She liked it that he was a man with strong beliefs, and agreed to stand by him. He fell for her the moment he met her among the bohemian set he socialised with in Paris, where he was a British diplomat. Prince and Princess of Wales pay tribute to Auschwitz survivor Zigi Shipper, who dedicated his life to No rest for Anne! She put the two boys into the International School in Geneva and finally explained to them what had happened to their father, reporting to her sister that their worst fear seems to be that I might vanish too. This article was amended on 31 March. Now, in an attempt to impose some order on my own understanding of my grandfather, to clarify the kaleidoscopic image of him which has formed in my mind, I have returned for the first time as an adult to the country where, in political exile, he lived out the last 25 years of his life. What are you currently reading?Im trying to reconnect with what made me fall in love with books and the process of writing so Im going back to reread some of the books that feel seminal for me: The Beach, The Child in Time, White Teeth, Disgrace, The Poisonwood Bible and The Peoples Act of Love. When its finally made clear that Ive come from England to visit the grave of my grandfather, Kim Philby, a Soviet agent who was given a heros burial somewhere on this land in the late 1980s, the old security man at the gate starts shouting, and shoos me through a private door, into the office where he regales the story to a tall man in a dark trench coat referred to as boss who in turn ushers me outside towards a brand new Range Rover with blackened windows. Aileen and the children also moved to America and the Philby's took a spacious, ramshackle two-storeyed place at 4100 Nebraska Avenue. In 1949 Kim Philby became SIS representative in Washington, as top British Secret Service officer working in liaison with the CIA and FBI. P&P free on orders over 15. In 1983, a month or so after my parents took me as a newborn to meet him for the first time, Kim sent a copy of Lenins On the Dictatorship of the Proletariat, with a long, beautifully written letter to my maternal grandfather, whom he was unlikely ever to meet. History / World. Laying flowers at my grandfather's grave. Heavy blankets of snow have settled across the plains of Moscow, and either side of our track, the ground is a brilliant white. Youve written three previous novels about espionage and betrayal did you need to approach that world obliquely before tackling Kims story?I was adamant that I didnt want to write about Kim because ironically I didnt want to define myself through his life. Inside, however, the lift is as temperamental as it ever was, so I make the journey to his flat by foot, instantly recognising the strange studded-leather front door as I emerge from the stairwell. We are no longer accepting comments on this article. Then, with no more information to be had, the story of the Macleans went dead. Later, I notice the same sign above a statue of Lenin near the former KGB headquarters. In the programme for his play Single Spies, the writer Alan Bennett printed a claim that my dad had turned up late to his own fathers funeral, straight from the airport, and stood swaying behind a gravestone clutching bags of booze. He and Pukhova married in 1971, when he was 59 and she was 38. I am learning more about my family everyday.. In contrast to Blake, Philby and Burgess and to a less extent Maclean suffered from nostalgia for Britain. I feel as if I have been through some form of therapy, Ive purged these questions in a way. We searched every corner until Kim suddenly struck himself on the head with his hand, went to a cupboard and brought back the boot. Kim Philby, the most successful of the Cambridge spies, tried to drink himself to death in Moscow because he was disillusioned with communism and tortured by his own failings, his last wife has said in an interview. And this was the line Melinda presented to MI5 after his defection with fellow mole Guy Burgess: she had been every bit as duped as theyd been. As Kims former KGB colleague also reiterated on the phone: Kim was a Communist idealist. But out of a smaller window, in front of the door, the view of Moscow is interrupted by a throbbing neon Samsung advert. He travelled extensively, while also making his way up the ranks of the British intelligence services by 1944, Kim was appointed head of a newly formed anti-Soviet section, and was later sent to Washington where, as the top Secret Intelligence Service representative, he worked for several years in liaison with the CIA and FBI. The KGB's only object in the world is to destroy me and the agency. But even then, having made calculated decisions based on deeply-felt political ideals, I still dont think he would have done things any differently. 