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Kim Philby

Full Name:	Harold Adrian Russell "Kim" Philby
Origin:	Ambala, Punjab, British India
Occupation:	British double agent Officer of the KGB
Type of Villain:	Communist Spy

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.

The defections of Maclean and Burgess cast suspicion over Philby, resulting in his resignation from MI6 in July 1951. He was publicly exonerated in 1955, after which he resumed his career in journalism in Beirut. In January 1963, having finally been unmasked as a Soviet agent, Philby defected to Moscow, where he lived out his life until his death in 1988.

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+|image = [[File:Kim_Philby.jpg|thumb|279px]]
+|fullname = Harold Adrian Russell "Kim" Philby
+|alias =
+|origin = Ambala, Punjab, British India
+|occupation = British double agent<br>Officer of the [[KGB (Soviet Union)|KGB]]
+|type of villain = Communist Spy
+|goals =
+|crimes =
+|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.
-Kim Philby, byname of Harold Adrian Russell ,(born January 1,1912 , Ambala , India -died May 11,1988 , Moscow,Russia, U.S.S.R.), British intelligence officer until 1951 and the most succesful Soviet double agent of the Cold War period.
+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.
-While a student at the University of Cambridge , Philby became an communist and in 1933 a Soviet agent. He worked as a journalist until 1940, when Guy Burgess , a British secret agent who was a himself a Soviet double agent , recruited Philby into the MI-6 section of the British intelligence service . By th end of World War II had become head of counterspionage operations for MI-6 , in which post he was responsible for combat Soviet subversion in  western Europe . In 1949 he was sent to Washington to serve as chief officer MI-6 officer there and as the top liaison officer between the British and U.S. intelligence services.While holding this highly sensitive post , he revealed to U.S.S.R an Allied plan to send an armed anticommunists bands into Albania in 1950, thereby assuring their defeat; warned two Soviet double agents in the British diplomatic service,Burgess and Donald MacLean, that they were under suspicion ( the two men consequently escaped to the Soviet Union in 1951) and transmitted detailed information about MI-6 and the Central Intelligence Agency to the Soviets. After Burgess's and MacLean's defections, suspicion fell on Philby and he was relieved of his intelligence duties in 1951 and dismisses from MI-6 in 1955. Thereafter he worked as a journalist in Beirut until the fleeing to the Soviet Union in 1963. There he settled in Moscow and eventually reached the rank of colonel in the KGB , the Soviet intelligence service. Philby published a book , My Silent War(1968), detailing his exploits.
+The defections of Maclean and Burgess cast suspicion over Philby, resulting in his resignation from MI6 in July 1951. He was publicly exonerated in 1955, after which he resumed his career in journalism in Beirut. In January 1963, having finally been unmasked as a Soviet agent, Philby defected to Moscow, where he lived out his life until his death in 1988.
-Philby seems to have been a lifelong and commited communist whose primary devotion lay toward the Soviet Union rather than his native country.He was apparently responsible for the many deaths of many Western agents whose activitities he betrayed to the Soviets during the 1940s and early ’50s.
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