Philby lived a upperclass life in England as well as in the USSR. That is the reason why he survived in both systems so well.

@OgunDaMan

2 жыл бұрын

Interesting. He came from the upper class & presumably the Anglo spy services only recruit from the upper-crust: low-class civilians can't afford the Oxbridge education

@Albert-Arthur-Wison225

10 ай бұрын

@@OgunDaManNaturally, old son. Americans have already forgotten their own enormous bungle during the ‘ Vietnam War ‘….McNamara’s Morons. Espionage or warfare. Reliance upon simpletons leads to nought but calamity. Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria,..trip up after calamity after face-plant.

A story of the immense incompetence of British special services.

Very interesting. He was part of the Cambridge Five. So 5 noble guys, who were supposed to study at Cambridge to later become snotty guys, who would lead the UK. Instead they became spies for the USSR. Fascinating and amazing lifes. Respect gentlemen!

@vasvas8914

24 күн бұрын

They grew up with golden spoons of western society in their mouths. Their "fight" (the betrayal of society that gave them all the chances) is the ultimate hypocrisy of elite offsprings that rebel out of boredom and not for survival. They never could understand the woes of a working class people

Not only Kim Filby threre was an another British Agent named George Blake who defected to Soviet Union. He died recently in Moscow at 93.

Miles Copeland son is Stewart Copeland drummer for the Police.

@JMcLeodKC711

3 жыл бұрын

Miles and Stewart are brothers

@johnbaugh2437

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah I remember reading that when I read ‘Spy Among Friends’ by Ben Macintyre. It was a great read. They act like Philby was some innocuous gentleman spy in this documentary. Many people were killed because of information he gave the Soviets.if I was Elliot, I’d have put a slug in his skull that night in his Beirut apartment.

@aotemjenlkr2736

2 жыл бұрын

@@JMcLeodKC711 0

good video.

El espia mas interesante y profundo de la historia.❤

FASCINATING.

10.36 I think they mix up McClain (sp?) and Burgess in the photos.

@dickvarga6908

3 жыл бұрын

macclean

The important issue here is that Kim Philby acted the way he did, purely by ideology, not some financial gain. Most (if not all) spies that served in the Soviet Union on behalf of the western powers, did it with money motivation. That alone explains the differences between the two systems. Financial gain v Idealism. One, cannot help but admire his dedication to what he believed to be 'right' but, still this won't take away the fact that, to his own country Britain, he was a traitor.

@Grimenoughtomaketherobotcry

5 жыл бұрын

The Soviets preferred western spies who were motivated by greed or ego rather than ideology, simply because they were far more reliable. Greedy, egotistical people rarely change; ideological people, on the other hand, are much more prone to eventually reconsider their views, as with Burgess and Maclean. Philby was, I think, a notable exception, though we will never know if he would have chosen to return home permanently were he'd been free to do so. I think he made his peace early on that that was not an option.

@kirchunetwork1986

5 жыл бұрын

Why not stay in UK and reform the system instead of betraying your mother land ? No matter how ideal your reasons are there is no justification in betraying the people who believed in you. Scores of British agents were Compromised and lives were lost because of Kim Philby's treacherous acts ...

@joanhuffman2166

Ай бұрын

Top hat 🎩, spied for the west because he saw the abuses of the Soviet Union.

@joanhuffman2166

Ай бұрын

Ideology was a prominent motive of spies for the Soviets early on. Later, in the Cold War, Westerners spying for money became the rule. Regarding the motive of those who spied for the west, you have overlooked the spy code named top hat 🎩.

Know the story well, but it's interesting to see the story told from the "other side".

Kim Philby was a traitor to his country, however, a hero to Moscow. I guess it all depends on who you're talking to.

@barryjive1104

3 жыл бұрын

He was a chump no matter who you talk to. Even giving him the benefit of the doubt that his motivations were completely altruistic, the reality was the Soviets lied to him for decades and the life he found in the USSR was a shock to say the least. It takes someone as brilliant as he was to be that colossally naive and just plain stupid. He got played and people needlessly died.

@maximmatusevich3971

3 жыл бұрын

If the soviets treated him right sure. But they used him, lied to him and betrayed themselves and their beliefs in favour of western jeans and bubble gum. So no. Philby was duped into thinking the russians would give him the rank of general in KGB. Little did he know that russians hate traitors even if they work for them. Maybe in an alternate reality where the soviets made different choices.

