[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.

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.

[DiogenesLamp]

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.

[RaceBannon]

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

[Sans-Culotte]

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.

Actually, from what I have read, it's pretty well acknowledged in Britain that Philby was a commie spy. When he was first accused, the old boy network of MI6 rallied around him and refused to admit his guilt. MI5, however, was always convinced of it. They could not prove anything, and Philby was more or less exonerated. Years later, they definitely had the proof, and Philby slipped off to the USSR.

There may be some who admire him because they are commies, but AFAIK he has never been championed as an "innocent" the way Hiss was here (along with the Rosenbergs).

[nopardons]

There are still some lefty idiots, here, who claim that the Rosenbergs were innocent and framed/make excuses for them. Pete Seeger was one of them.

Most, if not all, finally gave up on the Hiss "innocence" garbage, when the Venona Papers were released.

[the scotsman]

No, Philby has no fan club here. And no controversy about his spying. His guilt is an open fact of history and has been since he bolted in 1963.