The name of Kim Philby is rightfully on a par with the glorious names of such Soviet intelligence officers as Rudolf Ivanovich Abel, Konon Trofimovich Molody, Nikolai Ivanovich Kuznetsov, Lev Efimovich Manevich, Richard Sorge, whose highest courage, ideological conviction, heightened responsibility for the entrusted business are legendary. Scouts, like soldiers, are not born - they become them. And all of the above became them, although everyone went into reconnaissance in their own way and their fates developed differently.