Source: (Re)Imagining Liberty
by Aaron Ross Powell
“Kim Philby is arguably history’s greatest spy. He spent World War II and the Cold War rising through the ranks of MI6, Britain’s foreign intelligence service, including holding the role of head of counter-Soviet intelligence. At the same time, he was a double agent for the Soviet Union …. In retrospect, it’s amazing he got away with it. All the signs were there. Throughout his career, long before he was found out and fled to live his twilight years in Moscow, plenty of people had their suspicions. … MI6 downplayed their concerns, in part because the foreign intelligence service drew its members from England’s elite, while MI5 was more working class. MI6 thus didn’t heed the warnings because they had a class-conscious urge to protect their own, especially when their own were the target of criticisms and accusations by those of lower status.” (10/15/24)
https://www.reimaginingliberty.com/the-elite-protect-their-own/