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  Kim Philby
Harold (Kim) Philby, the son of the diplomat, John Philby, was born in Ambala, India, in 1911.
Philby was now aware that he was in danger of being arrested and therefore on 23rd January, 1963, Philby fled to the Soviet Union.
Kim Philby was a "Soviet agent", as the sub-heading identifies, not a "double-agent" as William Boyd claims ("Old-school spy", September 23).
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /SSphilby.htm   (4202 words)

  
  BBC - History - Harold Adrian Russell (Kim) Philby (1912 - 1988)   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Philby was the son of the famous Arabist St John Philby, and was born in India, where his father was serving as a magistrate.
In 1963 testimony from a Soviet defector clinched the case against Philby, and a fellow SIS officer went to Beirut to persuade him to confess to his work for the KGB.
Philby never knew any of this because he died, happy and content with his fourth wife, a Russian, Rufina Pukhova, before the collapse of the Communist regime he loved.
www.bbc.co.uk /history/historic_figures/philby_harold.shtml   (431 words)

  
  Kim Philby
Born in Ambala, India, Philby was the son of St. John Philby, the British diplomat, explorer, author, and Arabist who converted to Islam and served as an adviser to King Ibn Sa'ud of Saudi Arabia.
Philby received VENONA material which the U.S. was sharing with the U.K. He shared a house in Washington, at 4100 Nebraska Avenue, N.W, with his personal friend from the Cambridge days, fellow British diplomat, intelligence officer and Soviet penetration agent, Guy Burgess.
Philby later surfaced in Moscow, and was given a make-work sinecure within the KGB which he held until shortly before his death.
www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/k/ki/kim_philby.html   (2377 words)

  
  NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Kim Philby   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Philby was revealed as a possible member of the spy ring known as the Cambridge Five, along with Donald Maclean, Guy Burgess, Anthony Blunt and John Cairncross.
Harold (Kim) Philby, the son of the diplomat, John Philby, was born in Ambala, India, in 1911.
Kim Philby was a "Soviet agent", as the sub-heading identifies, not a "double-agent" as William Boyd claims ("Old-school spy", September 23).
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Kim-Philby   (691 words)

  
 Kim Philby Summary
Philby was assigned the task of controlling the double agents working for the British--the Russian diplomats in London who wanted to betray their own government, for instance--and he was also supposed to pass false information on to the Soviets.
Philby was revealed as a possible member of the spy ring known as the Cambridge Five, along with Donald Maclean, Guy Burgess, Anthony Blunt and John Cairncross.
Philby later surfaced in Moscow, and was given a make-work sinecure as a KGB consultant on the activities of Western intelligence services which he held until his death.
www.bookrags.com /Kim_Philby   (3317 words)

  
 Kim Philby - MSN Encarta
As part of a spy ring that included Guy Burgess, Donald Maclean, and Anthony Blunt, Philby penetrated the upper levels of British intelligence and passed vital information to the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) during the 1940s and 1950s.
Harold Adrian Russell Philby was born in Ambala, India, and educated at Westminster School and the University of Cambridge in England.
In the investigation that followed, Philby came under suspicion and was interrogated.
encarta.msn.com /encnet/refpages/RefArticle.aspx?refid=761581389   (341 words)

  
 club.jctrans.net - Kim Philby dies
Kim Philby, a former British Secret Intelligence Service officer and double agent for the Soviet Union, dies in Moscow at the age of 76,1988.
Philby was perhaps the most famous of a group of British government officials who served as Russian spies from the 1930s to the 1950s.
Philby arranged for Guy Burgess, yet another colleague who was a double agent for the Soviets, to be sent back to England from his station in Washington to warn Maclean.
club.jctrans.net /forums/thread/686.aspx   (478 words)

  
 Kim Philby. Master spy.
Philby, along with Burgess, MacLean and Blunt, was one of the notorious Soviet double agents.
Philby was head of counterespionage at MI6 while, all the while, working for the KGB.
No one knows for sure what secrets Philby revealed while he was employed by MI6 but it is known that he tipped off Burgess and MacLean that they were under suspicion allowing them time to flee to the Soviet Union.
www.wardsbookofdays.com /1january.htm   (173 words)

  
 Phillip Knightley.com - Books
Spotted by the founder of the Soviet secret police, Orlov was behind the creation of the notorious Cambridge network of British spies of Philby, Burgess, Maclean and Blunt, and recruited a large number of moles across Europe for the Russians.
Knightley's investigations into the world of espionage led to an extraordinary correspondence with Kim Philby - the spy who betrayed a generation - and he became one of the few journalists to get access to Philby in Russia.
Philby, the agent, double agent, traitor and enigma revealed all to Knightley just before his death.
www.phillipknightley.com /pages/books.html   (1606 words)

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