Kim philby autobiography format

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This is a hard book to evaluate. The author, Kim Philby, was the most notorious traitor in the modern history of spycraft.

During World War II, Philby joined MI5 - the British counter-espionage department working on British soil - then moved to the SIS (the former MI6) doing counter-espionage work on foreign soil. In that capacity, he became the head of the division responsible for all counter-espionage relating to the Soviet Union.

After a stint in Turkey, Philby was assigned to Washington DC to work in the heart of American intelligence.

He did all this while serving as a secret Soviet intelligence officer, a mole, loyal to the Soviet Union, whose trafficking of information risked the safety of his family and friends in the interest of a country he had never visited.

The difficulty of this book is that Philby is still playing the "mole