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    COLD WAR DEFECTORS

    Oct 07, 2021 4 minutes

    Kim Philby

    India, 1912-88

    member of the infamous Cambridge Five, Philby was probably the most successful double-agent of the Cold War. Recruited by the USSR while at Cambridge in 1933, he went on to be a journalist before being recruited into MI6 in 1940 by another double-agent, Guy Burgess. He had posts in counterespionage and as MI6 liaison in Washington DC. Alongside feeding classified intel to the USSR, when Burgess and his colleague Donald MacLean were about to be exposed as double-agents in 1951 Philby warned them, aiding their escape. While this raised suspicions and lost him his posting, he avoided complete exposure until he moved to

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