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Recruited by the Russians during their days at Cambridge, three young Englishmen rise to become high-ranked MI5 agents until their exposure in 1949. Starring: Anthony Bate, Derek Jacobi, Michael Culver.
Recruited by the Russians during their days at Cambridge, three young Englishmen rise to become high-ranked MI5 agents until their exposure in 1949. Starring: Anthony Bate, Derek Jacobi, Michael Culver.
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00:00:00This is Colonel Konstantin Volkov of the Russian KGB.
00:00:26In the summer of 1945, he came secretly to the British Embassy at Istanbul with a proposition.
00:00:33In return for political asylum, also £27,500, I will trade you most valuable information.
00:00:45Addresses and descriptions, all KGB buildings in Moscow, list of all Soviet agents in Turkey,
00:00:55numbers all KGB cars. Also this. Name of Soviet agents operating government departments in London.
00:01:07Operating in government departments?
00:01:10Operating them. In charge. Whitehall.
00:01:19You will inform London of my proposition.
00:01:24What do you make of it?
00:01:27Incredible.
00:01:29Do we have anything on Volkov?
00:01:32Oh very little.
00:01:33But he is a class two star KGB Lieutenant Colonel.
00:01:38It's genuine then.
00:01:40On the face of it.
00:01:41Then this could be of the highest importance.
00:01:44Could you go out there and take over?
00:01:47Well, Volkov would be greatly impressed at the head of the anti-Soviet department flying out in person to meet him.
00:01:59Very well, sir.
00:02:01Good.
00:02:02We'll have to let Foreign Office security now, I suppose.
00:02:07But no one else.
00:02:12Two Soviet agents at the Foreign Office.
00:02:14The third, the head of a counter-espionage department here.
00:02:21It's beyond belief.
00:02:23Isn't it, Filby?
00:02:25Absolutely.
00:02:30In return for political asylum.
00:02:33Also 27,500 pounds.
00:02:36I will trade you most valuable information.
00:02:39Soviet Consulate General, please.
00:02:41He's coming on a perfectly good cover story, isn't he?
00:02:43Anyway.
00:02:45Mr Volkov, please.
00:02:47Hello, Mr Volkov.
00:02:48Reid here, British Embassy.
00:02:50What happened to our appointment?
00:02:53I see.
00:02:55That is Mr Volkov in visa.
00:02:58Yes.
00:03:00All right.
00:03:01Goodbye.
00:03:06He said it was Volkov.
00:03:07But it wasn't.
00:03:08I know Volkov's voice anyway.
00:03:19Soviet Consulate General, please.
00:03:21He's not wise, sir.
00:03:22I can't say who I am, but I might recognize that voice.
00:03:29Hello, Mr Volkov, please.
00:03:32Mr Constantine Volkov.
00:03:35V-O-L-K-O-V.
00:03:39He's a Vice Consul in visa control.
00:03:42I was speaking to him just a minute ago.
00:03:44I know.
00:03:49I know.
00:03:54I've never heard of him.
00:03:55No.
00:04:09No.
00:04:10how the hell did they find out oh any one of a number of ways yes yes i can speculate too i think
00:04:23myself of his insistence on bag communications gave the russians so much time to catch up with
00:04:29him how well his office and living quarters were probably bugged and then there was that fool in
00:04:34the treasury department of the consulate who now admits mentioning his name on the telephone to
00:04:39anchor which could be tapped volkov said so anyway it's made us all look pretty silly i've no doubt
00:04:45that both foreign office security and mi5 will waste no time at all in making sure that the
00:04:49treasury department knows all about it moreover volkov's disappearance does tend to lend credence
00:04:55to his extraordinary claims it could still be a plant aimed at what increasing the mistrust between
00:05:02mi5 sis fo security making us all suspicious of each other so the whole shooting match starts to
00:05:11rust up it's a possibility there'll be an inquiry of course yes possibly under farcasson of fo security
00:05:20anyway you file your report answer his questions let him sort it out if he can well he'll have little
00:05:29enough to go on perhaps more than you think well security investigation into a major espionage leak
00:05:39from our embassy in washington it's classified cabinet but since you've been offered the washington
00:05:44job i've got clearance for you to see it it was some time ago but there are some rather nasty parallels
00:05:51with this volkov business which brings me to the whole question of the washington posting
00:05:59yes i understand you haven't yet accepted that's right why not no domestic problems i see but you do
00:06:12understand how absolutely essential it is that someone of your caliber takes it you've done a
00:06:18brilliant job here building up soviet counter espionage from absolutely nothing but the importance
00:06:26of washington is impossible to exaggerate not only the head of the firm in the usa but with the
00:06:34closest possible links with this new cia outfit there is no more important new job in western
00:06:41intelligence at the moment now tell me you'll think hard about it tonight all right
00:06:56good and we'll talk again when you've read that
00:06:59during the last months of the war by some error of code books the russian embassy in new york
00:07:09began radioing top secret information to the kremlin using a low-grade cipher
00:07:16this procedural mistake lasted just long enough for gccs at bletchley surrey
00:07:23to record and decode the main messages being passed the first messages consisted of the exact text of top
00:07:32secret telegrams from churchill to truman about what line to take with stalin over berlin
00:07:38oh for goodness sake dudley blow your nose
00:07:42kim you've got a handkerchief what handkerchief
00:07:48thanks come on blow big blow
00:07:55oh for goodness sake dudley
00:08:01later messages revealed stages of top secret communications between the united states and united
00:08:09kingdom government over their relative atomic strengths at the outset of the cold war
00:08:14dudley come on
00:08:15the cables were transcribed with great accuracy
00:08:18even quoting the british embassy file number
00:08:22moscow then queried how this material had been obtained at which point the code reverted to high grade
00:08:30impossible to crack but revealing the code name of the agent responsible
00:08:35homer
00:08:37what's that you're reading
00:08:49oh just a report
00:08:51what about
00:08:52washington
00:08:53doesn't the red cover mean it mustn't be removed from the office under any circumstances
00:08:58one day someone will catch up with just how much you bring home
00:09:05pressure of work
00:09:06have you accepted the washington post
00:09:11well i haven't decided yet
00:09:13hmm
00:09:14i haven't decided yet
00:09:17when i decide i'll tell you
00:09:20anyway washington's not the happiest place to be at the moment
00:09:25why
00:09:26well the americans are terrified the russians will still be able to make their own atom bomb
00:09:30they know they couldn't do it without cribbing some of their secret processes
00:09:35so they've got neurotic over security
00:09:37which means that anyone in the firm can say goodbye to privacy
00:09:43at least there'd be a change
00:09:56yes
00:10:08sir steward
00:10:09uh i haven't finished reading it yet no it's not about that though you've read some of it yes
00:10:20what do you think well it indicates a source of the same level as alistan bullfriend was saying
00:10:27exactly but listen it's something else that philip burgess has been misbehaving himself again
00:10:35and he's bound to drag your name into it he always does he's done you no end of harm can't just stop him
00:10:42oh god what's he been up to now and after you fell down the steps of the restaurant which
00:10:47caused the concussion you obtained leave to go to tangier and gibraltar by way of recuperation
00:10:55to calm valence that's right during which time it seemed you scarcely drew a sober breath
00:11:00oh i wouldn't say that you called personally on every british agent in the area telling them
00:11:08that in foreign office opinion their work was far from satisfactory well i don't mind working on
00:11:13holiday but what possible authority have you for doing such a thing somebody ought to tell them
00:11:17but you said in foreign office opinion and that we will not have
00:11:21of course i'm aware of the odd jobs you do for the cloak and dagger department up the road
