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The cooperation between competing security agencies in communist and capitalist countries is astounding. They help one another get more money from their respective governments from the fear they propagate.
It was the global appeal of the communist ideology that allowed them to recruit wide. After World War Two, they has do rely on money essentially. The second is that spying was indeed possible because security procedures were very lax at the time. After World War Two, spying became much more interception spying. Robert Hanssen and Aldrich Ames were still just as significant as Kim Philby.
communism is appealing from a rhetorical perspective, we lose sight of this in the modern moment as, through the benefit of hindsight, its faults are far more glaring
What exactly these chaps got up to . Burgess 's main sin was to help tip off McLean that MI5 was on to him and he'd better depart - unfortunately Burgess went along with him to Russia but that had the effect of tipping off counter intelligence that Philby might have been involved in the leak as GB had only recently come back from the USA. Burgess lead a pretty dissolute life and it is hard to see how he would have been entrusted with any secrets of interest to the Russians or anyone else. Burgess did not settle in well in MOscow and drank himself to death. 2. Philby probably caused the greatest loss of life of US post WWII spies as he released plans for agent penetration into Albania and the Soviet Union, plans that he had heard from JJ Angleton when Philby was working for the British as a liaison officer in Washington. Allegedly hundreds died, killed on arrival as all the drop zone details were compromised. This was happening in the mid 1950s. 3. McLean gave uranium production figures to the Russians during the war and also details of intended post war political arrangements that the US intended - in particular with regards to Poland. 4. Blunt was implicated in the escape of McLean and it is alleged he passed data to the Sov. union, but what that data was is not clear - see wikipedia. He as protected by his UK upper class connections and was outed as a spy finally by PM Margaret Thatcher. He died three years later, having been stripped of his knighthood and other matters. 5. Cairncross risked that the Germans might get wind of Blechley Park's decription activities by passing over raw German decodes of German material which allowed the Russians to bomb airfields before the battle of Kursk. Cairncross also provided notes to Burgess for the Sov Union which were found in Burgess's flat after Burgess fled to Russia. Strangely Cairncross , without lots of English upper class connections was never jailed for his activities, ' though he did confess to them. Other entities - Litzi Friedmann whom Philby divorced only in 1946 ended up living in East Germany and had one daughter. LF died in 1991. therefore at age 80.
In the end, thanks to the American Verona project, they were outted and two of them defected to Russia. Afterwards, Burgess eventually died in Russia as an alcoholic; Maclean also became a drunk and eventually ruined his marriage. Years later Philby was uncovered and also defected to Moscow where, in a bitter irony, he later had affair with Maclean's wife thus causing Philby's wife to leave him. If you wrote this as a movie people would think it was over the top.
Glad to see someone else knows of their defection which was very close to each other’s. Philby’s treatment by the Soviet Communist hierarchy was a real slap in his face after all he did for their cause. Maclean was found out after he stole from DC, I think. He managed to escape with his wife to Moscow.
Learnt a lot about the Cambridge Five from Astrid in this video today, and in a pretty entertaining way. And (12:16) it is somewhat funny that the Soviets get a little paranoid and can't believe that they are not high up in the British priority list. Of course all these changes after the war ends with the start of the Cold War though.
The Soviets not understanding British Classism is kind of funny. "What do you mean upperclass Oxbridge people can get away with this? It has to be a trick! There's no way the British would make a publicly known Communist head of counterintelligence against Communist infiltration!"
There was some disbelief in the West that people with a silver spoon in their mouth could be Communist spies, and in a different version the same feeling may have existed in the USSR.
The main mistake Soviet Paranoia seems to make is expecting everyone to be as paranoid as they are. Oh that and having the inability to make sound judgements on actionable intel.
G'day, Well, when I was studying Psychiatry and Psychology, as part of General Nursing Training...(and I scored 100% in the Psych/Psyche Exam, at the end of 3-A Block of Lectures, too), we were taught that, "It is axiomatic that nobody can successfully remain employed within ANY "Security Industry" position, UNLESS they are themselves fundamentally Psychologically INSECURE..." (!). Who but a neurotic Paranoiac wants to be paid to stand around all day, waiting for "something bad to happen" so that the Insecurity Guard/Officer might be able to try to perform some kind of "heroic Action" which will "save the Day...!" ; and when NOTHING HAPPENS..., Day after week after month after year, then they go home feeling as if they have protected the Nature of their own Perceived Reality, and thus "done their job"..., pinning their entire Self Esteem on trying to prove a Negative...? Every successful "Guard", Police Officer, Military Recruit and "Military Intelligence" Officer and Spy...; they are only able to delude themselves that they are not wasting their Lives - because they are hopelessly gripped by their own Neurotic Paranoid Personality Disorders. Such is life. Have a good one... Stay safe. ;-p Ciao !
Considering that after WW2 the soviet union did become the world's number one target, they weren't wrong to be paranoid. There was just a bigger target, nazi Germany, at the time which was posing a much more immediate threat since Germany was actively bombing and raiding them. This "over-paranoia" of the soviet union talking point is really just anti-soviet propaganda. It's ridiculous to assume that the capitalist nations of the world didn't want to and actively try to destroy the soviet union. The cold war makes this obvious. There would never have been a cold war if no nation saw the soviets as a threat and took action.
@Retired Bore true about everything except the Bulge; it was an utter failure for the Germans. Besides, British intelligence services were miles ahead of the Americans and the Soviets post 39/40.
I love that number: MI-6 spies in the Soviet Union ZERO; yet Stalin had shot in the basement of the Lubyanka, or sent to the Gulag a million of them. I think the best trick any anti-Soviet intelligence operation could do is rapidly expand it's intelligence analysis dept. 'Why would they have just hired 200 people to analyze intelligence from our country if they didn't have at least that many spies in our country?' I think John LeCarré's autobiographical The Pigeon Tunnel has the most remarkable account of pre-defection Philby. One British diplomat is going on and on about the consequences if Philby is indeed a traitor - No one will talk to him anymore, he'll be ostracized - and that was it.
... which is sort of why nobody betrays the City of London's Carribean tax scams, so it does work. It's amazing to think Cambridge produced these spies, and Alan Turing.
Astrid always reminds me of the one aunt at every family party that somehow knows everyone's secrets, and after four bourbon higballs becomes the most interesting person in the room
Do wish Rheinhard wouldn’t play this series so camp. Intel in WWII was a very serious matter, very brave individuals lost their lives in its service too often at the hands of torturers and without Bletchley Park who knows what direction the war might have taken
Guy Burgess once said, and I quote: "If you don't belong, you betray". He, of course, had referred to betrayal on ideological grounds. Recruitment on ideological grounds has been proven to be the most effective form of recruitment. A lot of youngsters in continental Europe as well as England turned to Communism because in the 1930s because they believed that only the USSR could stop Hitler. Litzi Friedmann, Kim Philby's first wife, and Arnold Deutsch were among them. Litzi was a top notch operative by any standard, and Arnold was probably one of the best recruiters that the NKVD had ever had in continental Europe.
