He believed in freedom of speech and thought that Stalinism and all that were temporary and obviously, the outcome proved otherwise. Hed been worried about leaving her and their children to carry on without him, but shed given him the all-clear to go. 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. Melinda translated Russian stories into English for the weekly English paper, Moscow News. In a written statement, they admitted they had been Communists since their Cambridge days and disingenuously described themselves as political refugees, not spies. They even had a dacha a country cottage 20 miles from Moscow where the children could swim, fish, bicycle and forage for mushrooms. The little blue pill really is magic! Kim Philby was born on January 1, 1912 in Ambala, Punjab, British India [now Haryana, India]. Rufina Pukhova, his Russian-Polish wife, said Philby struggled to control his drinking by downing only two glasses of cognac a night and then handing her the bottle to hide. 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. They met each other socially but soon fell out. 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. 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. Philby is summoned for interrogation and asked to resign from Foreign Service. There, he volunteered for the refugee committee, fundraising, secretly writing and disseminating propaganda, raising funds and distributing clothes and money to those whod escaped Fascist Germany. Her fourth novel, Edith and Kim, tells the linked stories of her grandfather and Edith Tudor-Hart, a Jewish photojournalist born in Vienna, who studied at the Bauhaus, married an Englishman, worked as a Soviet agent in London and introduced Kim to his Russian handler. References. 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. In his own words: I am really two people. Kim Philby, British intelligence officer and member of the Cambridge Five, defected to the Soviet Union in 1963. Back in England, begins to cover up his past, joining the Anglo-German Fellowship, editing its pro-Hitler magazine. 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. 1955Government white paper on Burgess-Maclean affair. But so it was. "There was one funny incident," she remembered. The views expressed in the contents above are those of our users and do not necessarily reflect the views of MailOnline. 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. document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); The Philby case has always fascinated me. Melinda Maclean. She was a horsey product of the. It was, in fact, those journeys to Kims flat which form some of my strongest early memories: flying down the third lane of the motorway in an unmarked car. 23. In time, details emerged of their lives after they defected. Philby still dismissed from Foreign Service for his association with Burgess. 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. But the two men, for so long ideological comrades, fell out. 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. 1933Leaves Cambridge a convinced Communist. Grandpas flat is almost exactly as he left it: After Kim left, I didnt want to change anything, Rufa says. 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. 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. History / World. In fact, he had arrived in Moscow days earlier, and can be seen on film standing just back from his fathers coffin. Then she drove off with the children. 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. Perhaps. Edith and Kim by Charlotte Philby is published by HarperCollins (14.99). Part of the Family and A Double Life are available now. Now, in an attempt to impose some order on my own understanding of my grandfather, to clarify the kaleidoscopic image of him which has formed in my mind, I have returned for the first time as an adult to the country where, in political exile, he lived out the last 25 years of his life. 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. This article was amended on 31 March. He married Litzi Friedman, a fellow activist and an Austrian Jew, to help her escape persecution. After graduating from Washington University, she worked for the advertising agency J. Walter Thompson in San Francisco. Philby had defected to the Soviet Union from Beirut in 1963, and was treated with respect, but felt isolated. A Double Life: The Times & Observers Thriller of the Month. One of the first tasks he was given was to spy on his own father, which he did, without question digging up very little, because, though the Russians failed to believe it, there was nothing to dig up. The view from one of the windows is notably different, too. He needed a secret sharer in his life as well as someone to admire him. Why British spy Donald Maclean's wife dumped him and their three children for fellow traitor Kim Philby The Maclean's marriage was stormy, with rows, infidelity and bad bahaviour Friends. On one occasion, when dropping us off at the airport, Kim and my dad were so sloshed they were shoved into a cupboard under the stairs with a bottle of vodka by staff to keep them quiet, while the British ambassador ambled around the main terminal building waiting for the same flight to London. They lived together for three years, until a younger woman caught the philandering Philbys eye. P&P free on orders over 15. A new TV series highlights the part played by the UK intelligence service's Nicholas Elliott in unmasking the 1960s Cambridge spy ring - events he recalled years later over lunch at his club Damian. 