17-03-2014, 05:32 PM
(This post was last modified: 17-03-2014, 05:49 PM by Kenneth Kapel.)
I have no firm opinion on Philby, but to be devils advocate once Philby fled to Moscow could he ever leave without risking his life ? Could the Soviets risk the embarrassment of having their prize catch turn out to be false ? Philbys defection proved that the Soviets were on the march and the Cold War was justified, more ammo for the military-industrial-intelligence complex.