Kim Philby
Spy, Author
1912 – 1988
Who was Kim Philby?
Harold Adrian Russell "Kim" Philby was a high-ranking member of British intelligence who worked as a double agent before defecting to the Soviet Union in 1963. He served as both an NKVD and KGB operative.
In 1963, Philby was revealed to be a member of the spy ring now known as the Cambridge Five, the other members of which were Donald Maclean, Guy Burgess, Anthony Blunt and, possibly, John Cairncross. Of the five, Philby is believed to have been most successful in providing secret information to the Soviet Union. His activities were moderated only by Joseph Stalin's fears that he was secretly on Britain's side. Philby was an Officer of the Order of the British Empire from 1946 to 1965.
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- Born
- Jan 1, 1912
Ambala - Parents
- Spouses
- Rufina Ivanovna Pukhova
(1971 - 1988) - Litzi Friedmann
(1934/02/24 - 1946/12) - Aileen Furse
(1946/09/25 - 1957/12) - Eleanor Brewer
(1959/01 - )
- Rufina Ivanovna Pukhova
- Nationality
- United Kingdom
- Profession
- Education
- Trinity College, Cambridge
- Westminster School
- University of Cambridge
- Aldro
- Employment
- Secret Intelligence Service
- Lived in
- Ambala
- Died
- May 11, 1988
Moscow
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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