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________________ Kim Philby was the most notorious British defector and Soviet mole in history.
Agent double agent charmer and traitor he betrayed every secret of Allied operations to the
Russians in the early years of the Cold War. In the aftermath of the Second World War Philby
Nicholas Elliott and James Jesus Angleton were rising stars in the intelligence world and
shared every secret. Elliott and Angleton thought they knew Philby better than anyone - and
then discovered they had not known him at all. This is a story of loyalty trust and treachery
class and conscience of male friendships forged and then systematically betrayed. With access
to newly released MI5 files and previously unseen papers A Spy Among Friends unlocks what is
perhaps the last great secret of the Cold War.
