The double agent who tricked the British intelligence services and the CIA

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“I’m fine,” spy Kim Philby told journalist Phillip Knightley in 1988 at the meeting that lasted six nights in Moscow. “And that’s one of the reasons why you’re here, one of the reasons I agreed to see you. There’s been a rumor – which apparently started in Canada, among all possible places – that he was drugged, sick, abandoned by the KGB and eager to return to Britain. I wanted you to see for yourself that none of that was true.” In his book Ph…