@nightowl5475

3 жыл бұрын

From the story I heard on his You Tube bio, the Russkies told him to keep low key and be a rat.the man was an embarrassment to his native people. Now, how low can you go! There are things my government does that bewilders me, and downright annoys me. But let a Russian or China man, dare try to even think about running down my country, all my complaints go right out the window! You’ll see how fast me and my fellow Americans lock arms in unity. It’s like me arguing with my big brother, there are times, he gets on my nerves for the crazy things he does, but blood is thicker than water.

@arifahmedkhan9999

2 жыл бұрын

@@nightowl5475 First of All, What Philby did is different from what you are talking about, he, in ww2 provided the Allies with a victory and a chance for a pre-eminent strike which Stalin failed to use because of his extreme paranoia. The Britishers were very very bad allies, like even the Americans themselves hated the British for how they treated their alliance. Philby did what UK should have done as allies. He played a very important role in ww2 more so than your McAurther. Secondly, would you help the USA even if you knew they were wrong? The communists are stateless people, they don't believe in nationalism and stuff like that, so what you are talking about is the very thing they don't care about, blood is thicker than water you say but when your blood suffers you sit idly by, that is what drove people to COMMUNISM, like for example of the black folks in the early 1900s, were they not like your blood? What about the people during the great depression? What about the poor people even today? He saw this poverty in 1929s great depression and became a communist. A person for whom the notion of a nationality was merely non existent. For him the USSR was what USA is to you.

@arifahmedkhan9999

2 жыл бұрын

@@maximmatusevich3971 He was given everything a general was given, obviously they treated him wrongly but whom did they treat rightly? Their literal war hero zhukov was also treated like that. That was the fault of the Authoritarian system who thought of him as untrustable. Many Soviet heros met the same fate. Be them Russians or non-russians.

Yes

Philby was a NKVD/KGB agent well before becoming a British agent. He nearly became head of SIS.

How must it feel near the end of one’s life to realize you fought your whole adult life for a social/political system that failed?

@victorseger6044

Жыл бұрын

He never got to see the end of the soviet union.. but George Blake did and say what you want in the end he regretted the system he chose to defect to.. and the more he hurt because of it the better I feel..

@DeepTitanic

10 ай бұрын

China's the worlds largest economy measured by PPP and the west's only peer competitor.

@michael-4k4000

6 ай бұрын

Kim was no joke. Philby was an enigma wrapped in a riddle…. Yet the riddle was an expression of that enigma…

@keithad6485

4 ай бұрын

Well said. If Philby truly believed russian socialism was better than anything Britain had to offer, why did he stay in Britain and not migrate to Russia in the 1930s? I cannot imagine his later life in Russia was better than his life in Britain.

Легенда ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

@benkobenkovic8774

3 жыл бұрын

E budalo. Taj i njegovi su zavili Srbiju u crno.

"It is balm to my heart" ??

Una capacidad de auto destrucción increíbles 😊

I don't know about the rest of you but these Russian spy masters are quite likable characters...

@isabelfuentesnar1

3 жыл бұрын

and they are portrayed like normal people (not the bad fellows)

All dressed up and no place to go

Good stuff! But I don't believe a word of it. Philby was an upper-class prig in England who became an upper-class prig in Russia.

Tenia razón de fondo 😮

Helpful subtitles for spoken Russian in good English spelling.

“He was natural born deceiver.”

@alfredcollins3944

3 жыл бұрын

A born deceiver. In the end he died deceiving himself, saying I did the right thing, this was what I want, I am happy.

In cold war might be his role acts as balanced moving eastern Europe countries for Soviet union dominating and middle east for US dominating...against old colonial polarisation

Cairncross

He saved the world from US aggression.. check out the Red Joan movie she explains it all in the end.

@Vaultzero

3 жыл бұрын

You can’t believe women when they speak about “aggression”, they think everything men do is “aggressive”.

a fascinating story of a man with great principles, agree with them or not. thanks for posting.

@michael-4k4000

6 ай бұрын

Kim was a man’s man a long term friend and investment banker who had an intuition for foul play and a true sense of self worth. We need to see more evidence of the contrary in order to understand why he did what he did and find a way to the truth! May Jesus Christ bless everyone!

