ARCHIVE: Kim Philby- The Soviet Double Agent Who Infiltrated Britain’s MI6 & Defected

FIRST AIRED: 29/11/2021. On this episode, we speak to James Hanning, author of ‘Love & Deception: Philby in Beirut’, focussing on the life of communist double agent Kim Philby, who infiltrated Britain’s MI6 and passed secrets to the Soviet Union, detailing his time in Beirut, Lebanon. He discusses Kim Philby’s motivations for turning to communism and eventually defecting to the Soviet Union, why no one in Britain’s intelligence services seemed to suspect him, the part of his life spent in Beirut, Lebanon, how Philby eventually fell into a depression and much more.

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