James Jesus Angleton

Cold War spying had much in common with the colonial era

29 June 2024 9:00 am

Influenced by Kipling’s Kim, early CIA officers combined a love of overseas adventure with a whiff of imperial paranoia, says Hugh Wilford

Kim Philby at the press conference he called in 1955 to deny being the ‘Third Man’

The right sort of chap

8 March 2014 9:00 am

Kim Philby’s treachery escaped detection for so long through the stupidity and snobbery of the old-boy network surrounding him, says Philip Hensher