@keithad6485

4 ай бұрын

I disagree. If Philby had great principles, he should have migrated to the USSR and lived a life of communism if he did not like UK. He was quite happy to live a life of luxury in England though. I have no respect for him, a traitor to the country of his birth. If he was a man of great principles he would have surrendered to Brit authorities to probably suffer, ultimately, hanging. Instead, like a coward, fled to USSR when he was tipped off the Brit SIS were on to him. Nope, basically a coward who perfected the art of lying every day of his adult life from the 1930s to when he fled to USSR in early 1960s. I don't find him fascinating at all. Probably a narcissist at best, may be a psychopath. He would have needed these types of psychoses to cope with living a lie.

WIKIPEDIA: Philby was born at Ambala in the Punjab Province of British India. He was the son of Dora (Johnston) and St John Philby, who was an author, orientalist and convert to Islam.[4] His father was a member of the Indian Civil Service (ICS) and later a civil servant in Mesopotamia and advisor to King Ibn Sa'ud of Saudi Arabia.[5] did he say SIS is MI5? ........SIS is MI6.....typical Russian sodyness. The Cambridge 5 worked for MI-6 British foreign intelligence, and one could say that SOE was also MI-6, given its foreign operations.

The story of Kim Philby will teach every country, state or any establishment with the most important lesson in intelligence community. "There is such a thing a friendly state but never a friendly intelligence organization" as such, it applies that in the 36 stratagems that focuses on the use of cunning and deception both on social, political, economic approaches and interactions including the battlefields, one should not give trust even in his own shadow. In same manner as getting returns from investments. Using resources of your organization to gain maximum critical intelligence from your opponent, is an investment instead in the highest position of your enemy's secret service organization/intelligence community.

The fifth man is Caincross surly? Anyone please?

@winstonmaraj8029

6 жыл бұрын

Hollis.Have U read Spycatcher?

@orley104

6 жыл бұрын

The last one I read was about Antony Blunt. I forget what it was called.

@jackscott5465

4 жыл бұрын

ian flemming

@robertsvorinich890

4 жыл бұрын

@@orley104 Surely he not surly

@inkyguy

4 жыл бұрын

Robert Svorinich, I think he was surely only surly because he was just having a bad day. As for the original poster, @orley104, I’m afraid their apparent deficiencies may well be chronic and permanent.

The Cambridge 5 documents are still closed at the Russian Archives. I wonder why that is, II wonder what else there is to the story.

@clickbaitcharlie2329

4 жыл бұрын

it named a lord, (who just expired?), wasn't that, the stink with the "spycatcher" novel?.

@garfieldfarkle

4 жыл бұрын

Soviet documents on the Cambridge 5 were seen by Western researchers given access to the RTsKhIDNI records. Other records regarding the Cambridge 5 were contained in records brought out by Vassiliev and Mitrokhin. Whle there are details yet to emerge, it is doubtful any more bombshells are going to detonate. We see by this KGB movie their desire to promote their successes during the Cold War. Of course the Fifth Man was John Cairncross.

@annascott3542

4 жыл бұрын

My comment was prompted by a remark Stephen Kotkin made during a recent interview or lecture I can’t remember which.

@garfieldfarkle

4 жыл бұрын

@@annascott3542 My guess is he is referring to the RTsKhIDNI records. After the fall of the USSR, under Yeltsin, old intelligence files were opened to Western researchers. They did not give access to everything, but what was available was extraordinary. Writers on espionage matters found them quite valuable. They were also used in "The Black Book of Communism," which documents the mass murder committed by communist regimes around the globe, qualifying communism as the worst crime to ever take place. These records were available for only a few years. I believe access was shut off when Putin came to power. It is not just that Cambridge 5 files are closed, all of them are.

@garfieldfarkle

4 жыл бұрын

@@annascott3542 I have been putting together a database on espionage, terrorism and covert operations for 20 years. In the mid-1990s, the Venona decrypts of Soviet communications were declassified, and they make for very interesting reading. It was these decrypts that alerted Philby to the fact that U.S. intelligence had identified NKVD agent HOMER in the British embassy and were closing in. HOMER was Maclean. There were a number of suspects, but this decrypt made it clear that HOMER was Maclean: www.nsa.gov/public_info/_files/venona/1944/28jun_kgb_mtg_donald_maclean.pdf Maclean was the only British diplomat whose wife was living with her mother in New York. When Philby saw that decrypt, he knew he had to act quickly to save Maclean, and in so doing, himself. There are about 10 other decrypted intelligence reports that mention HOMER , and if you are interested in this area, I can recommend some sources. This project also uncovered Klaus Fuchs, and Philby told Burgess, who should have warned Moscow to get Fuchs out. Burgess screwed up and the warning did not get to Moscow until Fuchs was under surveillance.

