Of the five, Philby is believed to have been most successful in providing secret information 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.

Philby was originally a Section D officer and is so noted in a letter of 24 September 1940 written by Lt. Col. Valentine Vivian, the head of Section V at that time.

It is unclear whether Philby had been alerted, but he began suffering nervous breakdowns and increasing alcoholism.

In the novel, Philby is a much more influential and connected figure in his Moscow exile than he apparently was in reality.

Philby is played by Toby Stephens.

* The 2005 film A Different Loyalty is an unattributed account taken from Eleanor Philby's book, Kim Philby: The Spy I Loved.

* In the 1987 adaptation of the above mentioned Frederick Forsyth novel The Fourth Protocol, Kim Philby is portrayed by Michael Bilton.

* In the 2007 ( TNT ) television three-part series The Company, produced by Ridley Scott, Tony Scott, and John Calley, Philby is portrayed by Tom Hollander.

* The Philby affair is mentioned in the Simple Minds song " Up On The Catwalk " from their sixth studio album Sparkle in the Rain.

* Barnaby Kay as Dennis Philby: an English businessman residing in Hong Kong who is driven over the edge by his girlfriend's unexpected pregnancy.

Another was described by the 2nd Zahid expedition and is 11 meters wide: this may be one of the other three originally described by Philby.

Fission-track analysis of glass fragments by Storzer suggested the Wabar impact took place thousands of years ago, but the fact that the craters have been filled-in considerably since Philby visited them suggests their origin is much more recent.

Amani Hamdan argues that the attitude of Ibn Saud towards women's education was encouraging, since he expressed his support in a conversation with St John Philby, where he stated “ It is permissible for women to read .”

Potter later returned to similar territory with Blade on the Feather ( 1980 ), inspired by the unmasking of Anthony Blunt, although in this drama the protagonist Jason Cavendish ( Donald Pleasence ) is clearly modeled after Philby.

Philby is later name-checked as the sports reporter on The Daily Telegraph in Potter's Lipstick on Your Collar ( 1993 ), and appears to be giving inside tips on horse-races to officials at the War Office.

Philby is remembered in ornithology by the name of Philby's Partridge ( Alectoris philbyi ).

In November 1921, Philby was named chief head of the Secret Service for the British Mandate of Palestine, or what is now the region of The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan ( formerly The Emirate of Transjordan ) and Israel.

Philby personally mapped on camelback what is now the Saudi – Yemeni border on the Rub ' al Khali.

St John Philby ran for election to the House of Commons for the British People's Party declaring, " no cause whatever is worth the spilling of human blood " and " protection of the small man against big business ".

It is also likely that his information helped in the investigation of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg in the U. S. Gouzenko, being a cipher clerk by profession, likely also assisted with the Venona investigation, which probed Soviet codes and which eventually led to the discovery of vital Soviet spies such as Donald Maclean, Guy Burgess, Kim Philby, Anthony Blunt, and John Cairncross ( the so-called Cambridge Five ), as well as Alan Nunn May.

In conjunction with a GRU general, an academic named Krilov and a master strategist, Philby devises " Plan Aurora " to ensure a Labour victory by exploiting the party's support for unilateral disarmament — although it is noted that Krilov has come up with most of the plan's strategy.

Philby is also a member

* 1951: meets Michael Straight in D. C .; Kim Philby warns Burgess that Maclean is under suspicion and will most likely be unmasked.

* Kim Philby appears as one of the central antagonists in William F. Buckley Jr's 2004 novel Last Call for Blackford Oakes.

* The Fourth Protocol, a novel by Frederick Forsyth uses a fictionalised Kim Philby as a central character, who conspires to smuggle a portable nuclear weapon into Britain.

* Kim Philby appears as one of the central antagonists in William F. Buckley's 2004 novel Last Call for Blackford Oakes.

* One of the earliest appearances of Kim Philby as a character in fiction was in " Gentleman Traitor " by Alan Williams in 1974.

* Philby was the inspiration for the character of British intelligence officer Archibald " Arch " Cummings in the 2005 film The Good Shepherd.

Events in the life of the character Magnus Pym are partly based upon the life and career of Kim Philby.

" Writing in his 70s, Greene drew on his own experience in MI6 and explored the moral ambiguities raised by his old boss, legendary Soviet double agent Kim Philby, although Greene stated that Castle, the main character in the novel, was not based on Philby.

Nicknamed " Kim " after the young boy in Rudyard Kipling's novel Kim, Philby attended Aldro preparatory school.

* The Robert Littell novel The Company ( 2002 ) features Philby as a confidant of former CIA Counter-Intelligence chief James Angleton.

* The 2003 novel Fox at the Front by Douglas Niles and Michael Dobson depicts Philby selling secrets to the Soviet Union during the alternate Battle of the Bulge where German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel turns on the Nazis and assists the Allies in capturing all of Berlin.

* The 2005 John Birmingham novel Designated Targets features a cameo of Philby, under orders from Moscow to assist Otto Skorzeny's mission to assassinate Winston Churchill.

* In Alan Moore's graphic novel The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Black Dossier, there appears a Cambridge Five analogue consisting of the Famous Five from Greyfriars School, including Harry Wharton who would become Big Brother, Bob Kim Cherry ( named after Kim Philby ) who would be also known as Harry Lime and subsequently M or Mother, Francis Alexander Waverly ( possibly formerly known as Frank Nugent ) and Sir John Night ( possibly formerly known as John Bull ).

* Burgess, Maclean and Philby appear in the Doctor Who Eighth Doctor Adventures novel Endgame dealing with their defection to Russia.

* The Innocent, a novel by Ian McEwan, involves a spy tunnel which the Soviets discover but do not initially expose, similar to the Philby tunnel

Philby's father, St. John Philby, was a noted Arabist whose book The Empty Quarter ( on the Rub ' al Khali ) was extensively used as source material for the novel.

Other influential investigative reports included the exposure of Kim Philby as a Soviet spy and the publication of the diaries of former Labour Minister Richard Crossman, thereby risking prosecution under the Official Secrets Act.

Other television appearances include Foyle's War: " War Games " ( 2003 ) as James Philby, and as the pilot of a doomed holiday jet in the famous Casualty episode Cascade ( 1992 ).