Having secured Kims first meeting with the Western press since his arrival in Moscow, Sayle says he finds him a courteous man [who] smiles a great deal, and his well-cut grey hair and ruddy complexion suggests vitality and enjoyment of life. He never promised to give up, but once, completely unexpectedly, he suddenly said, 'I'm afraid I'm going to lose you, I'm not going to drink any more.' While working as a senior member of British intelligence, he spied on behalf of the Soviet KGB and NKVD from the early 1930s until 1963, when he defected to Moscow. In the middle of the bookcase behind his desk, above his empty chair, just where Kims head would have rested, a single book looms out, cover first. Writing Edith and Kim alongside home schooling and everything else has been a big thing and I feel now is a good time to pause and reflect. Seconds later, were hurtling at break-neck speed out of the cemetery, along the motorway, the driver making various calls en route, each consisting of just a few short sentences, before turning into a different burial ground up the road, manned with armed guards. Given all that Melinda had gone through, the pity she had had to accept and the dissembling she had had to practise, that first meeting overseen by Soviet officials was a strained affair. Were you always aware that your family had this extraordinary history? Your email address will not be published. 1912Harold Adrian Russell Kim Philby is born on 1 January in Amballa, India, the son of Dora and St John. Two hours later, wind-battered and almost frozen solid, I finally arrive at the gates of the busy cemetery, where, hoping the guard might be able to point me in the right direction, I scrawl down my grandfathers name and the word Communist on an old tissue, and flash my driving licence. Prince Albert of Monaco is the first Euro monarch to confirm he and his wife Keep calm and carry on! "I tried everything to save him; after all, he was killing himself. In 1949 Kim Philby became SIS representative in Washington, as top British Secret Service officer working in liaison with the CIA and FBI. Two years later, a Sunday Times correspondent was in Moscow and about to pack his bags after an unsuccessful attempt to interview the Soviet leader, Nikita Khrushchev, when, out of the blue, he was invited to a room in his hotel. A plaque in his honour was unveiled by the head of the foreign intelligence service at its headquarters in Moscow in December. Eventually, Melinda went back to her home country, the U.S., bringing to an end nearly 40 years of endurance, loyalty and betrayal. The fight against Fascism and the fight against imperialism were fundamentally the same fight.. Aileen died in 1957, when Tommy was just 11 years old; his contact with his father was cut off as soon as the double spy defected to the USSR in January 1963. When author Charlotte Philby's partner ended their relationship, her world fell apart. The pair returned to England in May and, by this point already an appointed Soviet agent, Kim found work as a foreign correspondent. To support the Guardian and Observer order your copy at guardianbookshop.com. That summer, friends thought her distracted. Kims chair, on which no one else, under any circumstances, was ever allowed to sit while he was alive and for many years thereafter, Rufa adds remains just where it was, at the head of a low table. In this article for The Independent Magazine, I returned to Moscow to discover the truth about my grandfather, the infamous Third Man. Inside, however, the lift is as temperamental as it ever was, so I make the journey to his flat by foot, instantly recognising the strange studded-leather front door as I emerge from the stairwell. Kim Philby In Moscow: Not What He Wished For. After graduating from Washington University, she worked for the advertising agency J. Walter Thompson in San Francisco. Born in 1946, Dudley 'Tommy' Philby is the third of Kim's five children with his second of four wives, Aileen Furse Philby. Macleans outward calm in the face of exile was greatly bolstered by his wifes support. For one thing, like all the men in the Philby family, he was bloody-minded. Philby, though, began seeing Melinda on the side, confessing as much to his wife and saying that he was just trying to make [Melindas] life happier as she had been miserable for the last 15 years. He had friends, a wife; he indulged himself in a culture he loved the concerts, the ballet, the galleries; he travelled to Cuba, East Berlin, around the Soviet Union, and spent weekends at his beloved dacha. By the time she left Russia, Maclean was in his final decline, in and out of hospital with cancer from his lifetime of smoking. Shes a sympathetic character in the novel. Putting real historical characters into a novel is a minefield, especially those who existed within living memory. As I walk towards it, the title of the Anthony Trollope novel jumps out at me: He Knew He Was Right. His eldest son was my father, John - who was himself a 19-year-old art student in 1963 when he first learnt of Kim's espionage; stepping off a ferry on the Isle of Wight, he was met by a billboard stating that Kim was a wanted man. It had been a long time coming. In the living room, the same furs hang above the sofa, alongside a pair of Afghan guns a gift from the KGB colleague whom I spoke to earlier. 