1912Harold Adrian Russell Kim Philby is born on 1 January in Amballa, India, the son of Dora and St John. St John, who had joined the British Foreign Service in 1917, when his only son was five years old, was also a non-conformist. So, perhaps, by the time he died, a year before the fall of the Berlin Wall and knowing what he must have known by then he did feel disappointed. "He once even said that it was the easiest way to bring life to an end. The spy who loved us: what Kim Philby's personal letters revealed about his mind The double-agent's granddaughter, Charlotte Philby, on the correspondence of a man who betrayed his country. Its my third day in Russia. Because hed told her from the very start. Kim even duped his own children, and left them behind when he fled to Moscow. He had friends, a wife; he indulged himself in a culture he loved the concerts, the ballet, the galleries; he travelled to Cuba, East Berlin, around the Soviet Union, and spent weekends at his beloved dacha. She is also the granddaughter of Kim Philby, the notorious double-agent known as the third man in the Cambridge spy ring. because he "didn't want his children, who were used to life of freedom, to suffer life of oppression". Area of responsibility extended to include North African and Italian espionage. It is an old-fashioned home, not like the homes of new Russia, where everything is modern and imported. She cannot imagine what Kim would have made of this new world, where a minority have benefited so enormously while many outside the capital, the vast majority live in abject poverty with little support from the state. The boys told a child they met on a beach that the photos he had taken could not be forwarded to them as we are going away and we dont know where we are going. But, after a silence of nearly five years, here was the first actual sighting and confirmation that the runaways were alive. Part of the Daily Mail, The Mail on Sunday & Metro Media Group. Princess Royal honours Team GB curling stars and Scottish police chief at Palace of Peter Andre launches scathing attack on Prince Harry as he says Duke of Sussex is 'publicly trashing his Take note, Prince Harry! Which author do you most admire?I dont have favourites, but I love Helen Dunmore. Chicago-born Melinda, whom he married in France in 1940, knew all along that Donald was a spy. Being one of North Korea's elite, for the nation he was the highest profile defection since No Kum-sok (above . He said, 'Why do old people live so badly here? During our stay, more mourners piled in, their cries and moans ricocheting off the walls. But that didnt mean the ideal itself was corrupt or not worth pursuing. One of Kims old KGB comrades, whom Id been in contact with during the course of my research for this article, told me that a gang of five or six of Kims former colleagues still meet up every month and raise a toast in his honour. When you look at the way Edith is referred to in the [security services] files as that foreign woman, I wonder whether theres a sense of embarrassment too. death death: 1988-05-11. She is also the granddaughter of, MI5missed early chance to expose Soviet agent Kim Philby, files reveal, Love and Deception: Philby in Beirut by James Hanning review the spy who loved, maybe, ASplinter of Ice review Graham Greene and Kim Philby clink glasses, Graham Greenes showdown with Soviet spy Kim Philby: A Splinter of Ice review, KimPhilby: new revelations about spy emerge in secret files, George Blake exemplified the desolation, waste and treachery of the cold war, Moscow names square after British double agent Kim Philby, Athriller of spies and betrayal: by Kim Philbys granddaughter. He died in 1983 at the age of 69, recording beforehand that I do not at all regret having done what seemed and still seems to me my duty. This is not the first time Charlotte Philby has written in defense of her grandfathers actions. Thanks for this post. Macmillan was, of course, Prime Minister by 1962, when the Soviet double agent George Blake was caught, and Kim could no longer hide the truth. Understandably, as a consequence, he is loathed by many. Edith and Kim: The brilliant new historical spy novel based on the true story of the woman behind the Cambridge spies in Cold War espionage. In this article for The Independent Magazine, I returned to Moscow to discover the truth about my grandfather, the infamous Third Man. And here he was struck by disappointment, brought to tears. Getty Images In the USSR, Philby essentially became an honorary pensioner: he passed on to Soviet intelligence everything he. He was previously married to Rufina Ivanovna Pukhova, Eleanor Brewer, Aileen Furse and Litzi Friedmann. 