00:11:27i beg your pardon but that is not my concern while you are here you work for us
00:11:33my cover job it's not a cover job you're supposed to do a full day's work here and i do a full day's work
00:11:41in the course of a drunken luncheon at the rock hotel gibraltar
00:11:50you announced to everyone in the dining room that we were about to recognize communist china
00:11:56that the cabinet was split 50 50 on korea and other classified matters
00:12:02you then pointed out the head of british security western med who happened to be dining at the next
00:12:10table singing a song at him which began with the words little boys are cheap today cheaper than
00:12:17yesterday yes i've read all that and is it an accurate account of your convalescence
00:12:21no it's not no it leaves out all the colorful bits
00:12:25what on earth do you think you're up to i know your record i've read some of your papers for the far eastern department they're brilliant
00:12:33which ones well the one about general macarthur's liaison with jenka sheck
00:12:38yes that's all right
00:12:38and your prediction of the berlin airlift and the consequences are 100 accurate as far as i can judge
00:12:44yes it was it's just my bourgeois behavior you don't find so attractive
00:12:48exactly there's a limit to the sort of self-indulgent eccentricities we can tolerate here
00:12:54childish exhibitionism munching raw garlic at your desk like apples
00:13:00downing a half bottle of brandy in the canteen for breakfast
00:13:03utterly beyond my comprehension are the firm gone using you pack of amateurs though they are
00:13:07then perhaps you misjudge me my work is top drawer i've recruited some of the best in sis
00:13:15really yes really i recruited kim philby head of soviet counter espionage
00:13:23i picked him i recruited him and others like him you don't like my table man as well stuff it
00:13:28was the classified information you were shouting out at all accurate
00:13:36well little boys were cheaper that day go home burgess you're suspended
00:13:43i'm astonished that burgess was once thought to be a genius
00:13:55at 40 he is drunken dirty and dissolute but spasmodically brilliant
00:14:03he appears to have access to much classified information none of which could have come through
00:14:10his lowly position with us but which must have come either from his cis contact
00:14:15or via the old queen's net he's an embarrassment but no one as openly indiscreet as he is
00:14:22could possibly be a serious security risk
00:14:31i've said yes to washington
00:14:35well it was really too important to you to say no wasn't it
00:14:37well it was really not the point
00:14:47aileen this is the head of the entire sis in the usa
00:14:52i'm very glad for you
00:14:57good
00:15:07yes it wasn't difficult to limit the suspects down from 700 to about 32
00:15:22merely by the nature of who conceivably have had access to material but to take it further not even with
00:15:28volcox comment well they actually create no new lines of inquiry
00:15:33but uh brigadier roberts cross-indexed volkov with kravitzky now that gave me an idea kravitzky that was before the war
00:15:43yes yes he defected or 1937 with all sorts of information
00:15:47some of which we managed to get before the kgb gunned him down
00:15:51yes yes yes now it uh may not relate but one thing he said was
00:16:01that the head of soviet intelligence in western europe
00:16:04had personally recruited about 1935
00:16:07a young man of a good family who had been to wheaton and oxford
00:16:11he was an idealist working without payment
00:16:13well that's not much what an educated man it um was discarded at the time of course
00:16:23but uh if you match it up with the washington shortlist
00:16:31oh but this is impossible roger proctor paul gore booth michael wright donald mclean
00:16:37mclean he's not eaten an oxford no but foreigners often think all well-bred young englishmen went to eat an oxford
00:16:47but these men there are sort of people but that's just it you see your department has always assumed
00:16:55that spies are recruited from secretaries and chauffeurs and people who enter the waste paper bins
00:17:00that volkov and kravitsky implies soviet recruitment of people like us while young
00:17:08maybe still at university who then make penetration of the foreign service
00:17:13their life's work well i can't conceive it right proctor proctor
00:17:21i had a few short odds on paul gore booth
00:17:24why well he's eaten in oxford entered the foreign office in 1933
00:17:32splendid classical scholar so the code name homer would be appropriate
00:17:37and what's the russian for homer
00:17:41well for god's sake i don't know goma a near anagram of gore in gore bowl
00:17:48as for idealism he's a christian scientist and a teetotaler
00:17:54sometimes i think you're wasted in whitehall farkerson
00:17:58it's a pity philby wasn't in washington then he might have some ideas
00:18:04where's mclean now caro he's head of chantry as a matter of fact i've just had an untool
00:18:12complimentary security report for him that's him one of the golden boys in line to the top
00:18:19he was in washington in 1944 to 48 and secretary to the combined anglo-american policy committee
00:18:27on atomic development
00:18:30so he had access
00:18:32but so did the other five yes but we're looking for the odd man out
00:18:35so mclean was the only one who didn't go to eat
00:18:41you did what reported you to london for your drinking in my view a security officer it now
00:18:46constitutes a security risk
00:18:51and may one ask what you said that is head of chancery in a grade a embassy
00:18:55you see far too much top secret material considering your unreliability
00:18:59and that in my view you should be transferred
00:19:03get out not till i finish sir get out of this house i wanted to institute a spot check system
00:19:08on all embassy staff to see no one was borrowing classified material but you blocked it
00:19:14now the sixth copy of telegram one one two seven is missing and that is my responsibility
00:19:18one one two seven is totally unimportant no it's not it's about cuba how the hell do you know that
00:19:25maybe you mind i'll have to make a report on it tonight and i intend to say you blocked my spot
00:19:30check scheme which could have prevented it that's what i came to tell you
00:19:37well i know nothing about the damn copy it came to your office no you signed for all six copies then
00:19:43distributed five the six should be on file and it isn't no sir i cannot be held responsible for
00:19:52every little scrap of paper that passes across my desk i'll tell you what really worries me i read
00:19:57out your washington file before you ever came here you had access to even hotter stuff there you were one
00:20:04of three men who had a 24-hour unaccompanied pastor anywhere you liked inside the atomic energy center
00:20:10i'll tell you frankly if you were a slap happy about security then i fear for all of us
00:20:26what the hell was that all about
00:20:44that's jumped up little pimp of a lance corporal has reported me as a security risk never
00:20:53it says i drink too much and blab parties well don't you
00:21:09don't you start why the hell shouldn't i say what i think this is a disgusting country disgusting
00:21:16we all sit here swilling ourselves silly while ninety percent of the population rots away of disease
00:21:26and malnutrition but is that the best line in bright cocktail chatter
00:21:36you said last night there was some sort of probe on
00:21:41what since then you've scarcely stopped drinking when did i say that
00:21:46when you came to bed when you came to bed i couldn't follow it all
00:22:00you'd better tell me it's an mi5 probe it's top secret into what
00:22:07our time in washington your time in washington
00:22:17there was a leakage of classified information i am one of the suspects
00:22:21that's what's going on in washington that's what's going on in washington that's what's going on in washington
00:22:25and why so worried
00:22:30because it could look like me
00:22:36i had access to all the information the russians have apparently got
00:22:40every key decision between us and the americans about the cold war
00:22:48nato
00:22:51jap peace treaty
00:22:54korea
00:22:54I knew things like the annual uranium buying requirement.
