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* Philby, Burgess and MacLean – Spy Scandal of the Century, a BBC drama produced for TV in 1977, covers the period of the late 1940s, when British intelligence investigated Kim Philby's colleague Donald Maclean until 1955 when the British government cleared Philby because it did not have enough evidence to convict him.
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Philby and Burgess
In 1963, Philby was revealed to be a member of the spy ring now known as the Cambridge Five, the other members of which were Donald Maclean, Guy Burgess, Anthony Blunt, and John Cairncross.
" Yuri Modin, one of the KGB controllers of the Cambridge Five, agreed: " Contrary to received opinion, it was neither Guy Burgess nor one of our own agents who lured Philby into the toils of the Soviet espionage apparatus.
On his first meeting in her office, Philby was surprised to see his old friend from Cambridge, Guy Burgess, who was already working there.
Burgess was fired for " irreverence ", and Philby was appointed as an instructor in the art of clandestine propaganda at the SOE's training establishment in Beaulieu, Hampshire.
Burgess, who had been given a post as Second Secretary at the British Embassy, took up residence in the Philby family home and rapidly set about causing offence to all and sundry.
Burgess ' presence was problematic for Philby, yet it was potentially dangerous for Philby to leave him unsupervised.
On 23 May, concerned that Maclean had not yet fled, Philby wired Burgess, ostensibly about his Lincoln convertible abandoned in the Embassy car park.
Under a cloud of suspicion raised by his highly-visible and intimate association with Burgess, Philby returned to London.
* Cambridge Spies, a 2003 four-part BBC drama, recounts the lives of Philby, Burgess, Blunt, and Maclean from their Cambridge days in the 1930s through the defection of Burgess and Maclean in 1951.
* Burgess, MacLean and Philby, FBI FOIA
Trinity alumni include six British prime ministers ( all Tory or Whig / Liberal ), British King George VI, several heads of other nations, physicists Isaac Newton and Niels Bohr, philosophers Ludwig Wittgenstein and Bertrand Russell ( whom it expelled before reaccepting ), and Soviet spies Kim Philby, Guy Burgess, and Anthony Blunt.
The most successful of these agents — Harold " Kim " Philby, Donald Maclean, Guy Burgess, Anthony Blunt and John Cairncross — went undetected until after the Second World War, and were known as the Cambridge Five.
He played Anthony Blunt in Cambridge Spies a BBC production about the four British spies, starring alongside Toby Stephens ( Philby ), Tom Hollander ( Burgess ) and Rupert Penry-Jones ( Maclean ).
In 1940, journalist and Soviet agent Kim Philby applied for a vacancy in Section D of SIS, and was vetted by his friend and fellow Soviet agent Guy Burgess.
Philby was eased out of office and quietly retired in 1953 after the defection of his friends and fellow members of the " Cambridge spy ring " Donald Duart Maclean and Guy Burgess.
Four members of the ring have been identified: Kim Philby ( cryptonym: Stanley ), Donald Duart Maclean ( cryptonym: Homer ), Guy Burgess ( cryptonym: Hicks ) and Anthony Blunt ( cryptonym: Johnson ); jointly they are known as the Cambridge Four.
Blunt, a Fellow of Trinity College, was several years older than Burgess, Maclean, and Philby ; he acted as a talent-spotter and recruiter.
Realizing he had to act fast, he ordered Burgess, who was on the embassy staff as well and living with Philby, to warn Maclean in England, where he was serving in the Foreign Office headquarters.
It was obvious they had been tipped off and Philby quickly became prime suspect, due to his close relations with Burgess.
The term " Five " began to be used in 1961, when KGB defector Anatoliy Golitsyn named Maclean and Burgess as part of a " Ring of Five ", with Philby a ' probable ' third, alongside two other agents whom he did not know.
Harris appears to be a composite of Philby, Burgess and Maclean.
Philby and MacLean
The three known agents were Apostle Guy Burgess, an MI6 officer and secretary to the deputy foreign minister ; Donald MacLean, foreign office secretary ; and Kim Philby, MI6 officer and journalist.
Philby and –
* 1963 – The British Government admits that former diplomat Kim Philby had worked as a Soviet agent.
Harold Adrian Russell " Kim " Philby ( 1 January 1912 – 11 May 1988 ) was a high-ranking member of British intelligence who worked as a double agent before defecting to the Soviet Union.
It is possible that it was a Viennese-born friend of Friedmann's in London, Edith Tudor Hart – herself, at this time, a Soviet agent – who first approached Philby about the possibility of working for Soviet intelligence.
From 1952, Philby struggled to find work as a journalist, eventually – in August 1954 – accepting a position with a diplomatic newsletter called the Fleet Street Letter.
" In November 1955 Philby gave a press conference in which – calmly, confidently, and without the stammer he had struggled with since childhood – he reiterated his innocence, declaring, " I have never been a communist.
* John Philby – Daily Telegraph obituary
* January 1 – Kim Philby, British spy ( d. 1988 )
* July 30 – The Soviet newspaper Izvestia reports that Kim Philby has been given asylum in Moscow.
* May 11 – Kim Philby, British spy ( b. 1912 )
Philby was of the view that both British and the Saudi family's interests would be best served by uniting the Arabian peninsula under one government from the Red Sea to the Persian Gulf, with the Saudis supplanting the Hashemites as Islamic " Keepers of the Holy Places " while protecting shipping lanes on the Suez – Aden – Bombay route of the British Empire.
Philby personally mapped on camelback what is now the Saudi – Yemeni border on the Rub ' al Khali.
* Kim Philby ( 1912 – 1988 )
* Kim Philby ( 1912 – 1988 )
Philby and Spy
* John le Carré ( David Cornwell ) depicts and analyses Philby as Bill Haydon, the upper-class traitor in Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy.
* The 2005 film A Different Loyalty is an unattributed account taken from Eleanor Philby's book, Kim Philby: The Spy I Loved.
* Bruce Page, David Leitch and Phillip Knightley, Philby: The Spy Who Betrayed a Generation, 1968, published by André Deutsch, Ltd., London.
* Booknotes interview with Anthony Cave Brown on Treason in the Blood: H. St. John Philby, Kim Philby, and the Spy Case of the Century, January 15, 1995.
Philby and BBC
* Cambridge Spies ( BBC Drama ) with Toby Stephens as Kim Philby, Tom Hollander as Guy Burgess, Rupert Penry-Jones as Donald Maclean, and Samuel West as Anthony Blunt.
* Philby, Burgess and Maclean, 1977 Granada Television drama-documentary, recently re-broadcast on BBC Four, with Derek Jacobi as Burgess.
Blunt himself in his public confession on BBC television denied this and claimed that Philby had warned Maclean.
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