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Mr Harold 'Kim' Philby , 43 year old First Secretary at the British Embassy in Washington, at a press conference at his parents home in Drayton Gardens, Kensington, November 8, 1955
CAMBRIDGE spy Kim Philby declared he would have done it all again after finally confessing to being a Russian agent for years, according to newly declassified intelligence files.
The dramatic moment in January 1963 when he owned up after being confronted by his oldest friend, and fellow MI6 officer Nicholas Elliott, is vividly captured in a transcript of their conversation released to the National Archives in Kew, west London.
Philby admitted to his old friend in the Lebanese capital, Beirut, that he had been working for the Soviets since the 1930s.
Newly revealed documents reveal that MI5 taught Brazilian secret police the techniques deployed by the 1964-85 military dictatorship in horrific prisons like Rio de Janeiro’s House of Death. SARA VIVACQUA reports
JOHN GREEN has doubts about the efficacy of the Freedom of Information Act, once trumpeted by Tony Blair
TONY FOX invites readers to come and hear the story of the remarkable Liverpudlian International Brigader Alexander Foote
ANSELM ELDERGILL examines the legal case behind this weekend’s Tolpuddle Martyrs’ Festival and the lessons for today