Kim Philby
Sir, —I was a student at Oxford when Kim Philby was a student at Cambridge. I had friends who joined the Labour Club and progressed to the Communist Party. It was the thing to do. As your article by Richard Ingrams says, they were from progressive middle-class families, and without religion —. as the fashion was. The Communist Party took their customary steps to involve and compromise them in some way, e.g. one friend was required to use her charms to persuade an American Rhodes Scholar to join the party. Most of these young people drifted out again. Many still retained their anti-Establishment views and pro-communist sympathies. And a very few went the way of Philby, either because they had become deeply compromised and couldn’t escape, or perhaps simply because they enjoyed spying. Philby apparently, became a cold-hearted utterly dishonest traitor, happy in his work. —
Yours, etc., HELEN GARRETT. May 20, 1988.
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