A Ruthless MI6 Traitor Ruined the Life of His Closest Colleague
by Ben Macintyre | The Times | December 5, 2022
One winter morning a decade ago, I took a walk on Hampstead Heath with my friend David Cornwell, better known as the novelist John le Carré. I was suffering from what David called “post publicatio tristis”, the strange melancholy that descends after you have published a book and wonder if you will ever write another.
“What is the best unwritten story of the Cold War?” I asked him, blatantly fishing for inspiration.
Without hesitation he replied: “The relationship between Kim Philby and Nicholas Elliott.” I knew of Philby, of course, the notorious KGB spy, but I had never heard of Elliott.<
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