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Profile, pp.288, 14.99 Kim Philby once remarked to the journalist Murray Sayle that ‘to betray, you must first belong. I never belonged’. Kim, as usual, was lying. Westminster and Cambridge, the Foreign Office and SIS: for all his attempts to pose as an outsider, Philby was a thorough-paced member of the British Establishment. George Blake who is quoted using exactly the same phrase about himself in Simon Kuper’s wise, engaging biography The Happy Traitor was telling the truth. Blake never belonged to a country, and communism was probably the closest thing he ever found to a spiritual home even if he was deeply disillusioned by the reality of the workers’ paradise when his espionage career ended in exile in Moscow.

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