![]() ![]() The strategy, in retrospect, was clear: take advantage of the British class system, in which the right men from the right families may get important government jobs without so much as a background check. Hitler had not yet come completely unhinged when Soviet spies were at work in the U.K., making friends with young Englishmen at the best schools. In the espionage game of the 1930s, the Soviets apparently were ahead of everyone, including-and against all odds-the British. If Joseph Conrad and John Le Carre could have convened in Cornwall to conjure a spy story for the ages, they might not have imagined a scheme as insidious as the one put in place by British agent Kim Philby and his Soviet handlers during World War II and the Cold War. ![]()
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