He was the perfect British gentleman - polite, well-spoken, impeccable manners and a knack for charming everyone who came in ...

"I wonder if you could add one small item to your shopping list?" Kim Philby wrote from Moscow to his wife Eleanor who was visiting in California. "I was thinking of some song-restorer for the canary.

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 ...

One night last January, Harold Adrian Russell Philby, 51, a British journalist based in Lebanon, headed off for an appointment, telling his wife Eleanor that he would join her later in the evening ...

Kim Philby was a high-flying MI6 officer - who had been tipped as a future chief - but was also spying for Russia after being recruited at Cambridge University in the 1930s Kim Philby's unmasking ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

A Spy Among Friends spoilers follow. New ITVX drama A Spy Among Friends tells the true story of a very British scandal – how British Intelligence officer Harold "Kim" Philby (played by Guy ...

Two of the Cambridge spies, Donald Maclean and Guy Burgess, fled to Russia in 1951. A third, Kim Philby, continued to work for foreign intelligence agency MI6 despite falling under suspicion.

The story of Kim Philby is perhaps too good to make up. The British spy, a double agent for Moscow, operated at the highest levels of the intelligence community; his ability to disseminate ...

The six-part espionage drama “A Spy Among Friends” opens with a well-known quote from novelist E.M. Forster, which blooms enigmatic as the series rolls out: “If I had to choose between ...