00:23:01Now, actually, that is just about as secret as you can get.
00:23:05Because if you know that, you can work out how many bombs we were making.
00:23:13Somebody told them.
00:23:15Who?
00:23:17I don't know.
00:23:24Well, whoever he is, must be the most important agent they have.
00:23:37The Russians are gonna get that bomb.
00:23:41They'll piece it together.
00:23:44Every scrap of knowledge they can filch from the West.
00:23:48And when it goes off,
00:23:51they'll be the biggest witch hunt since the Middle Ages.
00:23:58It is McLean.
00:24:03If I know for certain, I can whistle if the hunt gets too close.
00:24:08Look, one of my briefs is to work closely with the FBI
00:24:11in their pursuit of the Embassy spies.
00:24:13At all costs, his interrogation must be avoided.
00:24:16Absolutely.
00:24:18Information about the enemy is power,
00:24:21only insofar as he knows exactly what you have learned
00:24:25and what you have failed to learn.
00:24:28Sir, it is McLean.
00:24:33You are leaving for Washington?
00:24:35Wednesday.
00:24:37It may have to be got out sooner than you think.
00:24:39It would be difficult to exaggerate the awesomeness of this development.
00:24:54While America alone held the bomb, the world was safe.
00:24:58The Soviet bomb is a threat to world peace of the highest order.
00:25:02While we debate what should be our new policy in the light of this grave event,
00:25:09I will give the people of America one solemn promise.
00:25:13No effort will be spared,
00:25:16no stone left unturned,
00:25:19to root out with the utmost vigor those traitors in our society
00:25:22who betrayed this secret to the Soviet Union.
00:25:26groundwork!
00:25:27Number 2
00:25:32I love those dear heart and gentle people
00:25:35And love those people
00:25:37They're all living and loving in my old town
00:25:39I love those dear heart and gentle people
00:25:42They're living and loving in my old town
00:25:43Yes?
00:25:44yes look I'm sorry we arrive in Washington you just up and leave us we
00:25:56haven't even unpacked yet the crisis like this we're just swamped by the
00:26:01sheer volume of stuff from London I don't know look I must go
00:26:10sorry I can't get you any more cipher clearance ah so from now on we'll send
00:26:18all technical documents via the bag all right oh that's that's not necessary you
00:26:24can't possibly cope with all that too well the important thing is to keep
00:26:27everything between London and Washington going through this one cipher office
00:26:29otherwise we get into a hell of a mess well these are yours top bunch of Harwell's
00:26:37evaluation of fission products in fallout samples picked up by US Air Force
00:26:42pilots oh my god they're game what I'm flying into the stuff well I don't
00:26:49suppose they know what it is these two but no no those are just file copies
00:26:57no no I see by the way do you know anything about this chap
00:27:01Klaus Fuchs yeah no well I have it on good authority they're about to arrest him for
00:27:13espionage a German born fled from Hitler worked over here at Los Alamos till 47 and
00:27:21then moved across to Harwell on the plutonium bomb he's one of the very bright boys it's pretty
00:27:26certain the Soviet agent they've been investigating him for the last six
00:27:30months well I've heard nothing about it that's what worries me it means the FBI
00:27:37have been holding out on us since the embassy spy business maybe they suspect
00:27:42someone here by the way you'll see from one of those that Sir William Penney and Lord
00:27:51Taylor lying out here tonight oh what can they do the only decision now is Truman
00:27:59what's that whether to call it quits or go flat out and make a super bomb
00:28:04hydrogen bomb yes that's right I think that's what they call it
00:28:12I implore the leaders of the world to resist this temptation the Soviet Union has drawn level in the
00:28:28atomic arms race by what means is immaterial both East and West I am certain long for peace but are
00:28:37afraid their opponents may draw ahead by the secret manufacture of even more
00:28:43terrible thermal nuclear weapons such weapons would dwarf by many hundreds of
00:28:50times even those which show terribly annihilated Nagasaki and Hiroshima I beg them
00:28:58to cast aside their fears I beg them not to embark upon what can only be the
00:29:04first stage in a hellish escalation to enlarge a yet more hellish arsenal for such a course could
00:29:12have only one end ultimately and inevitably it must lead to the destruction of all life on this planet
00:29:21the Americans are going ahead to try to make a hydrogen bomb Truman hopes it will
00:29:26prove impossible to manufacture I suggest you inform grade-a embassies and absolutely no one else
00:29:33including Carter yes
00:30:03well
00:30:05well
00:30:06Oh
00:30:10well
00:30:12and
00:30:14well
00:30:15well
00:30:16well
00:30:18well
00:30:20Fire!
00:30:27Fire!
00:30:40Kara, 5th of May.
00:30:42It is regretted that due to overwork, Mr. D.D. McLean, head of Chancery,
00:30:47has suffered a nervous breakdown and has temporarily been relieved of his duties.
00:30:52It is suggested that this highly valued officer be given six months' leave to convalesce
00:30:57and is then found a new position commensurate with his outstanding promise.
00:31:05Guy's been posted here. What's that?
00:31:07Guy's been posted here as a second secretary.
00:31:10He says can he stay with us till he finds a flat.
00:31:12I'll not have that man in our house again, King.
00:31:14But I've known him all my life.
00:31:16I don't care how long you've known him. He's a disgusting slob.
00:31:19In Turkey, in London, he used to treat us like a hotel.
00:31:22He's stank.
00:31:23He used to bring you home stupefied with drink.
00:31:25What is it between you two?
00:31:27I'll not have him, Kim. I'll not have that man in this house.
00:31:30Now, listen, guys.
00:31:32When you get to Washington, you must remember three things.
00:31:36Don't be too aggressively left-wing.
00:31:38Don't get involved in race relations
00:31:40and make sure there are no public homosexual incidents.
00:31:44I see, I see.
00:31:45What you really mean is I mustn't make a pass at Paul Robeson.
00:31:50How on earth did you guess at a job?
00:31:52Well, the theory is that his little ways will be less noticed here.
00:31:55Oh.
00:31:56What?
00:31:57In a large mission.
00:31:58A Parkinson rat could warn me.
00:32:00Oh, did he?
00:32:01Indeed.
00:32:02Giving a summary of our recent peccadilloes and saying that worse might be in store.
00:32:06What does he mean, worse?
00:32:07Goats?
00:32:08Oh, there's a thought.
00:32:09Seriously, Kim, do you know what they're going to give me to do here?
00:32:15Initially, yes.
00:32:16About three weeks ago, some fool of a wireless commentator said that anybody who thought we were dragging our feet over Korea should write to the British Embassy about it.
00:32:26We ought to start by answering those letters.
00:32:29How many?
00:32:30About Forsythsen.
00:32:31About Forsythsen?
00:32:33Oh, my God.
00:32:34Guy, message from the children.
00:32:39Could you help them mend their hauling?
00:32:51The crypto-analysts have come up with something new about the 1945 leakage.
00:32:55After so long?
00:32:57They've just put it through one of these new computers.