@@j3lny425 Arnold Deutsch disappeared in 1942. Various reports have him dying the sinking of the Donbass by a u-boat or being captured and executed by the Nazis in Austria
There once was a Viennese Jew Who valued a vigorous screw A pinch and a tickle For hammer and sickle Make one a communist true! Cambridge produced a quintet Five secret hearts Soviet Despite paranoia From old Modrzhinskaya They'd wreak havoc for many years yet! Another fine episode! Bravo!
Sorgi and the Cambridge lads could have done a lot more damage to the Western Allies than they actually accomplished when Stalin refused to believe there were credible external threats to the security of the Soviet Union. After all, Stalin was looking for internal threats to the Soviet Union, upon which he placed far too much importance. He was convinced that he had to deal with “more important” internal threats. He had dealt with external threats so he felt like he could freely slaughter enemies of the state, real or imaginary. Here, the “bad guys” were winning.
When Igor Gouzenko defected from the Soviet Union, the opposite of what the Cambridge Five did, he went to the RCMP because he knew there were no NKVD agents there.
And the prime minister of Canada refused to believe him. Honestly, what are you to think of King who blamed the Poles for the war, thought Hitler was a fine fellow, and could not bring himself to believe the Soviets would spy on him? A duck out of water? A man in way too high for his intellect? All of the above? 🙄🙄🙄
@@allanlank Yes, we should mention that one. King was convinced his dead dog talked to him in seances. He also tried to get in touch with Leonardo da Vinci, his dead mother and the deceased president of the US Franklin Roosevelt. Did I mention that King was a strange fellow to have in control of an Allied country during WW2?
@@ToddSauve According to Evan Hadfield, PM King's nickname, at the University of Toronto, was "Weird Willy". This is Evan's video on King is th-cam.com/video/gTF8KYoJkMM/w-d-xo.html Evan is the son of Chris Hadfield, the astronaut.
British pre 1950 vetting of intelligence staff for clearance to access top secret information: 1. "Did you go to the right school?" 2. "Did you go to the right university?" 3. "Do you belong to the right London club?" You answered "yes" to all these questions; so you're IN!!
There was a special sense of betrayal that people who ticked all those boxes could be spies for the USSR. But they were. During WW2 there was a tendency to think the lower classes might show "lack of moral fibre" and perhaps even Bolshevik tendencies, but not people who ticked 1, 2 and 3. But the British were on the horns of a dilemma in both world wars - they had to rely on people who did not tick 1, 2 and 3 even if they did not trust them.
wonder if Irish Republican "Freedom Fighter / Terrorist" Micheal Collins didnt have a secret spy network and just showed up in London's Cricket Club and wrote down the full membership list. "so big mick, how did you kill all those British Generals?" "you wouldnt belive me if i told you." :-)
Burgess's post-defection life in Moscow was the basis for Alan Bennett's TV play 'An Englishman Abroad', starring Alan Bates as Burgess, based on the story of him visiting the Australian actress Coral Browne backstage when she was touring in 'Hamlet'. Coral Browne played herself, and later said that after the play was shown, the famous British diplomat David Ormsby-Gore told her that Burgess could have returned to England with no consequences, because there was nothing he could actually be charged with, at least not without giving away too many embarrassing slip-ups on the part of the authorities.
Love the outfit! Your still giving Indy a run for his money on wardrobe. The Cambridge 5 was just one the spy setups in the world! When the KGB files are declassified in the mid 90's they had western spy ring's all over the world during World War 2? They had them in Canada Mexico Brazil, and Australia. But none are more famous than the Cambridge 5, I think they even did a comic about them in DC or one of the comics? Love your episode's as always Astrid! But I'm still waiting on the US and Australian spy's in the Pacific! Those men and women had guts and determination on the axis!
I've seen women over here in the states who wear ties and pants to work! Even in the military.... I think she looks great coming from a guy who wears T-shirts and jeans!!! She kinda reminds me my fiance from a long time ago.....
@@skyhappy I like all there style of clothes, Spartacus looks like a serious professor because he is on a serious topics, Indy and Astrid are the like my old art English teachers from highschool, and on the home front she models the clothing from that time period! And if she wasn't married I would ask her out on a date!!! Can't remember her name from the home front, but I would if I could?
Stalin, Lenin, and Mao, all sold out Communism. Look at it this way, Karl Marx, love him or loathe him, was a wild eyed German radical that wanted to set everybody free. Lenin, Stalin, Mao, all came to Marxism late and were some form or other of proto-Fascist first.
Yay, class based genocide instead of racial genocide (or as well as, given many communist states record such matters). Truly the height of human enlightenment and sure to good perfectly well just like all the other times we have tried to kill our way into a utopia.
While Kim Philby was attached to the nationalist troops of Franco an other englishman, Eric Blair better known for his pen name George Orwell was in Catalonia withe the International Brigades , the experience under the soviet communist rule was so staggering painful (he narrowly escaped being shot) that he drop his commie sympathies and wrote Homage to Catalonia , Animal Farm and... 1984 .
@@shatterquartz Debatable. Towards the end of his life he sent a notebook to the British government listing people he thought had Communist sympathies. Some of his personal prejudices came into it - he mentioned for example that he thought Stephen Spender had homosexual tendencies. Since this was illegal at the time (ref. fate of Alan Turing) it could have done Spender considerable harm.
This whole channel and all who are involved in the production of these top notch videos, bravo. Your content is by far the greatest and most in depth coverage of the Second World War ever created. Spectacular job.
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4:40 the link between sexual repression an fascism was also a major theme in the writings of Wilhelm Reich. There may be something to it, but Reich's diversion into "orgone" theory (quackery) put the whole thing into disrepute for about half a century.
It was and is a recurring theme in Italian literature and cinema as well during the post WW ll era, think of authors viz. Alberto Moravia and directors: Pasolini and Bertolucci to name a few who were obsessed with it due to their own guilt and it finally did Pasolini in.
Arthur Koestler, an ex-Communist who became a bitter anti-Communist, certainly thought there was something to Reich's theories. Koestler was a womaniser and after his death, Jill Craigie, the wife of future British Labour Party leader Michael Foot, claimed he had raped her five decades previously. Whether or not he was a rapist, Koestler seems to have worked hard to overcome any sexual repression on his own part.
