Regardless of what I think of her ideology, I greatly admire the fact that she was able to hold these various parts of her life being a photographer, being a single mother alongside being a revolutionary, feeling that she could change the world. And while on holiday in Majorca, she gave away a lot of her clothes to the maid of a family she was staying with. "His alcoholism was suicide," she told the Moskovsky Komsomolets newspaper. The Second Woman: Best new fiction, Mail on Sunday. Melinda Maclean. 1988Dies 11 May at the age of 76. 1937Joins The Times as foreign correspondent. The Philby talent for putting on an act has been inherited by Charlotte, in a sense: she worked in theatre as a child, training with Anna Scher, whose radical Islington theatre group has spotted such talent as Kathy Burke and Phil Daniels. In contrast to Blake, Philby and Burgess and to a less extent Maclean suffered from nostalgia for Britain. Feeling a strong dissatisfaction with British policy in the Middle East, Kims father resigned from the Foreign Service in 1930, converting to Islam and taking the name Hajj Abdullah. She was an object of both pity and fascination, and to get away from it all, she moved from their house on the Kent-Surrey border to Switzerland, with her mother. If we were really lucky, sometimes and this was still the 1980s thered be a distant ringing, and from a compartment near the gear stick, our escort would pull out a telephone attached to a spiral cord, which hed talk into in a low voice, repeating the same two words, horosho and da, again and again before hanging up. Prince Harry drops 45 points and Meghan Markle 36 points in just over a month in US public opinion poll Sadiq Khan faces furious backlash over plans for biggest transport and council tax rises in a decade as James Martin warns This Morning viewers why they should NEVER store their eggs in the fridge. Her fourth novel, Edith and Kim, tells the linked stories of her grandfather and Edith Tudor-Hart, a Jewish photojournalist born in Vienna, who studied at the Bauhaus, married an Englishman,. He reported to the Soviet NKVD from the Spanish civil war under the guise of a correspondent for the Times, and in 1940 joined the Secret Intelligence Service (SIS, or MI6), becoming a double agent and passing many secrets to the Kremlin. Edith and Kim: The brilliant new historical spy novel based on the true story of the woman behind the Cambridge spies in Cold War espionage. The Soviet authorities buried him with honors when he died in 1988. When I asked my dad, shortly before he died late last year, how hed felt about his own fathers betrayal, he told me exactly what Kim had told Sayle during that interview in 1963: To betray, you must first belong. And as Kim said himself: I never belonged. My dad always had great respect for my grandfather; he told me that even when he was a child, he always knew he was up to something he just didnt know what. But we visited Kim in Moscow and those holidays form some of my earliest memories, so it wasnt like he was a secret. The basic facts, after all, are well-documented. Donald Maclean pictured in 1937 while on a skiing holiday - in the Soviet Union he and Guy Burgess described themselves as political refugee, not spies, Donald Maclean with his daughter Mimsie near their country home in England - in the Soviet Union he assumed a new identity, chosing to be Mark Petrovich Frazer (after the Cambridge anthropologist Sir James Frazer), Donald Maclean, aged four, can be seen on the right of this picture on the right of this picture. Putting real historical characters into a novel is a minefield, especially those who existed within living memory. Harold Adrian Russell "Kim" Philby (1 January 1912 - 11 May 1988) was a British intelligence officer who worked as a spy for the Soviet Union, before defecting in 1963. kims flat is several floors up, in an apartment block not far from Pushkin Square, marked out from the rest by a tiny balcony. She hoped Donald would now find a way of getting in touch with her. Where do you write?I wrote Edith and Kim all over the place because weve been in the process of moving house for the past couple of years, but now I have a shed at the bottom of our garden where I can feel Im in the middle of nowhere, and Im never leaving! Charlotte Philby, 39, is a former investigative reporter and the author of three critically acclaimed spy novels. Cambridge-educated Nicholas Elliott and Kim Philby became close friends in 1940, when they were both working in separate departments of the British Intelligence . Rufina Pukhova, his Russian-Polish wife, said Philby struggled to control his drinking by downing only two glasses of cognac a night and then handing her the bottle to hide. A Double Life: The Times & Observers Thriller of the Month. And at every turn, the story is slightly different, the answer ever less clear: the more his character has come under scrutiny, the more elusive he has become. The controversial civil rights leader was gunned down in front of his wife and children while making a speech in New York. Philby's less attractive personal qualities were matched by a charm to which many of his MI6 colleagues succumbed. His eldest son was my father, John - who was himself a 19-year-old art student in 1963 when he first learnt of Kim's espionage; stepping off a ferry on the Isle of Wight, he was met by a billboard stating that Kim was a wanted man. "Once, a