Did British double agent Kim Philby murder Polish war hero General Sikorski?
What damage did Anthony Blunt’s spy ring do to Britain?
Master Soviet Spy Sir Anthony Blunt’s Memoirs Released
England’s Poles in the Game: WWII Intelligence Cooperation
Profits and losses of treachery: Victims of Kim Philby’s betrayals are staking a claim to the cash realised at a recent auction of his effects, says Nicholas Bethell
Churchill believed he could charm anyone – even Stalin. Yet the dictator humiliated him with insults, lies and foul-mouthed jokes.
An Amazing Wartime Secret : Part 2
John Cairncross
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Did British double agent Kim Philby murder Polish war hero General Sikorski?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/poland/2225955/Did-British-double-agent-Kim-Philby-murder-Polish-war-hero-General-Sikorski.html
Allegations of a plot by the Soviet Union, determined not to let Polish nationalism get in the way of communist expansion after the war, have been further fuelled by the presence on Gibraltar of Kim Philby.
The notorious spy was in charge of British intelligence operations in the territory from 1941 to 1944. The crash occurred 20 years before he defected to Russia, but he is thought to have been a double agent from the start of the war
What damage did Anthony Blunt’s spy ring do to Britain?
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2009/07/24/the-spy-who-came-back-from-the-dead-115875-21543690/
Philby’s contribution was more poisonous. He betrayed the names of as many British agents as he could, including lists of all those who had spied for us in Nazi-occupied eastern Europe.
As communist regimes took over in the late 1940s most of these brave men and women who had fought were tortured and shot by the KGB and their local henchmen.
Master Soviet Spy Sir Anthony Blunt’s Memoirs Released
http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/277437
At the outbreak of World War II Blunt signed up with the British Army, was recruited by MI5 and became privy to top secret ULTRA decoding of German Enigma cipher machines, information he quickly passed onto Stalin.
England’s Poles in the Game: WWII Intelligence Cooperation
http://www.iwp.edu/news_publications/detail/englands-poles-in-the-game-wwii-intelligence-cooperation
The Brits were in a unique position to know. The Poles resolved to share their secrets and assets with the British from the outset. Although the Polish intelligence remained subordinated to the Polish constitutional authorities, its operations, infrastructure, and finances were to a certain extent intertwined with the British secret services. This was especially true at the spy center in Great Britain, where the hosts controlled virtually all incoming and outgoing radio and courier communications of the Poles……………………
And what did the Poles receive? Well, Poland was sold to Stalin at Yalta. Most Polish intelligence operatives were abandoned to the Soviets. In one classic case of British naiveté, after the Soviet capture of Rumania, London asked Moscow to help evacuate Polish military intelligence officers undercover in Bucharest and elsewhere. Upon receiving from the British their names, characteristics, and general whereabouts, Stalin’s secret police proceeded to arrest the Poles. Some were killed; others shipped off to the Gulag.
London also did next to nothing to protect its Polish allies from Soviet infiltration. For example, MI5 dispatched Anthony Blunt to keep an eye on the Polish-government-in-exile. Blunt was, of course, an agent of the Kremlin, not uncovered until the 1960s. Moscow deployed against the Poles also the notorious double agents Kim Philby and John Cairncross. His Majesty’s Government was too busy fawning to Stalin to take the simplest security precautions against his assets in the UK.
Profits and losses of treachery: Victims of Kim Philby’s betrayals are staking a claim to the cash realised at a recent auction of his effects, says Nicholas Bethell
http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/profits-and-losses-of-treachery-victims-of-kim-philbys-betrayals-are-staking-a-claim-to-the-cash-realised-at-a-recent-auction-of-his-effects-says-nicholas-bethell-1447065.html
Agents recruited from emigre communities in Britain were being infiltrated into central and eastern Europe. Former Polish soldiers, nominated by the wartime London government of Poland, were moving secretly in and out of Polish territory under British command. Other Poles piloted the unmarked British aircraft from which Ukrainian emigres were parachuted into the western Ukraine to stir up anti-Soviet rebellion.
Philby was at the heart of these bold efforts and, given the depth of his involvement, it is hardly surprising that they all failed. His knowledge of detail on the Ukrainian operation, for instance, emerges from his book My Silent War: ‘Within a month the British had dropped three six-man parties, the aircraft taking off from Cyprus. One party was dropped midway between Lvov and Tarnopol, another near the headwaters of the Prut, near Kolomiya . . .’ He ends his record with a typical jibe: ‘I do not know what happened to the parties concerned. But I can make an informed guess.’
Churchill believed he could charm anyone – even Stalin. Yet the dictator humiliated him with insults, lies and foul-mouthed jokes
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-1208754/Churchill-believed-charm–Stalin.html
The prime minister was not to know that Stalin had an edge on him. Through spies in London – traitors such as Anthony Blunt and Kim Philby – the Kremlin had advance knowledge of the positions and policies the British would take and what they hoped to achieve. Stalin was able to orchestrate his performance precisely from start to finish, with every nicety of courtesy and insult adjusted accordingly.
An Amazing Wartime Secret : Part 2
http://www.bbc.co.uk/ww2peopleswar/stories/08/a6841208.shtml
John Cairncross, a Scottish linguist at Bletchley Park, jeopardised the Ultra secret by passing Enigma decodes to a KGB agent in London.
John Cairncross
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Cairncross
In 1941 and 1942 he worked on Ultra ciphers at Bletchley Park
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