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. When Burgess and Maclean fled to Moscow, avoiding capture, Kim was the chief suspect for having given them the heads-up. Yesterday, in our serialisation of an electrifying biography based on newly released papers, we heard how he fled to Moscow just as he was about to be arrested leaving behind his supposedly innocent wife. He was previously married to Rufina Ivanovna Pukhova, Eleanor Brewer, Aileen Furse and Litzi Friedmann. Burgess predeceased him by 20 years, carried off by angina, an abused liver and hardening of the arteries. Chicago-born Melinda, whom he married in France in 1940, knew all along that Donald was a spy. If we were really lucky, sometimes and this was still the 1980s thered be a distant ringing, and from a compartment near the gear stick, our escort would pull out a telephone attached to a spiral cord, which hed talk into in a low voice, repeating the same two words, horosho and da, again and again before hanging up. And sadness. 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. Kim Philby was probably the most successful double spy in history. Meets Guy Burgess, Donald Maclean, Anthony Blunt and John Cairncross. The comments below have not been moderated. Melinda, it turned out, had driven to Lausanne, where tickets were waiting and luggage had been left in a station locker. But as the months turned into years and no word came from him, she sank into depression at the realisation that she was now bringing up their children alone. Life in Moscow. Inside he wrote: Herewith a few extracts from our bible. Area of responsibility extended to include North African and Italian espionage. 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. 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. In his diary for the London Review of Books, Bennett wrote: Philby does seem to have been responsible for the betrayal and presumed torture and death of a network of agents in a way thats never been proved of Blunt. As for Melinda the central figure in the circle of loyalty and secrecy, desertion and reconciliation, love and solitariness that was the human drama of Donald Macleans life she lived well into her 90s before dying in New York in 2010, silent to the end about her years with one of Britains most infamous traitors. My second novel is The Times' Book of the Month for July 2020, Chapman Pincher: The Spy-Catcher of Fleet Street, Edith Tudor-Hart: The grandmother of the Cambridge Spies, John le Carr: The writer who made me want to write, ELLE: An unexpected friendship with the other woman. During our stay, more mourners piled in, their cries and moans ricocheting off the walls. 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. To see through to the end what he started? Kim Philby, the most successful of the Cambridge spies, tried to drink himself to death in Moscow because he was disillusioned with communism and tortured by his own failings, his last wife has said in an interview. Create a free website or blog at WordPress.com. But the place where Kims presence looms largest from every corner is in his study. Donald refused to become part of the twilight brigade community of defectors, down-at-heel, disillusioned and wondering how they had got there. The fight against Fascism and the fight against imperialism were fundamentally the same fight.. His father had a distinguished past as an explorer and fixer for the region's movers and shakers, and any intelligence Kim could pick up through his father's outstanding contacts would be useful to the bosses in . That was my dad leaving to go to Kims funeral [in 1988] and we were hounded by paparazzi. 1925Attends Westminster School in London. Later arrives in Russia. 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. Rebuilding it meant forging a unique friendship with the very woman he left her for. To order a copy for 15, visit mailshop.co.uk/ books or call 0844 571 0640. Donald Maclean pictured in 1937 while on a skiing holiday - in the Soviet Union he and Guy Burgess described themselves as political refugee, not spies, Donald Maclean with his daughter Mimsie near their country home in England - in the Soviet Union he assumed a new identity, chosing to be Mark Petrovich Frazer (after the Cambridge anthropologist Sir James Frazer), Donald Maclean, aged four, can be seen on the right of this picture on the right of this picture. Melinda fitted the bill. 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. Find out where Kim Philby was born, their birthday and details about their professions, education, religion, family and other life details and facts. But Maclean sobered up and went cold turkey in a detoxification clinic. He was 76. 