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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.
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.
Harold "Kim" Philby was a senior officer in Britain's Secret Intelligence Service, known as MI6, who began to spy for the Soviet Union in 1934. He was known for passing more than 900 British documents over to the NKVD and its successor, the KGB .
For years, Philby had been a high-flying MI6 officer tipped as a future chief of the service – C – only to be forced to quit after coming under suspicion when his two fellow Cambridge spies ...
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
Among the papers is an incomplete six-page confession from 1963 of Philby, seen as the Cambridge Five's ringleader and who became a senior figure in Britain's foreign spy agency MI6, in which he ...
Kim Philby: His Most Intimate Betrayal is a 2014 British docudrama television miniseries. The two-part miniseries chronicles the life of Kim Philby, a British intelligence officer and a double agent for the Soviet Union. The series is produced by Francis Whately, and presented by Ben Macintyre.
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 or not. ... and fellow MI6 officer Nicholas ...