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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 ...
Jul 17, 2024 · Kim Philby, British intelligence officer until 1951 and the most successful Soviet double agent of the Cold War period. He was apparently responsible for the deaths of many Western agents whose activities he betrayed to the Soviets during the 1940s and early ’50s.
1 day ago · Kim Philby, who was recruited by the KGB in the 1930s as part of the infamous Cambridge spy ring, had risen to become a senior officer in MI6 before coming under suspicion in the 1950s.
Nov 18, 2013 · Fifty years after Kim Philby defected to the Soviet Union, a BBC documentary looks at the blind spots in the British ruling class that made it so vulnerable to KGB penetration.
Apr 4, 2016 · LONDON — Kim Philby, the double agent whose betrayal of his country to the Soviet Union still marks British life, boasted in a 1981 lecture that was recently discovered by the BBC and broadcast...
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...
Jul 27, 2014 · Kim Philby rose through the ranks of British intelligence. There was even talk of him becoming head of MI6. He was loved and admired by his colleagues, and he was a Soviet agent.
Dec 14, 2022 · A six-episode series based on Mr Macintyre’s book has now been released on Britain’s new streaming service, ITVX. Starring Guy Pearce as Philby and Damian Lewis as Elliott, “A Spy Among ...
Oct 1, 2017 · A flurry of tributes to Kim Philby, the British spy who defected to Moscow, signals the growing influence of Russia’s military and security services.
Aug 28, 2011 · Cambridge spy Kim Philby betrayed his country because he loved power, believed in an ideal and thought history was on his side, writes John Gray.
