At the end of 1961, Pentovsky continues sharing intelligence with his contact Janet Chisholm, unaware of the intense surveillance on him by the Soviet secret service. ibid.
In north-east Syria, an apparent oasis of stability and hope, recovering after eight years of civil war and trauma that have cost thousands of lives. Hevrin was part of a movement to rebuild Syria as a democracy. Aged 34, Hevrin had become the leader of the newly launched Future Syria Party, created to play a key role in spreading democracy, bringing together communities ravaged by terror and war. Our World: Who Betrayed Hevrin Khalaf? BBC 2020
On October 9th the Turkish military started their assault. Civilians fled border towns and the wounded started to fill the hospitals. And it wasn’t just Turkish regular forces. Groups of mostly Jihadi fighters, bitter enemies of the Kurds, and calling themselves the Syrian National Army, were being backed by the Turkish military to do the fighting on the ground. They were advancing deep into northern Syria. ibid.
[Jihadis] shot up their car when they were trying to ‘drive through a road block’ … Hevrin Khalaf’s body metres away … In the [bodycam] video you can make out a woman’s voice. ibid.
Al Nusra is the main Al Qaeda group in Syria: it’s been accused of torture, child abduction and summary execution … a reign of terror for three long years. ibid.
The only reason I wore a wire was to save you. Ray Donovan s7e9: Bugs, daughter’s partner, Sky Atlantic 2020
1He [Arnold] stands to earn £20,000, a lifetime pension and a British officer’s commission if he can deliver West Point. Which he plans to achieve by sabotaging the fort’s defences from within. Washington II, History 2021
After six long years the British are striking directly at the heart of the patriot cause in a bid to finally end the war. At the tip of the spear is the man who nearly took down the continental army with an act of betrayal. The turncoat Benedict Arnold is now a Brigadier-General army on the front lines of their latest strategy to crush the rebel spirit and rouse a loyal army to fight the patriots. Washington III, History 2020
On November 20th 1979 a distinguished-looking 72 year old, a knight of the realm, a royal courtier for almost 30 years and one of the finest art historians in the world, was about to reveal another, more sinister side to his character: this was Sir Anthony Blunt, Russian secret agent, the spy inside Buckingham Palace. In a career of treachery spanning three decades, he gave away the Allies’ most precious wartime secret: the D-Day invasion plans. He seems to have had a mania for betrayal. But he claimed to be loyal at least to the British crown. He undertook secret missions for them: to smuggle art treasures and perhaps to smuggle documents which the House of Windsor had to keep secret. Queen Elizabeth and the Spy in the Palace, Channel 4 2021
‘He would never have become a spy had it not been for Burgess.’ ibid.
On this shore just after midnight on 7th December 1941 Japanese troops invaded the British colony of Malaysia. The Pacific War had begun. The Fall of Singapore: The Great Betrayal, BBC 2012
Japan’s crowning victory – the fall of Singapore, symbol of British power in the East. ibid.
It was the British who gave the Japanese the know-how to take out Pearl Harbor and capture Singapore ... through a mole who was a peer of the realm known to Churchill himself. ibid.
Within two years [William] Sempill and his military missionaries had given Japan’s naval air service a potentially world-wide reach. ibid.
Rutland’s paymasters then revealed they had a much more important job for him: they would increase his salary if he agreed how to show their pilots how to fly off and on to the decks of carriers. ibid.
Sempill was passing on a whole range of secret information. ibid.
MI5 was appalled by Sempill’s behaviour. ibid.
Japan now had the means to realise her imperial ambitions. She set her sights on South East Asia. The ultimate prize was Singapore. ibid.
Sempill maintained his secret links with the Japanese. ibid.
Sempill was never prosecuted. ibid.
Rutland was deported to Britain where he was interned for two years. ibid.
1963 January 11th: two MI6 agents met in Beirut. Their names were Nicholas Elliott and Kim Philby. Elliott secretly recorded the conversation. Ben Macintyre, Kim Philby – His Most Intimate Betrayal 1/2, BBC 2014
Kim Philby is the most famous double agent in history. But a quarter century after his death he has become a caricature, the gentleman master spy ... and a ruthless killer. He deceived everyone around him. ibid.