Naughty devils, indeed! When I hear "My darlings", I know we are in for a treat! Astrid's animated and endearing style makes every episode she does delightful!
Unfortunately Astrid’s very distinct and idiosyncratic presenting style has exactly the opposite effect on me. I try to focus on the information, but the constant tongue clicks, winks, nods, bobs, gestures and exaggerated deliberate mispronunciations are disruptive and irritating. I love this channel and it’s content, but this is the fourth consecutive “Spies and Ties” episode I’ve turned off less than halfway in. It’s very frustrating and I Came to the comments to see if I’m alone in this. Seems as I am indeed alone, but if I could make a wish…please please, tone it down so I can make it through an episode.
@@dr.dingleberry5454 you're not alone - I also think "toning it down" would bring a happy medium of delivery/info but this presenter will just call you 'darling' and dismiss your constructive criticism. Easier to find other WW2 channels that aren't condescending when you try to be earnest - there are plenty out there, I'm done with this one
Philby continued to supply vast amounts of information well beyond the Korean war . The Russians knew every plan move of the allies in the Korean war .
The Americans didn't even censor their newspapers to conceal military information about Korea until well into 1951. A former Chinese military intelligence officer told Max Hastings in the 1980s that for a while they had got quite a lot of information that way. Open source intelligence, they say.
Have You mentioned that the nickname Kim comes from the titular protagonist of Rudyard Kipling’s book of the same name, the boy Kimball O’Hara who engages in the Great Game in the British Raj?
Other fine instalment from our lady. Interesting stuff. One of my good friends has worked for Philby's son. He lives in a village in the vale of Belvoir.
This story is trully amazing. For those wanting to know more, there is a huge series about war time spying called Secrets of War, narrated by Charlton Heston. The episode about the Cambridge Five is here: th-cam.com/video/hE8C3w2xFH8/w-d-xo.html Thanks for the WW2 to channel for its amazing content. And thank you Astrid, you are a dear!
Is it just me, or is Astrid's cadence and flow seem a bit choppy? I love WWII's deep dive into history, but for some reason I have trouble paying attention to Astrid's videos.
Astrid, you are such a darling. Your European mannerism's are most endearing to me. I find you to not just informative but entertaining, for that very reason. Please keep up your excellent work.
Imagine it like how Benedict Arnold felt after betraying the Americans in 1779. Yes, he got a partly comfortable life and army commission living in London but his freeze on promotion and the army's lack of trust on him due to the betrayal left him in a lurch...
@@theotherohlourdespadua1131 No country ever trusts someone who betrays their country. What is there to say they won't do it again, but this time with you as the victim?
In "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy" George Smiley discusses the idea of a mole and mentions that they have even turned up the odd American agent in their ranks, and there was nothing special about the British when it came to loyalty. Despite close relations between the USA and Israel, an American who spied for the latter spent many years in jail in the USA.
@@astriddeinhard433 I am just wondering how many stories that are still out there.. it seems to me that there are a lot of similarities today, and some are obviously being misunderstood, misused and unfairly used against innocent humans.
Wasn't one of Cambridge Five also a renowned professor whose research results are still valid today? Really conflicting to notice that someone might be a traitor yet still contribute to their original state in some other way?
Darling. Love your videos. Could you please do a video about Garbo? I have only ever seen one small documentary about him and would love to learn more. Thank you for all you do
So, I guess that's why Stalin doubted the information regarding Barbarossa and failed to properly prepaid for it. If only the Brits were more open about their sources. But then, they didn't want Stalin to give the game away 🤷♂️
The Brits were Soooo arrogant in their counter-intel. The Nazis loved to 'play' the English Game with them, and were never revealed to it until it was way too late. Even then, the Brits swept it under the rug for fear that their reputations would be damaged. If they had more Sherlock Holms' and less Keystone Kops in their intel services, they might have avoided these blunders altogether.
Your post doesn't make sense. British counter-intel against the Germans was extremely effective. In addition to the points made by Retired Bore, most German agents in Britain had been identified when war broke out and were made to become informants for the British in the Double-Cross system. Of all WW2 belligerents, the UK was the best at secret intelligence.
Dollfuß was not a facist, even if his democratic election was often called as the beginning of "Austro-facism". He was a conservative member of the then called "christian-socialist" party, which is a forerunner of conservative parties like ÖVP in Autria and CDU in Germany. He tried to keep his small country Austria on a way to survive after WWI. He opposed naziism as well as communism! This was difficult and a very narrow way back then, when everybody voted either for the Nazis or the Communists!
@phil p As always the definitions of what is and is not 'fascism' can be muddy. But we actually did an episode diving in to the topic of Austrian fascism for Between Two Wars here th-cam.com/video/sqYTTOHc7yM/w-d-xo.html
@@vksasdgaming9472 Sure! I meant in his position as chancellor he was the first political victim outside of Germany of the nazis who also served as the head of a state! The german nazi party knew he would never let Hitler taking control of Austria, he has and would have opposed naziism because of his conservative and christian beliefes! Even if Austria wouldn´t have stood a chance against Germany militarily, it would have given a sign to the world and may have changed history before Germany attacked Czechoslovakia and Poland. Because of that he was murdered and replaced by the weak and honourless Chancellor Schuschnigg, with whom Hitler had an easy game.
@@philp8872 Seeing that Schuschnigg wasn't treated nicely by nazis he definitely does not count as honourless. Austrian nazis like Kaltenbrunner and Eichmann were truly honourless. Even among nazis they were honourless.
