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.

* 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.

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 2006's The Good Shepherd, he played British spy Arch Cummings, a stand-in for Kim Philby.

Tyler a Foreign Service officer ) claims that Philby played a crucial role in a 1949-1950 British disinformation campaign to mislead the Soviets about Anglo-American nuclear capacities and willingness to retaliate against a Soviet invasion of Western Europe.

* Toby Stephens, actor, who has played Kim Philby in television drama Cambridge Spies

* Reed Halsey Philby ( Kathy Wagner ( Season 1 )/ Ashley Judd ( Seasons 2-4 )/ Noelle Parker ( Season 6 )): Alex and Wade's daughter Reed appeared on and off throughout the show's run and was played by three different actresses.

Addy played the role of David Philby in The Time Machine and made a guest appearance as the Ship Captain in Around the World in 80 Days with Jackie Chan and Steve Coogan and made an appearance as Friar Tuck in Ridley Scott's 2010 film Robin Hood.

In 2003 she played Melinda Maclean, wife of British communist spy Donald Duart Maclean, and mistress of spy Kim Philby ( played by husband Toby Stephens ), in the TV mini-series Cambridge Spies.

This support played a key role in directing the Baltic resistance movement, however it diminished significantly after MI6's Operation Jungle was severely compromised by the activities of British spies ( Kim Philby and others ) who forwarded information to the Soviets, enabling the KGB to identify, infiltrate and eliminate many Baltic guerrilla units and cut others off from any further contact with Western intelligence operatives.

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

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

As a result of this accident, Philby, who was well-liked by the Nationalist forces whose victories he trumpeted, was awarded the Red Cross of Military Merit by Franco on 2 March 1938.

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.

Philby claimed to have overheard discussion of this by chance and sent a report to his controller.

These lapses by Philby aroused intense suspicion in Moscow.

Aileen Philby resented him and disliked his presence ; Americans were offended by his " natural superciliousness " and " utter contempt for the whole pyramid of values, attitudes, and courtesies of the American way of life.

Under a cloud of suspicion raised by his highly-visible and intimate association with Burgess, Philby returned to London.

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.

After being exonerated, Philby was no longer employed by MI6, and Soviet intelligence lost all contact with him.

" Prompted by Elliott's accusations, Philby confirmed the charges of espionage and describe his intelligence activities on behalf of the Soviets.

Philby was under virtual house arrest, guarded, with all visitors screened by the KGB.

Philby occupied himself by writing his memoirs, published in England in 1968 under the title My Silent War.

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.

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

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

* 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.

In fact, Philby had ended le Carré's intelligence officer career by betraying him to the Russians.