1951Tips off fellow Cambridge Spy Donald Maclean that a warrant has been issued for his arrest. The Philby talent for putting on an act has been inherited by Charlotte, in a sense: she worked in theatre as a child, training with Anna Scher, whose radical Islington theatre group has spotted such talent as Kathy Burke and Phil Daniels. She flirted with other men and had affairs. The only change I can note is a computer on his desk where an old type-writer once stood. She hoped Donald would now find a way of getting in touch with her. I am going to England in July for a Filby reunion at the town Filby. Recently I found a paparazzo shot of my dad with a suitcase getting into a car and me, aged five, looking into the camera, and I had this moment of recognition. But in Russia he is still admired as a hero. The view from one of the windows is notably different, too. "But he never got aggressive, and just went to bed. I think part of the appeal of writing this book was trying to reconcile the ways in which Ive come to understand him: as a grandfather; a father; a friend; a traitor; an idealist. Given all that Melinda had gone through, the pity she had had to accept and the dissembling she had had to practise, that first meeting overseen by Soviet officials was a strained affair. For one thing, Kims life behind the Iron Curtain wasnt bad. The next day she notified the British Consul in Geneva. JOHN Philby, the eldest son of Soviet spy Kim Philby, who was a double agent and the notorious Third Man in the Cambridge spy ring of the 1930s, has died in England. He drank to excess, hit her, and often disappeared. His eldest son was my father, John - who was himself a 19-year-old art student in 1963 when he first learnt of Kim's espionage; stepping off a ferry on the Isle of Wight, he was met by a billboard stating that Kim was a wanted man. The spy novelist, whose latest book tells the story of her grandfather Kim Philby and the Soviet agent Edith Tudor-Hart, talks about the perils of writing about family, and why female spies get overlooked. An Indian Civil Service officer turned Arabist and explorer, he spent 20 years travelling across the desert on camelback charting Saudis unexplored Empty Quarter, crossing paths with Lawrence of Arabia, and eventually marrying a slave-girl given to him by his friend King Ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia, to whom he spent many years as personal advisor. Kims case was not helped by the fact that several of his Soviet controllers including Mar, the man who recruited him had later been executed as enemies of the people. Philby died in the city in 1988, 25 years after defecting to the Soviet Union, where he was employed as an occasional consultant to the KGB helping to prepare spies for missions to the west. He became more optimistic once the family was deemed fully rehabilitated and they moved to Moscow in 1955. In any case, even if an address had been known for grandpa, it may not have been much use in 2010. But he also did it to impress her. Without a word, he steps out in his long dark trench coat and buffed-leather shoes, opening the back door for me to follow. He liked the fact that you could only buy seasonal goods in Moscow, but asked family members to bring out the non-perishables he loved and couldnt get there marmalade, Marmite and Worcestershire sauce. The last time I arrived at this flat, aged six, it was just a few days after Kims death, and my parents and I were met by a sea of swollen eyes. 1988Dies 11 May at the age of 76. The extent of these contrasts can be seen by comparing two articles appearing on consecutive days in the Moscow Times. There, a tall man in a blue suit and red bow-tie held out his hand and said: I am Donald Maclean. With him in the room was Guy Burgess. George Blake, who is still alive, got on well with him than with Philby. Donald Maclean, although arrogant and someone who liked a drink too, was regarded as more convivial. 1937Joins The Times as foreign correspondent. But her latest article contains several interesting anecdotes, including an episode at Moscows Sheremetyevo International Airport, when Soviet airport staff scrambled frantically to work around the fact that they had accidentally scheduled [the Philbys, who were returning from visiting Kim,] on the same flight back to London as the British ambassador, who was wafting around the terminal in a pinstripe suit. Standing on the balcony, you can see the same school playground, where children in heavy ski jackets are involved in a timeless game launching themselves from the top of a flight of concrete stairs to the ground below, cushioned with thick blankets of snow. Melinda, now officially Natasha Frazer, hated Kuybyshev, which she found very primitive, and for a while Donald was depressed and disillusioned by the reality of Soviet Russia. The two-drink tradition remained but in time there was no longer a need to hide the bottle, she added. Two years later, a Sunday Times correspondent was in Moscow and about to pack his bags after an unsuccessful attempt to interview the Soviet leader, Nikita Khrushchev, when, out of the blue, he was invited to a room in his hotel. Foreign Secretary Harold Macmillan states in Parliament that there is no evidence of Philby having betrayed the interests of Britain. Kim Philby In Moscow: Not What He Wished For. This is the first time Ive ever stood at the foot of my grandfathers grave, but I know it instantly. Donald Maclean pictured in 1937 while on a skiing holiday - in the Soviet Union he and Guy Burgess described themselves as political refugee, not spies, Donald Maclean with his daughter Mimsie near their country home in