Harold Adrian Russell "Kim" Philby (1 January 1912 – 11 May 1988) [2] [3] 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 ...

Jan 15, 2025 · 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.

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...

Kim Philby, as depicted on a Soviet Union stamp. The Cambridge Five was a ring of spies in the United Kingdom that passed information to the Soviet Union during the Second World War and the Cold War and was active from the 1930s until at least the early 1950s. None of the known members were ever prosecuted for spying.

Extracts of Kim Philby’s confession, dated January 11, 1963, and headed ‘Secret’, were finally released - but only in part - more than 50 years later. Britain’s most treacherous spy Harold ‘Kim’ Philby was 22 when he met his Soviet handler for the first time in London’s Regent’s Park.

Harold Adrian Russell "Kim" Philby (1 January 1912 – 11 May 1988) was a British intelligence officer who worked as a spy for the Soviet Union, before defecting in 1963. [ 1 ] Philby began his work for the Soviet Union as a spy in 1934.

Jan 14, 2025 · Kim Philby was the quintessential spy, a man who charmed and betrayed in equal measure. To his colleagues in MI6, he was the consummate professional, rising swiftly through the...

Englishman Kim Philby worked for Britain’s Secret Intelligence Service, and for 10 years was head of the department devoted to countering Soviet espionage.

Apr 3, 2016 · A previously unseen video of infamous double agent Kim Philby describing his career as a Soviet spy is uncovered by the BBC.

The son of a British diplomat, Kim Philby embraced communism as a Cambridge student in the early 1930s. His connections put him on the radar of a Soviet spymaster named Arnold Deutsch, who instructed him to break off contact with his communist friends in …