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The Young Kim Philby: Soviet spy and British intelligence officer
Kim Philby is perhaps the most notorious traitor in British History and the archetypal spy: ingenious, charming and deceitful. The reluctance of the British and Russian governments to reveal full details of his career meant that for many years a shortage of evidence fuelled controversy. Was Philby an ideological spy, working for the Soviet Union out of Communist conviction, or was he prompted by a personality defect to choose a life of treachery? Was Philby the perfect agent, the 'KGB masterspy', or just plain lucky? In this new biography, Edward Harrison re-examines the crucial early years of Philby's work as a Soviet agent and British intelligence officer using documents from the United Kingdom National Archives, and private papers. He shows how Philby established an early pattern of deceit and betrayed his father St John Philby. But the book also demonstrates how in all the major decisions Philby slavishly sought to emulate his father. This contradicts the myth of independence Philby sought to propagate in My Silent War (his memoirs), along with other deceptions. Later chapters offer the first detailed study of Philby's work as a counter-espionage officer during the Second World War, examining his rapid promotion and providing a substantial explanation of why he was appointed head of the anti-Soviet section of the British Secret Intelligence Service. Harrison also explains that Philby was never wholly trusted by the Soviet secret service.
J.C. Masterman and the Security Service, 1940–72
In: Intelligence and national security, Band 24, Heft 6, S. 769-804
ISSN: 1743-9019
About the Contributors
In: Intelligence and national security, Band 24, Heft 6, S. 5-6
ISSN: 0268-4527
More thoughts on Kim Philby'sMy Silent War
In: Intelligence and national security, Band 10, Heft 3, S. 514-525
ISSN: 1743-9019
Perceptional inequality and preferential judgements: An empirical examination of distributional axioms
In: Public choice, Band 79, Heft 1-2, S. 61-82
ISSN: 0048-5829
Assassination and political violence: report to the National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence
In: Bantam matrix editions
In: A New York Times book
Von Petersburg bis Leningrad: eine Jugend zwischen Monarchie und Revolution
In: Ullstein-Bücher 30279
In: Die Frau in der Literatur
Displaced persons in Germany
In: The Department of State bulletin: the official weekly record of United States Foreign Policy, Band 13, S. 455-463
ISSN: 0041-7610
Marshal Zhukov's Greatest Battles
In: Military Affairs, Band 35, Heft 1, S. 38
The first nuclear war conference. (P.1)
In: The bulletin of the atomic scientists: a magazine of science and public affairs, Band 35, Heft 4, S. 20-27
ISSN: 0096-3402, 0096-5243, 0742-3829
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[The war of ideas. Can we win it?]
In: Public opinion, Band 5, Heft 1, S. 3-11,55
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The secret world: behind the curtain of British Intelligence in World War II and the Cold War
Annotation, Hugh Trevor-Roper's experiences working for the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) during the war had a profound impact on him and he later observed the world of intelligence with particular sharpness. To him, the subject of wartime espionage was as worthy of profound investigation and reflection as events from the more distant past. Expressing his observations through some of his most ironic and entertaining prose, Trevor-Roper wrote with a freedom he could not express publicly due to the Official Secrets Act. Based on previously unpublished material - including an extraordinary and previously-unseen correspondence with the exiled spy Kim Philby - this is a first-hand account of the intelligence world in World War II and its aftermath