Harold Adrian Russell Kim Philby b. 1 January 1912 d. 11 May 1988

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1 January 1912 birth: Ambala, India

child birth: ♂ Дадли Томми Филби [Филби]

marriage: ♀ Руфина Ивановна Пухова (Филби) [Пуховы]

marriage: ♀ Эйлин ? (Филби) [?] b. 1910 d. 1957

11 May 1988 death: Moscow, RSFSR, USSR

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Harold Adrian Russell "Kim" Philby (1 January 1912 – 11 May 1988) 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 a Triple Agent providing Soviet intelligence to British authorities.[3] Philby was an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) from 1946 to 1965.

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