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A Spy Among Friends follows the defection of notorious British intelligence officer and KGB double agent, Kim Philby, played by Mare of Easttown's Pearce, through the lens of his complex relationship with MI6 colleague and close friend, Nicholas Elliott (Lewis).
Harold Adrian Russell " Kim " Philby (1 January 1912 – 11 May 1988) [2] [3] was a British intelligence officer and a spy for the Soviet Union. In 1963, he was revealed to be a member of the Cambridge Five, a spy ring which had divulged British secrets to the Soviets during World War II and in the early stages of the Cold War.
Kim Philby. Kim Philby was born on 1 January 1912 in Ambala, Punjab, British India [now Haryana, India]. He was married to Rufina Ivanovna Pukhova, Eleanor Brewer, Aileen Furse and Litzi Friedmann. He died on 11 May 1988 in Moscow, Russian SFSR, USSR [now Russia].
May 9, 2024 · Kim Philby, British intelligence officer until 1951 and the most successful Soviet double agent of the Cold War period. He was apparently responsible for the deaths of many Western agents whose activities he betrayed to the Soviets during the 1940s and early ’50s.
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...
Jan 30, 2023 · Harold Adrian Russell ‘Kim’ Philby was a British intelligence officer who rose to the top of MI6 while working as a double agent for the Soviet Union – and thus one of the most successful Soviet spies of the 20th century.
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.
Mar 24, 2022 · The double-agent’s granddaughter, Charlotte Philby, on the correspondence of a man who betrayed his country but cared deeply about the family he left behind
Jul 12, 2017 · In 1963, at the height of the Cold War, a well-educated Englishman called Kim Philby boarded a Russian freighter in Beirut and defected to Moscow from under the nose of British Intelligence.
Jul 27, 2014 · Philby was one of the 20th century's most legendary spies. NPR's Arun Rath talks with author Ben Macintyre about his new book, A Spy Among Friends, and the boozy secret to Philby's...
