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Rachel Hagan

MYSTERIOUS: Cold war double agent kim philby s moscow archive offered to british library for 68 000 - You Need To See This

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The British Library attempted to purchase a notorious Cold War double agent’s archive in a deal worth tens of thousands of pounds to his widow, documents have revealed.

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