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Oct 2, 2009 · John Philby, the eldest son of Soviet spy Kim Philby, who was a double agent and the notorious Third Man in the Cambridge spy ring of the 1930s, has died in England.
In 1940, Philby began living with Aileen Furse in London. Their first three children, Josephine, John and Tommy, were born between 1941 and 1944. In 1946, Philby arranged a divorce from Litzi. He and Aileen were married on 25 September 1946, while Aileen was pregnant with their fourth child, Miranda.
Jan 24, 2013 · Born in 1946, Dudley ‘Tommy’ Philby is the third of Kim’s five children with his second of four wives, Aileen Furse Philby. Aileen died in 1957, when Tommy was just 11 years old; his contact with his father was cut off as soon as the double spy defected to the USSR in January 1963.
Jun 12, 2018 · In his lifetime, Kim married four times, and had five children by his second wife Aileen Furse. His eldest son was my father, John – who was himself a 19-year-old art student in 1963 when he first learnt of Kim’s espionage; stepping off a ferry on the Isle of Wight, he was met by a billboard stating that Kim was a wanted man.
Jul 21, 2019 · That was when John Philby, my father and Kim’s eldest son, also first heard the news. My dad was a 19-year-old art student at the time. It was months after Kim had boarded a freighter from Beirut and disappeared, and by then suspicions had already been aroused.
Mar 24, 2022 · Those memories were formed over childhood holidays in Russia: my father and Kim in a white vest and dressing gown, playing chess while I sat on the sofa with his wife, Rufina, and my mother,...
Jan 30, 2023 · 1. He first embraced communism while studying at Cambridge. Born in Ambala, India in 1912, Harold ‘Kim’ Philby was the son of a British diplomat. Nicknamed “Kim” after a spy character in a Rudyard Kipling story, Philby attended Westminster School, then Trinity College, Cambridge.
THE daughter of Kim Philby, the MI6 agent who spied for the Soviet Union, has broken her silence to describe the admiration she feels for her father, 50 years since he defected to Moscow in one of.
4 days ago · 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 after Kim Philby defected to the Soviet Union, a BBC documentary looks at the blind spots in the British ruling class that made it so vulnerable to KGB penetration.
