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Kim Philby, British double agent, reveals all in secret video
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| April 4, 2016
| Gordon Corera
Posted on 04/11/2016 10:59:07 AM PDT by No One Special
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To: No One Special
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04/11/2016 11:00:41 AM PDT
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M Kehoe
To: No One Special
Here is the download of the BBC program on the tape.
To: No One Special
I'm not a Brit but I've gotten the sense that Kim Philby is to the leftists in Britain what Alger Hiss was to the leftists in the USA. That is they are angry to this day that he was caught and they periodically will jump up about how he was railroaded and all that.
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.
To: No One Special
This is incorrect. He was a Soviet double agent, not a British double agent.
To: No One Special
Pity he died just before The Fall.
"...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.
To: No One Special
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.
To: Billthedrill
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.
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04/11/2016 11:16:15 AM PDT
by
T-Bone Texan
(Don't be a lone wolf. Form up small leaderlesss cells ASAP !)
To: pepsi_junkie
I'm not a Brit but I've gotten the sense that Kim Philby is to the leftists in Britain what Alger Hiss was to the leftists in the USA. That is they are angry to this day that he was caught and they periodically will jump up about how he was railroaded and all that. And I will point out that most of the members of the "Cambridge Five" were homosexuals.
So was Alger Hiss.
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posted on
04/11/2016 11:18:20 AM PDT
by
DiogenesLamp
("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
To: No One Special
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posted on
04/11/2016 11:22:43 AM PDT
by
JoeProBono
(SOME IMAGES MAY BE DISTURBING ’VIEWER DISCRETION IS ADVISED;-{)
To: Stevenc131
Philby was nothing compared to Roger Hollis. The head of MI5 from 1956-1965, he was a GRU mole.
To: Stevenc131
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
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04/11/2016 11:26:51 AM PDT
by
A_Former_Democrat
(This household proudly voted for TRUMP)
To: No One Special; Borges; miss marmelstein; nopardons
Another Country.... Very queer.....my Red Stripe girlfriend made me watch it at an art house theatre on west 58th right by the Plaza in 84 maybe the Paris theatre
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04/11/2016 11:35:51 AM PDT
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wardaddy
(is Cruz last name a coincidence or a blessing or is he the anti Christ?)
To: Stevenc131
He had a history of communist activity at Cambridge in his early years, and his first wife was a hardline communist activist but that wasnt enough to raise any flags.Sounds a bit like the current POTUS.
To: A_Former_Democrat
Some of the bureaucratic bumbling in many of the spy stories Ive read is beyond belief. Ames, Hansen, Philby, Fuchs . . .incredible how these bastards got away with it for so long Personally, I don't believe in bureaucratic bumbling. Bumbling is always a cover story for deliberate action.
Always.
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posted on
04/11/2016 11:44:13 AM PDT
by
Talisker
(One who commands, must obey.)
To: No One Special
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posted on
04/11/2016 11:50:22 AM PDT
by
US Navy Vet
(I am "Chump" for Trump,)
To: No One Special
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posted on
04/11/2016 11:52:58 AM PDT
by
thinden
To: nickcarraway
That is what they are saying: his career as a Soviet agent.
To: pepsi_junkie
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
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04/11/2016 11:55:36 AM PDT
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RaceBannon
(Rom 5:8 But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for)
To: US Navy Vet
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.
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