If you haven't read "SpyCatcher" then you're really not doing yourself a favour...

@garfieldfarkle

4 жыл бұрын

@leonard bolton It's extremely difficult work. Check the history of any intelligence service and you will find they nearly always catch moles because someone outside the service turns them in. Often it is a defector. It may be someone like an ex-wife, as in the case of the Walkers.

@annascott3542

4 жыл бұрын

I’m sorry I’m not stalking you. I was just reading these comments and the only good ones I go to reply to have all been yours! I wonder how or why she did that to her son. I mean ex-husband ya...maybe. But your son?? That’s so vindictive.

He also worked for MI5

I suspect that the powers that be set up his escape. After all exile is a punishment from antiquity.

He chose to hitch his wagon to the wrong horse. His name lives in disgrace

I think deep down Philby knew he had fought for the wrong side. But like many disillusioned communists he tried to justify his actions in order to console himself. England is in by no means perfect; but their system and living standard was still preferable to that of the Soviet Union.

@eddiej9745

3 жыл бұрын

@davespb neither were the living standards of the "ordinary" people who had to survive communist "equality". Communism is an elitist ideology run by elitists.

@beatlejuice7755

2 жыл бұрын

@@eddiej9745 A lot of people can make the argument that Communism is perfect on paper, but in practice it gets warped by corruption. It's crucial when implementing a proper political policy that one consider what would be an effective policy in the long-term while also considering the rights of your constituents. Considering the human factor of things, specifically corruption, must be on the forefront of any policy change. What systems work when corrupt individuals are always vying for more money and power? How would you limit a leader who wants to do what is wrong for the majority while focusing on personal gain? There is a very fine line that the world works with and I do not believe a perfect system exists or will be implemented in our lifetimes. Communism is not the answer but there is very little that would make sense either. Politics is difficult.

@eddiej9745

2 жыл бұрын

@@beatlejuice7755 There is no perfect system and there NEVER will be, people are flawed.... but defending a system that has become nothing more than serfdom with a 100 million murder/death toll makes you sound rather pompous.....I myself prefer to make decisions for myself. The only answer is LIMITING government so some dumb bureaucrat isn't making dumb decisions about my livelihood and well being.....I alone make the best decisions for me.

@beatlejuice7755

2 жыл бұрын

@@eddiej9745 Only a snowflake who listens to their emotions would think I am advocating for Communism. Keep thinking for yourself, not many people care about you.

@eddiej9745

2 жыл бұрын

@@beatlejuice7755 I know, thanks. You take care too

So the guy basically chose ideology over truth and when he found out he was wrong, he chose to stay the course so he doesn’t have to admit he was wrong and suffered instead....but at least he still had his pride. That’s not intelligence, that’s stupidity and arrogance.

@dpt6849

2 жыл бұрын

Pride celebrations all over the still take place

Does somebody know the adresse from his flat in moscow?

@garfieldfarkle

4 жыл бұрын

Oleg Kalugin described Philby's address as on the top, seventh floor of "... a faded, pre-Revolutionary building ... , located on Yuzhinsky Pereyulok, just off Gorky Street in the very center of Moscow, " - "The First Directorate," by Oleg Kalugin, page 133

@Makavellii100

4 жыл бұрын

@@garfieldfarkle Thank you!

Umm, the odd cuts when certain guys are talking? You know who.

The photographs of Guy Burgess and Donald McLean are transposed in the beginning of the show

Miles Copeland was the father of Stewart Copeland, dtummer of the Police.

Kim Philby, you were a man of conscience.

@bugbeemaine

5 жыл бұрын

Strange how a man of conscience could support a system and government which killed and put in the gulag millions of its own people.

@oooSoundOfLifeooo

5 жыл бұрын

And you are a man in need of more english grammar.

@tomerzafon4

3 жыл бұрын

conscience*

@AxmedBahjad

3 жыл бұрын

@@oooSoundOfLifeooo Speaking of grammar, the word English in your sentence should have a capital "E".

