David McCloskey
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16,976 appearances
71 recordings
5 series
first heard Nov 2024
last heard 3d ago
David McCloskey’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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structural position.
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And it's quite valuable to the KGB.
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And I think it's valuable for Philby to be able to obfuscate where the leaks are coming from.
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Cause he kind of sits at this seam, as we've discussed.
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He's the he's passing information between the CIA and MI6.
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And so if the Americans are wondering why something went wrong and point fingers at the Brits,
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Philby is in in some ways in charge of who on the British side is getting information.
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So he can expand what we'd call like the bigot list, you know, the list of people who are cleared for information.
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He can point and say, Well, you know, there's 30 people over an MI6 who might have been responsible for this, and then vice versa.
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So he can kind of He's in the center.
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He's right in the center and he can exploit.
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the information asymmetries that the headquarters of either agency
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Really don't see.
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But I guess what he
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Philby doesn't say, is that his success in Washington was probably achieved despite rather than because of the KGB.
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Because
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The KGB's Washington residentura at this point is kind of in dire strides.
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It's it's not a very well organized, high functioning intelligence gathering organization.
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Big question, but is Philby to blame for all of it?
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Or is he just one factor among many?
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