The documents, released by the UK's National Archives, expose the exploits of Soviet double agents like Kim Philby and Anthony Blunt, members of the infamous Cambridge Spy Ring, and their shocking ...

A third, Kim Philby, continued to work for foreign intelligence agency MI6 despite falling under suspicion. As evidence of his duplicity mounted, he was confronted in Beirut in January 1963 by his ...

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Kim Philby was the quintessential spy, a man who charmed and betrayed in equal measure. To his colleagues in MI6, he was the consummate professional, rising swiftly through the ranks of Britain’s ...

LONDON (Reuters) – Top secret MI5 files detailing first-hand accounts of confessions of three of Britain’s most notorious double agents including Kim Philby and Anthony Blunt who spied for the Soviet ...

Two of the Cambridge spies, Donald Maclean and Guy Burgess, fled to Russia in 1951. A third, Kim Philby, continued to work for foreign intelligence agency MI6 despite falling under suspicion.

My grandfather tried to break spy Kim Philby - but found a master of duplicity In 1951, Helenus Milmo, a barrister and wartime MI5 officer, was tasked with trying to wring the truth from Kim ...

Kim Philby was the quintessential spy, a man who charmed and betrayed in equal measure. To his colleagues in MI6, he was the consummate professional, rising swiftly through the ranks of Britain ...