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 ...

Helenus Milmo, a barrister and wartime MI5 officer, was tasked with trying to wring the truth from Kim Philby. Some seven ...

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 Five consisted of Harold ‘Kim’ Philby, Guy Burgess, Donald Maclean, Anthony Blunt and John Cairncross, who together made up the most infamous spy ring of the 20th century.

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 ...

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Cambridge spy Kim Philby said he would have done it all again after he finally confessed to being a Russian agent, according to newly-declassified intelligence files. A transcript of the dramatic ...

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 ...