1949Made SIS representative in Washington. Philby died in the city in 1988, 25 years after defecting to the Soviet Union, where he was employed as an occasional consultant to the KGB helping to prepare spies for missions to the west. He would say we and our when speaking of the Soviet Union and defended his adopted countrys brutal crushing of the Hungarian Uprising in 1956 an event that disgusted many Left-wing supporters back in the UK. In the end despite having been what Allen Dulles (de facto head of the CIA from 1953 to 1961) once reluctantly described as the best spy Russia ever had Kim was watched over as much as looked after by his masters, and he was not used to his full potential. In the programme for his play Single Spies, the writer Alan Bennett printed a claim that my dad had turned up late to his own fathers funeral, straight from the airport, and stood swaying behind a gravestone clutching bags of booze. One of Kims old KGB comrades, whom Id been in contact with during the course of my research for this article, told me that a gang of five or six of Kims former colleagues still meet up every month and raise a toast in his honour. It seemed a fitting finale for such a notable spy. Born in India in 1912, Philby became a communist sympathiser after leaving Cambridge and began working as a KGB informer in the mid 1930s in London. I love those images of him as a real person; for me, thats where the clues as to who he really was can be found. The basic facts, after all, are well-documented. Aileen and the children also moved to America and the Philby's took a spacious, ramshackle two-storeyed place at 4100 Nebraska Avenue. But they were quasi-spy novels so I ended up talking about them in relation to his story anyway. Whatever you believe, Kim felt history would prove him right: Ill be remembered as a good man, he told my mum just two years before his death, Discussing the reasons for this in the introduction to Boroviks book, The Philby Files, the journalist and biographer Phillip Knightley who interviewed my grandfather at length during his final years in Moscow writes: Could the British intelligence service really be run by such fools that no one had noticed that precious information was leaking to Moscow? And if a soldier is fighting for a cause he believes in, which he believes is worth sacrificing single human lives for, but then in the end his side loses the war, does that mean that he was wrong to have stood up and fought in the first place? "I said something to the escort and he just stayed silent, sitting, leafing through his magazine. Part of the Daily Mail, The Mail on Sunday & Metro Media Group. Edith and Kim by Charlotte Philby is published by HarperCollins (14.99). Published by Charlotte Philby on 12th June 2018. A new TV series highlights the part played by the UK intelligence service's Nicholas Elliott in unmasking the 1960s Cambridge spy ring - events he recalled years later over lunch at his club Damian. Harold Adrian Russell "Kim" Philby (1 January 1912 - 11 May 1988) was a British intelligence officer who worked as a spy for the Soviet Union, before defecting in 1963. He became more optimistic once the family was deemed fully rehabilitated and they moved to Moscow in 1955. document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); The Philby case has always fascinated me. Without a word, he steps out in his long dark trench coat and buffed-leather shoes, opening the back door for me to follow. George Blake, who is still alive, got on well with him than with Philby. Philby was recruited, it reveals, because it was mistakenly believed that his father, St John, was a British intelligence officer. Takes charge of British intelligence in Spain and Portugal. He always knew what he was risking his family, his friends, his reputation and he made his choices accordingly. To see through to the end what he started? Im reminded of a brief phone conversation I had earlier this morning with one of Kims old KGB comrades, whom Id been in contact with during the course of my research for this article, who told me that a gang of five or six of Kims former colleagues still meet up every month and raise a toast in his honour. An Indian Civil Service officer turned Arabist and explorer, he spent 20 years travelling across the desert on camelback charting Saudis unexplored Empty Quarter, crossing paths with Lawrence of Arabia, and eventually marrying a slave-girl given to him by his friend King Ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia, to whom he spent many years as personal advisor. However, Pukhova said the fear that she would leave had helped her husband temper his intake in later years. In contrast to Blake, Philby and Burgess and to a less extent Maclean suffered from nostalgia for Britain. Today, standing at last at his final resting place, surrounded by ex-prime ministers and national heroes in an isolated cemetery on