Mystery AtlasKim Philby
The Cambridge Five's most notorious member, who rose to head MI6's own anti-Soviet counterintelligence section while secretly working for Soviet intelligence; forced to resign in 1951 on suspicion, and defected to Moscow in January 1963 once the case against him became conclusive.
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People
- Klaus Fuchs1911-1988
Kim Philby is frequently compared to Klaus Fuchs — Both were trusted insiders who passed classified information to Soviet intelligence undetected for years, each eventually exposed by a different investigative mechanism decades apart.
- Anthony Blunt1907-1983
Kim Philby is frequently compared to Anthony Blunt — Fellow Cambridge Five members exposed through starkly different mechanisms: Philby's suspected flight and eventual defection versus Blunt's traded confession and the government's own fifteen-year concealment of it.
Organisations & Programmes
- The Cambridge Five1930s-1979
Kim Philby was a member of The Cambridge Five.