00:33:00It's a wonderful thing.
00:33:02We're just feeding in all our old uncracked stuff.
00:33:06You remember how the code reverted to high-grade?
00:33:10They've managed to get some glimmerings out of it.
00:33:13Yes.
00:33:14From them, you can deduce that the Washington spy must have gone to New York every three or four days to see his Soviet contact.
00:33:23So?
00:33:24In 1945, McLean's wife was living with her mother in New York.
00:33:30And he went to see her there every Tuesday and Friday evening from Washington.
00:33:34The perfect cover.
00:33:36My God.
00:33:39We've just made him head of the American desk in London.
00:33:42After his illness, there was nothing proved against him.
00:33:45Can't hold a...
00:33:46Put him under surveillance.
00:33:47Withhold all classified five or six material.
00:33:50He'll notice.
00:33:52And inform all grade A embassies...
00:33:55Immediately.
00:33:56Immediately.
00:33:57Immediately.
00:34:18Yep.
00:34:19Confidential. Strictly class one security only.
00:34:35Re Mr. D.D. McLean, American Department.
00:34:40Thank you very much.
00:34:49And I may act in panic.
00:35:06But perhaps that's their plan.
00:35:09Panic him, then grab him.
00:35:12The state is in. He'd crack under interrogation within 24 hours.
00:35:18Revealing what?
00:35:19That would be the gravest risk to all of us.
00:35:26I do not think he will act stupidly.
00:35:28I admire your faith.
00:35:32We have told him to ignore the standard escape plan. That is obviously out of the question.
00:35:41You're not still in touch with him?
00:35:43Until yesterday.
00:35:44Incredible.
00:35:45But now we must get details of other escape routes to him.
00:35:53No, that, that's impossible.
00:35:57He'll be under surveillance.
00:35:59But with the right courier.
00:36:02What?
00:36:02There would surely be no suspicion if Burgess went to see him.
00:36:13On official business.
00:36:22And where the hell have you been?
00:36:23I beg your pardon?
00:36:28I've just been dragging your drunken friend into his bed.
00:36:32He spewed up all over the kitchen table.
00:36:35He came back with the most disgusting man. I've had to call the police.
00:36:38And he starts fighting them in the kitchen.
00:36:45Kim, I will not have it.
00:36:48That slob's been here for four months now.
00:36:51He could have found himself a flat the first week he was here.
00:36:56What is it between you two?
00:37:00And what the hell is a man like that doing in the Embassy anyway?
00:37:04I wouldn't trust him up the road to buy a box of matches.
00:37:10You'll have to get me out.
00:37:12In good time, Mr. MacLean. We will be in touch.
00:37:14Please do not phone this number again.
00:37:21The dicks are watching me.
00:37:28Kim, I'm so dreadfully sorry.
00:37:30That s enough about that.
00:37:32Oh, no. It s such a terrible thing to do.
00:37:34With marvellous friends.
00:37:36They'll be moving into a hotel tonight no matter what, all right?
00:37:39Yeah. Of course.
00:37:45It s been a long line of squalid failures ever since Cambridge.
00:37:49Oh, no, it has, Kim. It has.
00:37:53You know that sod graves?
00:37:55He's even taken me off those letters.
00:37:58He's got me filing press cuttings now.
00:38:00Not even as if my contact regards me as a decent spy any more.
00:38:04You know, he hasn't asked me to do anything for two years.
00:38:09Well.
00:38:12Something you can do now.
00:38:15Yes?
00:38:18It will be out of most importance.
00:38:20The very top man has to be got out.
00:38:23You'll have to return to London and b-b-b-b-b-b-brief him.
00:38:27Who?
00:38:28What?
00:38:32McLean?
00:38:34What?
00:38:38When you get back to London, you have to contact your control there
00:38:40to check on the details of the escape plan they'll have finalised.
00:38:45Then pay some sort of visit to McLean at the F.O.
00:38:49While you're talking to him,
00:38:52put a typed note into his hand arranging a further meeting away from the office.
00:38:56Yes.
00:38:57But don't say anything.
00:38:59The second meeting you'll brief him fully.
00:39:02All right.
00:39:04Yes?
00:39:05It's absolutely essential you don't botch this guy.
00:39:10Because if you were suspected, I'd get drawn into it.
00:39:14Our association over the years is too well known.
00:39:17The problem is to get you sent back to London quickly, without it looking suspicious in retrospect.
00:39:25Oh, I think you can leave that to me.
00:39:35The state governor has protested in the strongest possible terms.
00:39:38Your book three times in one afternoon for the most grotesque speeding.
00:39:4480 miles an hour in the middle of Russia or Washington.
00:39:47Oh.
00:39:48Do you deny it?
00:39:49It was at least a hundred.
00:39:55You make homosexual passes at the policemen who finally managed to stop you.
00:39:59And when they attempt to arrest you for this, you claim diplomatic immunity.
00:40:03Well, I...
00:40:04On your desk, you'd left open classified documents for all to see.
00:40:08Documents that you had absolutely no right to be handling in any case.
00:40:12Yes.
00:40:14I am very sorry about that.
00:40:19I'll be frank with you, Burgess.
00:40:21When you first arrived, I thought the only possible explanation must be that you were somehow part of a deep laid plan of MI5.
00:40:30But enough is enough.
00:40:33You'll return to London and report in person to the head of the American department.
00:40:39Mr. Don McLean.
00:40:50Come on.
00:40:51Cheer up.
00:41:00Don't you go too.
00:41:19What do you want of me?
00:41:21Your support.
00:41:22In getting the foreign secretary to sign it.
00:41:25To bring McLean in for questioning.
00:41:27That's right.
00:41:28By?
00:41:29Five.
00:41:31Mr. Scardin.
00:41:32Probably.
00:41:34But it's not convincing.
00:41:37It's all circumstantial.
00:41:38But he can't be left any longer.
00:41:40Reports of the Los Alimos agreement will be coming through any day.
00:41:44And we mustn't run any risk of his learning about that.
00:41:47Scardin could see him tomorrow afternoon.
00:41:50He's in such a nervous state, my guess is he'll crack immediately.
00:41:54Well, I don't like it.
00:41:55I think I should come with you and see the Home Secretary.
00:42:01As you wish, sir.
00:42:05Anything else?
00:42:07Guy Burgess has reported back from Washington.
00:42:10It'll have to be a disciplinary board.
00:42:12He'll be sacked, of course.
00:42:13Is he behaving himself now?
00:42:16So far.
00:42:18As a matter of fact, the first thing he did was to visit McLean.
00:42:20Burywood Station, 6.30 PM.
00:42:21Can't be sooner.
00:42:22Must meet contact first.
00:42:23Burywood Station, 6.30 PM.
00:42:24Can't be sooner.
00:42:25Must meet contact first.
00:42:27Burywood Station, 6.30 PM.
00:42:32Burywood Station, 6.30 PM.
00:42:35Can't be sooner.
00:42:36Must meet contact first.
00:42:37I'm going to go fast.
00:44:39Yes, they did that.
00:44:40Their whole secret service will collapse.
00:44:47One just never thinks there are others.
00:44:49Yes, well, systems designed so you don't know about them.
00:44:53Oh, but that's just it, Guy.
00:44:56You mean there's no one you can tell?
