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Leader of anti-Communist legalists in Albania (supporters of King Zog). Escaped from clutches of the Communist regime. Became one of the leaders of the Albanian Freedom Movement financed by CIA and SIS—their HQ was in Greece and Italy. (While in Washington Philby made several flying visits to Greece and Italy.)
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Captain, Later Cabinet Minister. Fought alongside Albanian partisans after the German occupation of 1943
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Moscow-trained Albanian partisan leader. After the Second World War the Albanian partisans liberated themselves from German rule without the help of Russia. Then Hoxha seized power, using British and American arms to defeat his nationalist compatriots. On 10 November 1945 Britain and America recognized his provisional government on the understanding that he would hold free elections. Hoxha set up a People’s Socialist Republic and deposed King Zog: the result was a Communist-dominated national assembly. In 1946 Hoxha accused Britain and America of imperialist aggression after British destroyers appeared off Albania. Later Philby was suspected of having passed information to Hoxha about the arrival of the invasion force, because every expedition was met and defeated without any difficulty
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Wireless telegraph
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Chapter XI
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Sir Robert Mackenzie.
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Rudolf Peierls (later Sir Rudolf), Berlin-born physicist who emigrated to England in the 1930s and worked on the Manhattan Project; Klaus Fuchs, atomic scientist who was instrumental, through his confession, in uncovering the espionage ring in which he was involved with Harry Gold, David Greenglass, and Julius (and allegedly Ethel) Rosenberg
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Chairman of Atomic Energy Commission. Foreign Office man involved in the investigation into the flight of Burgess and Maclean
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Head of British Information Services in America. Afterward Permanent Under-Secretary at the Foreign Office
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Chapter XII
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Originally the section of British Military Intelligence concerned with positive espionage. It was later the popular name for SIS.
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Allan Nunn May, atomic scientist who served six years upon conviction of espionage activities.
Chapter XIII
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After the mysterious death of Lavrenti Beria (Stalin’s right-hand man and head of Russian Secret Services) in 1953, Petrov was suspected of having taken part in a plot which Beria was hatching—to win for himself supreme power. On being recalled to Moscow to answer charges, Petrov defected in Sydney in 1954, bringing with him valuable information about Soviet agents and code systems
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On 25 October 1955
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Marcus Lipton first asked the Prime Minister, Sir Anthony Eden, whether he would appoint a Select Committee to investigate the circumstances of the disappearance of Burgess and Maclean. Then he asked about the Third Man activities of Philby. Eden promised a debate which took place on 7 November 1955. In the course of this debate Harold Macmillan, the Foreign Secretary, cleared Philby
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In fact Lipton got his information from the
Empire News,
who could not name Philby without facing libel risks
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Anthony Purdy
, Burgess and Maclean
(London: Secker and Warburg, 1963)
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The following items may be used as a guide to search for information in the eBook.
Abel, Rudolf, (
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Abwehr, (
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Akin to Treason
(Bulloch), (
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Alba, Duke of, (
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Albania, Anglo-American subversion efforts in, (
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Amery, Julian, (
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Amies, Hardy, (
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Angleton, Jim, (
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Anglo-German Fellowship, (
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Archer, Jane, (
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Arnold-Foster, Hugh Christopher, (
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Aunt Jane (Turkish intelligence agent), (
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Austria, pre-war Socialist movement in, (
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Balkan states, SIS intelligence from refugees of, (
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Bandera, Stepan, (
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Bay of Pigs invasion, (
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Beaverbrook, William Aitken, Lord, (
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Beddington, General, (
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Beria, Lavrenti, (
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Berlin Tunnel, (
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Bevin, Ernest, (
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Birch, Frank, (
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Blake, George, (
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Blunt, Anthony, (
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Boyd, John, (
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Boyle, David, (
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Bracken, Brendan, (
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Bremner, Bill, (
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Brickendonbury Hall, (
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British Security Co-ordination (BSC), (
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Broadway Buildings, (
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Brooke, Gerald, (
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Brooker, Bill, (
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Brooman-White, Dick, (
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Broz, Josip (Tito), (
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Brugada (Spanish Press Attaché), (
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BSC (British Security Coordination), (
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Buchman, Frank Nathan David, (
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Bulloch, John, (
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Bureau Central de
Renseignements et d’Action, (
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Burgess, Guy, (
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at Cambridge, (
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early political involvement of, (
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flight of, (
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Foreign Office career of, (
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Philby’s SIS entry and, (
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V
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provocative personality of, (
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SIS career of, (
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training program devised by, (
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Washington posting of, (
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Burgess and Maclean
(Purdy), (
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Cabo de Hornos
, SS, (
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Calvo, Luis, (
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Cambridge University Socialist
Society (CUSS), (
xxx
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Campbell, Sir Ronald, (
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Campbell, Sir Stuart, (
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Canada, intelligence activities of, (
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Carbe, Albert (César), (
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Carew-Hunt, Bob, (
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Carr, Harry, (
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Central Intelligence Agency (CIA):
Burgess-Maclean escape and, (
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cosmopolitan image of, (
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Eastern European
destabilization efforts of, (
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FBI rivalry with, (
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gaffes of, (
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German intelligence organization of, (
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leadership of, (
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Maclean investigated by, (
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Office of Policy Co-ordination, (
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Office of Strategic Operations, (
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OSS replaced with, (
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SIS collaborations with, (
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Churchill, Randolph, (
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Churchill, Winston, (
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on Russian alliance, (
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SIS reshuffle and, (
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SOE established by, (
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wartime intelligence personnel appointed by, (
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Committee of SIS Reorganization, (
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Communist Party, British, (
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Confidential Agent, The
(Greene), (
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Coplon, Judith, (
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Cordeaux, Colonel, (
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Cowgill, Felix Henry, (
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career of, (
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German Foreign Ministry documents and, (
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as head of Section V, (
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on MI5-Section V jurisdictional dispute, (
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Philby’s intrigue against, (
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Philby’s SIS assignments and, (
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political isolation of, (
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U.S. intelligence and, (
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Crossman, Dick, (
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Cuba, Bay of Pigs invasion of, (
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Cummings, Mansfield, (
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Currie (SIS officer), (
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CUSS (Cambridge University Socialist Society), (
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Daily Express
(London) (
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Dalton, Sir Hugh, (
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Dansey, Sir Claude, (
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counter-espionage disparaged by, (
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German Foreign Ministry documents and, (
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“Z” operation developed by, (
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