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Stuff You Should Know

Kim Philby: Greatest Liar of All Time?

Stuff You Should Know

iHeartPodcasts

Society & Culture

4.679.3K Ratings

🗓️ 15 April 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

British MI6 agent Kim Philby was a spy for the Soviet Union and one of the great liars in human history, right up until his retirement in Moscow where he lived out his days as a national hero.

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0:00.0

Welcome to Stuff You Should Know, a production of IHeart Radio.

0:09.0

Hey, and welcome into the podcast. I'm Josh, and there's Chuck and Jerry's here too, and this is the podcast, as just mentioned.

0:17.8

We call it Stuff You Should Know. And by the way, we should say to any new listeners,

0:22.6

we're not saying you should already know this stuff. So don't be hostile toward us about that.

0:27.8

We're saying we think you should know this because it's so interesting. We want to tell you

0:31.6

about it. Yeah, we could have changed the name of the show to things that you might find interesting,

0:36.7

but then again, you might not as well.

0:38.2

But that doesn't have a ring.

0:39.7

Yeah.

0:40.0

There's no implied dummy in the title of our podcast.

0:43.9

Okay.

0:44.2

No, no, no.

0:45.1

We're the dummies.

0:47.8

So I'll tell you somebody who wasn't a dummy as far as it comes to being a world-class liar.

0:53.8

Maybe England's greatest liar ever.

0:57.4

It was a spy from the World War II beginning early Cold War era named Harold Kim Filby.

1:08.0

And if that name rings a bell, we'll just sit back and enjoy this episode on a British

1:13.9

spy. If you don't know who Kim Filby is, sit back and enjoy this episode on a British spy.

1:21.1

Your voice is going up like you were going to say something else. Is that it? I just wanted

1:24.8

to replicate it perfectly. So big thanks to Dave who

1:28.5

helped us with this, but Dave also wanted us to shout out, and we want to shout out a book by

1:32.5

Ben McIntyre, A Spy Among Friends, Colin Kim Philby, and The Great Betrayal. And also, a mini-series

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