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  Kim Philby Biography (Spy) — Infoplease.com
A student at Cambridge in the 1930s, Philby was drawn to Marxist ideas and was an associate of what came to be known as "The Cambridge Spies," Guy Burgess, Donald Maclean and Anthony Blunt.
Philby was questioned and accused of being "the Third Man," the one who warned Burgess and Maclean to flee as investigations closed in, but he was never officially charged.
Treason in the Blood: H. St. John Philby, Kim Philby, and the Spy Case of the Century by Anthony Cave Brown
www.infoplease.com /biography/var/kimphilby.html   (379 words)

  
 William Boyd on Kim Philby | Review | Guardian Unlimited Books
Philby was a man universally liked, a highly respected professional - competent and industrious, decorated after the war - and a charming and amusing companion.
Philby was outsmarting and had outsmarted everybody: it was the very nature of his continued success, the respect he engendered and the overt devotion and admiration of his colleagues that fuelled and drove his double life.
Philby himself alluded obliquely to this when he was interviewed by a British newspaper after his defection to Moscow in 1963.
books.guardian.co.uk /review/story/0,,1878741,00.html   (1845 words)

  
 NOVA Online | Secrets, Lies, and Atomic Spies | Harold "Kim" Philby and the Cambridge Three
Philby swiftly rose through the ranks of the SIS, becoming one of its most trusted agents, and for almost eight years acted as a mole for the Soviets.
Not long after Philby was installed in his new post, a Washington codebreaker briefed him on the results emerging from his work decrypting a collection of cables, the so-called Venona decrypt operation.
Philby became a Russian citizen, married a Russian woman 20 years younger, and after his death on May 11, 1988, was buried with the honors of a KGB general.
www.pbs.org /wgbh/nova/venona/dece_philby.html   (872 words)

  
 Kim Philby Summary
After Philby graduated from Cambridge in 1933, he went to Vienna, Austria, where a fascist government was suppressing the leftist movement; Philby became part of a group that helped smuggle socialists and communists out of the country to safety.
Philby's activities in Austria attracted the attention of Soviet agents working in the West, and back in London he was recruited to become a spy.
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.
www.bookrags.com /Kim_Philby   (3317 words)

  
 Kim Philby - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Of the "Cambridge Five" espionage cell, Philby is believed to have effected the most damage to British and American intelligence, providing classified information to the Soviet Union that caused the deaths of scores of agents, and indirectly, the Korean War.
In 1963, Philby was revealed as a member of the spy ring known as the Cambridge Five, along with Donald Maclean, Guy Burgess, Anthony Blunt and John Cairncross.
Born in Ambala, India, Philby was the son of St.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kim_Philby   (3475 words)

  
 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.
Philby and Burgess were attracted to the adventure and the secrecy of belonging to a small group of people with inside knowledge and they enjoyed the small amount of danger.
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /SSphilby.htm   (4202 words)

  
 BBC - History - Harold Adrian Russell (Kim) Philby (1912 - 1988)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
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)

  
 USNews.com: Kim Philby: The havoc he wreaked stretched far and wide
Philby's influence on the Cold War could be direct, such as when he sabotaged Anglo-American operations, but it was subtle, as well.
In 1945, Philby told the Soviets that Elizabeth Bentley, an American working for the communists, had turned herself in to the FBI and had become a double agent.
Philby returned to England, where he was publically accused of being "The Third Man." After Foreign Secretary Harold Macmillan rose to his defense, he was sent to Beirut to work as a field agent.
www.usnews.com /usnews/culture/articles/030127/27philby_2.htm   (639 words)

  
 St. John Philby - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In November 1917 Philby was sent to the interior of the Arabian peninsula as head of a mission to Ibn Saud.
Philby felt the betrayal of this assurance, along with the Balfour Declaration, Sykes-Picot Agreement, and other diplomatic manouvres broke faith with the promise of a single unified Arab nation in exchange for aligning themselves with the Allies in the war against the Ottoman Turks and Central Powers.
Meanwhile at Cambridge Philby's son, Kim, was being recruited by the OGPU of the Soviet Union.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/St._John_Philby   (2473 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)

  
 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   (351 words)

  
 A Cold War Love Story - Russin spy Kim Philby and his wife Insight on the News - Find Articles
Rufina's memoir of her 19 years with Philby was published in the United States in May. Though it is unlikely to make the New York Times best-seller list, the book is a must-read for afficionados of intelligence or students of the Cold War.
Philby's own flight to Moscow in 1963 exposed publicly the ineptitude of Britain's security agencies -- at one time the double agent had been seen as a prospective head of British intelligence.
Philby betrayed untold numbers of Western agents and he was responsible for boatloads of Albanian emigres being picked up in 1949 when they landed on their home shores in a doomed bid to topple the Communist dictatorship there.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1571/is_24_16/ai_63257824   (828 words)

