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The elusive truth. (London journal).
Fresh from its triumphs in Iraq, BBC television has turned its attention to Kim Philby, Guy Burgess, Donald Maclean, and Anthony Blunt. The series which it has been devoting to them, Cambridge Spies, is no small affair, either. Four episodes, each an hour long; a budget of some 6 million [pounds sterling]; superior casting; buckets of advance publicity--the whole thing was plainly intended to be a jewel in the Corporation's crown.
The early nineteenth-century prime minister Lord Melbourne is said to have remarked, after he had been persuaded to see a play by Ben Jonson, "I knew it was going to be dull, but I never thought it would be so damnably dull." Anyone ...
- The Moscow reminiscences of Kim Philby
- Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times Robert W. Smith April 30, 1989 700+ words
...spy tradecraft. Knightley says Philby was the most remarkable spy in...Penkovsky, that's arguable. Philby, however, indeed was smart...pivoting on the so-called "Cambridge Spies" (Philby, Guy Burgess, Anthony Blunt...
- The Philby Files.
- Magazine article from: The Economist (US) January 7, 1995 700+ words
THE PHILBY FILES. By Genrikh Borovik...Pounds 25 THE history of the Cambridge spies retains its unpleasant charm...with a new account of Kim Philby's career as a Russian spy...partly on conversations with Philby before his death in 1988...
- Deceiving The Deceivers: Kim Philby, Donald MaClean and Guy Burgess.(Book...
- Magazine article from: National Observer - Australia and World Affairs Stove, R.J. March 22, 2005 700+ words
...of Maclean's exposure and Philby's involvement remains steadfast...about Graham Greene's pro-Philby blathering, about A. J...Secretary James Forrestal, about Philby biographer Anthony Cave Brown...he gives enough data on the Cambridge spies to dispel (with luck) all...
- How could anyone call traitor Philby a hero?; MEDIA.(Column)
- Newspaper article from: The Evening Standard (London, England) Neil, Andrew February 26, 2003 700+ words
Byline: ANDREW NEIL I'M looking forward to Mark Shivas's Cambridge Spies, the upcoming BBC TV drama on Philby, Burgess and Maclean, those upper-class traitors who betrayed their country for the communist cause. I love this kind of historical...
- BRITISH TRAITOR PHILBY DIES IN MOSCOW AT 76.(Main)(Obituary)
- Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY) May 12, 1988 700+ words
...Erlanger New York Times H.A.R. "Kim" Philby, the double agent whose betrayal of his...said Wednesday. He was 76 years old. Philby fled to the Soviet Union in 1963, when...revealed. Twelve years earlier, in 1951, Philby's warning had allowed two fellow spies...
- Espionage: The Kim Philby story.(Opinion & Editorial)
- Newspaper article from: Manila Bulletin May 12, 2006 700+ words
...respected journalist was Harold Adrian Russel Philby. He was born in Ambala, India, of English...was picked up by friends because of Philby's Asian orientation in his boyhood years. His father was Harry St. John Bridger Philby who, after serving in India, became...
- SPY STORIES; Philby's `starring role' in movie
- Newspaper article from: Sunday Star-Times HARLOW, John December 29, 1996 700+ words
...The Third Man -- based on superspy Kim Philby...Man, based the smiling villain on Kim Philby, the traitor and spy. They say Greene, who was employed by Philby in wartime espionage, was the first intelligence...
- BBC Shows British Defector Philby, Via Soviet TV
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Post Karen DeYoung November 19, 1987 700+ words
...Britain's most infamous 20th century traitor, Kim Philby. Philby, 75, escaped to Moscow in 1963, after 30 years of...western journalist, in 1968. The news item showed Philby in an interview that originally appeared Oct. 11 on...
Source: HighBeam Research, The elusive truth. (London journal).