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fruit importer who had worked for Section V in Madrid during the
war, and then was commissioned to ghostwrite a history of the pub-
lishing firm David Allen. For this task Philby moved to Ireland, aban-
doning his wife and family at their home in Crowhurst.
Philby eventuallydefectedto Moscow in January 1963, after hav-
ing been confronted with evidence of his duplicity by his old col-
leagueNicholas Elliott. There, in the safety of the Soviet Union, he
prepared his autobiography,My Silent War, which was published in
London in 1968 and was described by Greene as ‘‘far more gripping
than any novel of espionage I can remember.’’ Although the British
authorities made no attempt to block the book’s publication, the late
Mary Reilly did. The wife ofSir Patrick Reilly, who recently had
been the British ambassador in Moscow, she took exception to
Philby’s barbed remarks about her in the first edition, which was
promptly withdrawn and reissued without the offending passage.
Even the expurgated version was the subject of considerable criti-
cism, especially byRobert Cecilwho had known Philby inBroad-
wayin the war. During his 25 years in exile Philby collected books
on intelligence, edited the autobiography of Gordon Lonsdale, and
occasionally lecturedKGBpersonnel assigned to posts in the West.
Philby died in Moscow in May 1988 having betrayed his sister
Helena, who also worked for SIS, his family, his friends, and his
country. He even denounced TimMilne, one of his closest friends
from their school days at Westminster, as a Soviet spy. His legacy
was one of lasting bitterness that extended beyond those who knew
or worked with him. His illegitimate son Alan Young, the product of
Philby’s affair with a senior civil servant in 1940, was abandoned by
his parents and brought up in children’s homes. In 1984 Young was
sentenced to a term of imprisonment on a charge of blackmail, and
the court in London was told that Young’s discovery that his true
father had been a notorious traitor had marked a deterioration in his
criminal conduct.
Philby’s KGB file, codenamedsonny, reveals that he was re-
cruited as a spy by Litzi’s friendEdith Tudor Hart, a talented pho-
tographer, and that she introduced him to the illegalrezident,in
London, Dr.Arnold Deutsch.PIECK, HENRI.A Dutch artist and Communist, Henri Pieck joined a
Soviet intelligence network based in Amsterdam in 1930 and spent