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. Hardcover. Prince and Princess of Wales pay tribute to Auschwitz survivor Zigi Shipper, who dedicated his life to No rest for Anne! I am going to England in July for a Filby reunion at the town Filby. He got himself a job teaching English in a school. Bungling helicopter pilot blows over stadium roof injuring eight, BBC Breakfast celebrates forty years of hilarious bloopers, Ken Bruce will be joining the Greatest Hits Radio family in April, As it happened: UK Government blocks Scotland's new gender law, Royal Family will find it 'impossible' to compromise with Sussexes, Extinction Rebellion douse the Home Office building in black paint, Harrowing moment woman begs father not to kill himself, Motorists slowly drive down snowy hill in treacherous conditions, Shamima Begum never considered turning back during journey to ISIS, Kamala opts out of kneeling with Biden for Warriors photo op. His eldest son was my father, John - who was himself a 19-year-old art student in 1963 when he first learnt of Kim's espionage; stepping off a ferry on the Isle of Wight, he was met by a billboard stating that Kim was a wanted man. In his lifetime, Kim married four times, and had five children by his second wife Aileen Furse. Philby was a chap. Philby was recruited, it reveals, because it was mistakenly believed that his father, St John, was a British intelligence officer. When I happened upon the story of Edith Tudor-Hart, I knew that she was the person I had to write about. Burgess did not cope well. 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. I am a private person and a political person. No doubt your grandfather would have disapproved of the sharp contrasts in present-day Russia, he said. Kims chair, on which no one else, under any circumstances, was ever allowed to sit while he was alive and for many years thereafter, Rufa adds remains just where it was, at the head of a low table. On the eve of his 99th birthday, I spent, At Kim's flat with his partner, Rufina. Were you always aware that your family had this extraordinary history? As for the drinking, Kim never needed an excuse to crack open a bottle; he was a drinker in good times and in bad. 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. Two hours later, wind-battered and almost frozen solid, I finally arrive at the gates of the busy cemetery, where, hoping the guard might be able to point me in the right direction, I scrawl down my grandfathers name and the word Communist on an old tissue, and flash my driving licence. After all, they won the war.'". Then they boarded what was described as a small military-type aircraft which flew them to Moscow to be reunited with Donald. The pair got on well in those later years they were very similar in many ways and my father said he never felt any resentment, not even when he unfairly came under fire by virtue of his name. ", His habit was fuelled by his sorrow over what he saw around him, she added. Thanks Darryl.I live in Australia. 1946Moves to Turkey, working as head of SIS there. Britain declares that Philby is the Third Man. For some, details like this have fuelled the question of whether arriving for the first time ever in the country for which hed sacrificed everything, which was supposed to represent everything hed fought for, and where he would live out the rest of his days in exile he became disillusioned and embittered, and longed instead for the land hed betrayed. Philby's less attractive personal qualities were matched by a charm to which many of his MI6 colleagues succumbed. St John, who had joined the British Foreign Service in 1917, when his only son was five years old, was also a non-conformist. Published: 00:50 GMT, 17 April 2018 | Updated: 14:46 GMT, 17 April 2018, For 15 years, British diplomat Donald Maclean was passing state secrets to his KGB masters. Your email address will not be published. But that didnt mean the ideal itself was corrupt or not worth pursuing. 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. Offer valid until May 1, 2018. 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. 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. 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. He was able to order new books from Bowes & Bowes bookshop in Cambridge, who checked with MI5 whether they should be supplying him. 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. George Blake, who is still alive, got on well with him than with Philby. Macleans outward calm in the face of exile was greatly bolstered by his wifes support. They took the train to Zurich, where they changed trains to Schwarzach in Austria. The two men said very little and the interview lasted barely five minutes. When the news broke in Britain that she, too, had defected, the Press rounded on Melinda, turning the pathetic and lonely figure theyd previously portrayed her as into a scheming deceiver. It seemed a fitting finale for such a notable spy. Fergus announced to some children with whom he was playing that My Daddy wants to stop all wars. Charlotte Philby, daughter of John Philby, H.A.R. She and her late father, the spy's eldest son, John, both had to live with continuing speculation about the motivation for Philby's treachery. Charlotte Philby. Getty Images In the USSR, Philby essentially became an honorary pensioner: he passed on to Soviet intelligence everything he. Doubtless Jeremiah faced similar problems.. 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. Kim Philby In Moscow: Not What He Wished For. Guarded night and day by KGB troops, and rigorously de-briefed to make sure they were not double agents, to all intents and purposes they were under house arrest. 