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Harold Adrian Russell "Kim" Philby (1 January 1912 – 11 May 1988) was a British intelligence officer and a spy for the Soviet Union. 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. Of the five, Philby is ...
- British, Soviet
- Westminster School
Dec 30, 2020 · Fears that the double agent Kim Philby was being exploited by the KGB prompted a government campaign to minimise political embarrassment and prevent his memoirs being published, according to ...
4 days ago · Kim Philby (born January 1, 1912, Ambala, India—died May 11, 1988, Moscow, Russia, U.S.S.R.) was a British intelligence officer until 1951 and the most successful Soviet double agent of the Cold War period.
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Nov 18, 2013 · Fifty years ago one of Britain's most infamous spies, Kim Philby, defected to the Soviet Union. The unresolved questions surrounding his defection reveal blind spots in the British ruling class...
Dec 31, 2022 · He gave me the slip’: what an MI6 spy told me over lunch. A new TV series highlights the part played by the UK intelligence service’s Nicholas Elliott in unmasking the 1960s Cambridge spy ring ...
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Mar 24, 2022 · The double-agent’s granddaughter, Charlotte Philby, on the correspondence of a man who betrayed his country but cared deeply about the family he left behind. Kim Philby with his granddaughter...
Apr 4, 2016 · Kim Philby, Britain’s most notorious cold war traitor, told an audience of East German spies after his defection that he was able to avoid being rumbled for so long because he had been “born ...
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