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Kim Philby: new revelations about spy emerge in secret files
Owen Bowcott and Caroline Davies
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Fears that the double agent Kim Philby was being exploited by the KGB prompted a government campaign to minimise political embarrassment and prevent his memoirs being published, according to secret files released to the National Archives.
Details of pressure put on journalists, behind the scenes lobbying and attempts to deflect blame on to the French appear in 1960s Cabinet Office files.
The news that Philby, a former MI6 officer, had been spying for the Russians since 1933 sounded an alarm in Whitehall. Shortly after the extent of Philby’s penetration was publicised in October 1967, the home secretary, Roy Jenkins, wrote to the prime minister, Harold Wilson, warning it could lead to the exposure of another mole, Sir Anthony Blunt. ....

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