Kim Philby, as depicted on a Soviet Union stamp. The Cambridge Five was a ring of spies in the United Kingdom that passed information to the Soviet Union during the Second World War and …

In 1963, he was revealed to be a member of the Cambridge Five, a spy ring that had divulged British secrets to the Soviets during World War II and in the early stages of the Cold War. Of …

Aug 24, 2021 · Finally, Kim Philby, known as the most notorious spy among the Cambridge 5, died in 1988 when he was 76 years old. He had spent his last 25 years of life in Moscow. …

Jan 14, 2025 · Harold ‘Kim’ Philby, Guy Burgess, Donald Maclean, Anthony Blunt and John Cairncross formed the most infamous spy ring of the 20th century: the Cambridge Five. They …

Jul 11, 2024 · Anthony Blunt, Guy Burgess, John Cairncross, Donald Maclean, and Kim Philby – known as the Cambridge Five – were elite British members of a KGB spy ring that penetrated …

From the 1930s right into the era of the Cold War, a group of seemingly patriotic British men consistently betrayed their country by leaking secrets to the Soviet Union. But who exactly …

Jan 23, 2025 · Why did five University of Cambridge friends end up spying for the Soviet Union? Homepage. ... (Photo of Cambridge spy Kim Philby in 1955. Credit: Harold Clements/Hulton …

Jan 13, 2023 · One late January evening 60 years ago, British intelligence agent Kim Philby disappeared into thin air whilst ostensibly working as a journalist in the Lebanese capital of …

The unmasking of the first two of the Cambridge Five came a little more than a year after the 1949 arrest of nuclear spy Klaus Fuchs, so the relationship between British and US intelligence was …

Their story is one of the most remarkable and heroic chapters in the history of our foreign intelligence. Kim Philby and his comrades helped alter the course of the 20 th century, to steer …