Now ain't it strange that I feel like Philby There's a stranger in my soul I'm lost in transit in a lonesome city I can't come in from the cold I'm deep in action on a secret mission Contact's broken down Time drags by, I'm above suspicion There's a voice on the telephone Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah Well it sure is dark in this clockwork city Contact's never gonna show I've got a code which can't be broken My eyes never seem to close Well, I'm standing here in the silent city Shadows falling down I'm disconnected but I don't need pity The night's gonna burn on slow Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah Now ain't it funny that I feel like Philby A stranger on a foreign shore I've got my plans and I must move quickly There's a knock upon the door Still in transit and I'm close to danger My cover can't be blown It's getting strange and it's getting crazy Tell me, what is going on? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah Four o'clock and nothing's moving Six o'clock and the daylight's stirring Morning comes, must be moving on All night long my mind's been burning Makes me feel such a long, long way from home, home Now ain't it strange that I feel like Philby There's a stranger in my soul I'm lost in transit in a lonesome city I can't come in from the cold Rory Gallagher
Elena Modrzhinskaya retires in '44? How are people in key positions allowed to retire amidst a total World War? Granted, the break in continuity seemed to result in favorable changes. But wow, THAT's a strong union! Did the Soviet Union not have some kind of special war laws? ..."Indy runs off and gets married" joke here. :)
Fuchs returned to Edinburgh in January, and resumed working for Born.[21] In May 1941, he was approached by Rudolf Peierls of the University of Birmingham to work on the "Tube Alloys" programme - the British atomic bomb research project. Despite wartime restrictions, he became a British subject on 7 August 1942 and signed an Official Secrets Act declaration form.[21][22]
The British intelligence really dropped the ball on Russia.. seems pretty hard to believe they had literally nobody among their ranks.. probably one of the worst oversights in modern 'intelligence'
The infiltration of the British universities by communist professors started in the 20's when the dangers were not even envisioned by the ruling government's or intelligence agencies. The Russians knew that the ruling class in the UK came from the universities. So controlling and installing, very slowly (actually over decades), professors sympathetic to their cause they could "very lightly steer" students to their political way of thinking. Unfortunately, this has been allowed to fester, if not completely contol, our higher education system, also the majority of our secondary education system. It's not called communism but "liberal Democratic scocialism (or a mix of those words)'. You have to admire the Russians and Chinese. They plan really, really long term. Most western governments plan until the next election, normally 4/5 yrs.
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I know what you mean. I'm 70, and DONE, too. A few years ago, I saw an interview with the talented composer, William Bolcom, here on TH-cam. Things were going smoothly until the interviewer, a well meaning young woman, started to ask Bolcom something about his work, his preparation for concert performances, I think. She said, "Don't you have to - " Bolcom interrupted: "I'm 71. I don't have to do anything."
@TODIA Think What, why on earth were you blocked from commenting unless you donated? I handle a lot of premieres for our videos and I do not even know if it's possible to set up a system like that, it's certainly not standard or intended. If something like that happens again maybe take a screenshot or something you can send to us to try and work out why that would be and I will take a look in to what settings are available on youtube to see if something might have been pressed accidentally somewhere
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The Cambridge Five show just how deep Soviet intelligence was able to penetrate into the key institutions of world powers. What innovations and ideologies enabled the Soviets to be so effective?
Read our code of conduct before commenting : community.timeghost.tv/t/rules-of-conduct/4518
The cooperation between competing security agencies in communist and capitalist countries is astounding. They help one another get more money from their respective governments from the fear they propagate.
It was the global appeal of the communist ideology that allowed them to recruit wide. After World War Two, they has do rely on money essentially.
The second is that spying was indeed possible because security procedures were very lax at the time. After World War Two, spying became much more interception spying.
Robert Hanssen and Aldrich Ames were still just as significant as Kim Philby.
What was the best part about WW2 Nazi's and communists kill each other off. What was the worst they didn't finish the job
communism is appealing from a rhetorical perspective, we lose sight of this in the modern moment as, through the benefit of hindsight, its faults are far more glaring
What exactly these chaps got up to .
Burgess 's main sin was to help tip off McLean that MI5 was on to him and he'd better depart - unfortunately Burgess went along with him to Russia but that had the effect of tipping off counter intelligence that Philby might have been involved in the leak as GB had only recently come back from the USA. Burgess lead a pretty dissolute life and it is hard to see how he would have been entrusted with any secrets of interest to the Russians or anyone else. Burgess did not settle in well in MOscow and drank himself to death.
2. Philby probably caused the greatest loss of life of US post WWII spies as he released plans for agent penetration into Albania and the Soviet Union, plans that he had heard from JJ Angleton when Philby was working for the British as a liaison officer in Washington. Allegedly hundreds died, killed on arrival as all the drop zone details were compromised. This was happening in the mid 1950s.
3. McLean gave uranium production figures to the Russians during the war and also details of intended post war political arrangements that the US intended - in particular with regards to Poland.
4. Blunt was implicated in the escape of McLean and it is alleged he passed data to the Sov. union, but what that data was is not clear - see wikipedia. He as protected by his UK upper class connections and was outed as a spy finally by PM Margaret Thatcher. He died three years later, having been stripped of his knighthood and other matters.
5. Cairncross risked that the Germans might get wind of Blechley Park's decription activities by passing over raw German decodes of German material which allowed the Russians to bomb airfields before the battle of Kursk. Cairncross also provided notes to Burgess for the Sov Union which were found in Burgess's flat after Burgess fled to Russia. Strangely Cairncross , without lots of English upper class connections was never jailed for his activities, ' though he did confess to them.
Other entities -
Litzi Friedmann whom Philby divorced only in 1946 ended up living in East Germany and had one daughter. LF died in 1991. therefore at age 80.
In the end, thanks to the American Verona project, they were outted and two of them defected to Russia. Afterwards, Burgess eventually died in Russia as an alcoholic; Maclean also became a drunk and eventually ruined his marriage. Years later Philby was uncovered and also defected to Moscow where, in a bitter irony, he later had affair with Maclean's wife thus causing Philby's wife to leave him. If you wrote this as a movie people would think it was over the top.
Glad to see someone else knows of their defection which was very close to each other’s. Philby’s treatment by the Soviet Communist hierarchy was a real slap in his face after all he did for their cause. Maclean was found out after he stole from DC, I think. He managed to escape with his wife to Moscow.
Learnt a lot about the Cambridge Five from Astrid in this video today, and in a pretty entertaining way. And (12:16) it is somewhat funny that the Soviets get a little paranoid and can't believe that they are not high up in the British priority list. Of course all these changes after the war ends with the start of the Cold War though.
The Soviets not understanding British Classism is kind of funny. "What do you mean upperclass Oxbridge people can get away with this? It has to be a trick! There's no way the British would make a publicly known Communist head of counterintelligence against Communist infiltration!"
There was some disbelief in the West that people with a silver spoon in their mouth could be Communist spies, and in a different version the same feeling may have existed in the USSR.
This story is another example of fact being harder to believe than fiction.
No shortage of such stories in this war. Stay tuned for more
Ah yes the Cambridge Five, an inspiration to a lot of future spy fiction like Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy.
Le Carré is a literary master
@@frenzalrhomb6919 You mean Alec Guinness right?
The main mistake Soviet Paranoia seems to make is expecting everyone to be as paranoid as they are. Oh that and having the inability to make sound judgements on actionable intel.
That's a trend, creating the best spy network possible for yourself... Only to worry about they spying on you
G'day,
Well, when I was studying Psychiatry and Psychology, as part of General Nursing Training...(and I scored 100% in the Psych/Psyche Exam, at the end of 3-A Block of Lectures, too), we were taught that,
"It is axiomatic that nobody can successfully remain employed within ANY "Security Industry" position, UNLESS they are themselves fundamentally Psychologically INSECURE..."
