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Accessions administration: KV 2
Catalogue reference: PRO 57/15934
Date: 2000 Jan 1 - 2003 Dec 31
Accessions administration: KV 2
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Lizy PHILBY nee FRIEDMANN: Austrian, British, East German. Lizy FRIEDMANN, A committed...
Catalogue reference: KV 2/4663
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This record is about the Lizy PHILBY nee FRIEDMANN: Austrian, British, East German. Lizy FRIEDMANN, A committed... dating from 1940 Oct 26 - 1952 May 6 in the series The Security Service: Personal (PF Series) Files. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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- KV 2/4663
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1940 Oct 26 - 1952 May 6
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Description (What the record is about)
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Lizy PHILBY nee FRIEDMANN: Austrian, British, East German. Lizy FRIEDMANN, A committed communist, met Kim PHILBY in Vienna in the early 1930s. They married in 1933 and came to the UK in 1934. It is likely that Lizy encouraged Kim's commitment to communism and it was through a friend of Lizy's that Kim was recruited by the Russian Intelligence Services (RIS). The marriage was short-lived and Lizy moved to East Germany after the war
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Former department reference (Former identifier given by the originating creator)
- PF 68261 VOL 1
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- Public Record(s)
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- Open on Transfer
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- Open Document, Open Description
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- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C19404899/
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KV 2
The Security Service: Personal (PF Series) Files
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