Kim Philby
 Kim Philby       ( spook, double agent) | |
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| Born | Harold Adrian Russell Philby 1912-01-01 Ambala, Punjab, British India |
| Died | 11 May 1988 (Age 76) Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union |
| Nationality | British |
| Alma mater | Trinity College (Cambridge) |
| Parents | • St John Philby • Dora Philby |
| Member of | Cambridge Five |
Harold Adrian Russell "Kim" Philby was a British intelligence officer and a double agent for the Soviet Union. In 1963, Kim Philby was revealed to be a member of the Cambridge Five, a spy ring that had divulged British secrets to the Soviet Union during World War II and in the early stages of the Cold War.[1]
Activities
Philby had initially directed British efforts to penetrate the Soviet Union from a post in Istanbul but, after returning to an even more senior intelligence position in London, ended up delivering to Moscow information about British and US efforts to penetrate the Soviet-occupied Baltic countries. He ultimately achieved his greatest success when he was transferred to the United States to serve as liaison with the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). While in Washington, he worked closely with James Jesus Angleton, who shared with him details of US operations, unaware that Philby was passing them on to Moscow and ensuring that those Western plans failed.[2]
In 1971 Kim Philby named David Spedding as an MI6, an act interpreted as KGB revenge for the expulsion of 105 Soviet intelligence officers from Britain that year.[3]
On British media
“MI6 had penetrated the 'English mass media on a wide scale,' running agents in the Daily Telegraph, Sunday Times, Daily Mirror, Financial Times and the Observer.”
Kim Philby [4]
Philby was given a job with the Observer and Economist in Beirut. After he was offered immunity from prosecution in 1963 by his old MI6 friend Nicholas Elliott, if he would return to London and confess, he hurriedly left on board a Soviet ship. He died in Moscow in 1988.[5]
Related Documents
| Title | Type | Publication date | Author(s) | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Document:The Cambridge Five | Wikispooks Page | 2 July 2021 | Tariq Aqil | No other spy or agency has done so much damage to Britain and America and provided such valuable intelligence to the Soviet Union as the Cambridge Five |
| File:Victor Rothschild Soviet Spy.pdf | article | 18 March 2018 | Mark Hackard | Lord Victor Rothschild’s connections to Soviet intelligence. |
References
- ↑ Document:The Cambridge Five
- ↑ "The Cambridge Five Helped Moscow Fight Ukrainian Nationalists"
- ↑ Sir David Spedding, telegraph.co.uk, 14 June 2001.
- ↑ https://archive.org/stream/DeepStateUK/THE_MEDIA_AND_THE_SECRET_STATE_djvu.txt quoted in Nick Davies, Flat Earth News, page 235.
- ↑ "MI5 and MI6 cover-up of Cambridge spy ring laid bare in archive papers"
