Kim Philby, one of Britain’s most notorious traitors, admitted he had no regrets about betraying his country – only about any mistakes he might have made along the way.
Speaking as if from beyond the grave - his voice recorded during a talk he gave for KGB officers in 1977, 14 years after defecting to the Soviet Union – Philby is heard saying: “There is an awful lot of work for us to do it seems. I have no regrets whatsoever about the past, just the mistakes I made doing it.”
Quoting the Russian revolutionary Felix Dzerzhinsky - founder of the KGB's forerunner the Cheka - Philby closes his speech in Russian by saying: “If I had a chance I would do it all again. I would do it exactly the same way.”
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