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Kim Philby was born in Ambala, Punjab, British India, to author and explorer St John Philby and his wife, Dora Johnston. [5] A member of the Indian Civil Service (ICS) at the time of Philby's birth, St John later became a civil servant in Mesopotamia and advisor to King Ibn Sa'ud of Saudi Arabia. [6] [7]
Dec 12, 2022 · Kim Philby married Rufina Pukhova in 1971 and lived in Moscow with her until his death, aged 76, in 1988.
Jul 14, 1994 · Rufina Philby, the Russian widow of Kim Philby - the most famous of all the KGB spies to infiltrate British intelligence - arrived in London earlier this week to prepare for the sale of her...
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 introduced...
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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 · Anthony Blunt, who was keeper of the Queen's pictures, was unmasked as a spy in 1979. Did he tip off Kim Philby on a bogus orchid-hunting trip?
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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.