00:45:00Talk to, discuss the most passionately important thing in your life.
00:45:04No one.
00:45:04I've sometimes felt the sheer loneliness and lack of human contact was cracking my head open.
00:45:13You have to lie all the time.
00:45:15Be on your guard every minute.
00:45:17Even sex ceases to be real.
00:45:22What about your control?
00:45:26Original faceless Russian.
00:45:27Yes, even so, one does grow to love him.
00:45:34Because he's the only substitute for a human being who knows who you are in the whole bleak universe.
00:45:38Besides, Donald, look, they don't want to lose an extremely good agent like you.
00:45:42Well, there's the remotest chance of your continuing.
00:45:46Continuing?
00:45:47So they're not panicking.
00:45:48They're planning a new escape properly.
00:45:50They might very well not need it.
00:45:52The evidence against you is pretty slight, remember?
00:45:56How do you know that?
00:45:58Well, that's what I'm told.
00:46:04They wheeled me up in front of Skarton.
00:46:06How long do you think I'm going to hold up?
00:46:07You wouldn't crack.
00:46:09He interrogated Fuchs.
00:46:10He got every drop out of him.
00:46:11Well, presumably strong-arm matters work with Fuchs.
00:46:13It isn't strong-arm.
00:46:14It's just hideously gentle and polite.
00:46:17Probing at all the little hair cracks.
00:46:19It's never failed.
00:46:22I mean, what am I supposed to do until we're here?
00:46:25You carry on normally.
00:46:26Oh, yes, with the Rossers breathing down my neck.
00:46:29You know, there's a couple outside my office every day.
00:46:32Jingling their coins in their pockets in a thoroughly policeman-like manner,
00:46:35just in case I hadn't noticed.
00:46:36Oh, no, no, no.
00:46:37I've discovered an extraordinary thing about him.
00:46:41They only work office hours.
00:46:44It's true.
00:46:45I get the 519 at Charinggrass, they come to the Barrier, and then they go home.
00:46:49No one then watches me until 8.45 the next morning.
00:46:52No one.
00:46:53Same at weekend.
00:46:55Obviously, they think nothing can possibly happen in Sevenoaks over the weekend.
00:46:58They're probably right.
00:47:01What about your wife?
00:47:03What?
00:47:03Well, what happens?
00:47:05You mean if I go?
00:47:06Join me out there.
00:47:11In Moscow?
00:47:14In Moscow, yes, I suppose.
00:47:18I used to read about people being exiled in boys' own paper.
00:47:22Tch.
00:47:23Used to spend the rest of their lives drunk in Switzerland, talking about home.
00:47:26Except it really will be home in this case, won't it?
00:47:36Well, what are you going to do?
00:47:38Hmm?
00:47:38Oh, I'm spending the weekend with Bernard Miller in Brittany.
00:47:43Ha, ha, ha, ha.
00:47:45Just carrying on normally.
00:47:48Ah, yes, I forgot.
00:47:49This doesn't really affect you, does it?
00:47:50Unless, of course, he does.
00:47:53I'm all washed up, Donald.
00:47:57I'm finished with the F.O.
00:47:58and with this country.
00:48:01I want to go home, too.
00:48:08Why the hell didn't I know about this before?
00:48:10We didn't want to worry you, Minister, until we were certain.
00:48:13You're not certain now?
00:48:15I have read this thing, you know.
00:48:17I don't go around signing every bit of paper that's shoved under my nose.
00:48:21My concern is with the American reaction when they find out.
00:48:24You said it.
00:48:25If we say we even suspect that the Russians got that bomb,
00:48:29partly because we insisted the U.S. shared their nuclear secrets with us,
00:48:34via a man who just happens to be a Soviet spy as well.
00:48:38But, by Christ, he doesn't bear thinking about it.
00:48:41After Fuchs and Nunmayne and all the others since the war?
00:48:46You say it's going to be now or worse might happen?
00:48:48Yes, Minister.
00:48:50I'll have to warn the Cabinet, because blood and hair will fly.
00:48:54It's Thursday now.
00:48:55You want to arrest him tomorrow, Friday, eh?
00:48:57That's right.
00:48:58It can't be done.
00:49:00I'll sign it for after the weekend, and that'll give me time to warn everybody.
00:49:03By Christ, you'd better be right about this bloke.
00:49:07Will anybody else know that I've signed this?
00:49:09What about our people in Washington?
00:49:12Only our CIA liaison, ma'am, Philby.
00:49:16That's all right, then.
00:49:17Region 1-5-3-0.
00:49:35Just a minute, please.
00:49:37An overseas call for you.
00:49:39What's the time?
00:49:41One moment, please.
00:49:42Mr. Burgess?
00:49:46Yes.
00:49:47I have a collect call for you from a public call box in Washington.
00:49:51Will you accept the charge?
00:49:52Yes.
00:50:01I have a collect call.
00:50:04Yes.
00:50:10I have a collect call.
00:50:12Yes.
00:50:12I have a collect call.
00:50:13Yes.
00:50:14Yes.
00:50:14Please check.
00:50:15Yes.
00:50:15Thanks, ward.
00:50:17You are not.
00:50:18Yes.
00:50:19You are not.
00:50:20Donald?
00:50:24What is it?
00:50:28Donald?
00:50:50Casey!
00:50:54We take the S.S. Falaise from Southampton to St. Marlowe at midnight.
00:50:58Then taxi to Wren, catch the 118 in Paris, then the 9 Express to Vienna.
00:51:02We meet our senior at contact there. He takes us on through to Moscow.
00:51:06It's a bit makeshift, but it'll work.
00:51:08I hope you've got the tickets.
00:51:10Yes, and the cash.
00:51:12You'll be all right for money, huh?
00:51:16Oh, sure.
00:51:18We're overdrawn 200 pounds.
00:51:20They'll stop your pay the moment they realize what's happened.
00:51:22It's actual make arrangements from Moscow.
00:51:24Yeah, well, I could have drawn more cash by selling shares, but it's a bad market at the moment.
00:51:28Which shares?
00:51:30Vols-Royce to Beers Mining.
00:51:32Hmm.
00:51:34Haven't been doing too well.
00:51:36You see, ICI put on 9 points last week.
00:51:38I was talking to my stock broker last night.
00:51:40He said under the County Regulations Act,
00:51:42you can send my dividends to me in Moscow, tax-free, for life.
00:51:48Worked together.
00:51:50Are you going to say goodbye to the children?
00:51:54I'll put them around the door.
00:51:58It's not the best time for us to happen.
00:52:00I'm sorry.
00:52:02Donald told me last night...
00:52:04Hmm?
00:52:05...that he's been a Soviet agent since Cambridge, for 19 years, all through our married life.
00:52:08Washington, Cairo, a lot.
00:52:10You've no idea.
00:52:12You've no idea.
00:52:14You've no idea.
00:52:16You've no idea.
00:52:18It's not the best time for us to happen.
00:52:20It's not the best time for us to happen.
00:52:22I'm sorry.
00:52:24Donald told me last night...
00:52:26...that he's been a Soviet agent since Cambridge, for 19 years.
00:52:30All through our married life.
00:52:32Washington, Cairo, a lot.
00:52:36You've no idea.
