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Kim Philby

Harold Adrian Russell "Kim" Philby (1 January 1912 – 11 May 1988) was a British intelligence officer and a double agent for the Soviet Union. In 1963, he was revealed to be a member of the Cambridge Five, a spy ring that had divulged British secrets...

Updated: October 29, 2026
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Cambridge Five

The Cambridge Five was a spy ring in the United Kingdom that passed information to the Soviet Union during the Second World War and the Cold War and was active from the 1930s until at least the early 1950s. None of the known members were ever...

Updated: September 4, 2026
en.wikipedia.org › Kim_Philby:_His_Most_Intimate_Betrayal

Kim Philby: His Most Intimate Betrayal

Kim Philby: His Most Intimate Betrayal is a 2014 British docudrama television miniseries. The two-part miniseries chronicles the life of Kim Philby, a British intelligence officer and a double agent for the Soviet Union. The series is produced by...

Updated: August 13, 2026
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Nicholas Elliott

John Nicholas Rede Elliott (15 November 1916 – 13 April 1994) was an MI6 intelligence officer. His MI6 career was notable for his involvement with the Lionel Crabb affair in the 1950s and the flight of Elliott's close friend and double agent Kim...

Updated: October 23, 2026
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Rufina Pukhova

Rufina Ivanovna Pukhova (Russian: Руфина Ивановна Пухова; 1 September 1932 – 17 May 2021) was a Russian memoir writer. She was the last wife of Kim Philby, a KGB double agent who rose in rank through British Intelligence along with the Cambridge...

Updated: July 28, 2026
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St John Philby

Harry St John Bridger Philby, CIE (3 April 1885 – 30 September 1960), also known as Jack Philby or Sheikh Abdullah (Arabic: الشيخ عبدالله), was a British Arabist, adviser, explorer, writer, and a colonial intelligence officer who served as an...

Updated: October 18, 2026
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Konstantin Volkov (diplomat)

Konstantin Volkov (Russian: Константин Волков; disappeared September 1945, presumed dead) was an NKVD officer in Turkey who vanished after wanting to defect to the United Kingdom. He disappeared after telling the British Consulate General in...

Updated: September 18, 2026
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Litzi Friedmann

Alice Friedmann (née Kohlmann; 1910–1991), known as Litzi Friedmann, was an Austrian communist who was the first wife of Kim Philby, a member of the Cambridge Five. Records identify her as the Soviet agent with the code name Mary.

Updated: July 28, 2026
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Glencairn Balfour Paul

(Hugh) Glencairn Balfour Paul (23 September 1917 – 2 July 2008) was a British Arabist and diplomat. He served as the British ambassador to Iraq, Jordan and Tunisia before becoming an academic at Exeter University.

Updated: October 28, 2026
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Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy is a 1974 spy novel by the author and former secret intelligence officer John le Carré. It follows the endeavours of the taciturn, ageing spymaster George Smiley to uncover a Soviet mole in the British Secret Intelligence...

Updated: October 6, 2026