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Kim Philby was born in Ambala, Punjab, British India, to author and explorer St John Philby and his wife, Dora Johnston. [5] A member of the Indian Civil Service (ICS) at the time of Philby's birth, St John later became a civil servant in Mesopotamia and advisor to King Ibn Sa'ud of Saudi Arabia.
Alice Friedmann (née Kohlmann; 1910–1991), known as Litzi Friedmann, was an Austrian communist who was the first wife of Kim Philby, a member of the Cambridge Five. [1] Records identify her as the Soviet agent with the code name Mary. [2] [3]
His only son by his first wife, Dora Johnston, was Kim Philby, who became known worldwide as a double agent for the Soviet Union who defected in 1963. [4] Khaled Philby, one of his three sons with his second wife, is the former United Nations Resident Coordinator (equivalent to an ambassador) in, among others, Kuwait and Turkmenistan.
Philby and Blunt were, along with Guy Burgess, Donald Maclean and John Cairncross, part of the "Ring of Five" - former Cambridge University students who passed information to the Soviets from the ...
John Nicholas Rede Elliott (15 November 1916 – 13 April 1994) was an MI6 intelligence officer. His MI6 career was notable for his involvement with the Lionel Crabb affair in the 1950s and the flight of double agent Kim Philby to Moscow in 1963.
Along with Guy Burgess, Donald Maclean and John Cairncross, ... ‘Enigma’ Kim Philby baffled MI5 agents. Soviet spy Kim Philby was an ‘enigma’ to a top MI5 interrogator, who admitted he ...
Actor Guy Pearce takes on the role of British intelligence officer and Soviet double agent Kim Philby, who defected in 1963. But did Philby really want to defect—or did he have no choice? Pearce ...
John Cairncross (25 July 1913 – 8 October 1995) was a British civil servant who became an intelligence officer and spy during the Second World War. As a Soviet double agent , he passed to the Soviet Union the raw Tunny decryptions that may have influenced the Battle of Kursk .