@guyincognito7979

2 жыл бұрын

@@bugbeemaine thats the british empire minus the gulags the british empire is one one of the most murderous empires in history that killed millions

Philby hero of Soviet Union

@winstonmaraj8029

6 жыл бұрын

No,hero to a slave system that we in the West utterly crushed into the ground.Even he knew that his entire life was wasted when he went there to live-in a giant slave/prison.And we WILL crush them AGAIN this time regardless of what the new Czar pretender Putin says or does.Russia is headed to collapse and dismemberment,just wait.

I just wanted to look for my teachers channel, how tf is this related

@ernstvonrichthofen

4 жыл бұрын

Your teacher are maybe a spy and you are now under servileness -

@stephenwright8824

2 жыл бұрын

@@ernstvonrichthofen _Servileness._ What a telling mistake.

What posessed him to think the soviet union was the answer?

@dickvarga6908

3 жыл бұрын

lack of knowledge of conditions in ussr, failure of capitalism and democratic process in 1914 to 1930s when he accepted soviet version of socialism, a rude awakening when he went to live in moscow.

@m2ranojaholo79

2 жыл бұрын

Capitalism failures to uplift millions of serfs in the west during his time. It was the fear of communism that forced western elites to share the spoils. The capitalist elites are resorting to self today.

@guyincognito7979

2 жыл бұрын

He was communist so that explains it lots of people had great hopes in the soviet union including nelson mandela

@wallstreettrader1

Жыл бұрын

Many idealists of that era chose socialism over fascism and capitalism, seeing both of the latter as the enemy.

You can’t fault a man for his beliefs. Rest In Peace, Ken. You did what you thought was right

Interesting to see it from their side. Of course, a lot of stuff is left out, especially how the Soviets treated him (and the other two) once he was in Moscow…

wtf people really be switching up smh lol

They should have ask Smiley's people

The west and the east having an arguement .. While we Africans sitting in the middle of the conversation like a 3rd wheel lmao

Miles Copeland comes across as the kind of useless, arrogant fool that Philby would run rings around - and did. "Oh, ah shouldn't be talkin' abaht this..." Are you kidding me? Philby would have found his very amateurish attempts to catch him out quite amusing.

@garfieldfarkle

4 жыл бұрын

- - - making the CIA look bad would be a goal in a KGB propaganda film, yes.

@eugeniuswilliams5457

4 жыл бұрын

@@garfieldfarkle oooooh!!! make the cia look bad?????are u implying its good?

@garfieldfarkle

4 жыл бұрын

@@eugeniuswilliams5457 I am stating a goal of KGB propaganda. Another one would be deflecting attention away from the crimes of communism, which you did, above. In case you missed it, here is the documentation for the fact that communism killed more people than died in all wars of recorded history added together: archive.org/details/TheBlackBookofCommunism10

@deborahharris2962

2 жыл бұрын

@@garfieldfarkle Gorbie opened the archives and the figures are wrong. Historians have seen the files. Black Bk Communism is propaganda not facts.

How he escaped from Europe to russia 😮

Can you spill out the beans, they are dead now, they won’t know their secret over 50 years ago.

Marxist doctrine is not what occurred in the Soviet Union. They came close to a true "soviet" state, but Stalin and Lenin created a centralized government and aristocracy that served the ruling privileged class. Hmm? Where else have we seen this happen?

@64MDW

5 жыл бұрын

Right...keep telling yourself that.

@oooSoundOfLifeooo

5 жыл бұрын

Ah, I have it: China! Viet Nam! Poland Romania Checo Hungary Bulgaria! East Germany! Cuba! Angola and Mozambique! The new South Africa! Venezuela! I knew it...

@Vaultzero

3 жыл бұрын

Yuri Bezmenov disagrees with you, when he defected from the Soviets he preached the dangers of their Marxist movement. What would he know, he just worked for them.

Any relation to Jullian Assange?

he stood behind his beliefs...

@samdowner1792

6 жыл бұрын

He believed in garbage served on a platter of dead bodies garnished in blood.

@oooSoundOfLifeooo

5 жыл бұрын

No, he drank to drown his beliefs. And then he lied down under his beliefs. Lived around his beliefs, maybe... but stand? no.

