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SOMETIME in 2014, I was reading Yvonne Cloetta’s memoir of her life with Graham Greene when I came across a chapter dealing with his relationship with the Soviet spy Kim Philby, who she described as the “one man for whom Graham committed himself totally.”
This sparked my interest, as I knew about Greene and I knew about Philby but I didn’t know that they’d been friends, ever since Greene had worked under Philby at MI6 during the war. Or that Greene had been the only person to defend Philby after he defected to Russia in 1963.
Or that Greene had been to see him in Moscow in the late 1980s, thus satisfying Philby’s long-standing and publicly stated desire “to sit across a table from Graham Greene with a bottle of wine between us.” ....

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