Cold War Spies, KGB Agent Kim Philby

British double agent Kim Philby

[@colinstewart1432]

The best of the best. Did it for the best of motives. The Spy as craftsman.

[@Starscream2040]

So KGB had better intelligence after all

[@colinstewart1432]

Better humint. West had better technical intelligence. They were better at agent recruitment. Mostly using pressure where there was no ideology or sympathy.

[@DavidFraser007]

MI5 and MI6 were under the impression that if they recruited upper class people and rejected anybody with a regional accent, that would be a good idea. Britain's security was constantly being compromised because of snobbery.

[@stanphillips9376]

I think philly was a genius, regardless of his leanings, straight out of a le carre novel

[@jimmyratz]

I really miss the old Soviet Union very much! Now Russia is controlled by the Mafia. Kim Philby is one of my hero's!

[@nledaig]

Not now

[@luckyswine]

Notice the tongue swallow gesture he makes when he lies.

[@stanphillips9376]

curse you again auto correct, I meant Philby

[@MI5MI6GHCQJARIC]

Not only, but the all Soviet bloc! :P

[@superamanda]

Haha! Look around you...so sure now?

[@saptarshidhar3184]

There should be people like Philby

[@markomilanovic885]

HERO of the SOVIET UNION

[@rjw421]

... and LOWLIFE SCUMBAG TRAITOR to the rest of the world

[@CKDezerter50]

Pokłosie Kima PRL.

[@w108dab1]

How could anyone betray their country ???!!???!!!

[@nledaig]

You mean betray the regime

[@ThePorterfish]

really...you did not think you were going to be captured...why would you not plan for not only the best but for the worst

[@Fingalful]

Solzhentisyn says different and he was an apt and objective historian. ( Isay so as an MA in history. Your emotive rant shows you are not objective. Sozhenitsyn also lived under Stalin's reign of terror. You didn't. The records which he had access to tells that 20,000,000 people int he USSR perished under his rule. People wept when they heard that Hitler, Franco, Mao, popes &c., died. What does that prove? All it proves is that people put on a show from abject fear or of having been brainwashed.

[@SumaQamana14]

I migliori agenti dei servizi segreti britannici lavorano per i russi 😂. Onore e Gloria Kim ❤

[@ChrisinatorS]

@Freestyleartclub Im not American, Im a Dutch student. People were not crying when he died, actually many high USSR officials were very happy when he died. Thats why his body is not in the Mausoleum on Red Square. I just use facts which i learn from reading in libraries and internet.

[@nledaig]

Why would he be there?? What a weird thing to suggest!

[@Fingalful]

Most people who lived there don't. I know Poles and Ukranians whose families suffered under it. So did anyone who had the temerity to disagree with it. Solzhenitsyn showed it for what he was and he was a Russian patriot. As to Philiby: he was a homosexual as were MacLean, Burgess and Blunt. Though they weren't executed for treason, they got worse: They had to live in the USSR under its tyranny--which they both loathed. Their treachery cost them the good life they had in Britain.

[@randalchalmers8038]

In the 1930s, 1940s & even some of the 1950s. Politics was very divisive, there was an idealism of communism in the west...certainly with many intellectuals. Those who were undercover spies in the UK believed that

[@nledaig]

They had a good life. The majority of UK working class had a deprived life.

[@Ebla2000]

Pity that these traitors escaped. Their cause was vain

[@abba20011]

Why is no one mentioning that Kim Philby was a homosexual? What was he doing with that young soviet wife?

[@randalchalmers8038]

abba20011 incorrect he was straight in his inclinations- at least after the public school gay experiences. It was the other 2 British spy’s that were gay.