  
 Lobster: The Journal of Parapolitics
Philby: The Hidden Years Morris Riley Janus Publishing, London, 1999, 9.95 pb John Burnes There are almost as many Philbys as there are readers.
His work for the Insight team on Philby was the beginning of a career in which he has repeatedly brushed up against the secret warriors of Langley, Virginia, and SIS.
Boiled down, Rosenbaum suggests that way back in the 1950s, Philby was the sharp end of a plan to confirm and exacerbate Angleton's paranoia about the omnipotence of the KGB, a plan whose climax was exposing Angleton's already powerful paranoid tendencies to Golitsyn- who confirmed every one of them, in spades.
www.lobster-magazine.co.uk /Philby.html   (819 words)

  
 Philby, Kim - HighBeam Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
PHILBY, KIM [Philby, Kim] (Harold Adrian Russell Philby), 1912-88, British double agent; son of Harry St. John Bridger Philby, better known as Kim Philby, worked for many years as a Soviet spy within the British intelligence service.
He came under suspicion when two of his associates, Donald Maclean and Guy Burgess, defected to the USSR in 1951, but his activities were not fully exposed until he himself defected in 1963.
DECLASSIFIED DOCUMENTS: Kim Philby `was ordered by Stalin to kill Franco'; British intelligence missed clue to spy's treachery 30 years before he defected but did arrest queasy Nazi saboteurs exposed.(News)
www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-philby-k1.html   (328 words)

  
 Endgame
Philby has arranged for the Doctor’s package to be intercepted by the postal authorities, but the Doctor uses stolen ID to reclaim it.
This is the real reason Philby returned from Washington; he is in fact a double agent for the USSR, and has used his unique position to set up a world-wide network of agents on both sides of the Iron Curtain.
Philby is disturbed to learn that Burgess has defected as well, and worries that he may fall under suspicion himself; but first he must deal with the Players, and thus he gives the Doctor all of his files on the Player phenomenon.
www.drwhoguide.com /whobbc40.htm   (2760 words)

  
 Philby, Burgess, McLean - Cambridge Spy Ring FBI Files
Philby entered the British Secret Intelligence Service (MI-6), becoming head of counterespionage operations after World War II and the top British intelligence officer in Washington in 1949.
Maclean and Philby betrayed agents infiltrating the Balkans, who were apprehended and shot.
Philby had saved his friends, but his close association with them brought suspicion upon himself.
www.paperlessarchives.com /philby.html   (288 words)

  
 The Moscow life of Kim Philby - Pravda.Ru
In his first years in the Soviet capital, Philby was given a passport in the fictitious name of Andrei Fyodorov, while his true name was written in his Soviet residence permit.
Philby offered various intelligence situations that were followed by detailed analysis.
As he spoke about the reasons for his choices, Philby said that, in emotional terms, from his younger years he had been on the side of the poor, weak and disinherited in their opposition to the rich, strong and unprincipled, and he saw a just social and political force in the USSR.
english.pravda.ru /main/18/90/362/11934_philby.html   (1366 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Master Spy, The: The Story of Kim Philby: Books: Phillip Knightley   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Philby claims, convincingly, that he was forced to defect by British authorities who wanted to avoid the scandal that his arrest would have provoked.
Philby rose throught the ranks of British intelligence to become the head of Soviet counterintelligence in MI6 (Her Majesty's Secret Intelligence Service) even though he was a Soviet penetration agent (a mole).
Philby being the subject of the book, the author goes out of his way to increase his involvement in the spy ring thus increase the readers interested in the book.
www.amazon.com /Master-Spy-Story-Kim-Philby/dp/0394578902   (1752 words)

  
 USNews.com: Kim Philby: The havoc he wreaked stretched far and wide
"We have recruited the son of an Anglo agent, adviser to Ibn-Saud, Philby." The reference was to one Harold A. Philby, a recent Cambridge graduate the Soviets had enlisted to spy on his pro-fascist father, an adviser to Saudi Arabia.
Philby was indeed the most ruthless and methodical of the members of the Cambridge Spy Ring--five young men at Cambridge University whom the Soviets tasked with penetrating the British intelligence services.
Philby was particularly well positioned: He was in charge of Soviet counterintelligence, a liaison to the CIA in Washington, and even a onetime top candidate to become the head of Britain's Secret Intelligence Service.
www.usnews.com /usnews/culture/articles/030127/27philby.htm   (611 words)

  
 CNN.com - Philby: The spy who allegedly inspired Hanssen - February 26, 2001
LONDON, England (CNN) -- Kim Philby, the British traitor who allegedly inspired accused FBI spy Robert Philip Hanssen, was arguably the most successful and damaging Soviet double agent of the Cold War period.
Philby was widely suspected as being the "third man" who tipped them off.
Philby was born in India in 1912, the son of a high ranking civil service officer.
edition.cnn.com /2001/WORLD/europe/02/21/spy.philby   (485 words)

