the 1930s, he made his way into the British Secret Intelligence Service where he became head of its anti-Soviet section, then liaison officer in Washington with the CIA and FBIrevealing everything he learned to his Moscow bosses. He was in the running to become chief of the British service, but following the defection of two of his fellow spies in 1951, Philby found himself under a persistent cloud of suspicion and he eventually fled himself in 1963. Before he died in Moscow in 1988, Philby had become a symbol in the West of Soviet-inspired treacheryan Englishman from a privileged background who had betrayed the entire free world. With interviews by Hayden Peake and an introduction by Michael Lubimov, Rufina Philby's memoir of her notorious husband provides a portrait of the masterspy that reveals how much he had previously managed to conceal.

Table of Contents

Illustrations	vii
Introduction by Hayden Peake	1	(4)
PART 1 Kim Philby: The Moscow Years by Rufina Philby	5	(198)
Foreword by Michael Bogdanov	7	(77)
1 Before Kim	15	(9)
2 The English Spy	24	(15)
3 Under the Microscope	39	(10)
4 A New Life	49	(5)
5 My Family and Friends	54	(5)
6 Kim's First Encounters with Moscow Life	59	(4)
7 Battling the Bottle	63	(5)
8 Every Day a Holiday	68	(6)
9 Day by Day	74	(10)
10 Back to Work	84	(8)
11 Meeting the Children	92	(7)
12 Pleasures and Enjoyments	99	(9)
13 Travels in the USSR	108	(16)
14 An Invitation We Couldn't Refuse	124	(10)
15 Home Again	134	(3)
16 Security	137	(4)
17 The Case Officers	141	(10)
18 Exploring Foreign Countries	151	(9)
19 Cuba	160	(6)
20 Kim's Last Trip Abroad	166	(2)
21 The Dacha	168	(4)
22 Meeting Graham Greene	172	(9)
23 Our Final Travels	181	(8)
24 The Beginning of the End	189	(7)
25 The Last Journey	196	(4)
Epilogue	200	(3)
PART 2 Kim Philby's Unpublished Memoirs and Articles	203	(66)
1 Autobiographical Reminiscences	205	(39)
Chapter 1	206	(13)
Chapter 2 Decision	219	(25)
2 Lecture to the KGB, July 1977	244	(15)
3 Should Agents Confess?	259	(10)
PART 3 A Martyr to Dogma by Mikhail Lyubimov	269	(26)
PART 4 The Philby Literature by Hayden Peake	295	(70)
Bibliography	365	(36)
Philby Chronology	401	(29)
Index	430