00:52:38None.
00:52:39Ours has always been a pretty shaky partnership.
00:52:42But even so...
00:52:44...he also told me about you and him at Cambridge.
00:52:50Disgusting.
00:52:52That was a long time ago.
00:52:54You're saying it finished then?
00:52:56I don't believe you didn't know anything about Donald's work.
00:52:59And why?
00:53:00For 19 years to choose to do...
00:53:02You don't choose to do it.
00:53:04You do it because of the sheer crushing weight of dead wood of this country's past.
00:53:10The tradition of all the dead generations weighing like a nightmare on you so you can't breathe.
00:53:15The entire West is rotting away.
00:53:18It's the God-given responsibility of every civilized man to sweep away the whole criminal, crack-brained, gandrenous mess...
00:53:27...and start again.
00:53:29There is no choice at all.
00:53:32The 18th premiere.
00:53:37Yes.
00:53:38I'm quoting Marx.
00:53:40It's also true.
00:53:42I bet you've been quoting that ever since you and Donald first read it in some cheap little pamphlet at Cambridge.
00:53:48Have you never progressed beyond?
00:53:50Always second-hand guy.
00:53:51Never an original thought.
00:53:55Do you think the departure of a cheap little pansy like you is going to make the slightest real impression on the world?
00:54:02Yes.
00:54:03Since I'm forced to go, I'm going to slam the door behind us so that the echo will be heard throughout the world.
00:54:09Trotsky.
00:54:10Defence of Terror.
00:54:11Chapter 9.
00:54:12Come on.
00:54:13I'll write.
00:54:14Come on.
00:54:15I'll write.
00:54:16Come on.
00:54:17I'll write.
00:54:19I didn't know what to pack.
00:54:26I'll write.
00:54:45I didn't know what to pack.
00:54:49I did remember they don't have any toothpaste in Russia.
00:54:52What do they use then?
00:54:53I don't know.
00:54:56Anyway, I went out to the chemist in the village.
00:54:58I bought a dozen tubes.
00:55:00I can't stand dirty teeth.
00:55:07What will you miss most?
00:55:09Oh, Donald, shut up.
00:55:10It's an adventure.
00:55:15Do you know something?
00:55:20I've never been convinced.
00:55:23I mean, not wholly, totally, absolutely, as one should be.
00:55:32In my head, yes.
00:55:36But for 20 years, I've longed for that leap of faith to convince me that communism is right.
00:55:43My God, your sense of timing.
00:55:45Come on.
00:55:59What about this car?
00:56:27What about this car?
00:56:28Back on Monday.
00:56:31On Monday, there's going to be a round spring from one end of Whitehall to the other.
00:56:45On Monday, there's going to be a round spring.
00:57:04Yeah?
00:57:05Hello, Kim.
00:57:06It's Geoffrey Patterson.
00:57:07I'm terribly sorry to wake you.
00:57:08What's the matter?
00:57:09The duty office has just received an enormously long, most immediate telegram from London.
00:57:11Must be something big.
00:57:12Half the cipher office are down with the flu.
00:57:13Can I borrow your secondary?
00:57:14Yes, of course.
00:57:15Have you got her number?
00:57:16You don't mind?
00:57:17No, no, no.
00:57:18You go ahead.
00:57:19Thanks.
00:57:20Bye.
00:57:21Thanks.
00:57:22Bye.
00:57:23Bye.
00:57:24Bye.
00:57:25Bye.
00:57:26Bye.
00:57:27Bye.
00:57:28Bye.
00:57:29Bye.
00:57:31Bye.
00:57:32I cannot wait for you.
00:57:33Hi.
00:57:34Are you recording your secondary?
00:57:35Yes, of course.
00:57:36Have you got her number?
00:57:37You don't mind?
00:57:38No, no, no.
00:57:41You go ahead.
00:57:42Thanks.
00:57:43Bye.
00:57:45Bye.
00:57:46Bye.
00:57:49Bye.
00:57:50Bye.
00:57:57Hello, Geoffrey.
00:58:08You all right?
00:58:14I've just been with Hubert Graves about that decipherment.
00:58:18What?
00:58:18Oh, yes, the telegram last night.
00:58:21What was it?
00:58:24Kim, the bird has flown.
00:58:28What bird?
00:58:34Not Maclean.
00:58:36Yes, but it's worse than that.
00:58:39What?
00:58:41Guy Burgess has gone with him.
00:58:47Who has been on the telephone even while you've been walking over from your office?
00:58:51I've never heard any man say anything.
00:58:54How long have those bastards been spies?
00:58:56When were they recruited?
00:58:57Had you the slightest foreknowledge of this?
00:59:01Had I what?
00:59:02Burgess was a close friend of yours.
00:59:03Now, wait a minute.
00:59:04In the other day, you certainly saved me for a few months while he was looking for a flat here.
00:59:07Yes.
00:59:09I suppose at least that's in your favor.
00:59:11You'd hardly have advertised the connection if you are in any way involved.
00:59:14What do you mean?
00:59:15Well, somebody tipped them off.
00:59:16You're the only person linked with both, either by friendship or knowledge of the net closing around Maclean.
00:59:23The CIA will be on to you like a ton of bricks.
00:59:29You'd better get back to London tonight.
00:59:32Run away.
00:59:33No man so that our chaps can handle it.
00:59:35Look, they've disappeared, all right.
00:59:44Is it known for certain they've defected?
00:59:47Oh, yes.
00:59:48Burgess even left a forwarding address with his flatmate.
00:59:53It reads,
00:59:53Is Care of the Stage Door, the Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow?
00:59:59I think it was a joke.
01:00:23There's nothing else they could accuse you of.
01:00:35You were all at Cambridge together.
01:00:38Apparently.
01:00:40Very left wing.
01:00:41Oh, Christ, what does that mean?
01:00:44Well, you told me that they...
01:00:45What do you know about it?
01:00:46The first days, it was a different world.
01:00:57Europe was about to collapse in front of the Nazis.
01:01:01The only hope seemed to be Soviet Russia.
01:01:03Oh, but that's nonsense.
01:01:04That's not nonsense.
01:01:09For the way it seemed to anyone not...
01:01:11Blinded with prejudice.
01:01:14With two eyes to see.
01:01:16Of course, it looks different now.
01:01:24But then,
01:01:26if you cared,
01:01:27and you're 20 years old,
01:01:31there was really no alternative.
01:01:42I used to see it hit undergraduates around me,
01:01:45like, like, like, like...
01:01:46Like a religious conversion.
01:01:54But you grew out of it.
01:01:55Well, perhaps they were recruited at that time.
01:02:07And once recruited, there's no turning back?
01:02:11Quite much the world might change.
01:02:14No matter how much we might discover what really goes on inside the Soviet Union.
01:02:18Once you've said yes,
01:02:24then the door
01:02:27clangs behind you.
01:02:34That's it.
01:02:37For life.
01:02:38I imagine.
01:02:44Till you're caught.
01:02:45You foreign officer's lot have dropped me right in it.
01:03:02These Jenkins claim that the old atomic program has been betrayed by us.
01:03:06Oh, exaggeration.
01:03:07Don't be so bloody cocky about it.
01:03:09Foster Dulles cables me like he was going to restart the War of Independence.
