![]() You can judge such a spy only by his performance. You cannot take the measure of a man under these circumstances. Modin told Philby that "his position was becoming increasingly endangered through an intensification of the Security Service's inquiries about him." (1)Īt first Modin feared that Philby was still working in the interests of British intelligence: "He (Philby) was so completely, psychologically and physically, the British intelligence officer that I could never quite accept that he was one of us, a Marxist in the clandestine service of the Soviet Union." (2) Modin was told by Moscow to be very careful with him: "We were forbidden to eat with him, or drink with him, or sit in armchairs together. ![]() Modin joined the NKVD and in 1947 he was sent to London and became the main contact of Kim Philby, Donald Maclean, Guy Burgess, Anthony Blunt and John Cairncross. Yuri Modin was born in Russia on 8th November, 1922. ![]()
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