David McCloskey

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17,234 appearances 72 recordings 5 series first heard Nov 2024 last heard 2d ago

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The Rest Is Classified · 196. Kim Philby: A KGB Spy in Washington (Ep 1) · 20 Sep 2026 podcast

This was, just to remind listeners, this was the root of your sympathies for the young Philby throughout our prior series, which was that he had a sort of youthful dalliance. voice-verified

Everyone at Cambridge in the early thirties was basically a communist, right? voice-verified

Now that is actually true. voice-verified

I mean, not quite voice-verified

Well, and it's because it's it's pre Stalin's terror. voice-verified

there isn't much information in the thirties on what's going on inside the city. voice-verified

Cold war hasn't started. voice-verified

And so it's much more socially acceptable to be commonist. voice-verified

And I think voice-verified

That is exactly voice-verified

the defense that Philby will kind of fall back on over and over again. voice-verified

And so, you know, it's sort of voice-verified

youthful indiscretion, youthful dalliance that's done. voice-verified

And I I I have to suspect that when this Israeli comes up to Angleton and says, Well, you can't trust him because he married a communist, Angleton could fall back on this exact same thing and say, voice-verified

Everybody at Cambridge was a communist in in the early 1930s. voice-verified

And that shouldn't make me mistrust him any more than anybody else. voice-verified

And of course, Angleton is going to pay an incredibly heavy price for trusting Kim Philby. voice-verified

And in fact, we'll be looking in much more detail at the impact of Philby's betrayal on Angleton in the CIA. voice-verified

in our very special club offering for members that we're doing alongside the series. voice-verified

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