A spy among friends : Kim Philby's great betrayal / Ben Macintyre.
2014
UB271.R92 P435 2014 (Mapit)
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Title
A spy among friends : Kim Philby's great betrayal / Ben Macintyre.
Author
Macintyre, Ben, 1963-
Edition
First edition.
ISBN
9780804136631 hardcover
0804136637 hardcover
0804136637 hardcover
Published
New York : Crown, 2014.
Language
English
Description
xii, 368 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm
Call Number
UB271.R92 P435 2014
Dewey Decimal Classification
327.1247041092 B
Summary
The best-selling author of Operation Mincemeat presents a definitive portrait of the notorious 20th-century spy that discusses his rise in MI6, high-profile intelligence friendships and 20-year espionage operation that culminated in his 1963 defection to Moscow.
"Kim Philby was the greatest spy in history, a brilliant and charming man who rose to head Britain's counterintelligence against the Soviet Union during the height of the Cold War - while he was secretly working for the enemy. And nobody thought he knew Philby like Nicholas Elliott, Philby's best friend and fellow officer in MI6. The two men had gone to the same schools, belonged to the same exclusive clubs, grown close through the crucible of wartime intelligence work and long nights of drink and revelry. It was madness for one to think the other might be a communist spy, bent on subverting Western values and the power of the free world. But Philby was secretly betraying his friend. Every word Elliott breathed to Philby was transmitted back to Moscow - and not just Elliott's words, for in America, Philby had made another powerful friend: James Jesus Angleton, the crafty, paranoid head of CIA counterintelligence. Angleton's and Elliott's unwitting disclosures helped Philby sink almost every important Anglo-American spy operation for twenty years, leading countless operatives to their doom. Even as the web of suspicion closed around him, and Philby was driven to greater lies to protect his cover, his two friends never abandoned him - until it was too late. The stunning truth of his betrayal would have devastating consequences on the two men who thought they knew him best, and on the intelligence services he left crippled in his wake."--book jacket.
"Kim Philby was the greatest spy in history, a brilliant and charming man who rose to head Britain's counterintelligence against the Soviet Union during the height of the Cold War - while he was secretly working for the enemy. And nobody thought he knew Philby like Nicholas Elliott, Philby's best friend and fellow officer in MI6. The two men had gone to the same schools, belonged to the same exclusive clubs, grown close through the crucible of wartime intelligence work and long nights of drink and revelry. It was madness for one to think the other might be a communist spy, bent on subverting Western values and the power of the free world. But Philby was secretly betraying his friend. Every word Elliott breathed to Philby was transmitted back to Moscow - and not just Elliott's words, for in America, Philby had made another powerful friend: James Jesus Angleton, the crafty, paranoid head of CIA counterintelligence. Angleton's and Elliott's unwitting disclosures helped Philby sink almost every important Anglo-American spy operation for twenty years, leading countless operatives to their doom. Even as the web of suspicion closed around him, and Philby was driven to greater lies to protect his cover, his two friends never abandoned him - until it was too late. The stunning truth of his betrayal would have devastating consequences on the two men who thought they knew him best, and on the intelligence services he left crippled in his wake."--book jacket.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-359) and index.
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Table of Contents
Apprentice spy
Section V
Otto and Sonny
Boo, boo, baby, i'm a spy
Three young spies
The German defector
The Soviet defector
Rising stars
Stormy seas
Homer's odyssey
Peach
The robber barons
The third man
One man in Beirut
The fox who came to stay
A most promising officer
I thought it would be you
Teatime
The fade
Three old spies.
Section V
Otto and Sonny
Boo, boo, baby, i'm a spy
Three young spies
The German defector
The Soviet defector
Rising stars
Stormy seas
Homer's odyssey
Peach
The robber barons
The third man
One man in Beirut
The fox who came to stay
A most promising officer
I thought it would be you
Teatime
The fade
Three old spies.