Philby and Litzi Friedmann married in February 1933, enabling her to escape to the United Kingdom with Philby two months later.

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

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

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

Sid's daughter from his first marriage, Annie Fairgate who goes and has sex in Karen's and Sid's bed ( Karen Allen ) would make her only appearance on the pilot episode of the show, and Sid's ex-wife and Annie's mother, Susan Philby ( Claudette Nevins ) would make her only appearance later in first season episode " Civil Wives "; neither showed for Sid's funeral early during the third season.

Eleanor Philby discovered on her return and left Moscow, for good.

Reed rebelled against her parents by dropping out of school, and later eloped with aspiring filmmaker Kirby Philby ( Paul Rudd ).

Her mother, Litzi Friedman, was the first wife of Kim Philby and her father, Georg Honigmann, was the chief editor of the " Berliner Zeitung ".

A month later Igor Gouzenko, a cipher clerk in Ottawa, took political asylum in Canada and gave the Royal Canadian Mounted Police many agent names ; Philby could do nothing about this.

In late 1915 Percy Cox, chief political officer of the small British " Mesopotamian Expeditionary Force ", recruited Philby as head of the finance branch of the British administration in Baghdad, a job which included fixing compensation for property and business owners.

Philby undermined British influence in the region, however, by facilitating the entry of United States commercial interests, followed by a political alliance between the United States and the Saud dynasty.

He served in London ( German political department, Third Secretary ); Washington ( Third Secretary, when Donald Maclean of the Cambridge five was Head of Chancery, and then as one of the 11 Second Secretaries with H. A. R. Philby, seeing NATO signed on 4 April 1949, all when Sir Oliver Franks was Ambassador ); transferred to Brussels 10 September 1951 ( Head of Chancery ) acted as Chargé d ' Affaires in 1952 ); London ( no.

His father, St. John Philby, a well-known author, orientalist, and convert to Islam, was a member of the Indian Civil Service and later a civil servant in Mesopotamia and advisor to King Ibn Sa ' ud of Saudi Arabia.

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.

In late 1944, Philby was chosen to replace Cowgill as head of Section. Charles Arnold-Baker, an officer of German birth ( born Wolfgang von Blumenthal ) working or Richard Gatty in Belgium and later transferred to the Norwegian Swedish border, voiced suspicions of Philby but was ignored.

Angleton, later chief of the Central Intelligence Agency's ( CIA ) counter-intelligence staff, became suspicious of Philby when he failed to pass on information relating to a British agent executed by the Gestapo in Germany.

Clearly there had been leaks, and Philby was later suspected as one of the leakers.

Mikhail Lyubimov, his closest KGB contact, explained that this was to guard his safety, but later admitted that the real reason was the KGB's fear that Philby would return to London.

Though Philby claimed publicly in January 1988 that he did not regret his decisions, and that he missed nothing about England except some friends, Colman's mustard, and Lea & Perrins Worcestershire sauce, his KGB-appointed wife Rufina later described Philby as " disappointed in many ways " by what he found in Moscow.

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

Philby was officially cleared by then Foreign Secretary Harold MacMillan ; this later turned out to be an error based on incomplete information and bureaucratic inefficiency in the British intelligence organisations.

In the later 1950s, Philby left the secret service and began working as a journalist in the Middle East ; The Economist magazine provided his employment there.

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 disclosed classified British intelligence to Ibn Saud ( King of Saudi Arabia ) during wartime ; he secretly helped secure American oil concessions in Saudi Arabia, double-crossing British competitors ; he created economic partnerships, allied against British interests and in favor of Nazi Germany, with the help of Allen Dulles ( later CIA Director ); and Philby worked with Nazi intelligence to sabotage efforts at creating a Jewish homeland.

St. John Philby, a British representative in Palestine, later stated that Hussein bin Ali, the Sharif of Mecca and King of Hejaz, on whose behalf Faisal was acting, had refused to recognize the agreement as soon as it was brought to his notice.

which raised a few awkward questions, British Intelligence assisted Bazna in writing I was Cicero the English edition of which was published by André Deutsch, a Hungarian publisher in London who also published von Papen's memoirs and was later asked to publish the memoirs of Kim Philby.

Philby later defected to Russia in 1963.

Genrikh Borovik, author of The Philby Files, claims that Burgess was actually tricked by the KGB into accompanying Maclean to Moscow on the basis that he would be able to return to Britain later, but never did.

" 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 was born at Ambala in the Punjab while it was a province of British India.

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.

In London, Philby enrolled at the School of Slavonic languages to learn Russian, helped by his father, a friend of the director.

Philby engaged in a concerted effort to make contact with Germans such as Joachim von Ribbentrop, at that time the German ambassador in London.

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.

His Soviet controller at the time, Theodore Maly, reported in April 1937 to the NKVD that he had personally briefed Philby on the need " to discover the system of guarding Franco and his entourage.

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

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.

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.

Philby provided Stalin with advance warning of Operation Barbarossa and of the Japanese intention to strike south at Singapore instead of attacking the USSR as Hitler had urged.

Philby had been briefed on the situation shortly before reaching Washington in 1949 ; it was clear to Philby that the agent was Donald Maclean, who worked in the British Embassy at the time and whose wife, Melinda, lived in New York.

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.

In October 1955 Philby was officially cleared by Foreign Secretary Harold Macmillan, who told the House of Commons, " 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.

In Lebanon, Philby at first lived in Mahalla Jamil, his father's large household located in the village of Ajaltun, just outside of Beirut.

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.

* 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.

When Harry has to go away on a business trip, Tacey agrees to take the baby and sleep over each night at the home of their friends, fellow lawyer Bill Philby ( John Russell ) and his wife Edna, just to squelch any possibility of scandal in their suburban community of Hummingbird Hill.

When Section D was absorbed by Special Operations Executive ( SOE ) in summer of 1940, Philby was appointed as an instructor in the arts of " black propaganda " at the SOE's training establishment in Beaulieu, Hampshire.

After a month's journey through wastes so harsh that even some of the camels died, on 2 February 1932 Philby arrived at a patch of ground about a half a square kilometer in size, littered with chunks of white sandstone, black glass, and chunks of iron meteorite.

With the extensive contacts he acquired as a British agent, Philby continued to betray British policy and resist all efforts at creating a Jewish homeland throughout his life.