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|hobby = }}'''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 which passed information to the Soviet Union during [[World War II]] and in the early stages of the Cold War. Of the five, Philby is believed to have been most successful in providing secret information to the Soviets.

|hobby = }}'''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 which passed information to the Soviet Union during [[World War II]] and in the early stages of the [[Cold War]]. Of the five, Philby is believed to have been most successful in providing secret information to the Soviets.

Born in British India, Philby was educated at Westminster School and Trinity College, Cambridge. He was recruited by Soviet intelligence in 1934. After leaving Cambridge, Philby worked as a journalist and covered the Spanish Civil War and the Battle of France. In 1940, he began working for MI6. By the end of the Second World War he had become a high-ranking member of the British intelligence service. In 1949, Philby was appointed first secretary to the British Embassy in Washington and served as chief British liaison with American intelligence agencies. During his career as an intelligence officer, he passed large amounts of intelligence to the Soviet Union, including a Anglo-American plot to subvert the [[communist]] regime of Albania. He was also responsible for tipping off two other spies under suspicion of espionage, Donald Maclean and Guy Burgess, both of whom subsequently fled to Moscow in May 1951.

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-|hobby = }}'''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 which passed information to the Soviet Union during [[World War II]] and in the early stages of the Cold War. Of the five, Philby is believed to have been most successful in providing secret information to the Soviets.
+|hobby = }}'''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 which passed information to the Soviet Union during [[World War II]] and in the early stages of the [[Cold War]]. Of the five, Philby is believed to have been most successful in providing secret information to the Soviets.
 Born in British India, Philby was educated at Westminster School and Trinity College, Cambridge. He was recruited by Soviet intelligence in 1934. After leaving Cambridge, Philby worked as a journalist and covered the Spanish Civil War and the Battle of France. In 1940, he began working for MI6. By the end of the Second World War he had become a high-ranking member of the British intelligence service. In 1949, Philby was appointed first secretary to the British Embassy in Washington and served as chief British liaison with American intelligence agencies. During his career as an intelligence officer, he passed large amounts of intelligence to the Soviet Union, including a Anglo-American plot to subvert the [[communist]] regime of Albania. He was also responsible for tipping off two other spies under suspicion of espionage, Donald Maclean and Guy Burgess, both of whom subsequently fled to Moscow in May 1951.