England - in the Soviet Union he assumed a new identity, chosing to be Mark Petrovich Frazer (after the Cambridge anthropologist Sir James Frazer), Donald Maclean, aged four, can be seen on the right of this picture on the right of this picture. A Double Life: The Times & Observers Thriller of the Month. Image: Barney Beech, A Sunday Times best book of the year, here is Edith and Kim in review - and where to find signed first editions, An interview with Stephanie Merritt about Edith and Kim, the perils of writing about family, and why female spies often get overlooked, From a compendium of stories about life at the Bauhaus to a Modernist memoir by the founder of the iconic Isokon, here are some of the books that inspired my forthcoming novel, For the Telegraph, I wrote about the woman who recruited my grandfather to the Soviets - the subject of my forthcoming novel Edith and Kim, My tribute to the late - and truly great - master of spy fiction, for the i paper, From a celebration of the life of John le Carr at Cheltenham to an exploration of women and crime in Chiswick, please join me at one of the following events, across the country (and the internet!). "Kim believed in a just society and devoted his whole life to communism. Slowly but surely, he was turning himself into one of the most cunning and treacherous double agents of all time. 1946Moves to Turkey, working as head of SIS there. Donald refused to become part of the twilight brigade community of defectors, down-at-heel, disillusioned and wondering how they had got there. How easy did you find it to capture Kims voice?I spent so long with his letters and they gave me such an insight into the expressions he used, the way he spoke, how he flipped between being tender and reflective and witty and scathing, and his very English obsession with the weather. (4 children) Litzi Friedmann (24 February 1934 - 1946) (divorced . Philby still dismissed from Foreign Service for his association with Burgess. Lets have another drink on it, old man. Good old Kim. I would like to have drawn Bennett further on his comments, but unfortunately, when I contacted his agent to request a meeting, my invitation was declined. In a secluded area next to the domed restaurant (one of Kims favourites), the dimly lit bar is serviced by grey-skinned waiters; faux-marble columns run between clusters of heavy red and gold chairs, frequented by groups of men in out-dated suits, briefcases and thick-rimmed glasses, knocking back glasses of vodka, under a thick circle of cigarette smoke. Takes charge of British intelligence in Spain and Portugal. Eleanor Kearns was born in Seattle in 1914. birth date: 1912-01-01. birth place: Ambala. "If he continued drinking, he got inebriated quickly and changed in front of your eyes," she said. I am a private person and a political person. Philby lives in Bristol with her husband and three children. I love those images of him as a real person; for me, thats where the clues as to who he really was can be found. To support the Guardian and Observer order your copy at guardianbookshop.com. 1942Marries Aileen Furse, with whom he has two daughters and three sons. 1940Recruited by British Secret Services and attached to the Secret Intelligence Services (SIS) under Guy Burgess. Born in 1946, Dudley 'Tommy' Philby is the third of Kim's five children with his second of four wives, Aileen Furse Philby. By JOSEPH FITSANAKIS | intelNews.org | You should have seen his face.". Although she would be left pitied, even censured, and alone in a country in which she had spent barely one-tenth of her life, it might be better that he should be free to live a new life in Moscow than spend a decade behind bars. Melinda, it turned out, had driven to Lausanne, where tickets were waiting and luggage had been left in a station locker. children: Dudley Thomas Philby, Harry George Philby, John David Philby, Josephine F. Philby, Josephine Philby, Miranda Philby, Tommy Philby Born Country: India Spies British Men Died on: May 11, 1988 place of death: Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union Cause of Death: Heart Failure More Facts Recommended Lists: British Celebrities Russian Celebrities There are things I know for certain about my grandfather. "It was winter and we were going out for a walk and I found one of my boots had disappeared. But more importantly, every decision he made was done consciously. 