![]() ![]() His country, of course, was seriously up. ![]() ![]() With access to newly released MI5 files and previously unseen papers, A Spy Among Friends unlocks what is perhaps the last great secret of the Cold War. The title of journalist Ben Macintyres new book suggests that Philby betrayed his country in the midst of friends. Produced by ITV and Sony Pictures, it premiered in the UK on new streaming service ITVX (formerly ITV Hub. Elliott and Angleton thought they knew Philby better than anyone - and then discovered they had not known him at all.Ī story of loyalty, trust and treachery, class and conscience, of male friendships forged, and then systematically betrayed. A Spy Among Friends is by some distance the best Macintyre adaptation we’ve seen so far. ![]() In the aftermath of the Second World War, Philby, Nicholas Elliott and James Jesus Angleton were rising stars in the intelligence world and shared every secret. Agent, double agent, charmer and traitor, he betrayed every secret of Allied operations to the Russians in the early years of the Cold War. Kim Philby was the most notorious British defector and Soviet mole in history. Master storyteller Ben Macintyre’s most ambitious work to date brings to life the twentieth century’s greatest spy story - now a major ITV series starring Damian Lewis and Guy Pearce. ![]()
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