The Guardian -
25 Mar 2026 07:00
Sex, booze and subterfuge - the extraordinary friendship of Graham Greene and spy Kim PhilbyAt the Café Royal in Regent Street in 1944 three intelligence officers bent over their plates while Europe held its breath. Outside, London braced for D-day. Inside, Graham Greene announced that he was resigning from MI6.Kim Philby, his chief in Section V, MI6s counterespionage arm, blinked. Educated at Westminster, converted to communism at Cambridge and by then securely installed as Moscows man at the ...
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