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Did anyone serve with him?
Mountaineer, soldier, spy and expedition doctor whose fascination with Arabia stemmed from his father’s school friend TE Lawrence
As cold war spread across the Middle East in the 1960s, Philip Horniblow became a natural candidate for government interest. A former soldier in the Parachute Regiment with an eye for clandestine operations, keenly fascinated by the Arab world and newly qualified as a doctor, he had sound credentials to be a spy for British interests. Time spent as a mountaineer in the Alps and Himalayas added to his image as someone who would have useful views and information about a complex and developing part of the world.
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Did anyone serve with him?
Mountaineer, soldier, spy and expedition doctor whose fascination with Arabia stemmed from his father’s school friend TE Lawrence
As cold war spread across the Middle East in the 1960s, Philip Horniblow became a natural candidate for government interest. A former soldier in the Parachute Regiment with an eye for clandestine operations, keenly fascinated by the Arab world and newly qualified as a doctor, he had sound credentials to be a spy for British interests. Time spent as a mountaineer in the Alps and Himalayas added to his image as someone who would have useful views and information about a complex and developing part of the world.
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