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In 1940 he was interviewed by MI5 officers in London, led by Jane Archer. Krivitsky claimed that two Soviet intelligence agents had penetrated the Foreign Office and that a third Soviet intelligence agent had worked as a journalist for a British newspaper in Spain.
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- 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.
- He worked for MI6 during the Second World War. After successfully posing as a patriot, in 1940 Philby was recruited into MI6 by his friend Guy Burgess, a British secret agent who was himself a Soviet double agent.
- He was appointed First Secretary to the British Embassy in Washington in 1949. Although this was his official job title, in reality, Philby served as chief British intelligence representative in Washington – the top liaison officer between the British and American intelligence agencies.
- He warned two Soviet double agents that they were under suspicion. These double agents, Donald Maclean and Guy Burgess, were Philby’s friends and were fellow Cambridge spies.
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...
Successfully posing as a patriot, Philby entered MI6 during the Second World War. As head of counter-Soviet intelligence, Philby was the fox in charge of the hen house, sabotaging the would-be defection of a Soviet agent and helping wreck an Allied operation against communist Albania.
Apr 3, 2016 · A previously unseen video of one of Britain's most infamous spies describing his career as a Soviet agent has been uncovered by the BBC. The tape is of Kim Philby giving a secret lecture to...
Sep 21, 2024 · While a student at the University of Cambridge, Philby became a communist and in 1933 a Soviet agent. He worked as a journalist until 1940, when Guy Burgess, a British secret agent who was himself a Soviet double agent, recruited Philby into the MI-6 section of the British intelligence service.
Oct 11, 2022 · Kim Philby, Britain’s most infamous spy, could have been unmasked as a double agent years before he fled to the Soviet Union, newly declassified records have revealed.