(!).
Who but a neurotic Paranoiac wants to be paid to stand around all day, waiting for "something bad to happen" so that the Insecurity Guard/Officer might be able to try to perform some kind of "heroic Action" which will "save the Day...!" ; and when NOTHING HAPPENS..., Day after week after month after year, then they go home feeling as if they have protected the Nature of their own Perceived Reality, and thus "done their job"..., pinning their entire Self Esteem on trying to prove a Negative...?
Every successful "Guard", Police Officer, Military Recruit and "Military Intelligence" Officer and Spy...; they are only able to delude themselves that they are not wasting their Lives - because they are hopelessly gripped by their own Neurotic Paranoid Personality Disorders.
Such is life.
Have a good one...
Stay safe.
;-p
Ciao !
Considering that after WW2 the soviet union did become the world's number one target, they weren't wrong to be paranoid. There was just a bigger target, nazi Germany, at the time which was posing a much more immediate threat since Germany was actively bombing and raiding them.
This "over-paranoia" of the soviet union talking point is really just anti-soviet propaganda. It's ridiculous to assume that the capitalist nations of the world didn't want to and actively try to destroy the soviet union. The cold war makes this obvious. There would never have been a cold war if no nation saw the soviets as a threat and took action.
Yeah if I was the USSR I would have done everything right, thanks
@Retired Bore true about everything except the Bulge; it was an utter failure for the Germans.
Besides, British intelligence services were miles ahead of the Americans and the Soviets post 39/40.
I love that number: MI-6 spies in the Soviet Union ZERO; yet Stalin had shot in the basement of the Lubyanka, or sent to the Gulag a million of them.
I think the best trick any anti-Soviet intelligence operation could do is rapidly expand it's intelligence analysis dept. 'Why would they have just hired 200 people to analyze intelligence from our country if they didn't have at least that many spies in our country?'
I think John LeCarré's autobiographical The Pigeon Tunnel has the most remarkable account of pre-defection Philby. One British diplomat is going on and on about the consequences if Philby is indeed a traitor - No one will talk to him anymore, he'll be ostracized - and that was it.
... which is sort of why nobody betrays the City of London's Carribean tax scams, so it does work.
It's amazing to think Cambridge produced these spies, and Alan Turing.
I love the navy-blue cable-knit polo sweater-vest Astrid! It’s a good look!
Astrid always reminds me of the one aunt at every family party that somehow knows everyone's secrets, and after four bourbon higballs becomes the most interesting person in the room
You must have a family with interesting secrets.
Astrid really stepping up her expression game with this episode. :)
The binoculars shot was amazingly smooth.
Thanks StrangerOman :) We're glad when y'all notice our crew's work.
Do wish Rheinhard wouldn’t play this series so camp. Intel in WWII was a very serious matter, very brave individuals lost their lives in its service too often at the hands of torturers and without Bletchley Park who knows what direction the war might have taken
Guy Burgess once said, and I quote: "If you don't belong, you betray". He, of course, had referred to betrayal on ideological grounds. Recruitment on ideological grounds has been proven to be the most effective form of recruitment. A lot of youngsters in continental Europe as well as England turned to Communism because in the 1930s because they believed that only the USSR could stop Hitler. Litzi Friedmann, Kim Philby's first wife, and Arnold Deutsch were among them. Litzi was a top notch operative by any standard, and Arnold was probably one of the best recruiters that the NKVD had ever had in continental Europe.
Wasn't Deutsch purged?
@@j3lny425 Arnold Deutsch disappeared in 1942. Various reports have him dying the sinking of the Donbass by a u-boat or being captured and executed by the Nazis in Austria
I love your dedication to this show, thank you.
Thank you!
"Secret Agent Man, Secret Agent Man, they've given you a number and taken away your name..." Steve Barri written for Johnny Rivers
Johnny Rivers is one of my favourites! 😎🎸
There once was a Viennese Jew
Who valued a vigorous screw
A pinch and a tickle
For hammer and sickle
Make one a communist true!
Cambridge produced a quintet
Five secret hearts Soviet
Despite paranoia
From old Modrzhinskaya
They'd wreak havoc for many years yet!
Another fine episode! Bravo!
Thank you Astrid!
Sorgi and the Cambridge lads could have done a lot more damage to the Western Allies than they actually accomplished when Stalin refused to believe there were credible external threats to the security of the Soviet Union. After all, Stalin was looking for internal threats to the Soviet Union, upon which he placed far too much importance. He was convinced that he had to deal with “more important” internal threats. He had dealt with external threats so he felt like he could freely slaughter enemies of the state, real or imaginary. Here, the “bad guys” were winning.
I love the way she delivers the information here. Entertaining and addicting voice!
Ally DOES NOT mean friend.
“… Naughty devils!” I love Astrid 😂
Well, it turns out MI6 was right about MI5 and SOE 😂😂 Of course, then Philby goes on to be a senior officer at the MI6.
When Igor Gouzenko defected from the Soviet Union, the opposite of what the Cambridge Five did, he went to the RCMP because he knew there were no NKVD agents there.
And the prime minister of Canada refused to believe him. Honestly, what are you to think of King who blamed the Poles for the war, thought Hitler was a fine fellow, and could not bring himself to believe the Soviets would spy on him? A duck out of water? A man in way too high for his intellect? All of the above? 🙄🙄🙄
@@ToddSauve Obviously PM King forgot to consult his dog on that one.
@@allanlank Yes, we should mention that one.
King was convinced his dead dog talked to him in seances. He also tried to get in touch with Leonardo da Vinci, his dead mother and the deceased president of the US Franklin Roosevelt.
Did I mention that King was a strange fellow to have in control of an Allied country during WW2?
@@ToddSauve According to Evan Hadfield, PM King's nickname, at the University of Toronto, was "Weird Willy".
This is Evan's video on King is th-cam.com/video/gTF8KYoJkMM/w-d-xo.html
Evan is the son of Chris Hadfield, the astronaut.
Once again it was a delight to listen to you talk about spies Astrid. I enjoyed all of this video. Have a great day or night wherever you are.
Thank you darling
@@astriddeinhard433---Your welcome
British pre 1950 vetting of intelligence staff for clearance to access top secret information:
1. "Did you go to the right school?"
2. "Did you go to the right university?"
3. "Do you belong to the right London club?"
You answered "yes" to all these questions; so you're IN!!
They were, incidentally, the same questions asked for holding high office or being in charge of a large company.
