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To betray, you must first belong. I never belonged.

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I am really two people. I am a private person and a political person. Of course, if there is a conflict the political person comes first.

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I must warn you that I am no public speaker. I've spent most of my life trying to avoid publicity of any kind.

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If they confront you with a document with your own handwriting then it's a forgery - just deny everything. [...] So my advice to you is to tell all your agents that they are never to confess.
Advice to the spies gathered before him

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On the book The Spy Who Came in from the Cold:
The whole plot, from beginning to end, is basically implausible – at any rate to anyone who has any real knowledge of the business.

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Kim Philby

Born: January 1, 1912
Died: May 11, 1988 (aged 76)
Bio: Harold Adrian Russell "Kim" Philby was a high-ranking member of British intelligence who worked as a double agent before defecting to the Soviet Union in 1963. He served as both an NKVD and KGB operative.

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