01:03:12They have their traitors, too.
01:03:14There are 14 questions in the House this afternoon.
01:03:16That means a full-scale debate and the press.
01:03:19Well, we tried to play it down.
01:03:21Weren't too good at that, either, were you?
01:03:22I mean, how far do these ripples go?
01:03:27Look at this question I've got this afternoon.
01:03:29Would the Foreign Secretary institute inquiries into the suggestion made in the Sunday newspapers
01:03:34that there is widespread sexual perversion in the Foreign Office?
01:03:38Surely you don't intend to answer that?
01:03:40No, I don't.
01:03:41I've not been here long enough to form an opinion one way or the other.
01:03:45We're desperate for access to American secrets.
01:03:47And we've already got more egg on our faces over this fruit-to-none-may affair
01:03:52than will make obelots for the entire Senate.
01:03:56We're going to have a purge.
01:03:58Make some strong gestures.
01:03:59But we don't share Washington's presumption of guilt.
01:04:02I don't give a pinch and nipple what you presume.
01:04:05But what gesture do you suggest?
01:04:07Philby will have to go for a start.
01:04:09But he hasn't done a hearing yet.
01:04:11Then give him one!
01:04:13It'll be in the form of an inquiry by a council
01:04:16of the evidence against you.
01:04:20A secret trial, if you like, here in my office.
01:04:24I see.
01:04:24So that we can say we've grilled him and he's clean.
01:04:28Of course, if you're not clean,
01:04:30then the normal processes of law take over.
01:04:34You see, Hoover says that either we sack you
01:04:37or they break off Anglo-US intelligence relations.
01:04:41Well, then, sack me.
01:04:42That would be an admission of guilt.
01:04:46An admission of guilt, whereas, in fact, we don't know.
01:04:49One way or the other.
01:04:52Ah, of course.
01:04:56It's best that we're frank.
01:04:58And who'll conduct this inquiry?
01:05:01Scardin?
01:05:02Initially, Eleonus Milmo.
01:05:04He's a former MI5 lawyer.
01:05:08Scardin comes later.
01:05:09I see.
01:05:12Do you know Scardin?
01:05:15I've heard about his cosy methods.
01:05:18Milmo, you may find rather less cosy.
01:05:21You're asking us to believe that at no stage
01:05:24throughout your entire career
01:05:25did you ever breathe one word
01:05:27about the Volkov affair in Istanbul to Guy Burgess?
01:05:29Well, Burgess and I had a number of meetings
01:05:34between 1932 and our joint time in Washington.
01:05:41He sometimes stayed at our house.
01:05:45Did you at any stage discuss the Volkov affair with him?
01:05:48Well, it's very difficult to remember
01:05:50what one might have said.
01:05:52But surely you can recall.
01:05:54Let me finish.
01:05:55Please.
01:05:56Please.
01:06:00Guy's conversation was
01:06:02somewhat difficult to follow.
01:06:06Rather like your own, Mr. Milmo.
01:06:10But surely members of MI6
01:06:11should never discuss their work together?
01:06:13Ah, well, it depends on what you mean by work.
01:06:16I am not concerned in the least
01:06:21about legal points, Mr. Philby.
01:06:25I am concerned purely
01:06:26with understanding.
01:06:30I'm sure there's no one in that room
01:06:32who is not moved
01:06:34by what you are telling us.
01:06:37It all makes complete sense
01:06:39so far as I am concerned.
01:06:41Except one thing.
01:06:46Why did not you yourself
01:06:48ever actually join the Communist Party?
01:06:56Because I was never convinced.
01:06:59But those around you were.
01:07:02So it seems.
01:07:04Did you ever attend
01:07:05party meetings?
01:07:07Open meetings.
01:07:10Open to the public.
01:07:12I also attended
01:07:14conservative meetings.
01:07:18Hmm.
01:07:22So you had sympathy
01:07:24with conservative views?
01:07:27No.
01:07:30I've already told you.
01:07:31Mine were
01:07:33undergraduate left.
01:07:36And I outgrew them.
01:07:40If I may say so,
01:07:41I was most impressed
01:07:43at the understanding
01:07:45you showed
01:07:46of Burdus
01:07:47and McLean's viewpoint.
01:07:50What I take to be
01:07:51their viewpoint.
01:07:53Of course, naturally.
01:07:54It is never your own.
01:07:56That's right.
01:07:58That's understood.
01:07:59But you did know
01:08:02them both
01:08:03at Cambridge.
01:08:05Curious how it keeps
01:08:06coming back to Cambridge,
01:08:08isn't it?
01:08:10Though thereafter
01:08:10your path's divided.
01:08:14Yes.
01:08:16Yes.
01:08:17Yes.
01:08:17which brings us
01:08:32to this
01:08:33detailed
01:08:35autobiography
01:08:37you so kindly
01:08:38supplied us.
01:08:41Extraordinarily
01:08:42interesting life.
01:08:43No.
01:08:48Reading it through
01:08:49there's one
01:08:51tiny
01:08:52detail
01:08:54which puzzles me.
01:08:55Perhaps you'll be
01:08:56good enough to explain.
01:08:59You see,
01:09:00it mentions things here
01:09:01that you
01:09:02did not mention
01:09:03when you first
01:09:05joined the diplomatic
01:09:05service.
01:09:07Because I thought
01:09:08them unimportant?
01:09:09Ah.
01:09:12Is that
01:09:13the reason?
01:09:15I see.
01:09:23I read in your notes
01:09:24that you were first
01:09:25married to an Austrian
01:09:25lady,
01:09:26Lytze Friedman.
01:09:28That's right.
01:09:29In Vienna,
01:09:301933.
01:09:31How old
01:09:32would you have been
01:09:32then?
01:09:33Oh,
01:09:3421.
01:09:35You say she was a
01:09:36member of a
01:09:37commons party.
01:09:38You omitted to
01:09:43mention that
01:09:43when you first
01:09:44joined the service
01:09:45in the curriculum
01:09:46vitae that you
01:09:47supplied.
01:09:48Well,
01:09:48it didn't seem
01:09:48important then.
01:09:50Not important,
01:09:51Mr. Fulby.
01:09:52Well,
01:09:52the marriage lasted
01:09:53less than a year.
01:09:56Oh,
01:09:56Lytze was a little
01:09:57firebrand.
01:09:58She just bowled
01:09:59me over.
01:10:00I adored her
01:10:01for a few months,
01:10:02but I never
01:10:04shared her
01:10:04political beliefs.
01:10:05How did it
01:10:11begin?
01:10:13What?
01:10:15Your involvement
01:10:16with Lytze.
01:10:19Well,
01:10:20we were out
01:10:21walking one day
01:10:22in the snow,
01:10:23and she just
01:10:25suddenly pounced.
01:10:27Well,
01:10:27it was a sort of
01:10:28mutual, actually.
01:10:28I know it sounds
01:10:30impossible, but
01:10:31it's really quite
01:10:32warm, once you get
01:10:33going.
01:10:40Thanks.
01:10:46After Cambridge,
01:10:47I bought a motorbike
01:10:48and went to Vienna.
01:10:49Well,
01:10:50she tried to make
01:10:51a living out,
01:10:51but she won't
01:10:52less.