big group of us were on a trip on the Volga: Kim and I and, of course, his KGB escort, and the escort's daughter. The central post office, where Kim would come every morning to pick up his mail and a stack of British and American newspapers, stands halfway up on the left. Slowly but surely, he was turning himself into one of the most cunning and treacherous double agents of all time. Just beyond the crossroads which dominates Pushkin Square the spot where its said dissidents would meet, acknowledging each other by removing their hats is the former site of the Hotel Minsk (like much of the city, now under a lengthy reconstruction process), where Kim first met the journalist Murray Sayle in 1967. But out of a smaller window, in front of the door, the view of Moscow is interrupted by a throbbing neon Samsung advert. Why do you think she has been overlooked?Partly because her files were only released to the National Archive in 2015. He passed over 900 British documents to the KGB. She flew to New York to see her daughter Annie, and it was there that several letters arrived from Philby. Kim Philby met his first wife the Jewess, Litzi Friedman in Vienna, and it was Friedman, a dyed-in-the-wool communist, who convinced Philby to become a fellow KGB . His wife Eleanor joined him in Moscow, and the Philbys and the Macleans spent a lot of time together, going to the ballet or just having dinner and playing bridge. In 1983, a month or so after my parents took me as a newborn to meet him for the first time, Kim sent a copy of Lenins On the Dictatorship of the Proletariat, with a long, beautifully written letter to my maternal grandfather, whom he was unlikely ever to meet. Eleanor found Melinda amusing but nervous and highly strung and yearning for the luxuries of Western capitalism. Just five years ago, my mum and I were refused service in a shop in Arizona on account of the name on our credit cards. Meets Guy Burgess, Donald Maclean, Anthony Blunt and John Cairncross. But as the author Graham Greene my grandfathers close friend and a fellow British intelligence officer, who worked under him at MI6 wrote in the introduction to Kims autobiography, My Silent War: The end, of course, in his eyes is held to justify the means, but this is a view taken, perhaps less openly, by most men involved in politics, if we are to judge them by their actions, whether the politician be a Disraeli or a Wilson. Kim Philby was probably the most successful double spy in history. By JOSEPH FITSANAKIS | intelNews.org | And sadness. So Philby left his wife and children in England in September 1956, arriving in a country for which he had little natural sympathy. He was previously married to Rufina Ivanovna Pukhova, Eleanor Brewer, Aileen Furse and Litzi Friedmann. Philby, though, began seeing Melinda on the side, confessing as much to his wife and saying that he was just trying to make [Melindas] life happier as she had been miserable for the last 15 years. That was my dad leaving to go to Kims funeral [in 1988] and we were hounded by paparazzi. The pair returned to England in May and, by this point already an appointed Soviet agent, Kim found work as a foreign correspondent. Once hed gone, she rode out the public furore, the door-stepping journalists, the MI5 questioning, the abuse and insinuations, the bullying of her sons at school. Published: 00:50 GMT, 17 April 2018 | Updated: 14:46 GMT, 17 April 2018, For 15 years, British diplomat Donald Maclean was passing state secrets to his KGB masters. He had got afraid that I would leave, and hidden the boot.". Like your own Holy Writ, it is open to many different (and often conflicting) interpretations, according to the tastes and prejudices of the reader., In the accompanying letter, he adds: The difficulty is that [Lenin] was always writing at white-heat on burning questions of the day (or even hour); and naturally his strategy and tactics changed to meet changing circumstances My Russian edition has 55 large volumes, so there is ample room for selective quotation and even spurious interpolation. Prince and Princess of Wales pay tribute to Auschwitz survivor Zigi Shipper, who dedicated his life to No rest for Anne! But Maclean sobered up and went cold turkey in a detoxification clinic. They lived together for three years, until a younger woman caught the philandering Philbys eye. Because hed told her from the very start. Born in India in 1912, Philby became a communist sympathiser after leaving Cambridge and began working as a KGB informer in the mid 1930s in London. I am going to England in July for a Filby reunion at the town Filby. I remember Kims words: I have followed exactly the same line the whole of my adult life. The KGB's only object in the world is to destroy me and the agency. 1925Attends Westminster School in London. His drinking made him paranoid that his wife would abandon him. There are things I know for certain about my grandfather. On the eve of his 99th birthday, I spent, At Kim's flat with his partner, Rufina. 