the outskirts of Moscow, with two perfect strangers looming behind me, Im once again reminded of quite how different he was. Cambridge-educated Nicholas Elliott and Kim Philby became close friends in 1940, when they were both working in separate departments of the British Intelligence . My second novel is The Times' Book of the Month for July 2020, Chapman Pincher: The Spy-Catcher of Fleet Street, Edith Tudor-Hart: The grandmother of the Cambridge Spies, John le Carr: The writer who made me want to write, ELLE: An unexpected friendship with the other woman. In Spain, reports the Civil War from General Francos side, and is awarded the Red Cross of Military Merit by Franco. In his lifetime, Kim married four times, and had five children by his second wife Aileen Furse. Given a heros burial in Moscows Kuntsevo Cemetery. He believed in freedom of speech and thought that Stalinism and all that were temporary and obviously, the outcome proved otherwise. She flew to New York to see her daughter Annie, and it was there that several letters arrived from Philby. He was previously married to Rufina Ivanovna Pukhova, Eleanor Brewer, Aileen Furse and Litzi Friedmann. Kim Philby with partner Melinda Maclean (who later returned to her husband and fellow spy, Donald Maclean) walk in the woods outside Moscow in the 1960's, photographed by his son John, Donald Maclean pictured in 1937 whilst on a skiing holiday - he fled to Moscow to escape arrest in Britain as the spy who, for 15 years, had passed state secrets to the Soviet Union, Melinda Maclean and her sons in their last European home in Geneva 1953 -she was slight with curly, dark hair, 'an under-educated, attractive woman who was both affectionate and popular'. Many times Ive pored over images of the tall, polished tombstone with the Cyrillic script, and the image of his face etched on its surface, in newspaper cuttings and family photos. Kim Philby, British intelligence officer and member of the Cambridge Five, defected to the Soviet Union in 1963. His cover story was that he was a political migr, a trade union leader persecuted in England for his political views. . But it wasnt true. To order A Spy Among Friends or Kim Philby, each at 14.99 with free UK p&p, call Guardian book service on 0330 333 6846 or go to guardianbookshop.co.uk. Harold Adrian Russell " Kim " Philby ORB, OL ODN (1 January 1912 - 11 May 1988) [1] was a British intelligence officer and a double agent for the Soviet Union. We walk on in silence; the others hold back, bowing their heads, as I take my place in front of another plot a few feet away. There, he volunteered for the refugee committee, fundraising, secretly writing and disseminating propaganda, raising funds and distributing clothes and money to those whod escaped Fascist Germany. But more importantly, every decision he made was done consciously. Laying flowers at my grandfather's grave. Melinda fitted the bill. But no matter; allowing myself plenty of time to get lost, Im soon heading towards the apartment where my grandfather lived out the final 25 years of his life under the watchful eye of Moscow and where his widow Rufa is currently preparing an enormous spread for our afternoon tea. The colourful characters of spymaster Gertrude Bell (the first female officer in the British Army), the legendary "Lawrence of Arabia," and the astute traitor St. John Philby (father of the notorious KGB double-spy Kim Philby) are all so dynamic that their heroics are hard to believe, but nevertheless true and soundly researched by a perceptive . The comments below have not been moderated. When her brother-in-law, Alan Maclean, asked her whether she would join Donald if she knew for sure that he was behind the Iron Curtain, she gave a firm No. And this was the line Melinda presented to MI5 after his defection with fellow mole Guy Burgess: she had been every bit as duped as theyd been. The Second Woman: Best new fiction, Mail on Sunday. He travelled extensively, while also making his way up the ranks of the British intelligence services by 1944, Kim was appointed head of a newly formed anti-Soviet section, and was later sent to Washington where, as the top Secret Intelligence Service representative, he worked for several years in liaison with the CIA and FBI. The Macleans lived well, housed in a smart building overlooking the river, in a splendid six-room flat which they gradually filled with bric--brac and furniture shipped from home. Amnesia in Literature and Film He got himself a job teaching English in a school. Kim was not nave; he knew that his ideal, like any other, was susceptible to corruption. Spy Among Friends : Philby and the Great Betrayal, Paperback by MacIntyre, Ben, ISBN 1408851784, ISBN-13 9781408851784, Brand New, Free shipping in the US<br><br> I think part of the appeal of writing this book was trying to reconcile the ways in which Ive come to understand him: as a grandfather; a father; a friend; a traitor; an idealist. 23. Kim Philby was born on January 1, 1912 in Ambala, Punjab, British India [now Haryana, India]. Her mood changed, though, with Stalins death in March 1953 and the prospect that the Soviet Union might now become a more open place. 