Kim Philby (38 page)

A rather pensive Kim Philby, 1933, shortly before he was recruited as a KGB agent.

Commissioned into the Royal Engineers in 1940, Tim was recruited into MI6 only a year later by his childhood friend Philby.

Kim and Aileen Philby’s son Harry with Tim’s wife Marie and their daughter Catherine.

The Cambridge Four: (clockwise from top left) John Cairncross, Anthony Blunt, Guy Burgess playing the piano at a friend’s house in Moscow and Donald Maclean.

A report written by the KGB’s London
Rezident
created from information provided by Source
SOHNCHEN
(Philby’s KGB code-name). It details the locations of various secret British intelligence and Special Operations Executive bases.

Kim Philby’s uncomplimentary hand-printed report to Moscow Centre on Nicholas Elliott, who believed himself to be a friend of the KGB ‘master spy’.

The author Graham Greene, who worked alongside Milne and Philby in MI6.

Philby gives a press conference at his mother’s London home after then Foreign Secretary Harold Macmillan told Parliament: ‘I have no reason to conclude that Mr Philby has at any time betrayed the interests of his country, or to identify him with the so-called “Third Man”, if indeed there was one.’

Macmillan, who as Foreign Secretary cleared Philby of being the Third Man and was Prime Minister when Philby admitted spying and defected to Moscow.

Nicholas Elliott, who ran Philby as a freelance agent in Beirut and went to the Lebanese capital to interview him after it emerged that Philby was indeed a Soviet spy.

Dick White, who sent Elliott to Beirut to interrogate Philby.

Kim Philby in Moscow with his Russian wife Rufina and members of the KGB.