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. But whether that came with any sense of self-pity is something else entirely. Understandably, as a consequence, he is loathed by many. The colourful characters of spymaster Gertrude Bell (the first female officer in the British Army), the legendary "Lawrence of Arabia," and the astute traitor St. John Philby (father of the notorious KGB double-spy Kim Philby) are all so dynamic that their heroics are hard to believe, but nevertheless true and soundly researched by a perceptive . Putting real historical characters into a novel is a minefield, especially those who existed within living memory. Life is good here in every way.. He had got afraid that I would leave, and hidden the boot.". 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. But in Russia he is still admired as a hero. 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. children: Dudley Thomas Philby, Harry George Philby, John David Philby, Josephine F. Philby, Josephine Philby, Miranda Philby, Tommy Philby Born Country: India Spies British Men Died on: May 11, 1988 place of death: Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union Cause of Death: Heart Failure More Facts Recommended Lists: British Celebrities Russian Celebrities Some could never quite come to terms that he was a traitor. 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. This is not the first time Charlotte Philby has written in defense of her grandfathers actions. Writing Edith and Kim alongside home schooling and everything else has been a big thing and I feel now is a good time to pause and reflect. Was that a selfish decision? 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. 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. But neither was entirely impervious. The shiny black 44 rumbles slowly through the graveyard. Kim Philby, byname of Harold Adrian Russell Philby, (born January 1, 1912, Ambala, Indiadied May 11, 1988, Moscow, Russia, U.S.S.R.), British intelligence officer until 1951 and the most successful Soviet double agent of the Cold War period. Rather than angrily confront Philby, the American stated he would ask with considerable satisfaction, "How do . Online calculator reveals how inflation-busting 14.4% hike will Do not sell or share my personal information. She hoped Donald would now find a way of getting in touch with her. November 16, 2017. 1929Enters Trinity College, Cambridge. His cover story was that he was a political migr, a trade union leader persecuted in England for his political views. 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. Many of the street names have changed since the collapse of the Soviet Union. 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. But they were quasi-spy novels so I ended up talking about them in relation to his story anyway. Why do you think she has been overlooked?Partly because her files were only released to the National Archive in 2015. 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". The KGB's only object in the world is to destroy me and the agency. He drank to excess, hit her, and often disappeared. The basic facts, after all, are well-documented. The Second Woman: Best new fiction, Mail on Sunday. When Bennett was pulled up on the matter, he wrote my father a note explaining that he stood by what hed said as the information had come from a reliable source a BBC journalist. 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). 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. 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. She sensed that the Macleans marriage was a difficult one again, with Donald on occasion still getting hopelessly drunk. 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. But I had to find the right way to approach it. Given a heros burial in Moscows Kuntsevo Cemetery. The spy who beat his wife: The tall, charming and Russian pro-war fanatic warns Britain could be 'wiped off the map'. How? There are things I know for certain about my grandfather. She has been described as "tall and slim, sweet-natured, and restless". Delivery charges may apply, Kim Philby: I got away with treachery because I was upper class, Original reporting and incisive analysis, direct from the Guardian every morning, Charlotte Philby: We visited Kim in Moscow, Charlotte Philby at her home in Bristol: Im trying to reconnect with what made me fall in love with books and the process of writing., harlotte Philby, 39, is a former investigative reporter and the author of three critically acclaimed spy novels. When her brother-in-law, Alan Maclean, asked her whether she would join Donald if she knew for sure that he was behind the Iron Curtain, she gave a firm No. He would say we and our when speaking of the Soviet Union and defended his adopted countrys brutal crushing of the Hungarian Uprising in 1956 an event that disgusted many Left-wing supporters back in the UK. 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. 1934Marries Communist Jew Litzi Friedman. Donald Maclean pictured in his teens whilst at Gresham School - he fell for Melinda the moment he met her among the bohemian set he socialised with in Paris, Donald Maclean Soviet was Third Secretary in Paris for the British Embassy and stood head and shoulders above his contemporaries in the back row, (second from the right), Donald Maclean (arrowed in the second rank) taking part in an anti-war march in Cambridge in 1933. Image: Barney Beech, The courtyard outside Kim's flat. Next to articles about him online, readers routinely describe him as evil and a cancer on society. "I tried everything to save him; after all, he was killing himself. "It was winter and we were going out for a walk and I found one of my boots had disappeared. 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