My Cambridge comrades: I was the KGB handler for Philby

My Cambridge Mates: I was Philby's KGB case officer. Condition: "Very good condition"

Editions Robert Laffont 1994

Philby, Burgess, Maclean, Blunt, Cairncross. There have been many books by historians, especially English and American, on these famous British agents of the Second World War and the Cold War. But for the first time, we have the direct account, the memoirs of the KGB officer who was their "handler". During the war, he received and processed in Moscow the information that his "Cambridge comrades" sent him from England: thanks to Cairncross, Stalin learned of the plans for a new German tank and of the preparations for the German offensive on Kursk - which caused the first Nazi military debacle. In 1948, Modin, who had settled in London, got these agents to return to service. Even Blunt, who was very close to the royal family and was the future artistic advisor to the Queen. Thus, in April 1950, Stalin learned, thanks to Burgess, that London and Washington were not considering intervention in Korea. Maclean, in Washington, has a pass to enter the offices of the Atomic Energy Agency: all Anglo-American mail about the bomb ends up at the Lubyanka! The story of the flight of Burgess, Maclean and Philby to Moscow when the network is discovered, evokes the novels of John le Carré. The flight of Maclean's wife and daughter, organized by Modine, is even more incredible. We will finally know everything about the life and death of those English spies who chose to live in Moscow. The story is told here from the Russian side, seen and experienced by Modine. This is what makes this document original and exceptional.