Volume 42, Number 1 · January 12, 1995
The Fabulous Five
By Noel Annan
The Philby Files: The Secret Life of Master Spy Kim Philby
by Genrikh Borovik, edited and with an introduction by Phillip Knightley
Little, Brown, 382 pp., $24.95
My Five Cambridge Friends: Burgess, Maclean, Philby, Blunt, and Cairncross by their KGB Controller
by Yuri Modin, by Jean-Charles Deniau, by Aguieszka Ziarek, translated by Anthony Roberts, Introduction by David Leitch
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 282 pp., $23.00
Treason in the Blood: H. St. John Philby, Kim Philby, and the Spy Case of the Century
by Anthony Cave Brown
Houghton Mifflin/a Mark Jaffe book, 677 pp., $29.95
One institution in Russia has had no difficulty taking to the new culture of the entrepreneurial society. This is the KGB. In the West there has been active trading in the shares of Philby Inc. and the subsidiary firms of Burgess, Maclean, Cairncross, and Blunt for some years. They eased a little after Blunt's death, but since glasnost they have made a killing with a swarm of foreign journalists who descended on Moscow willing to pay high prices for holdings in this sensitive market. Retired officers of the KGB provide files from the Soviet archives, and employ a British impresario to market their reminiscences.
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