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Kim Philby
Harold Adrian Russell "Kim" Philby was a British intelligence officer and a double agent for the Soviet Union. In 1963, he was revealed to be a member of the Cambridge Five, a spy ring that 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 widely considered to have been the most successful in providing secret information…
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culture · British intelligence officer and Soviet double agent (1912–1988) · spy · journalist · opinion journalist · intelligence officer · also Kim Philby, Harold Adrian Russell "Kim" Philby, Harold Adrian Russell Philby, Sohnchen, Sonny, Stanley
Born 1 January 1912 · Died 11 May 1988 · Q296313
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2026· 3 entries
“We were a generation brought up on adventure who had missed the enormous disillusion of the first world war, and so we went looking for adventure.”
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The Guardian: The Writer and the Traitor by Robert Verkaik review – the strange case of Graham Greene and Kim Philby
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2025· 2 entries
The Guardian: ‘A clever agent’: notes from ‘watchers’ of spy Kim Philby made public for first time
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The Guardian: Philby had to choose ‘between suicide and prosecution’ before 1963 defection
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2024· 1 entry
The Guardian: British Library wanted to buy archive of double agent Kim Philby from his widow
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2023· 2 entries
Yahoo: From a real-life spy to Kim Philby’s granddaughter: who will be the next le Carré?
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AOL: 'A Spy Among Friends' Seeks to Understand Kim Philby's Defection to the Soviet Union
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2022· 3 entries
The Guardian: ‘I did not let Kim Philby go. He gave me the slip’: what an MI6 spy told me over lunch
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The Economist: “A Spy Among Friends” dramatises the treachery of Kim Philby
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The Guardian: MI5 missed early chance to expose Soviet agent Kim Philby, files reveal
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2021· 3 entries
The Guardian: Love and Deception: Philby in Beirut by James Hanning review – the spy who loved, maybe
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The Guardian: A Splinter of Ice review – Graham Greene and Kim Philby clink glasses
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The Guardian: Graham Greene’s showdown with Soviet spy Kim Philby: A Splinter of Ice review
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2020· 2 entries
The Guardian: Kim Philby: new revelations about spy emerge in secret files
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Moviefone: Kim Philby His Most Intimate Betrayal
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2018· 2 entries
The Guardian: Moscow names square after British double agent Kim Philby
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The Guardian: A thriller of spies and betrayal: by Kim Philby’s granddaughter
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2014· 1 entry
Rotten Tomatoes: Kim Philby: His Most Intimate Betrayal – Season 1, Episode 1
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2013· 1 entry
Moviefone: Kim Philby - His Most Intimate Betrayal - Season 1 (2014)
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1988· 1 entry
Died 1988-05-11.
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1971· 1 entry
Philby married Rufina Pukhova, a 39-year-old Russo-Polish woman, with whom he lived until his death on 11 May 1988, aged 76, in Moscow
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1968· 1 entry
Under the title My Silent War; they were not published in the Soviet Union until 1980
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1967· 1 entry
When he granted an interview to Murray Sayle of The Times in Moscow
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1963· 2 entries
“I came here totally fully of information, I wanted to give everything I had but no one was interested,”
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Was revealed to be a member of the Cambridge Five, a spy ring that had divulged British secrets to the Soviets during World War II and in the early stages of the Cold War
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1961· 1 entry
Anatoliy Golitsyn, a major in the First Chief Directorate of the KGB, defected to the United States from his diplomatic post in Helsinki
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1957· 1 entry
And Eleanor's subsequent divorce from Brewer, the two were married in London in 1959 and set up house together in Beirut
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1956· 1 entry
Philby began an affair with Eleanor Brewer, the wife of New York Times correspondent Sam Pope Brewer
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1949· 1 entry
Philby was appointed first secretary to the British Embassy in Washington and served as chief British liaison with American intelligence agencies
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1948· 1 entry
Troubled by Philby's heavy drinking and frequent depressions and his life in Istanbul, she experienced a breakdown, staging an accident and injecting herself with urine and insulin to cause skin disfigurations
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1946· 4 entries
Awarded Officer of the Order of the British Empire (1946).
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In 1946, Philby arranged a divorce from Litzi.
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Following the end of the Second World War
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Philby arranged a divorce from Litzi
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1940· 5 entries
Where she was living at the time, Philby arranged for Friedmann's escape to Britain
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On the recommendation of Burgess, Philby joined MI6's Section D, a secret organisation charged with investigating how enemies might be attacked through non-military means
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Was interviewed by MI5 officers in London, led by Jane Archer
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Philby began living with Aileen Furse in London
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Began working for the United Kingdom's Secret Intelligence Service (SIS or MI6)
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1938· 2 entries
Awarded Cross of Military Merit with Red Decoration (1938).
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Walter Krivitsky (born Samuel Ginsberg), a former GRU officer in Paris who had defected to France the previous year, travelled to the United States and published an account of his time in "Stalin's secret service"
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1936· 1 entry
Philby began working at a failing trade magazine, the Anglo-Russian Trade Gazette, as editor
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1912· 1 entry
Born 1912-01-01.
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