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A New TV Spy Drama Worthy of LeCarré

Ben Macintyre’s A Spy Among Friends has a dazzling US debut this Sunday

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A Spy Among Friends, a much anticipated six-part series debuting Sunday, March 12, is the brilliant, if sometimes embellished tale of the famed double agent and KGB mole, Kim Philby, and his defection to the Soviet Union in 1963, despite the efforts of his friend and fellow MI6 officer, Nicholas Elliott, to coax him back to Britain.

Frenemies Elliott and…

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