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Harold Adrian Russell "Kim" Philby (1 January 1912 – 11 May 1988) 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. Of the five, Philby is ...
4 days ago · Kim Philby (born January 1, 1912, Ambala, India—died May 11, 1988, Moscow, Russia, U.S.S.R.) was a British intelligence officer until 1951 and the most successful Soviet double agent of the Cold War period.
Jun 12, 2018 · An Indian Civil Service officer turned Arabist and explorer, he spent 20 years travelling across the desert on camelback charting Saudi’s unexplored Empty Quarter, crossing paths with Lawrence of Arabia, and eventually marrying a slave-girl given to him by his friend King Ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia, to whom he spent many years as personal advisor.
Harold Adrian Russell "Kim" Philby (1 January 1912 – 11 May 1988) was a British intelligence officer who worked as a spy for the Soviet Union, before defecting in 1963. [1] Philby began his work for the Soviet Union as a spy in 1934.
Nov 18, 2013 · Philby was a leading member of the so-called Cambridge spy ring, a group of well-educated young men who all joined the Soviet cause in the 1930s. At the height of his clandestine...
Mar 24, 2022 · The year, not stated, was sometime between 1983, when I was born, and 1988, the year my grandfather, the double-agent Kim Philby, died in the Soviet Union in an apartment given to him by the...
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 success.
May 23, 1988 · When he disappeared from Beirut in January 1963, after telling his wife he would meet her at a diplomatic dinner party that evening, Kim Philby was a relatively obscure British journalist....
5 days ago · Kim Philby was recruited by Russia in the 1930s and soon rose to become a senior officer in MI6 before coming under suspicion in the 1950s. Rachel Hagan. Wednesday 24 July 2024 08:24.
Harold Adrian Russell "Kim" Philby 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.