1951Tips off fellow Cambridge Spy Donald Maclean that a warrant has been issued for his arrest. Elliott was born in London, the son of Claude Aurelius Elliott, a don at Cambridge and Headmaster at Eton, where Nicholas was sent after Durnford School, a prep school on the Isle of Purbeck in Dorset.. After leaving Trinity College, Cambridge, Elliott was offered a post in 1938 as Honorary Attache at the Hague by Sir Nevile Bland.His career in secret intelligence came by chance . But believe me I did the right thing and dont regret it, she wrote, aware of those who might read her letters on both sides of the Iron Curtain. I turn left, according to my map, away from Kims local grocery, where a creature of habit hed collect his daily supply of bread and whatever fruit and vegetables were available. Her fourth novel, Edith and Kim, tells the linked stories of her grandfather and Edith Tudor-Hart, a Jewish photojournalist born in Vienna, who studied at the Bauhaus, married an Englishman,. 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The kitchen where he would ritualistically make his daily breakfast of bacon, eggs and toast (another English habit he never broke), and spent hours cooking every evening, is now rich with the smell of the savoury pancakes Rufa is preparing for our five-hour feast. She sensed that the Macleans marriage was a difficult one again, with Donald on occasion still getting hopelessly drunk. In 1951, Kim tipped off his fellow Cambridge spy Donald Maclean that Britain had caught wind of Macleans spying activities and a warrant had been issued for his arrest. She was a horsey product of the. By JOSEPH FITSANAKIS | intelNews.org | She would be his silent witness for all the difficult years ahead. Kim was appointed head of a newly formed anti-Soviet section, and as the top Secret Intelligence Service representative, worked for several years in liaison with the CIA and FBI all along handing information straight back into the hands of the Russians. Chicago-born Melinda, whom he married in France in 1940, knew all along that Donald was a spy. On one occasion, when dropping us off at the airport, Kim and my dad were so sloshed they were shoved into a cupboard under the stairs with a bottle of vodka by staff to keep them quiet, while the British ambassador ambled around the main terminal building waiting for the same flight to London. But so it was. Published: 00:50 GMT, 17 April 2018 | Updated: 14:46 GMT, 17 April 2018, For 15 years, British diplomat Donald Maclean was passing state secrets to his KGB masters. Kim Philby was probably the most successful double spy in history. Charlotte Philby, daughter of John Philby, H.A.R. Required fields are marked *. He was 65. In her article, published yesterday in British daily The Independent, she describes Kim Philby as "a proud man, and one who chose to publicly stand by his actions". It was seeing those photos as a six-year-old child which helped first alert me to the fact that there was something a bit different about grandpa Kimsky. kims flat is several floors up, in an apartment block not far from Pushkin Square, marked out from the rest by a tiny balcony. For some, details like this have fuelled the question of whether arriving for the first time ever in the country for which hed sacrificed everything, which was supposed to represent everything hed fought for, and where he would live out the rest of his days in exile he became disillusioned and embittered, and longed instead for the land hed betrayed. Banner-waving XR zealots let off smoke flares, pour black paint outside Home Office British tennis fans are kicked out for chanting 'You're just a s*** Andy Murray' during Cameron Norrie's Farmer, 71, who appeared on BBC documentary This Farming Life is killed by one of his own cows. Ive recorded a podcast with the BBC that will be announced later this year, and my husband and I have bought an old pub that we want to turn into a creative space to make available to charities and people who wouldnt otherwise have access to that, so thats an ongoing project. Melinda Maclean. They lived together for three years, until a younger woman caught the philandering Philbys eye. Im conscious that his story belongs to different people in different ways, within our family and also more widely. So, too, have I seen images of his cold body decorated with medals in an open coffin, armed guards at either side, as the lavish funeral procession made its way through Kuntsevo Cemetery to this very spot. It was a miracle. I feel as if I have been through some form of therapy, Ive purged these questions in a way. In the capital, he became a magazine correspondent, then a teacher and analyst in a research institute for foreign and economic affairs. Getty Images In the USSR, Philby essentially became an honorary pensioner: he passed on to Soviet intelligence everything he. We got together in our cabin to discuss our plans. Later, I notice the same sign above a statue of Lenin near the former KGB headquarters. Then, with no more information to be had, the story of the Macleans went dead. In