There was a special sense of betrayal that people who ticked all those boxes could be spies for the USSR. But they were. During WW2 there was a tendency to think the lower classes might show "lack of moral fibre" and perhaps even Bolshevik tendencies, but not people who ticked 1, 2 and 3. But the British were on the horns of a dilemma in both world wars - they had to rely on people who did not tick 1, 2 and 3 even if they did not trust them.
wonder if Irish Republican "Freedom Fighter / Terrorist" Micheal Collins didnt have a secret spy network and just showed up in London's Cricket Club and wrote down the full membership list.
"so big mick, how did you kill all those British Generals?" "you wouldnt belive me if i told you." :-)
I've nothing but scorn for these two faced prix. Advocating for one form of tyranny while working for another.
Burgess's post-defection life in Moscow was the basis for Alan Bennett's TV play 'An Englishman Abroad', starring Alan Bates as Burgess, based on the story of him visiting the Australian actress Coral Browne backstage when she was touring in 'Hamlet'. Coral Browne played herself, and later said that after the play was shown, the famous British diplomat David Ormsby-Gore told her that Burgess could have returned to England with no consequences, because there was nothing he could actually be charged with, at least not without giving away too many embarrassing slip-ups on the part of the authorities.
They might have arranged an "accident" for him, though.
@@stevekaczynski3793 In the end he drank himself to death anyway.
Love this series SO MUCH !! And Astrid, your delivery is simply adorable.
Love the outfit! Your still giving Indy a run for his money on wardrobe. The Cambridge 5 was just one the spy setups in the world! When the KGB files are declassified in the mid 90's they had western spy ring's all over the world during World War 2? They had them in Canada Mexico Brazil, and Australia. But none are more famous than the Cambridge 5, I think they even did a comic about them in DC or one of the comics? Love your episode's as always Astrid!
But I'm still waiting on the US and Australian spy's in the Pacific! Those men and women had guts and determination on the axis!
She's wearing men's clothing
@@frenzalrhomb6919 ask anyone you know if women ever wear a tie
I've seen women over here in the states who wear ties and pants to work! Even in the military.... I think she looks great coming from a guy who wears T-shirts and jeans!!! She kinda reminds me my fiance from a long time ago.....
@@mikaelcrews7232 Very odd,I never saw such.
@@skyhappy I like all there style of clothes, Spartacus looks like a serious professor because he is on a serious topics, Indy and Astrid are the like my old art English teachers from highschool, and on the home front she models the clothing from that time period! And if she wasn't married I would ask her out on a date!!! Can't remember her name from the home front, but I would if I could?
I believe Philby did a language course in Lebanon which in turn would become a centre for recruiting double agents.
Another great Spies and Ties from Astrid and the Time Ghost Crew!
Thank you Ross!
😂😂😂 This lady at 1.5x is pure comedy ... I love her. It's true what she says ... Received Pronunciation can help you get away with a lot...even today
“A bayonet that’s a weapon with a working man on either end, Betray your country, serve your class, Don’t sign up for war my Friend.”
Bayonet man here!
Brought to you by one of the signatories of the Molotov Ribbentrop Pact
Stalin, Lenin, and Mao, all sold out Communism. Look at it this way, Karl Marx, love him or loathe him, was a wild eyed German radical that wanted to set everybody free. Lenin, Stalin, Mao, all came to Marxism late and were some form or other of proto-Fascist first.
@@thomasdevine867 Marx wanted collective good over individual freedom. Class warfare wasn’t going to be bloodless.
Yay, class based genocide instead of racial genocide (or as well as, given many communist states record such matters). Truly the height of human enlightenment and sure to good perfectly well just like all the other times we have tried to kill our way into a utopia.
While Kim Philby was attached to the nationalist troops of Franco an other englishman, Eric Blair better known for his pen name George Orwell was in Catalonia withe the International Brigades , the experience under the soviet communist rule was so staggering painful (he narrowly escaped being shot) that he drop his commie sympathies and wrote Homage to Catalonia , Animal Farm and... 1984 .
What Orwell opposed was totalitarianism in every shape and form. But he did remain a committed leftist.
@@shatterquartz Debatable. Towards the end of his life he sent a notebook to the British government listing people he thought had Communist sympathies. Some of his personal prejudices came into it - he mentioned for example that he thought Stephen Spender had homosexual tendencies. Since this was illegal at the time (ref. fate of Alan Turing) it could have done Spender considerable harm.
So strange, here in America we spell the city name as Cambridge all the time, not just some of the time.
This whole channel and all who are involved in the production of these top notch videos, bravo. Your content is by far the greatest and most in depth coverage of the Second World War ever created. Spectacular job.
@Wytse Venema Thank you very much, glad you are enjoying our work! If you want to support us please consider joining the TimeGhost Army to make sure we can keep doing what we are doing 😉
4:40 the link between sexual repression an fascism was also a major theme in the writings of Wilhelm Reich. There may be something to it, but Reich's diversion into "orgone" theory (quackery) put the whole thing into disrepute for about half a century.
It was and is a recurring theme in Italian literature and cinema as well during the post WW ll era, think of authors viz. Alberto Moravia and directors: Pasolini and Bertolucci to name a few who were obsessed with it due to their own guilt and it finally did Pasolini in.
Arthur Koestler, an ex-Communist who became a bitter anti-Communist, certainly thought there was something to Reich's theories. Koestler was a womaniser and after his death, Jill Craigie, the wife of future British Labour Party leader Michael Foot, claimed he had raped her five decades previously. Whether or not he was a rapist, Koestler seems to have worked hard to overcome any sexual repression on his own part.
Naughty devils, indeed! When I hear "My darlings", I know we are in for a treat! Astrid's animated and endearing style makes every episode she does delightful!
thank you darling :)
Unfortunately Astrid’s very distinct and idiosyncratic presenting style has exactly the opposite effect on me. I try to focus on the information, but the constant tongue clicks, winks, nods, bobs, gestures and exaggerated deliberate mispronunciations are disruptive and irritating. I love this channel and it’s content, but this is the fourth consecutive “Spies and Ties” episode I’ve turned off less than halfway in. It’s very frustrating and I Came to the comments to see if I’m alone in this. Seems as I am indeed alone, but if I could make a wish…please please, tone it down so I can make it through an episode.
@@dr.dingleberry5454 you're not alone - I also think "toning it down" would bring a happy medium of delivery/info but this presenter will just call you 'darling' and dismiss your constructive criticism. Easier to find other WW2 channels that aren't condescending when you try to be earnest - there are plenty out there, I'm done with this one
Philby continued to supply vast amounts of information well beyond the Korean war .
