* 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.

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

The Spanish Army Red Cross of Military Merit awarded by General Francisco Franco to Kim Philby at Salamanca town on 2nd March 1938

His dissolution had a troubling effect on Philby ; the morning after a particularly disastrous and drunken party, a guest returning to collect his car heard voices upstairs and found " Kim and Guy in the bedroom drinking champagne.

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

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

* 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.

* 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.

* Graham Greene, Kim Philby's close friend, wrote the screenplay for The Third Man using Philby as a model for Harry Lime, one of the characters.

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

* Kim Philby, My Silent War, published by Macgibbon & Kee Ltd, London, 1968, or Granda Publishing, ISBN 978-0-586-02860-5.

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Contrary to America's policy which restrained armament ( limited equipment was provided for infantry and police forces ) to South Korea, Stalin extensively armed Kim Il Sung's North Korean army and air forces with military equipment ( to include T-34 / 85 tanks ) and " advisors " far in excess of those required for defensive purposes ) in order to facilitate Kim's ( a former Soviet Officer ) aim of conquering the rest of the Korean peninsula.

Post – Cold War research in Soviet Archives has revealed that the Korean War was begun by Kim Il-sung with the express permission of Stalin, though this is disputed by North Korea.

The United States and other Western powers used the war to prop up South Korea against Soviet and PRC-backed communist North Korea led by Kim Il-Sung.

In the aftermath of partition of Korea, Kim Il-Sung had arrived in North Korea on August 22 after 26 years in exile in China and the Soviet Union.

From their ranks, using Soviet advisers and equipment, Kim constructed a large army skilled in infiltration tactics and guerrilla warfare.

The consolidation of Syngman Rhee's government in the South with American military support and the suppression of the October 1948 insurrection ended hopes that the country could be reunified by way of Stalinist revolution in the South, and from early 1949 Kim sought Soviet and Chinese support for a military campaign to reunify the country by force.

That same year in 1984, North Korea again drifted towards the Soviet Union after Kim visited Moscow during a grand tour of the USSR ( his first trip to Moscow since 1966 ) as well as Eastern Europe ( he made public visits to East Germany, Czechlosvakia, Poland, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria and Yugoslavia ).

The elder Kim was unmoved by the social and ecomomic reforms of Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev starting in 1985, and this contributed to the decline in relations with Moscow.

Following Kim Il Sung's 1984 visit to Moscow, there was a dramatic improvement in Soviet-DPRK relations, resulting in renewed deliveries of advanced Soviet weaponry to North Korea and increases in economic aid.

Kim Young Sam visited Moscow from June 2 to June 10, 1989, as the Kremlin announced that it would allow some 300, 000 Soviet-Koreans who had been on the Soviet island of Sahkalin since the end of World War II to return permanently to South Korea.

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.

* July 30 – The Soviet newspaper Izvestia reports that Kim Philby has been given asylum in Moscow.

She was named after Soviet gymnast Nellie Kim.

As a North Korean official explained to Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin in 1965, " the Korean leaders were distrustful of the CPSU and the Soviet government, they could not count on that the Soviet government would keep the obligations related to the defense of Korea it assumed in the Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation and Mutual Assistance, Kim Il-sung said, and therefore they were compelled to keep an army of 700, 000 and a police force of 200, 000.

On September 9, 1948, Kim Il-sung declared the Democratic People's Republic of Korea ; he promptly received diplomatic recognition from the Soviet Union, but not the United States.

Soviet records show that Kim was born in the village of Vyatskoye, near Khabarovsk, in 1941, where his father, Kim Il-sung, commanded the 1st Battalion of the Soviet 88th Brigade, made up of Chinese and Korean exiles.

His father returned to Pyongyang that September, and in late November Kim returned to Korea via a Soviet ship, landing at Sonbong ( 선봉군, also Unggi ).

* Kim Tai Chung, Korean martial artist and former actor and Bruce Lee double

A Japanese double agent named Yoshira ( 要時羅 ) was sent to the Joseon general Kim Gyeong-seo ( 김경서, 金景瑞, 1564 – 1624 ), and convinced the general that he would spy on the Japanese.

He had one son, Kim, later a British intelligence agent infamous as a double agent for the Soviet Union, and three daughters.

* Kim Philby ( British / Soviet double agent )

He was also one of the " fake " Bruce Lees in Game of Death ( 1978 ), performing the acrobatics and stunts that the Bruce Lee " body double " ( Taekwondo expert, Kim Tai Chung ) was unable to perform.

At the Australian Open, she was defeated by Kim Clijsters in the first round with a double bagel ..

Even though Kim was backed by the professional motorcross racer David Barrett in a jump that was a double on the Ducati.

Golitsyn provided information about many famous Soviet agents including Kim Philby, Donald Duart Maclean, Guy Burgess, John Vassall, double agent Aleksandr Kopatzky who worked in Germany, and others.

In the 9th inning, Kim saved the game with the game-ending double play off Mark McGwire's bat.

Kim pitched masterfully in the inning, ending the bases loaded jam with a double play and a lineout.

Jorge Posada hit a double off Kim, but Kim grounded out Shane Spencer and struck out Chuck Knoblauch.

One of Khiêm's subordinates, Phạm Ngọc Thảo, a communist double agent, was planning one of the many coup plots that engulfed Saigon and destabilised the regime, with the help of Trần Kim Tuyến.

" 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.

Haydon is portrayed rather in the mould of real-life double agent Kim Philby who is known to have compromised le Carré's own career in MI6 ; certainly his actions parallel Philby's ability to paralyse the British intelligence service.

Egyptologist Kim Ryholt reads the double name as a filiation, ' Renseneb son of Amenemhat '.