fact, he had arrived in Moscow days earlier, and can be seen on film standing just back from his fathers coffin. But more generally womens roles in espionage have been sidelined, and I wonder if thats because a lot of this history has been recorded by men. As Kims former KGB colleague also reiterated on the phone: Kim was a Communist idealist. Kim Philby, byname of Harold Adrian Russell Philby, (born January 1, 1912, Ambala, Indiadied May 11, 1988, Moscow, Russia, U.S.S.R.), British intelligence officer until 1951 and the most successful Soviet double agent of the Cold War period. Some could never quite come to terms that he was a traitor. They're at it again! To the very end, as I find out when I set foot into his flat, Kim surrounded himself with things pertaining to British culture and life on the other side of the Iron Curtain: from PG Wodehouse novels to the Indian spices he used for his legendary curries. She cashed a substantial cheque, bought her toddler daughter some new clothes and settled an outstanding garage bill. Eleanor Kearns was born in Seattle in 1914. Mid-morning, wrapped against the cold in Kims old bear hat and a matching coat (its too cold here for animal rights), I set off from my hotel with a map and enough money for the metro and taxi Ill need to take me from the station to the cemetery off the Mozhaisk highway. He worked as a journalist until 1940, when Guy . Primary Sources. Your email address will not be published. Was that a selfish decision? Standing on the balcony, you can see the same school playground, where children in heavy ski jackets are involved in a timeless game launching themselves from the top of a flight of concrete stairs to the ground below, cushioned with thick blankets of snow. John Philby, who has died aged 65, was the eldest son of the Russian spy Kim Philby, unmasked in 1963 as a double agent and the notorious Third Man in the Cambridge spy ring of the 1930s. In those days, correspondence had to be sent to a PO Box; and in his reply, Kim would sign off under a special code name, Panina (a combination of Pa and Nina, the alias used for Kims wife). Donald is well and happy to be with his family again. Delivery charges may apply, Kim Philby: I got away with treachery because I was upper class, Original reporting and incisive analysis, direct from the Guardian every morning, Charlotte Philby: We visited Kim in Moscow, Charlotte Philby at her home in Bristol: Im trying to reconnect with what made me fall in love with books and the process of writing., harlotte Philby, 39, is a former investigative reporter and the author of three critically acclaimed spy novels. Exposure showed me along with William Boyds Restless how you can write a novel that is ostensibly a spy story but is really about the people, and the families, at the heart of a great betrayal. The gramophone, in front of which Kim would take a seat to listen to the World Service at 7pm every evening with a cup of coffee, makes a tremendous groan as it comes to life, but its still very much in working nick. Philby had defected to the Soviet Union from Beirut in 1963, and was treated with respect, but felt isolated. But whether that came with any sense of self-pity is something else entirely. "Kim said to me, 'I came here totally fully of information, I wanted to give everything I had but no one was interested," explained Pukhova. Kim Philby and Nicholas Elliott. A large amount of the letters in the book are lifted verbatim from those. The only change I can note is a computer on his desk where an old type-writer once stood. Doubtless Jeremiah faced similar problems.. With his brilliant mind and First from Cambridge, Maclean could bask in being the superior intellect to an under-educated, attractive woman who was both affectionate and popular, where he was withdrawn, giving nothing of himself away. He wasnt one to care what others thought: Never be boring, and dont be afraid of offending people was one of the last things he told me before he died. After Donald Maclean fled to Moscow to escape arrest in Britain as the spy who, for 15 years, had passed state secrets to the Soviet Union, friends of his wife, Melinda, found it easy to believe that she knew nothing of her husbands treachery. Eleanor found Melinda amusing but nervous and highly strung and yearning for the luxuries of Western capitalism. In 1963 he was revealed to be a member of the Cambridge Five, a spy ring which had divulged British secrets to the Soviets during World War II and in the early stages of the Cold War. But out of a smaller window, in front of the door, the view of Moscow is interrupted by a throbbing neon Samsung advert. Life is good here in every way.. Men with erectile dysfunction who take Viagra are 25% less likely to Money saving guru Martin Lewis reveals easy FIRST step to clearing thousands of pounds in debt. To order a copy for 15, visit mailshop.co.uk/ books or call 0844 571 0640. As previously noted, this has been taken as a sign along with his heavy drinking that in the end, Kim was left a broken man, disillusioned and dejected, having arrived in Moscow expecting to be given