1963Disappears in Beirut on 23 January. As Kim told my mother when she asked him if he felt any remorse, he believed he was a soldier, fighting a bloody war in the bloodiest century in history. Best thrillers for July 2021, The Times. All was reasonably well between them until Kim Philby the master-spy who recruited him back in their Cambridge days himself defected in 1963. They met each other socially but soon fell out. As for the drinking, Kim never needed an excuse to crack open a bottle; he was a drinker in good times and in bad. After five years of silence, communications were re-established with family and friends. After graduating from Washington University, she worked for the advertising agency J. Walter Thompson in San Francisco. Area of responsibility extended to include North African and Italian espionage. Standing on the balcony, you can see the same school playground, where children in heavy ski jackets are involved in a timeless game launching themselves from the top of a flight of concrete stairs to the ground below, cushioned with thick blankets of snow. Given all that Melinda had gone through, the pity she had had to accept and the dissembling she had had to practise, that first meeting overseen by Soviet officials was a strained affair. No doubt your grandfather would have disapproved of the sharp contrasts in present-day Russia, he said. "It was winter and we were going out for a walk and I found one of my boots had disappeared. The boys told a child they met on a beach that the photos he had taken could not be forwarded to them as we are going away and we dont know where we are going. Its my third day in Russia. Bennett concludes: Charlotte Philby thinks her grandfather was more honest, but its a saloon-bar honesty. Philby was recruited, it reveals, because it was mistakenly believed that his father, St John, was a British intelligence officer. Kim Philby: new revelations about spy emerge in secret files UK government launched campaign to block memoirs being published fearing damaging disclosures Kim Philby had been secretly. But, after a silence of nearly five years, here was the first actual sighting and confirmation that the runaways were alive. They even had a dacha a country cottage 20 miles from Moscow where the children could swim, fish, bicycle and forage for mushrooms. What counted though against Blunt, and Burgess too, was that they werent journo-friendly. Aileen and the children also moved to America and the Philby's took a spacious, ramshackle two-storeyed place at 4100 Nebraska Avenue. Philby had defected to the Soviet Union from Beirut in 1963, and was treated with respect, but felt isolated. Charlotte Philby was only five years old when Kim died, but says she vividly remembers her grandfathers small modest flat several floors above ground level, in central Moscow, as well as the epic games of chess [the double spy played with her] dad over several glasses of whiskey when the family would visit him in Russia. In 1949 Kim Philby became SIS representative in Washington, as top British Secret Service officer working in liaison with the CIA and FBI. He died in 1983 at the age of 69, recording beforehand that I do not at all regret having done what seemed and still seems to me my duty. In a secluded area next to the domed restaurant (one of Kims favourites), the dimly lit bar is serviced by grey-skinned waiters; faux-marble columns run between clusters of heavy red and gold chairs, frequented by groups of men in out-dated suits, briefcases and thick-rimmed glasses, knocking back glasses of vodka, under a thick circle of cigarette smoke. The spy who beat his wife: The tall, charming and Russian pro-war fanatic warns Britain could be 'wiped off the map'. There, a porter recalled taking their luggage to a waiting car with Salzburg number plates which drove off towards Vienna. Macmillan was, of course, Prime Minister by 1962, when the Soviet double agent George Blake was caught, and Kim could no longer hide the truth. November 16, 2017. Our driver makes various calls en route, each consisting of just a few short sentences, before turning into a different burial ground up the road, manned with armed guards. Macleans outward calm in the face of exile was greatly bolstered by his wifes support. After Donald Maclean fled to Moscow to escape arrest in Britain as the spy who, for 15 years, had passed state secrets to the Soviet Union, friends of his wife, Melinda, found it easy to believe that she knew nothing of her husbands treachery. Kim Philby, byname of Harold Adrian Russell Philby, (born January 1, 1912, Ambala, Indiadied May 11, 1988, Moscow, Russia, U.S.S.R.), British intelligence officer until 1951 and the most successful Soviet double agent of the Cold War period. Macleans study resembled that of a Cambridge professor, with copies of Trollope, biographies of Gladstone and airmail editions of The Times. There, a tall man in a blue suit and red bow-tie held out his hand and said: I am Donald Maclean. With him in the room was Guy Burgess. The two men said very little and the interview lasted barely five minutes. In 1955, Harold Macmillan, then Foreign Secretary, issued a statement confirming that there was no evidence that Kim Philby was a Soviet agent. Charlotte Philby, daughter of John Philby, H.A.R. Perhaps he hadnt always been right. Shes always cast as a bit player if shes mentioned at all, but she was a remarkable woman. Philby died in the city in 1988, 25 years after defecting to the Soviet Union, where he was employed as an occasional consultant to the KGB helping to prepare spies for missions to the west. But in Russia he is still admired as a hero. 1958Marries Eleanor Brewer, an American. 