The Crusade of the Volkov Affair

Burgess shrugs, drunkenly fumbles for a cigarette. It's done now. You're safe. He's dead. Philby feels his mouth slacking. Dead? I thought they'd question him, send him to a camp somewhere. Burgess sneers. You thought Stalin might give him a ticking off. They put him and his wife on a medical flight to Moscow,. interrogated them until they broke, then shocked both of them.Philby stares at him in horror, wonders how he could have been so naive. Fast forward ten years, fundamentally, what they got involved with has completely changed. Yes, this brutality was not what they were talking about when they were recruited all