A Spy Among Friends

Who was Kim Philby? His compatriots knew him as a trusted friend and an unwavering ally. Philby was a brilliant and charming man who rose to head Britain’s counterintelligence against the Soviet Union. He stood shoulder-to-shoulder with the CIA’s head of counterintelligence, James Jesus Angleton, and his best friend since childhood, Nicholas Elliot, on the front lines of the Cold War. But Philby betrayed them all: He was secretly working for the Russians the entire time. Every word uttered in confidence to Philby by his colleagues in the West made its way to Moscow, leading countless missions to their doom and subverting American and British attempts to subdue the Soviet threat.