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.

In 1961, defector Anatoliy Golitsyn provided information which pointed to Philby.

Eleanor Philby provided a rare glimpse of the Macleans ' life.

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 order to protect his family, still living in Russia, he said nothing about Philby, an agreement Stalin respected.

Dobb, a Communist sympathiser, also placed Philby in contact with the Comintern underground in Vienna, Austria.

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.

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

Philby also dealt with Anatol Gorsky ( code-name Kap ) the OGPU resident in London and his predecessor, a German known as Reif ( code-name Mar ).

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

In December 1937, during the battle of Teruel, a Republican shell hit just in front of the car in which Philby was travelling with the correspondents Edward J. Neil of the Associated Press, Bradish Johnson of Newsweek, and Ernest Sheepshanks of Reuters.

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.

The Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, with its secret protocol that the Wehrmacht and the Red Army would divide Poland, shocked Philby.

" When Britain declared war on Germany in September 1939, contact with his Soviet controllers was lost and Philby failed to attend meetings.

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

While with Section V, Philby met James Jesus Angleton, a young American counter-intelligence officer working in liaison with SIS in London.

This turned out to be identical with Barclay's dispatch, convincing the NKVD that Philby had seen the full Barclay report.

Philby was given the task of dealing with Volkov.

In February 1947, Philby was appointed head of British intelligence for Turkey, and posted to Istanbul with his second wife, Aileen, and their family.

Shortly afterward, Philby was moved to the job as chief SIS representative in Washington, D. C., with his family.

Philby was also responsible for liaising with the CIA and promoting " more aggressive Anglo-American intelligence operations.

Angleton remained suspicious of Philby, but lunched with him every week in Washington.

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

From 1952, Philby struggled to find work as a journalist, eventually – in August 1954 – accepting a position with a diplomatic newsletter called the Fleet Street Letter.

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 November 1955 Philby gave a press conference in which – calmly, confidently, and without the stammer he had struggled with since childhood – he reiterated his innocence, declaring, " I have never been a communist.

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.

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

Philby admired the strength of her political convictions and later recalled that at their first meeting: " frank and direct person, Litzi came out and asked me how much money I had.

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 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 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 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.

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.

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.