Following the departure of his father and stepbrothers for Saudi Arabia, Philby continued to live alone in Ajaltun, but took a flat in Beirut after beginning an affair with Eleanor, the Seattle-born wife of New York Times correspondent Sam Pope Brewer.

While working as a correspondent in Spain, Philby began an affair with Frances Doble, Lady Lindsay-Hogg, an actress and aristocratic divorcée who was an admirer of Francisco Franco and Adolf Hitler.

In 1956 Philby began an affair with Eleanor Brewer, the wife of New York Times correspondent Sam Pope Brewer.

However, in her absence, Philby had begun an affair with Donald Maclean's wife, Melinda.

Philby had had an affair with the wife of his friend Sam Brewer, the New York Times correspondent in Beirut.

In 1965, Maclean's wife began an affair with Kim Philby and went to live with him in 1966.

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.

* Philby is a central character in the 1981 Ted Allbeury novel The Other Side of Silence.

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.

* 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.

* In the song " Philby ", from the Top Priority album ( 1979 ), Rory Gallagher draws parallels between his life on the road and a spy's in a foreign country.

The lyric goes " Up on the catwalk, and you dress in waistcoats / And got brillantino, and friends of Kim Philby.

On his first meeting in her office, Philby was surprised to see his old friend from Cambridge, Guy Burgess, who was already working there.

On 23 May, concerned that Maclean had not yet fled, Philby wired Burgess, ostensibly about his Lincoln convertible abandoned in the Embassy car park.

On the evening of 23 January 1963, Philby vanished from Beirut, failing to meet his wife for a dinner party at the home of Glen Balfour-Paul, First Secretary at the British Embassy.

On return Philby completed the crossing from Riyadh to Jeddah by the " backdoor " route, thus demonstrating Ibn Saud was in control of the Arabian highlands, whereas Sherif Hussein could not guarantee safe passage.

Philby was an Officer of the Order of the British Empire ( OBE ) from 1946 to 1965.

Whilst in Vienna, working to aid refugees from Nazi Germany, Philby met and fell in love with Litzi Friedmann ( born Alice Kohlmann ), a young Austrian Communist of Hungarian Jewish origins.

According to Genrikh Borovik, who worked from Soviet archives, Tudor Hart recommended Litzi and Philby in 1934.

Philby worked at first as a freelance journalist ; from May 1937, he served as a correspondent for the Times of London, reporting from the side of the pro-Franco forces.

Philby found that the award proved helpful in obtaining access to fascist circles: " Before then ," he later wrote, " there had been a lot of criticism of British journalists from Franco officers who seemed to think that the British in general must be a lot of Communists because so many were fighting with the International Brigades.

Whilst on a short trip back from Spain, Philby tried to recruit Flora Solomon, daughter of a Russian banker and gold dealer, a relative of the Rothschilds and wife of a London stockbroker, as a Soviet agent.

During the Phoney War from September 1939 until the Dunkirk evacuation, Philby worked as the Times correspondent with the British Expeditionary Force headquarters.

Aileen Philby ( née Furse ) had suffered since childhood from psychological problems which caused her to inflict injuries upon herself.

Teddy Kollek, an Austrian Jew, former agent of Mossad and mayor of Jerusalem, recognised him from their prewar Vienna days, saw them together and assumed that Angleton had " turned " Philby into a triple agent.

Following Aileen Philby's death in England in 1957, and Eleanor's subsequent divorce from Brewer, Philby and Eleanor were married in London in 1959, and set up house together in Beirut.

The head of MI6, Dick White, only recently transferred from MI5, had suspected Philby as the " third man.

" She recalled returning home to Beirut from a sight-seeing trip in Jordan to find Philby " hopelessly drunk and incoherent with grief on the terrace of the flat ," mourning the death of a little pet fox which had fallen from the balcony.

" Philby drank heavily and suffered from loneliness and depression ; according to Rufina, he had attempted suicide by slashing his wrists in the 1960s.

In 1946, Philby finally arranged a formal divorce from Litzi ; he and Aileen were married on 25 September 1946, while Aileen was pregnant with their fourth child, Miranda.

She lived separately from Philby, settling with their children in Crowborough while he lived first in London and later in Beirut.

* 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.

* 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.

Sample lyrics: " Now ain't it strange that I feel like Philby / There's a stranger in my soul / I'm lost in transit in a lonesome city / I can't come in from the cold.