Wednesday, January 23, 1963: Kim Philby

Kim Philby, a newspaper correspondent who had previously worked for British intelligence, secretly leaves Beirut, Lebanon, making his way to the Soviet Union. It is later revealed that he had been spying for the Soviets since the 1930s and that he was among the "Cambridge Five" spy ring.

* Short biography (National Cold War Exhibition): @

* "Kim Philby: Father, husband, traitor, spy" (The Telegraph, January 2013): @

* "Kim Philby and the Age of Paranoia" (New York Times Magazine, 1994): @

* "The Moscow Life of Kim Philby" (Pravda): @

* "The Cambridge Spies" (BBC): @ and @ and @ (news stories, footage)

* Cambridge Spy Ring (spymuseum.com): @

* Bibliography of British spies: @

* "My Silent War" (Philby, 1968): @

* "Philby Talks" (1955 newsreel): @
* "Philby's Choice" (Russia Today, 2012): @
* BBC Newsnight report on Philby's death in 1988: @ 

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