The Russians knew every plan move of the allies in the Korean war .
interesting - we will pick that up :)
The Americans didn't even censor their newspapers to conceal military information about Korea until well into 1951. A former Chinese military intelligence officer told Max Hastings in the 1980s that for a while they had got quite a lot of information that way. Open source intelligence, they say.
Have You mentioned that the nickname Kim comes from the titular protagonist of Rudyard Kipling’s book of the same name, the boy Kimball O’Hara who engages in the Great Game in the British Raj?
Other fine instalment from our lady. Interesting stuff. One of my good friends has worked for Philby's son. He lives in a village in the vale of Belvoir.
Another great video Astrid! Love your presentation.
Good info, but Astrid overdoes the histrionics.
Extremely informative and very well presented. Excellent work! 👏
Thank you for watching, Chris
Great video.
Thank you
This story is trully amazing. For those wanting to know more, there is a huge series about war time spying called Secrets of War, narrated by Charlton Heston. The episode about the Cambridge Five is here: th-cam.com/video/hE8C3w2xFH8/w-d-xo.html
Thanks for the WW2 to channel for its amazing content. And thank you Astrid, you are a dear!
Thanks @Micael!
Terrible, western-centric and western-biases series.
Is it just me, or is Astrid's cadence and flow seem a bit choppy? I love WWII's deep dive into history, but for some reason I have trouble paying attention to Astrid's videos.
I agree, I enjoy the enthusiasm but this was difficult to follow
Had to stop watching 2 mins in
I find opposite.
🎯
I'm still subscribed because of MY interest, but I must admit I fail to see the reason for the comedic iteration.
As usual you are great.
Thank you James
Hi Astrid
Another interesting history story.
Nice narration.
Spy ring simply unbelievable.
Thanks.
Thanks for watching.
"It stinks but somebody has to do it." Truer words have never been spoken.
I doubt being agents for the most murderous ideology ever has to be done.
Astrid, you are such a darling. Your European mannerism's are most endearing to me. I find you to not just informative but entertaining, for that very reason. Please keep up your excellent work.
thank you very much ...darling:)
This is the first time I have seen this lady on this channel; I hope it is not the last.
The pronunciation is exquisite.
thank you so much, makes me happy :)
I wonder if Philby ever regretted his decision to work for the Soviets?
Probably when he fled there and found out there were virtually no consumer goods, or a nice apartment. And Moscow was much colder than London.
Imagine it like how Benedict Arnold felt after betraying the Americans in 1779. Yes, he got a partly comfortable life and army commission living in London but his freeze on promotion and the army's lack of trust on him due to the betrayal left him in a lurch...
@@theotherohlourdespadua1131 No country ever trusts someone who betrays their country. What is there to say they won't do it again, but this time with you as the victim?
Well, when I get by Hell I'll ask.
@@ToddSauve He would have known all those things. He did tell an interviewer that he missed Worcester sauce, a British condiment.
4:38 he just like me fr
Cool episode
Thank you!
@@WorldWarTwo :)
Excellent presentation.
Thank you.
You’re pushing it little man -. We’ve replied to your nonsense elsewhere.
Great job! Thank you.
Thanks for watching with us @Ima Gremlin
Never trust your enemies, even your allies, for they may be your future enemy.
And that's the saddest thing of all.
In "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy" George Smiley discusses the idea of a mole and mentions that they have even turned up the odd American agent in their ranks, and there was nothing special about the British when it came to loyalty. Despite close relations between the USA and Israel, an American who spied for the latter spent many years in jail in the USA.
Considering the Soviets are considered the tenth "most" inportant espionage target, what is the full top 10?
Thanks for another great upload you guys..
Have you ever thought of making a special about the conspiracy theories of the second world war?
good idea thank you
@@astriddeinhard433 no problem Astrid.. I sometimes have a little moment like this..
@@citizenVader cherish the moments :))
@@astriddeinhard433 I am just wondering how many stories that are still out there.. it seems to me that there are a lot of similarities today, and some are obviously being misunderstood, misused and unfairly used against innocent humans.
Thank you for watching. Stay tuned, more specials to come
I well remember the hype and controversy over the book Spy Catcher by Peter Wright. When I read it it made Yes Minister seem more like a documentary.
Wasn't one of Cambridge Five also a renowned professor whose research results are still valid today? Really conflicting to notice that someone might be a traitor yet still contribute to their original state in some other way?
Nuance
Anthony Blunt. An art expert.
Excellent.
Thanks for watching, Pierre
you are doing amazing work, thank you ma'am
Thank you Chris
As always thank you so very much for the video.
I especially appreciate Astrid's closing.
Thank you Graham. We appreciate the kind words
Kim wasn't the only anglo-Indian to work against the British Raj. The INA had an Anglo-Indian lieutenant
So, you're saying universities haven't changed at all......
Darling. Love your videos. Could you please do a video about Garbo? I have only ever seen one small documentary about him and would love to learn more. Thank you for all you do
Thank you Peter! Stick around, who knows where or when he'll stick his head out?
So, I guess that's why Stalin doubted the information regarding Barbarossa and failed to properly prepaid for it. If only the Brits were more open about their sources. But then, they didn't want Stalin to give the game away 🤷♂️
Thanks, another interesting episode packed full of information.
Thank you Cris
Read the tag line
Some things never change.
Amen to that
Ironic. The Soviets were too paranoid, but the Brits were too trusting.
The Brits were Soooo arrogant in their counter-intel. The Nazis loved to 'play' the English Game with them, and were never revealed to it until it was way too late. Even then, the Brits swept it under the rug for fear that their reputations would be damaged. If they had more Sherlock Holms' and less Keystone Kops in their intel services, they might have avoided these blunders altogether.
Your post doesn't make sense. British counter-intel against the Germans was extremely effective. In addition to the points made by Retired Bore, most German agents in Britain had been identified when war broke out and were made to become informants for the British in the Double-Cross system. Of all WW2 belligerents, the UK was the best at secret intelligence.
@Retired Bore I would say German intel in WW2 was still worse than British.
Thank you, Astrid. Good presentation of a complicated history (made even more complicated by Soviet paranoia).
Thank you Jamie
Astrid, I love following your hands, I could almost mute the sound and still follow what you are saying just by hand gestures alone!
Anyone else watch the Astrid videos on 1.5x speed?
I'm a little bewildered as to why you haven't yet covered BSC and Intrepid. I would have thought that would be at or near the top of the list.
ill talk to the boys thank you
I love these, always fascinating.
Thank you, stay tuned for more every week
I mean this in the most positive way, but Astrid reminds me of an aunt telling me a family secret and I love it.