@barbarapitenthusiast7103

Жыл бұрын

@@samdowner1792 says the capitalist genocide enabler

Angleton was kgb too

@williamballz4462

6 жыл бұрын

Cleveland Cram of the CIA did a study after angelton was fired,it was ordered by Bill Colby and Ted Shakley Cram concluded that angelton was probably a kgb spy the CIA is still classifying the document Top Secret. Look it up for yourself

@williamballz4462

6 жыл бұрын

WASHINGTON - Cleveland C. Cram, 81, a retired CIA official who made an influential and highly critical study of James J. Angleton, the controversial spymaster who headed the agency's counterintelligence branch for 20 years during the Cold War, died of congestive heart failure Friday at his home in Washington.Cram, holder of master's and doctoral degrees in history from Harvard University, joined the CIA in 1950 and specialized in counterintelligence. After a distinguished career with several overseas postings, he retired in 1975.The next year, he returned to the agency to do a special project: analyze and report on the work of Angleton, who had been forced to retire in 1974. Officials at the agency wanted the study to pierce the controversies that had surrounded the counterintelligence chief for years. The basic question was whether he had done the agency more harm than good.For the sake of security, Cram had to conduct the project in a vault-like room that contained an even more secure inner vault. The study took six years and produced 11 volumes called "History of the Counterintelligence Staff, 1954-1974." Although the contents are still classified, the study's general conclusions can be gleaned from an essay Cram wrote in 1993 titled "Of Moles and Molehunters: A Review of Counterintelligence Literature." The essay has been published by the CIA on its Web site.Angleton emerges as a brilliant operative whose methods were so chaotic and secretive that they almost defied rational analysis. His obsessions were that Soviet moles had penetrated the CIA and that Moscow was manipulating the United States through disinformation and propaganda. In pursuit of these perceived threats, Cram found, Angleton caused suspicion to be cast on several valuable agents whose careers were ruined. He also denounced intelligence officers of friendly governments, including a former head of MI-5, Britain's internal security service.When his work was finished, Cram remained a consultant to the CIA for several years.His wife of 56 years, Mary Margaret, died in 1998. Survivors include a daughter, Mary Victoria Cram of Potomac, Md., and one granddaughter

@garyschreckengost1204

5 жыл бұрын

Hardly,at one point the Brits trusted him more than there own director of m I 6.

@inkyguy

4 жыл бұрын

Tuco The Rat, hardly “filled.” It only takes a few well placed assets to do enormous damage. Since the KGB archives were opened we know for a fact that British intelligence was not filled with moles. There were probably more CIA assets within British intelligence than there were ever KGB assets.

this dude is old news, they managed to get an actual president elected in the US

@kbprojekty

6 жыл бұрын

I thought Clinton lost the elections?

@jc-wd5bu

6 жыл бұрын

get up to speed, the dossier/ Russian collusion story was found to be fake news several weeks ago

@RantzBizGroup

6 жыл бұрын

They did, indeed. In 2008.

@aa11ct9

6 жыл бұрын

Go cry somewhere else

@davidap257

6 жыл бұрын

So Hillary never denigrated half the US by calling them "deplorables"??? I hate Trump,but I accept he won the elections,and Hillary messed up bad.

ffs, pay for actors for translation. I don't want to read subtitles while watching videos. I will pick up a book if I want to read.

URSS is dead. UK is still here.

@1988..

3 жыл бұрын

🤫

@arifahmedkhan9999

2 жыл бұрын

You are naive if you believe that. UK of the 1930s is also dead. Where are your massive colonies? Where is South Asia? Where is your influence? Where does UK rank militarily speaking? Nowhere. While Russia(ex-USSR) is still where it was, boasting the 2nd most powerful army in the world a heavy nuclear arsenal and a even heavier influence in the other old Soviet satellite states like central Asia and eastern Europe. USSR is pretty much alive but just under a different management.

@DerDop

2 жыл бұрын

@@arifahmedkhan9999 fair point, but at the time I was thinking at the motivation of these guys and how everything they dreamed of is dead. URSS and UK were as criminal as the Nazis, and I really want to specify this.

@stephenwright8824

2 жыл бұрын

@@arifahmedkhan9999 The management is only marginally different. You couldn't fit a single piece of paper between Putin and Andropov, for example. Even Yeltsin, as I understand it, was ex-KGB. How nice of him to pick one of his work buddies as a successor.

The caption seems at odds with the English grammar albeit the reality of the guy in question...From the story, it seems to me that Kim Philby was first a Russian Spy before becoming a British spy...The Caption should be, " The British Agent (Spy) who had being a Russian (KGB) Spy.

that enemy eround wold terrible beast

You're title is misleading. Should be The British agent who became a traitor.

