A Spy Among Friends (45 page)

Guy Burgess: witty, flamboyant, highly intelligent and pure trouble.

Anthony Blunt with Cambridge friends: a brilliant art historian and a Soviet spy.

Great Court, Trinity College, Cambridge: the unlikely crucible of communist revolution.

Alice ‘Litzi’ Kohlman, Philby’s first love and first wife, an activist in the Viennese communist underground.

Edith Tudor-Hart, an Austrian photographer married to an Englishman, arranged Philby’s rendezvous with the Soviet intelligence service.

Street violence erupts in Vienna in 1933, as the extreme right-wing government goes to war with the left.

Nicholas Elliott, as a new recruit to MI6. ‘A convivial camaraderie prevailed, rather like a club.’

James Jesus Angleton, an apprentice intelligence officer in wartime London. An American from Idaho, he was ‘more English than the English’ and an honorary member of the club.

Philby (
second from left
),
The Times
war correspondent, at a lunch with Lord Gort (
to Philby’s left
), commander of the British Expeditionary Force in France, 1939.

Arnold Deutsch, alias ‘Otto’, Philby’s charismatic recruiter and spy-master.

Klop Ustinov, Russian-born German journalist, secret agent for Britain and father of the actor Peter Ustinov.

Theodore Maly, Philby’s NKVD controller, later murdered in Stalin’s purges.

Alexander Foote, Britishborn radio operator for the Soviet spy network ‘Rote Kapelle’.