Posted on 04/11/2016 10:59:07 AM PDT by No One Special
In the previously unseen footage, Kim Philby gives a seminar to East German spies A previously unseen video of one of Britain's most infamous spies describing his career as a Soviet agent has been uncovered by the BBC.
The tape is of Kim Philby giving a secret lecture to the Stasi, the East German Intelligence Service, in 1981.
It is the first time the ex-MI6 officer can be seen talking about his life as a spy from his recruitment to his escape.
He describes his career rising up the ranks of MI6 whilst providing its secrets to the Soviet Union's KGB.
He ends with advice to the East German spies.
• Ad-div: class bbccom_slot mpu-ad --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
"Dear Comrades."
With those two words spoken in an impeccable upper-class English accent, one of Britain's most famous spies and its greatest traitor begins a masterclass in betrayal to a select audience of East German spies.
Philby's hour-long address was preserved on video tape and never seen in public until now.
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...
5.56mm
I suppose video of him teaching spycraft to the communists ought to make it hard to defend. But they probably will because they are leftists and truth means nothing.
This is incorrect. He was a Soviet double agent, not a British double agent.
"...after all our work does imply getting dirty hands from time to time but we do it for a cause that is not dirty in any way," Philby explains.
I'm hearing this argument a lot in politics these days. It isn't really much more than "the end justifies the means," as if that never works the other way.
Cambridge educated, part of the old boy network. British authorities were warned years before he went over to the Soviet Union that he was a commie, but did nothing. He had a history of communist activity at Cambridge in his early years, and his first wife was a hardline communist activist but that wasn’t enough to raise any flags.
It’s like saying it’s OK to murder 20 million people as long as it’s for a good cause.
Like what the Bolsheviks did to Russion Christians pre-WW2: murdered 20 million of them.
And I will point out that most of the members of the "Cambridge Five" were homosexuals.
Philby was nothing compared to Roger Hollis. The head of MI5 from 1956-1965, he was a GRU mole.
Some of the bureaucratic bumbling in many of the spy stories I’ve read is beyond belief. Ames, Hansen, Philby, Fuchs . . .incredible how these bastards got away with it for so long
Sounds a bit like the current POTUS.
Personally, I don't believe in bureaucratic bumbling. Bumbling is always a cover story for deliberate action.
Always.
More on this TURD and his “Friends”;
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambridge_Spy_Ring
Thx bb
That is what they are saying: his career as a Soviet agent.
I think the rosenbergs would be a better example of psychosis, on Greenglass’ deathbed, he confessed, both julius and ethel were spies as well as he
A hero to our President, no doubt.
He and Philby might even have, um, quaffed at the same spigot, or of the same family plumbing, at least.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.