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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.
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 ...
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
One of these agents was Kim Philby who tipped off the Russians about what Volkov and his wife were planning. It took Philby three weeks to arrive which was enough time for Soviet security agents to find the couple and take them back to Moscow. The couple were reportedly last seen boarding a Moscow-bound plane in Istanbul.
‘Enigma’ Kim Philby baffled MI5 agents. Soviet spy Kim Philby was an ‘enigma’ to a top MI5 interrogator, who admitted he could not determine whether the double agent was telling the truth ...
Top secret MI5 files detailing first-hand accounts of confessions of three of Britain's most notorious double agents including Kim Philby and Anthony Blunt who spied for the Soviet Union were ...
Le Carré drew on the defection of Kim Philby, a high-ranking MI6 operative revealed to be a Soviet spy in 1963. When Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy was published in 1974, revelations exposing the presence of Soviet double agents in Britain were still fresh in public memory.
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. The ...