1955Government white paper on Burgess-Maclean affair. He got drunk and roamed Kuybyshev looking for action, on one occasion having his teeth knocked out in a brawl. It was a miracle. A plaque in his honour was unveiled by the head of the foreign intelligence service at its headquarters in Moscow in December. The first reports that Russia ranks 143rd in a list of the worlds freest economies, just one spot higher than countries with repressed economies like Vietnam, Ecuador, Belarus and Ukraine, while the next tells how oligarch Roman Abramovich, whose wealth is valued at 7 billion, has just snapped up 35 notable artworks to decorate his 560ft private yacht. Philby had defected to the Soviet Union from Beirut in 1963, and was treated with respect, but felt isolated. Then they boarded what was described as a small military-type aircraft which flew them to Moscow to be reunited with Donald. To order A Spy Among Friends or Kim Philby, each at 14.99 with free UK p&p, call Guardian book service on 0330 333 6846 or go to guardianbookshop.co.uk. The Second Woman: Best new fiction, Mail on Sunday. Melinda walked out on her husband, leaving the children with Donald, and moved in with Philby. Here, surrounded by an extensive library, he would sit for hours. Online calculator reveals how inflation-busting 14.4% hike will Do not sell or share my personal information. In 1955, Harold Macmillan, then Foreign Secretary, issued a statement confirming that there was no evidence that Kim Philby was a Soviet agent. It was a mystery. Offer valid until May 1, 2018. She emphasised the strength and goodness of their fathers moral and political beliefs as a committed communist who wanted peaceful co-existence between East and West. A timely, gripping and morally complex thriller. THE SECOND WOMAN - the third of three connected, stand-alone novels - is available now, A Double Life is included in the Times' critics' round-up of the best thrillers of 2020, 'Superbly crafted with heart-stopping twists and chills galore.' Kim was won over by the Communist cause while a student at Cambridge University, and upon graduation in 1933, travelled to Vienna to serve the international Communist organisation Comintern which was illegal in Austria with 100 in his pocket given to him by his father, St John, who was also a Cambridge graduate. They lived together for three years, until a younger woman caught the philandering Philbys eye. Agent Stanley, as he was known, was ruthless without doubt. Macleans study resembled that of a Cambridge professor, with copies of Trollope, biographies of Gladstone and airmail editions of The Times. Melinda put the bravest of faces on her situation when she wrote to her still grief-stricken mother that she understood the suffering she had caused. He needed a secret sharer in his life as well as someone to admire him. 1934Marries Communist Jew Litzi Friedman. Part of the Family and A Double Life are available now. As Kim told my mother when she asked him if he felt any remorse, he believed he was a soldier, fighting a bloody war in the bloodiest century in history. Today, standing at last at his final resting place, surrounded by ex-prime ministers and national heroes in an isolated cemetery on the outskirts of Moscow, with two perfect strangers looming behind me, Im once again reminded of quite how different he was. Looking around Kims study now, past the proud photo of him with the local ice-hockey team, below one of his father and another of various key Soviet politicians shaking hands, my eye is drawn to a large black-and-white print of Che Guevara, which looks out from above one of the bookshelves in the far right-hand corner, like an all-seeing eye. But more generally womens roles in espionage have been sidelined, and I wonder if thats because a lot of this history has been recorded by men. Philby, though, began seeing Melinda on the side, confessing as much to his wife and saying that he was just trying to make [Melindas] life happier as she had been miserable for the last 15 years. Little Donald said perhaps he had gone to India because that would be a good place to hide., Donald Maclean with his wife Melinda Marling and his two sons Ronald and Fergus in the 50s, Wanted pictures are posted at a Berlin checkpoint for Donald Maclean and Guy Burgess, Guy Burgess (pictured) did not cope well to life in the Soviet Union - he got drunk and roamed Kuybyshev looking for action, on one occasion having his teeth knocked out in a brawl. Those are the facts but there are plenty of question marks too. Kim Philby drank while Guy Burgess, who was gay, missed his friends in London, including Anthony Blunt whose spying activities, though known to the government, were kept under wraps until they. There, he volunteered for the refugee committee, fundraising, secretly writing and disseminating propaganda, raising funds and distributing clothes and money to those whod escaped Fascist Germany. Writing Edith and Kim alongside home schooling and everything else has been a big thing and I feel now is a good time to pause and reflect. Of course, he made bold and hugely controversial decisions, some of which had fatal consequences, but he didnt do so lightly. Once hed gone, she rode out the public furore, the door-stepping journalists, the MI5 questioning, the abuse and insinuations, the bullying of her sons at school. But again, it was justifiable in his mind. 1958Marries Eleanor Brewer, an American. Edith and Kim by Charlotte Philby is published by HarperCollins (14.99). Heads to Vienna to serve the movement there. He did all he could do for a cause he believed in: what was there to regret? Image: Beech Beech. 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