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In February 1934, Philby married Litzi Friedmann, an Austrian Jewish communist whom he had met in Vienna. They subsequently moved to Britain; however, as Philby assumed the role of a fascist sympathiser, they separated.
- Amy Irvine
- 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.
Apr 3, 2016 · That much is true. Previously the best known video of Philby was him giving a 1955 press conference in his mother's London flat. On that occasion he said very little, only denying he was...
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...
The son of a British diplomat, Kim Philby embraced communism as a Cambridge student in the early 1930s. His connections put him on the radar of a Soviet spymaster named Arnold Deutsch, who instructed him to break off contact with his communist friends in order to penetrate the British establishment. Successfully posing as a patriot, Philby ...
Mar 24, 2022 · My new novel Edith and Kim, which borrows from this personal archive to weave together Kim’s life with that of Edith Tudor-Hart, a Bauhaus-trained photographer and communist spy who...
An upper-class Communist. Sputnik. Harold Adrian Russell Philby (Kim was a nickname) was born into an affluent family: His father, St John Philby, worked in British India, later converted...
