The Confrontation That Changed British Intelligence On a January afternoon in 1963, Nicholas Elliott, an MI6 officer, walked into a Beirut apartment to confront his friend Kim Philby. Philby…
Kim Philby — Podcast Appearances & AI Summaries
Kim Philby has appeared on 5 podcast episodes in our AI-summarized catalog, including The Rest Is Classified. Every appearance below has a free 5-minute AI summary.
What Kim said
“Our last transactions were so strange that I cannot help thinking that perhaps you wanted me to do a fade.”
— Kim Philby, writing to Elliott from Moscow, raising the central mystery of the episode.
“I consider his action deplorable. On the subject of friendship, I'd prefer to say as little as possible. Because it's very complicated.”
— Kim Philby, when asked about Guy Burgess at his 1955 press conference
Episode appearances
5
In the summer of 1956, Kim Philby arrived in Beirut—the "Paris of the Middle East"—a city of ski slopes and sea swims, dinner parties and espionage. He was there as the Observer's Middle East…
In October 1955, Kim Philby was strap-hanging on the London Underground when he read over a stranger’s shoulder that a Member of Parliament had just asked the Prime Minister whether the government…
The Spy Who Came to Dinner: Kim Philby in Washington In the fall of 1949, a 37-year-old British intelligence officer named Kim Philby sailed to New York to take up the most important posting of…
In October 1956, the Five Eyes intelligence alliance was barely two weeks old when it nearly collapsed. Britain, France, and Israel had secretly plotted to invade Egypt after Nasser nationalized…
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