Stay tuned for more secrets from her
"Naughty devils!"
Yes! :-D
Good presentation enjoyed it.
Thanks David. Stay tuned for more every week
Oh Astrid, why would you obscure the print on this tie with your waistcoat like that?! Still a wonderful look though, as always! 4/5
i will send you a photo of the tie, it has horses on them playing polo, real nice :)) I will never do it again darling
@@astriddeinhard433 HUZZAH
❤️
Dollfuß was not a facist, even if his democratic election was often called as the beginning of "Austro-facism". He was a conservative member of the then called "christian-socialist" party, which is a forerunner of conservative parties like ÖVP in Autria and CDU in Germany.
He tried to keep his small country Austria on a way to survive after WWI. He opposed naziism as well as communism! This was difficult and a very narrow way back then, when everybody voted either for the Nazis or the Communists!
PS.: Never forget, he was as chancellor of Austria the first political victim murdered by the Nazis!
@phil p As always the definitions of what is and is not 'fascism' can be muddy. But we actually did an episode diving in to the topic of Austrian fascism for Between Two Wars here th-cam.com/video/sqYTTOHc7yM/w-d-xo.html
@@philp8872 There were more in Germany. Dollfuss was first prominent international victim of nazism.
@@vksasdgaming9472 Sure! I meant in his position as chancellor he was the first political victim outside of Germany of the nazis who also served as the head of a state!
The german nazi party knew he would never let Hitler taking control of Austria, he has and would have opposed naziism because of his conservative and christian beliefes! Even if Austria wouldn´t have stood a chance against Germany militarily, it would have given a sign to the world and may have changed history before Germany attacked Czechoslovakia and Poland.
Because of that he was murdered and replaced by the weak and honourless Chancellor Schuschnigg, with whom Hitler had an easy game.
@@philp8872 Seeing that Schuschnigg wasn't treated nicely by nazis he definitely does not count as honourless. Austrian nazis like Kaltenbrunner and Eichmann were truly honourless. Even among nazis they were honourless.
Typo: First subtitle should be "CambriDGe", not "CambriGDe"
Now ain't it strange that I feel like Philby
There's a stranger in my soul
I'm lost in transit in a lonesome city
I can't come in from the cold
I'm deep in action on a secret mission
Contact's broken down
Time drags by, I'm above suspicion
There's a voice on the telephone
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Well it sure is dark in this clockwork city
Contact's never gonna show
I've got a code which can't be broken
My eyes never seem to close
Well, I'm standing here in the silent city
Shadows falling down
I'm disconnected but I don't need pity
The night's gonna burn on slow
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Now ain't it funny that I feel like Philby
A stranger on a foreign shore
I've got my plans and I must move quickly
There's a knock upon the door
Still in transit and I'm close to danger
My cover can't be blown
It's getting strange and it's getting crazy
Tell me, what is going on?
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Four o'clock and nothing's moving
Six o'clock and the daylight's stirring
Morning comes, must be moving on
All night long my mind's been burning
Makes me feel such a long, long way from home, home
Now ain't it strange that I feel like Philby
There's a stranger in my soul
I'm lost in transit in a lonesome city
I can't come in from the cold
Rory Gallagher
Read this as Polish Brits and was real confused.
At 14:49, secret soviet airplane attack troops
Note her "1933". That would give her away !
Great episode! Especially Astrid's delivery. She makes the episodes shine. I could listen to her reading want ads.
Thank you Russell, stay tuned for more Astrid
Interesting pattern....basically repeating today.
Good info, but her delivery is distracting.
I do a specially dull version for you next time :)
you'd think if they were FAMOUS "lavatory attendants" they'd be bad at their job
Has anything changed? 😂😂
Elena Modrzhinskaya retires in '44? How are people in key positions allowed to retire amidst a total World War? Granted, the break in continuity seemed to result in favorable changes. But wow, THAT's a strong union! Did the Soviet Union not have some kind of special war laws?
..."Indy runs off and gets married" joke here. :)
2:30
My my this high society guy
He's an agent he's a traitor he's Soviet spy
I wonder who vouched for atomic scientist Klaus Fuchs?
Fuchs returned to Edinburgh in January, and resumed working for Born.[21] In May 1941, he was approached by Rudolf Peierls of the University of Birmingham to work on the "Tube Alloys" programme - the British atomic bomb research project. Despite wartime restrictions, he became a British subject on 7 August 1942 and signed an Official Secrets Act declaration form.[21][22]
Love ❤️ your style. Especially at 4:10 whatever side doesn't matter, only the content. Good focus and flow ☺️
Thank you Colin
The British intelligence really dropped the ball on Russia.. seems pretty hard to believe they had literally nobody among their ranks.. probably one of the worst oversights in modern 'intelligence'
The infiltration of the British universities by communist professors started in the 20's when the dangers were not even envisioned by the ruling government's or intelligence agencies. The Russians knew that the ruling class in the UK came from the universities.
So controlling and installing, very slowly (actually over decades), professors sympathetic to their cause they could "very lightly steer" students to their political way of thinking. Unfortunately, this has been allowed to fester, if not completely contol, our higher education system, also the majority of our secondary education system. It's not called communism but "liberal Democratic scocialism (or a mix of those words)'.
You have to admire the Russians and Chinese. They plan really, really long term. Most western governments plan until the next election, normally 4/5 yrs.
Communists are all about playing the long game. The same festering of communist ideology in the education system occurred here in the US as well.
I was watching live but after making a comment, I was given the opportunity to donate, and couldn't comment without making said donation. WOW.....
I'm retired and that should be enough said. I'm DONE. I will stick with Kings and Generals. They aren't nearly as greedy.
The disappointment was great but .....
I know what you mean. I'm 70, and DONE, too. A few years ago, I saw an interview with the talented composer, William Bolcom, here on TH-cam. Things were going smoothly until the interviewer, a well meaning young woman, started to ask Bolcom something about his work, his preparation for concert performances, I think.
She said, "Don't you have to - "
Bolcom interrupted: "I'm 71. I don't have to do anything."
@TODIA Think What, why on earth were you blocked from commenting unless you donated? I handle a lot of premieres for our videos and I do not even know if it's possible to set up a system like that, it's certainly not standard or intended. If something like that happens again maybe take a screenshot or something you can send to us to try and work out why that would be and I will take a look in to what settings are available on youtube to see if something might have been pressed accidentally somewhere
@@WorldWarTwo I'm technicalogically challenged. I saw an icon that I didn't understand in the box that normally says: Send. When I saw that, I ASSumed that I couldn't comment anymore without donating...... thanks for your reply. 🚬☕