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A Spy among Friends
These men came up together, shared the same background, went to the same schools and clubs, and served the same cause—or so Elliott and Angleton thought. The Spy and the Traitor SAS Rogue Heroes This is a story of loyalty, trust and treachery, class and conscience, of male friendships forged and then systematically betrayed………. Military Antiques Toronto has been involved in military antiques industry for more than 25 years and have established a reputation for high quality, authentic military collectibles ranging from modern day uniforms and associated kit to museum quality medals, headgear/helmets and uniform items that date back as far as the 30 Years War. In the summer of 1941, at the height of the war in the Western Desert, a bored and eccentric young officer, David Stirling, has a vision for a new kind of war: attacking the enemy where they least expect it - from behind their own lines. Double Cross In Macintyre's telling, Philby's story is not a tale of one spy, but of three: the story of his complex friendships with fellow Englishman operative Nicholas Elliott and with the American James Jesus Angleton, who became one of the most powerful men in the CIA. When Philby's true master was finally revealed with his defection to Moscow in 1963, it would have profound and devastating consequences on these men who thought they knew him best, and the intelligence services they helped to build. Author: Nuttall, Jenni, Binding: Hardback, Imprint: Virago Press Ltd, Series: N/A, Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group, Published: 25/05/2023, Pagination: 304 pages, Classification: Language, Country of Publication: United Kingdom
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Lex
Philby’s treachery led directly to the loss of many lives. It was hardly a hero’s welcome for a lifetime or risk and deceit.
Will Taylor
MI5 (British security service) and MI6 (British foreign intelligence service) had differing views on Philby. He lived in a small flat, avidly reading through old cricket games in old copies of the Times when he was able to get them, desperate of news from home. And all for an ideal it seems he didn’t care to review beyond his earlier infatuation with it. CS Lewis talked about the quest to gain access to the ‘inner ring’, something he was unable to do at Oxford due to the snobbery of the English establishment, and the embarrassment Lewis caused fellow academics by writing about the devil as though he were a real being.
[i] As you gain entrance to one ring, you discover yet another further in which holds yet more influence. As a result of his winnowing work he frustrated numerous cold-war operations, sent hundreds of agents to their deaths, and told a gazillion bare-faced lies, not least of which were his declarations of innocence in his mother’s flat before a crowd of reporters after Macmillan’s statement in the House of Commons. Of course, it all finally caught up with him, and he was probably (Macintyre, and others infer) allowed to escape to Moscow where he received by the Soviet authorities. Philby, the Eton and Cambridge old boy, who loved cricket and was a thoroughly good egg, was ushered into the inner ring, and became the most notorious spy of his generation.
The most senior Soviet spy in Britain became the head of the Britain’s anti-Soviet operations. I lost sleep & working hours to finish this great book.
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