Treason in the Blood by Anthony Cave Brown (.PDF)
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Treason in the Blood: H. St. John Philby, Kim Philby, and the Spy Case of the Century (1994) by Anthony Cave Brown
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Overview: Kim Philby has been called “one of the most remarkable double-agents to have been exposed in our time” by the Regius Professor of Modern History at Oxford. The CIA considers him “the most remarkable spy of our generation.”
And the KGB has characterized him as “a unique spy… one of the most important men of the century.” Harry St. John Bridger Philby, Kim Philby’s father and mentor, was one of the most intriguing intellectuals and adventurers of our time, a manipulator who played a key role in establishing the modern Middle East.
In this dual biography, highly dramatic and rich in intimate detail, Anthony Cave Brown, author of the classic Bodyguard of Lies, tells the extraordinary story of two men whose lives were directly opposed to the establishment into which they were born and for which they were bred. St. John, the brilliant Arabist, became a Moslem and political adviser to King Ibn Saud. He was the middleman in the U.S. acquisition of the Saudi oil concession, called by the State Department “the greatest commercial prize in the history of the planet.” After years of working with Lawrence of Arabia in British imperial intelligence and the military St John turned against Britain when it failed to honour the promises of full autonomy made to the Arabs. Acting as an agent of King Ibn Saud, he arranged affairs so that the precious Saudi oil leases went not to a British oil company, but Standard Oil of California. Later, he was suspected by the US of being either a British or Russian spy or both, operating from the Privy Council of Saudi Arabia against the Arabian-American Oil Company. And as St. John turned to Mecca, Kim turned to the Kremlin, serving as a secret agent against the Anglo-American intelligence services for fifty three years.
Cave Brown first met Kim Philby while on assignment in Beirut in the late 1950s. Now, after following a research trail leading from the United States to Great Britain, Switzerland, France, and finally Moscow, the author has written a biography documented with scores of interviews, the private papers of St. John and Kim Philby, and never-before-seen photographs and KGB memoranda.
Genre: Non-Fiction > History > Espionage & Intelligence
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