Among the spies of the 20th century, Kim Philby was a master of his craft. “To betray, you must first belong,” Kim Philby once said. Philby betrayed his colleagues, his friends, his wives, and most of all his country. He did all this in the secret service of the Soviet Union. The effects of this master spy’s operations set the stage for post-World War II in Europe.
Background
Harold Adrian Russell Philby was born New Years Day, 1912, Albama, Punjab Province, India. His father was a famous explorer of Arabia and was held in high regard to the British Crown. Lieutenant Bernard Law Montgomery, a figure who would become a well-known General in World War II, was a cousin to the family. Philby received the nickname. “Kim”, from the fictional character from the book “Kim”, Rudyard Kipling, a intriguing spy novel. Philby grew up well educated and very much aware of the world. He spent most of his young life aboard. When World War I began, Philby’s father was assigned as an intelligence officer in British Intelligence. In 1929, the elder Philby abandoned his family in London and traveled to Arabia, converted to Islam, and become the newfound companion of King Ibn Saud.
Meanwhile, Philby grew into manhood and entered Cambridge University in 1929, after finished his undergraduate at Trinity College. He becomes friends with four unique individuals, Anthony Blount, Guy Burgress, Donald Maclean, and John Carincross. These individuals formed the Cambridge Apostles, a secret society. Later in life, these individuals would be known as the “Cambridge Five” or “The Cambridge Spy Ring.” This group became strongly Marxist and pro-Stalin. In 1933, Philby graduated Cambridge and bought the complete works of Karl Marx as a graduation pr...
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...nd country. Monru, 2001). Hansen’s role model since the age of 14…..was Kim Philby.
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Born on September 23, 1953, Earl Edwin Pitts was a all-American, clean-cut citizen of the United States. Earl Edwin Pitts is a native of Urbana, Missouri, he has a Bachelors in Science Degree from Central Missouri State University, a Master's Degree from Webster College, and a law degree from the University of Missouri, Kansas City. He served in the Army from 1975 to 1980. As a law school graduate and retired Army Captain (1), Earl Edwin Pitts had dreamed of working for the Federal Bureau of Investigations for two reasons, first to protect the United States and second, as a means of escaping his small town Missouri roots. On September 18, 1983 Earl Edwin Pitts joined the Federal Bureau of Investigations as a Special Agent taking the solemn oath of office and promising to support and defend the Constitution of the United States as well as to protect the secret information accessed during his tenure at the Federal Bureau of Investigations however, less than four years later, a disgruntled and angry Earl Edwin Pitts entered into a conspiracy with the Soviet Union to betray his country. Earl Edwin Pitts was a thirteen year veteran of the Federal Bureau of Investigations when he was caught selling information to the United States’ largest adversary; nine of those years were as a double agent. (2)
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Within this controversial topic, two authors provide their sides of the story to whom is to blame and/or responsible for the “Cold War.” Authors Arnold A. Offner and John Lewis Gaddis duck it out in this controversial situation as each individual lead the readers to believe a certain aspect by divulging certain persuading information. However, although both sides have given historical data as substance for their claim, it is nothing more than a single sided personal perception of that particular piece of information; thus, leaving much room for interpretations by the reader/s. Finding the ...
On June 19, 1953, there came an end to what would become known as “the trial of the century”. Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were convicted for being Soviet spies and leaking crucial information about the creation of atomic weapons to the Soviet Union. They were sentenced to death and executed by use of the electric chair, leaving behind two orphaned children. However, they have never admitted to committing this crime and their involvement in the leaking of the so-called Manhattan Project was never thoroughly proved. Their execution came to be known as one of the main events characteristic of the Cold War environment in the United States of the 1950s, which was influenced by the phenomenon of McCarthyism. This essay will examine the Rosenberg Case up close. It will first look at the course of their trial. Then it will take a step back and describe the Cold War environment in which the trial took place, which was being dominated by anti-communist sentiment, the Red Scare and Joseph McCarthy. In combining these two sections, this essay will seek to explain how the Rosenberg Case neglected American values of freedom and tolerance, and how this neatly fitted the environment of the Cold War.
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In “the spy who came in from the cold” a divided Germany, Alec Leamas is a British secret agent who becomes a double agent after losing an agent of his own. All goes according to plan until Leamas finds himself before a secret panel that seeks to expose him as a British spy. Leamas personal and professional loyalties start to come into play as he realizes that nothing is how it seems. The novel explores the danger of the cold war during that era. The novel displays a larger number of emotions throughout the book; from perspire fear to losing of a loved one. Throughout the book you see the storyline through Alec Leamas (a commander), who is trying to come home from the cold war for good but his job has other plans for him.
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Throughout the years most country's governments have established some sort of secret police. No matter what the government called it, whether it is the United States' Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) or her Majesty's secret service (MI6), whatever name the government used, the international term of "secret police" could always be applied. Many agencies of secret police have had their success and failures, some more than others. The KGB, which in English means "the Committee of Public Safety," has had their share of both successes and failures. Most secret police agencies have been used primarily to obtain information from other countries. This was also a primary goal for the KGB, but one of their other goals, which was just as important, was to keep unwanted outside information from the Russian people. This was only one out of many the KGB's objectives. Therefore, the purpose of this paper is to prove that the actions of the KGB were, all in all, a success.