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Almost inadvertently, ben macintyre, a times columnist, provides a devastating critique of the british class system and the disasters that result when people assume they know people a spy among friends is an extraordinary book about a sordid profession in which the most important attribute is the ability to lie. Based on personal papers and neverbeforeseen british intelligence files, this is ben macintyres epic telling of one of the greatest spy stories ever, a cold war history. Philby s two closest friends in the intelligence world, nicholas elliott of mi6 and james jesus angleton, the cia intelligence chief, thought they knew philby better. Kim philby was the greatest spy in history, a brilliant and charming man who rose to head britains counterintelligence against the soviet union during the height of the cold war while he was secretly working for the enemy.
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