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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.
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...
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.
Sep 6, 2019 · On 3 September 1939 — the day on which Neville Chamberlain announced Britain was at war with Germany — Kim Philby met his future wife. It was, Britain’s most infamous double-agent later...
Mar 24, 2022 · Kim Philby with his granddaughter Charlotte, in Moscow during one of her holiday visits from England
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Philby married four times: to a Viennese revolutionary, an Englishwoman who Kim Philby’s closest friend, Nicholas Elliott, was always struck by the “loyalty and affection” he inspired in women.
