The combination of being “blown” by the MI6 traitor George Blake ... British traitors Philby, Blunt, Burgess and Maclean had gone through. Not that le Carre had any time for the traitors: he had ...

Cambridge spy Kim Philby had no regrets about his treachery, his interrogators said after he was unmasked. The double agent’s confession has been published in full for the first time in newly ...

The Cambridge spy Kim Philby declared he would have done it all again after he finally confessed that he had been for years a Russian agent, according to newly-declassified intelligence files. The ...

The Cambridge spy Kim Philby declared he would have done it all again after he finally confessed that he had been for years a Russian agent, according to newly-declassified intelligence files.

However, the release of MI5’s files this week, detailing the confessions of Kim Philby and his fellow members of the Cambridge Five, forces us to confront an unsettling reality: espionage is a world ...

Kim Philby was the quintessential spy, a man who charmed and betrayed in equal measure. To his colleagues in MI6, he was the consummate professional, rising swiftly through the ranks of Britain ...

Kim Philby was the quintessential spy, a man who charmed and betrayed in equal measure. To his colleagues in MI6, he was the consummate professional, rising swiftly through the ranks of Britain’s ...

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MI5’s top interrogator was baffled by Kim Philby, admitting he could not determine whether he was a Soviet spy, according to newly declassified intelligence files. Jim Skardon, a former Metropolitan ...