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Harold Adrian Russell "Kim" Philby (1 January – 11 May ) was a British intelligence officer and a double agent for the Soviet Union.
My Silent War: The Autobiography of a Spy
October 6, 2020
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This is a hard book to evaluate. The author, Kim Philby, was the most notorious traitor in the modern history of spycraft.
This is a hard book to evaluate. The author, Kim Philby, was the most notorious traitor in the modern history of spycraft.
During World War II, Philby joined MI5 - the British counter-espionage department working on British soil - then moved to the SIS (the former MI6) doing counter-espionage work on foreign soil. In that capacity, he became the head of the division responsible for all counter-espionage relating to the Soviet Union.
After a stint in Turkey, Philby was assigned to Washington DC to work in the heart of American intelligence.
He did all this while serving as a secret Soviet intelligence officer, a mole, loyal to the Soviet Union, whose trafficking of information risked the safety of his family and friends in the interest of a country he had never visited.
The difficulty of this book is that Philby is still playing the "mole