Even in Death, the Spy Kim Philby Serves the Kremlin’s Purposes
Hailing Dzerzhinsky as "your great founder," he wished Soviet secret service officers "every success in your important and responsible labors" and expressed hope
that "may we all live to see the red flag flying on Buckingham Palace and the White House." Mr. Philby, a senior officer in Britain’s Secret Intelligence Service, the intelligence agency also known as MI6, started working for Soviet intelligence in 1934 after falling in love with a young Austrian communist in Vienna.
Putin said that He consciously chose to cooperate with the Soviet Union
because of his antifascist beliefs, principles of fair world order, principles of liberty, of social fairness,
It has taken me a long time to get here." Christopher Andrew, a Cambridge University professor
and the author of classic books on Soviet espionage, said Mr. Philby had to wait 14 years after his arrival in Moscow before being received at the intelligence headquarters "because they didn’t trust him." Mr. Lyubimov, the former K.G.B.
Kalashnikov said that The Philby exhibition, which opened just a few days after the unveiling in Moscow of a giant statue in ho
officer, said this was not true, explaining that Mr. Philby had fallen under suspicion among members of Stalin’s intelligence service during World War II
but "was completely trusted" once he got to Moscow in 1963.
More significant – and far more damning to Mr. Philby, as far as the British are concerned – is a copy of a September 1949 intelligence report sent to Stalin
and his foreign minister, Vyacheslav M. Molotov, based on information provided in London, presumably by Mr. Philby.