01:10:53I was deeply
01:10:53interested in
01:10:54contemporary politics.
01:10:55Cheers,
01:10:55cheers.
01:10:56But why Vienna?
01:10:58Well,
01:10:59it was the centre
01:10:59of the fascist-communist
01:11:00conflict at that time.
01:11:02Hmm.
01:11:03Oh, yes.
01:11:03The workers' uprising
01:11:04of 1933.
01:11:05Put down by the
01:11:06government
01:11:06with great bloodshed.
01:11:09Though you went
01:11:10purely as an observer.
01:11:11Yes.
01:11:12And a wife
01:11:13whom you met there
01:11:14and with whom
01:11:14you were deeply
01:11:15in love
01:11:15took a very
01:11:17active part.
01:11:18Hmm?
01:11:18I believe so.
01:11:22Believe so,
01:11:23Mr. Phil?
01:11:24Well,
01:11:24it may sound
01:11:25extraordinary,
01:11:25but we were apart
01:11:26for weeks at a time.
01:11:28There was very little
01:11:28time to discuss
01:11:30anything.
01:11:32You see,
01:11:33I do find that
01:11:35so difficult
01:11:36to grasp.
01:11:38With your sympathies,
01:11:40married such a woman
01:11:41and you still
01:11:43took no active part.
01:11:45You say you
01:11:48witnessed the
01:11:49shelling
01:11:50by government
01:11:50troops of
01:11:51densely populated
01:11:52workers' flats.
01:11:53Did I?
01:11:54Didn't you say so
01:11:55in those articles
01:11:56you wrote?
01:11:58I didn't realise
01:11:59I'd read them.
01:12:02I felt I ought to,
01:12:03Mr. Philby.
01:12:04Those that you sold
01:12:06to the English press
01:12:07were fairly easily
01:12:09tracked down
01:12:09by your Austrian articles.
01:12:10All those were merely
01:12:12typed broadsheets,
01:12:14typed and duplicating.
01:12:15Hmm.
01:12:16Distributed to street corners
01:12:18during the uprising.
01:12:20Absolutely fascinating.
01:12:23Nice.
01:12:26My German is really
01:12:27very rusty.
01:12:30Do you mind
01:12:30translating this bit
01:12:31for me?
01:12:33I've marked it a bit here.
01:12:34It's, um,
01:12:35it's about the 300
01:12:36killed when those
01:12:37flats were shelled.
01:12:37Hmm.
01:12:38Hmm.
01:12:38Hmm.
01:12:39No one could witness
01:12:42that appalling scene
01:12:43without being overwhelmed
01:12:45by the conviction
01:12:45that the world is fast
01:12:47going fascist
01:12:47and only communism
01:12:48can save it.
01:12:50Your sincerely
01:12:51held view.
01:12:53I have no doubt.
01:12:54At the time.
01:12:56At the time.
01:13:00Will you please go on?
01:13:05Socialism has quite
01:13:06failed to stop it.
01:13:08It failed in England
01:13:09in 1931,
01:13:10Germany in 1933.
01:13:12It is failing
01:13:12in Vienna now.
01:13:14Those of us
01:13:15who are living
01:13:15through these things
01:13:16will for the rest
01:13:17of our lives
01:13:18feel ourselves
01:13:18separated by a giant divide
01:13:20from those
01:13:21who know nothing of it.
01:13:23And not three months later
01:13:25you returned to England,
01:13:29publicly severed
01:13:30all your left-wing connections
01:13:31and joined the service.
01:13:33A gross
01:13:38misinterpretation.
01:13:39Averse may not think so.
01:13:46Will the foreign secretary
01:13:49appoint a select committee
01:13:50to investigate
01:13:52the circumstances
01:13:53of the disappearance
01:13:54of Burgess and MacLean?
01:13:56No, sir.
01:14:04Has the foreign secretary
01:14:05made up his mind
01:14:06to cover up
01:14:08at all costs
01:14:10the activities
01:14:11of Mr. Philby?
01:14:12It puts us
01:14:17in an impossible position.
01:14:20The foreign secretary
01:14:21will have to answer
01:14:22one way or another.
01:14:24Well, I couldn't get him.
01:14:25I just couldn't get him.
01:14:27I wasn't given
01:14:28enough information.
01:14:30I'm quite certain
01:14:32in my mind
01:14:32as to his guilt.
01:14:35But you couldn't prove it.
01:14:36I could.
01:14:38Given enough time.
01:14:40Parkinson?
01:14:43The same.
01:14:44Well, there is no more time.
01:14:46So I have no alternative
01:14:48but to advise
01:14:49a complete denial.
01:14:53And leave it at that.
01:14:55No, no, no.
01:14:55We're offering him some work.
01:14:57Work?
01:14:58Undercover, of course.
01:15:00We'll put him
01:15:01in some sensitive spot
01:15:02in the Soviet network.
01:15:04Feed him a few tidbits
01:15:06and see what happens.
01:15:07A further trial.
01:15:09If you like.
01:15:10What cover?
01:15:13The observer
01:15:13and the economist
01:15:14have agreed to take him on
01:15:15as joint correspondent
01:15:16in Beirut.
01:15:18Well, that's ideal.
01:15:21From our point of view.
01:15:22And he'll be kept
01:15:23under surveillance?
01:15:25Far as possible.
01:15:26Meantime,
01:15:27full public clearance.
01:15:31Do you see
01:15:32any alternative?
01:15:36There he is.
01:15:39Get some shots.
01:15:41How are you?
01:15:43Nice to see you.
01:15:45Excuse me.
01:15:47Nice to be done.
01:15:50Would you like to
01:15:50let Miss Lady
01:15:51have that seat?
01:15:53Well, gentlemen,
01:15:54if there are any questions
01:15:55bearing in mind
01:15:56that I may have to be
01:15:57reticent about
01:15:58sensitive matters.
01:15:59My colleagues have asked me
01:16:00to put the questions, sir.
01:16:01By the way.
01:16:02If there was a third man,
01:16:03were you him?
01:16:04No, I was not.
01:16:05Do you think there was one?
01:16:06No comment.
01:16:08What about the alleged
01:16:09communist associations?
01:16:10Can you say anything
01:16:11about that?
01:16:11The last time I spoke
01:16:12to a communist,
01:16:13knowing him to be a communist
01:16:14was sometime in 1934.
01:16:17Burgess gave you
01:16:18no idea he was one?
01:16:19Never.
01:16:20Is it true that you're
01:16:21moving to Beirut?
01:16:23Yes, I'm stepping out
01:16:24of all this limelight.
01:16:25Things have been
01:16:25a bit fraught lately.
01:16:27I'm looking forward
01:16:27to a quiet life.
01:16:28Eight years later,
01:16:33Kim Philby quietly
01:16:34disappeared in Beirut
01:16:35and surfaced in Moscow.
01:16:37He'd been a full colonel
01:16:38of the KGB for 20 years,
01:16:40and the Russians
01:16:40conferred in him
01:16:41their greatest honour,
01:16:43the Order of the Red Banner,
01:16:44on his retirement
01:16:45from active service.
01:16:46The Order of the Red Banner.
01:17:16The Order of the Red Banner.
01:17:46The Order of the Red Banner.
01:18:16The Order of the Red Banner.
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