Miles Copeland was the father of Police drummer Stewart Copeland

I believe he was working for the British all along

trade your country for a ideal...not to cool

Well he seemed to end up like an old prince Philip or Charles? A dapper old fool of an englishman, who think that they are always right on everything! But a decent chap nevertheless!?

If you think and say Kim Philby was a traitor, then explain what the allies and SOE were when they betrayed the French Resistance and The Prosper Web before the D-Day... See the new book of Patrick Marnham, for more information.

Why this people want to let know everyone who they are ! You are interviewed because you know something about Kim ! Megalomania of people talking it’s annoying

It is interesting to hear the story from the Russian side, even though it is a propaganda film put out by the KGB. Notice there is no discussion of those Philby sent to their deaths - men and women trying to free their countries from the yoke of the greatest crime in the history of mankind - communism. An obvious question for Philby would have been what he thought about being their executioner. Also interesting in the comments, below, is a lack of understanding of how monstrous a crime communism was. In about 70 years, communism murdered 100 million people. That is more deaths than all people killed in every war in recorded history. Philby spied for the worst mass murderer of all time till then - Stalin (who was only surpassed by Mao, later on)

@annascott3542

4 жыл бұрын

Hello again. What do you think his motive was? Maybe ideology in the early days, pre-ww2. But I keep coming back to that. My conclusion is it must’ve been ego. And he must’ve been some form of narcissist. He had no remorse. His close relationships, friends, family, children- he didn’t give a damn. He burned whoever and it’s also interesting to note that once he was in exile in Russia people said of him that it was clear that communism wasn’t working and he knew it. But he could never admit it, it was also said he longed to go back to England but again, would never admit it. Ego.

@annascott3542

4 жыл бұрын

That might’ve been in this documentary

@garfieldfarkle

4 жыл бұрын

@@annascott3542 I agree with you. In the 30s, many did not believe capitalism would survive. It was said that at Cambridge, those who were not at least sympathetic to communism at the time were just not thinking. Sorry, I wish I had the quote. I think it was Blunt. For a while, the Soviets did not believe he was genuine. He showed no remorse as you say, and as I recall, he never really talked about his family. Philby, Burgess and Maclean had a jolly time with this secret they shared and enjoyed spying right under everyone's noses. All these top intel guys are passing them in the hallways, sharing briefings and getting advice from them while - - haha - - all the while they are showing them who's boss and those silly toffs don't even realize it. We can see it in Philby in that news conference in his flat when all the reporters piled in. In Russia, he stole his pal's wife and hardly batted an eyelash about it. I don't think he cared about ideology. He had nostalgia for England and got a British newspaper while in Russia, but I doubt it ate him up. In my notes is a quick little thing I put together on Westerners who defected to Russia. Nearly all of them had a miserable time and died in about 10 years or less after arrival. Philby managed to acclimate much better. He was an alcoholic and became quite a mess after Soviet intelligence cast him off and forgot about him. Despite being an enormously productive spy for the Soviets, there was always suspicion he was a double agent and Philby always had a low rank in the KGB. One thing interesting about Philby is he always shied away from talking about how and when he was recruited. He just refused to talk about it, even as late as 1988. If there is a video or a link to something you like by Stephen Kotkin, please send it along. I like your insight and the fact you have a serious interest in espionage. The Soviets had some very good spies; although there is a running theme of KGB or GRU headquarters often being so suspicious of their officers in the field that their intelligence reports were often not believed.

@eugeniuswilliams5457

4 жыл бұрын

Youll find the Catholic Church has killed even more people than russky communism. No Really!

@garfieldfarkle

4 жыл бұрын

@@eugeniuswilliams5457 It is interesting to see your eagerness to deflect attention away from the crimes of communism. You sure wish to avoid that topic! Here it is, documents in many cases by their own records: archive.org/details/TheBlackBookofCommunism10

Putin sat his own dummy as the 45 th US President.

@oooSoundOfLifeooo

5 жыл бұрын

You're not woke yet, dude! The new wave is: cleaning of the deep state! (Ooops, is that you??)

@inkyguy

4 жыл бұрын

oooSoundOfLifeooo, that “deep state” B.S. is not a “new wave.” That’s old McCarthy propaganda from the late 40s and 50s promoted by the likes of Roy Cohn, Trump’s mentor and New York City mob lawyer, dusted off by today’s right wing and its media organs to prop up the con man who lost the vote for President but won the election.