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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]
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.
Rufina Ivanovna Pukhova (Russian: Руфина Ивановна Пухова; 1 September 1932 – 17 May 2021 [1]) was a Russian memoir writer.She was the last wife of Kim Philby, [2] a KGB double agent who rose in rank through British Intelligence along with the Cambridge Five. [3]
Trove of newly declassified files detail investigations into some of the country’s most notorious double agents, the ‘Ring of Five’, who passed information to the Soviets for three decades
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 ...
The following five supplied intelligence to the Soviet Union under their NKVD controller, Yuri Modin, who later reported that Soviet intelligence mistrusted the Cambridge double agents during the Second World War and had difficulty believing that the men would have access to top secret documents; they were particularly suspicious of Harold "Kim" Philby, wondering how he could have become a ...
The Cambridge spy Kim Philby declared he would have done it all again after he finally confessed that he had been for years a Russian agent, according to newly-declassified intelligence files.
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.