  
 All about The Cambridge Spies, by Russell Aiuto
Philby assisted in the formulation of the plans, then warned the Soviets so that the partisans could be quickly dispatched upon their entry into the country.
Philby was always able to blunt their accusations, often taking charge of their cases so that he could divert suspicion from himself.
Philby went to the Middle East to meet with Volkov, who somehow had mysteriously disappeared, so that Philby was unable to report what this Soviet defector had to say.
www.crimelibrary.com /terrorists_spies/spies/cambridge/3.html   (1987 words)

  
 The Man Without a Country by James L. Choron
Old Philby was nothing like the way he was shown to us, in the West.
Another thing that always struck me about Philby was that he always said that there were more… He would stare at the floor and shake his head, and say that there were dozens of people who piped secrets to the Soviets… and were never even suspected.
In any case, when the Cold War broke out, right on top of the Hot one, Philby decided that it was just too dangerous for only one side to have something as devastating as the bomb, and started funneling information to the Soviet Union.
www.lewrockwell.com /orig5/choron1.html   (3021 words)

  
 'Private Life' opens new chapter on master soviet spy Kim Philby   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Kim Philby, the maestro of the 20th century's espionage game, was indeed a man without a country.
By Rufina Philby, with Mikhail Lyubimov and Hayden Peake.
Kim Philby's previously unpublished autobiographical writings, and two examples of his contributions to KGB work after his defection, make up one section.
seattlepi.nwsource.com /books/boox1510.shtml   (511 words)

  
 TIME.com: Espionage No Regrets Kim Philby: 1912-1988 -- May 23, 1988 -- Page 1
What remains beyond question is that Philby nullified much British and American espionage during and after World War II, spilling all to his Soviet masters, first as head of the Soviet desk of British counterintelligence and then, from 1949 to 1951, as Washington liaison with the CIA.
Philby, born Harold Adrian Russell, was the only son of St. John Philby, a British civil servant who sided with the colonies rather than the empire and became an adviser to King Ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia.
Philby met Burgess, Maclean and Blunt at Cambridge but insisted that they were not recruited there.
www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,967442,00.html   (706 words)

  
 Philby, Harry St. John Bridger - HighBeam Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
PHILBY, HARRY ST. JOHN BRIDGER [Philby, Harry St. John Bridger] 1885-1960, British explorer, official, and author.
He joined (1917) the British foreign service, was sent on a special mission to Arabia, and became the first European to visit the southern provinces of the Nejd.
Find newspaper and magazine articles plus images and maps related to "Philby, Harry St. John Bridger" at HighBeam.
www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-philby-h1.html   (231 words)

  
 Amazon.com: My Silent War: The Autobiography of a Spy: Books: Kim Philby,Phillip Knightly,Graham Greene   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Philby became a communist and Soviet agent in the 1930s, then easily joined MI6 and rose to be head of British Counterintelligence before seeking asylum in Moscow in 1963 (where he lived until his death in 1988).
Philby remains, in essence, a chameleon throughout the book, and his "autobiography" fails to satisfy those who want the answers to two questions: why and how Philby managed to betray his country and bring down an entire intelligence service.
It is difficult to believe that Philby was a double agent when he shows obvious pleasure in the success of his plans, even when they work against the very people he is supposedly loyal to: the Soviets.
www.amazon.com /My-Silent-War-Autobiography-Spy/dp/0375759832   (2193 words)

  
 Philby (Harold Adrian Russell) Kim - Search Results - MSN Encarta   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Philby, (Harold Adrian Russell) Kim (1912-1988), British intelligence officer and Soviet spy, born at Ambala, India.
Philby, Kim (quotations): Treason: To betray, you must first…
In Britain, Harold Evans, editor of the Sunday Times from 1967 to 1981, similarly did much to develop investigative journalism.
uk.encarta.msn.com /Philby_(Harold_Adrian_Russell)_Kim.html   (97 words)

  
 John-Loftus.com
But Philby is not solely interested in empire, even his own British one; he is interested in making money, and forges an alliance with an American intelligence agent in charge of Middle Eastern affairs, Allen Dulles.
By the 1930s, Ibn Saud and Philby are secret supporters of the Nazi rise to political power in Germany, and bring Dulles, a NYC-based corporate lawyer for Sullivan and Cromwell, in on their scheme.
Philby and Dulles convince Ibn Saud to allow limited Jewish immigration to Palestine, assuring him that the numbers will never challenge or upset his control.
www.john-loftus.com /bookreview.asp   (1640 words)

  
 The Other Philby   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Almost forgotten in the scandalous publicity that surrounded his son's treason and defection to the USSR, Harry St. John Bridger Philby (1885-1960)comes to mind most recently perhaps in the book he shares with his son Kim, Anthony Cave Brown's Treason in the Blood (Houghton Mifflin, 1994).
But St. John Philby was noted as an Arabist, explorer, and writer in his own right.
His papers, together with a large number of maps, document some of his work in Arabia and form a valuable supplement to the collection of printed materials.
www.library.georgetown.edu /advancement/newsletter/52/philby52.htm   (214 words)

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