1929Enters Trinity College, Cambridge. Philby still dismissed from Foreign Service for his association with Burgess. When you look at the way Edith is referred to in the [security services] files as that foreign woman, I wonder whether theres a sense of embarrassment too. 1962George Blake is caught. Finally the car grinds to a halt, and the driver, catching my eye in his rear-view mirror, gives a nod. 58. There, he volunteered for the refugee committee, fundraising, secretly writing and disseminating propaganda, raising funds and distributing clothes and money to those whod escaped Fascist Germany. "He once even said that it was the easiest way to bring life to an end. After reading it briefly, my dad had simply shrugged and tossed the note in the bin. Her fourth novel, Edith and Kim, tells the linked stories of her grandfather and Edith Tudor-Hart, a Jewish photojournalist born in Vienna, who studied at the Bauhaus, married an Englishman, worked as a Soviet agent in London and introduced Kim to his Russian handler. And this was the line Melinda presented to MI5 after his defection with fellow mole Guy Burgess: she had been every bit as duped as theyd been. It is an old-fashioned home, not like the homes of new Russia, where everything is modern and imported. She cannot imagine what Kim would have made of this new world, where a minority have benefited so enormously while many outside the capital, the vast majority live in abject poverty with little support from the state. He sounded in good health and expressed the strong hope that she would join him in. Writing Edith and Kim alongside home schooling and everything else has been a big thing and I feel now is a good time to pause and reflect. Death. He always knew what he was risking his family, his friends, his reputation and he made his choices accordingly. Primary Sources. He was able to order new books from Bowes & Bowes bookshop in Cambridge, who checked with MI5 whether they should be supplying him. Kim Philby In Moscow: Not What He Wished For. According to a recent piece in the Daily Telegraph: For years Philby had sabotaged Allied missions behind the Iron Curtain and had calculatedly sent dozens of agents to their deaths. Most famously, he was almost certainly responsible for the tip-off which led to the deaths of the first British-sponsored Albanians who parachuted in to remove Enver Hoxhas Communist regime. In fact, he had arrived in Moscow days earlier, and can be seen on film standing just back from his fathers coffin. Kim was won over by the Communist cause while a student at Cambridge University, and upon graduation in 1933, travelled to Vienna to serve the international Communist organisation Comintern which was illegal in Austria with 100 in his pocket given to him by his father, St John, who was also a Cambridge graduate. So, perhaps, by the time he died, a year before the fall of the Berlin Wall and knowing what he must have known by then he did feel disappointed. The only change I can note is a computer on his desk where an old type-writer once stood. Laying flowers at my grandfather's grave. Whatever you believe, Kim felt history would prove him right: Ill be remembered as a good man, he told my mum just two years before his death, Discussing the reasons for this in the introduction to Boroviks book, The Philby Files, the journalist and biographer Phillip Knightley who interviewed my grandfather at length during his final years in Moscow writes: Could the British intelligence service really be run by such fools that no one had noticed that precious information was leaking to Moscow? She emphasised the strength and goodness of their fathers moral and political beliefs as a committed communist who wanted peaceful co-existence between East and West. Then they boarded what was described as a small military-type aircraft which flew them to Moscow to be reunited with Donald. Men with erectile dysfunction who take Viagra are 25% less likely to Money saving guru Martin Lewis reveals easy FIRST step to clearing thousands of pounds in debt. In her article, published yesterday in British daily The Independent, she describes Kim Philby as "a proud man, and one who chose to publicly stand by his actions". Donald refused to become part of the twilight brigade community of defectors, down-at-heel, disillusioned and wondering how they had got there. The little blue pill really is magic! 1949Made SIS representative in Washington. 1955Government white paper on Burgess-Maclean affair. Kims chair, on which no one else, under any circumstances, was ever allowed to sit while he was alive and for many years thereafter, Rufa adds remains just where it was, at the head of a low table. Life is good here in every way.. For one thing, Kims life behind the Iron Curtain wasnt bad. But I had to find the right way to approach it. The reporter adds that Kim demonstrated an iron head for drink during the course of their subsequent meetings, which took place over a series of long, boozy meals: I could detect no change in his alertness or joviality as the waiter arrived with relays of 300 grams of vodka or 600 grams of Armenian brandy. Like my father, Kim had amazing stamina for drink; the pair of them would knock it back over games of chess at the flat in Moscow (while I ran around wreaking havoc in the living room) and on the long trips to Siberia and Bulgaria they took together. He wasnt one to care what others thought: Never be boring, and dont be afraid of offending people was one of the last things he told me before he died. 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