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…
Nicholas Elliott — Podcast Appearances & AI Summaries
Nicholas Elliott has appeared on 3 podcast episodes in our AI-summarized catalog, including The Rest Is Classified. Every appearance below has a free 5-minute AI summary.
What Nicholas said
“I once looked up to you, Kim. My God, how I despise you now.”
— Nicholas Elliott, a line Philby later omitted from his own accounts of the confrontation.
“One person who knew him said he was everything you would expect an Etonian to be... very erudite and smart and confident, thin man, round glasses, look over them in a donnish academic manner, but used to love telling dirty jokes.”
— Description of Nicholas Elliott, Philby's MI6 backer
Episode appearances
3
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…
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