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- He decided to work for the Soviet intelligence service in the belief it would make him a KGB officer, but when he arrived in Moscow after his defection he discovered he was regarded as merely an agent, not wholly trusted and not even allowed into KGB headquarters.
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Philby found work in the early 1970s in the KGB's Active Measures Department churning out fabricated documents. Working from genuine unclassified and public CIA or US State Department documents, Philby inserted "sinister" paragraphs regarding US plans.
Nov 18, 2013 · Fifty years after Kim Philby defected to the Soviet Union, a BBC documentary looks at the blind spots in the British ruling class that made it so vulnerable to KGB penetration.
Apr 3, 2016 · He says there were two reasons why he got away with his espionage for so long. The first was the British class system, which could not accept one of their own was a traitor.
- 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.
Sep 21, 2024 · There he settled in Moscow and eventually reached the rank of colonel in the KGB, the Soviet intelligence service. Philby published a book, My Silent War (1968), detailing his exploits.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Aug 28, 2011 · Cambridge spy Kim Philby betrayed his country because he loved power, believed in an ideal and thought history was on his side, writes John Gray.
Mar 20, 2015 · A new take on this most notorious of true spy stories, A Spy Among Friends: Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal, captures not only Philby’s concurrent work for MI6 and the KGB, but also examines the trail of broken lives he left in his wake. Using interviews and archival materials, journalist Ben McIntyre has crafted a gripping account of how ...
