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The Third Man: No Regrets
Cambridge graduate Harold "Kim" Philby was still in his twenties when the Soviets recruited him in 1934 "to penetrate [...] bourgeois institutions." Eventually, Philby managed to join the British foreign intelligence service MI6, rising nearly to the directorship. When his fellow spies and personal friends Burgess and Maclean fled to the USSR, Philby came under suspicion by British security. He defected to Moscow in 1963, where he died 25 years later. Philby (codename: Stanley) betrayed numerous Western agents to Moscow, many of whom were subsequently executed. But, as he uttered shortly before his death, "I have no regrets." |