A spy among friends
Kim Philby and the great betrayal
by Ben Macintyre, John Lee, and John le Carré
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Kim Philby was the most notorious British defector and Soviet mole in history. Agent, double agent, traitor and enigma, he betrayed every secret of Allied operations to the Russians in the early years of the Cold War. Philby's two closest friends in the intelligence world, Nicholas Elliott of MI6 and James Jesus Angleton, the CIA intelligence chief, thought they knew Philby better than anyone, and then discovered they had not known him at all. This is a story of intimate duplicity; of loyalty, trust and treachery, class and conscience; of an ideological battle waged by men with cut-glass accents and well-made suits in the comfortable clubs and restaurants of London and Washington; of male friendships forged, and then systematically betrayed.
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Philby, kim, 1912-1988, Spies, Espionage, russian, Secret service, great britain, Friends and associates, Biography, Soviet Espionage, History, Friendship, Spionage, Historia, Spioner, nyt:combined-print-and-e-book-nonfiction=2014-08-17, New York Times bestseller, New York Times reviewed, nyt:espionage=2015-06-07, Large type books, Espions, BiographiesPeople
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Spy among Friends: Philby and the Great Betrayal
2015, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
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A spy among friends: Kim Philby's great betrayal
2014, Crown
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Standard print edition originally published: London : Bloomsbury, 2014.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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. Nobody thought he knew Philby like Nicholas Elliott, Philby's best friend and fellow officer in MI6. But Philby was secretly betraying his friend. Every word Elliott breathed to Philby was transmitted back to Moscow, along with those of James Jesus Angleton, head of the CIA.
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