important assignments and a high-ranking role in the KGB, only to be left with very little to do, and plied with booze to keep him compliant. St John, who had joined the British Foreign Service in 1917, when his only son was five years old, was also a non-conformist. "Kim" Philby's oldest son, has penned an extensive account of her memories of her grandfather. He feared that she would dump him because he was just a boring official in the British diplomatic service so to make myself look better and more important, I told her the reason why I led such a life. Why British spy Donald Maclean's wife dumped him and their three children for fellow traitor Kim Philby The Maclean's marriage was stormy, with rows, infidelity and bad bahaviour Friends. There, a tall man in a blue suit and red bow-tie held out his hand and said: I am Donald Maclean. With him in the room was Guy Burgess. At one stage, in the programme for his play Single Spies, the writer Alan Bennett printed a claim that my dad John had turned up late to his own fathers funeral, straight from the airport, and stood swaying behind a gravestone clutching bags of booze. Regardless of what I think of her ideology, I greatly admire the fact that she was able to hold these various parts of her life being a photographer, being a single mother alongside being a revolutionary, feeling that she could change the world. JOHN Philby, the eldest son of Soviet spy Kim Philby, who was a double agent and the notorious Third Man in the Cambridge spy ring of the 1930s, has died in England. I am a private person and a political person. 21 offers from $10.67. He went on to serve the KGB for 54 years. Online calculator reveals how inflation-busting 14.4% hike will Do not sell or share my personal information. Here, surrounded by an extensive library, he would sit for hours. She hoped Donald would now find a way of getting in touch with her. Part of the Family and A Double Life are available now. 1963Disappears in Beirut on 23 January. Melinda, it turned out, had driven to Lausanne, where tickets were waiting and luggage had been left in a station locker. Is it time Harry & Meghan accept Clarkson's apology and move on? Lese Part of the Family gratis von Charlotte Philby Verfgbar als Hrbuch Jetzt 14 Tage gratis testen. But the place where Kims presence looms largest from every corner is in his study. That he could carry on a secret life without her being aware, while at the same time working his way up the ranks of the British Foreign Office, seemed perfectly possible. The reporter adds that Kim demonstrated an iron head for drink during the course of their subsequent meetings, which took place over a series of long, boozy meals: I could detect no change in his alertness or joviality as the waiter arrived with relays of 300 grams of vodka or 600 grams of Armenian brandy. Like my father, Kim had amazing stamina for drink; the pair of them would knock it back over games of chess at the flat in Moscow (while I ran around wreaking havoc in the living room) and on the long trips to Siberia and Bulgaria they took together. He didnt seem to mind that their marriage was over. In his diary for the London Review of Books, Bennett wrote: Philby does seem to have been responsible for the betrayal and presumed torture and death of a network of agents in a way thats never been proved of Blunt. When I happened upon the story of Edith Tudor-Hart, I knew that she was the person I had to write about. Kim Philby, the most successful of the Cambridge spies, tried to drink himself to death in Moscow because he was disillusioned with communism and tortured by his own failings, his last wife has said in an interview. 1957Aileen Furse, Philbys second wife, dies. Was he wrong to have continued on the Communist path once so many others had stepped off? Of course, if there is a conflict, the political person comes first.. The pair got on well in those later years they were very similar in many ways and my father said he never felt any resentment, not even when he unfairly came under fire by virtue of his name. But as the author Graham Greene my grandfathers close friend and a fellow British intelligence officer, who worked under him at MI6 wrote in the introduction to Kims autobiography, My Silent War: The end, of course, in his eyes is held to justify the means, but this is a view taken, perhaps less openly, by most men involved in politics, if we are to judge them by their actions, whether the politician be a Disraeli or a Wilson. carta de amor para mi novio que esta lejos, why did michael gove change his name, which president gold dollars are worth money, chris horton barbridge, butler university president daughter pics, steve wilkos updates, city of elgin staff directory, journal entries for subscription, hydro dipping hertfordshire, chocolate island 4 secret exit, joe and esther ripa, juan pablo medina khloe eliza smith, xgboost time series forecasting python github, knox blox for dogs, francesco toldo figlia bianca, Of John Philby, British India [ now Haryana, India, the Mail on Sunday reputation and he his! 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