Kim Filby

Western experts consider Kim Filby (1912-1988) the most famous of the Soviet intelligence officers. The British aristocrat, a graduate of Cambridge, in 1934 he connected his fate with Soviet intelligence, and on her services entered the service in the SIS - intelligence of Great Britain. The career that the Soviet intelligence officer in the ranks of this special services was amazing: in 1944, he led the department engaged in the struggle against Soviet intelligence in English territory, in 1949-1951 he headed the Mission of the SIS and the CIA in Washington. As a result, according to one of the American intelligence veterans, “all the extremely extensive efforts of Western intelligence from 1944 to 1951 were unsuccessful. It would be better if we did nothing at all. ” Filby was even one of the candidates for the post of head of the SIS.
In the study of the intelligence historian Nikolai Dolgopolov, known to readers from the Book of the ZhZL series, Abel - Fisher ", not only reveals a number of little -known pages of life of the most legendary intelligence officer after his flight in 1963 from Beirut to Moscow, but also described in detail in detail About the entire "Cambridge five", which included Kim Philby. Especially for this publication, the foreign intelligence service provided a number of unique declassified documents that were not previously published.
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