Philby had lived a double life for decades ... An extraordinary story of espionage, murder and intimate betrayal. ibid.
Philby like Elliott was now a member of the most exclusive club in the country. ibid.
The German Secret Service was dismantled and its leaders ousted. ibid.
A penetration agent in the Soviet interest. ibid.
Guy Burgess: a flamboyant homosexual with a streak of devilry who had also wormed his way into British Intelligence. And Donald Maclean ... at the Foreign Office. ibid.
The Cambridge Spy Film: Otto instructed Philby in the art of spy-craft. ibid.
MI6 set up a new section - Section 9 ... [Konstantin] Volkov also offered to identify a key Soviet spy inside British Intelligence. ibid.
Philby found the work fascinating, and so did Moscow. ibid.
Philby served his two masters with brutal efficiency. ibid.
Maclean was Homer ... The net was closing. ibid.
Burgess was also a friend of Donald Maclean. ibid.
If Philby was going to make his escape and join Burgess and Maclean in Soviet exile, now was his moment. ibid.
For more than fifteen years he had been feeding British and American secrets to Moscow causing the deaths of hundreds of people. Ben Macintyre, Kim Philby – His Most Intimate Betrayal 2/2
White was a veteran spy hunter – polite, relentless and completely ruthless. ibid.
Philby had often considered making a run for Moscow. ibid.
Why did Macmillan exonerate a man that MI5 believed was guilty? ibid.
That night Elliott sent a cable to London saying that his friend had finally broken. Philby’s career as a Soviet Spy was over. ibid.
One week after 9/11 an FBI special agent interviewed a prisoner in a New York city jail. Immediately after the terrorist attacks, authorities placed the prisoner in twenty-four-hour lockdown; for a week he’d been in total isolation with no access to TV, radio or newspapers … ‘What he laid out was the attack as if he knew every detail. It was just kind of eerie’ … The prisoner was this man [Ali Mohamed]. He was Osama bin Laden’s spy in America. He worked for and betrayed three arms of the US government. Bin Laden’s Spy in America, National Geographic 2021
Blunt, Cairncross, Maclean, Philby, Burgess: Would become known as the Cambridge Five. The were well-bred highly education members of Great Britain’s ruling elite. Between 1940 and 1951 they penetrated the highest ranks of Britain’s most important and secret political institutions. They played a secret game ... They were the most successful spy ring in history. Secrets of War: Espionage: The Cambridge Five
Maclean entered the Foreign Office … Burgess would be first Soviet spy to compromise the British Secret Service … Philby’s first assignment in the British Secret Service was in Section D [WWII Dirty Tricks] … It was John Cairncross who would give the Soviets some of the most important secrets of the War … ibid.
In Cairo Maclean finally fell apart. ibid.
By 1952 the spying activities of Burgess, Maclean and Cairncross had been revealed to the authorities. ibid.
The defection to the Soviet Union of Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean and the execution in America of Julius and Ethyl Rosenberg … show the cost of betrayal. Days that Shook the World s3e1: Cambridge Spy Ring, BBC 2005
25th May 1951: In 1931 whilst at University both met Kim Philby … It is the last time Donald Maclean will join the commuters to the City. ibid.
The scandal is immense and seriously damages relations with American Intelligence. ibid.
The Rosenberg trial has been one of the most sensational in American history. ibid.
1951 ... A ring of double-agents who are to become known as the Cambridge Five. Crimes that Shook Britain
Two British civil servants Donald Maclean and Guy Burgess suddenly disappeared ... As a member of the Intelligence Service Philby had access not only to secret British anti-Soviet operations but also covert CIA activities. ibid.
It took four decades for the rest of the Five to become known. ibid.
Betrayed: Was Scott’s Antarctic expedition sabotaged by one of its fellow explorers? … Scott’s quest ends in tragedy. Now, newly uncovered evidence suggests Scott and his team weren’t just battling the elements. Did betrayal end Britain’s race to the South Pole? Conspiracies Decoded s1e7, Discovery 2022