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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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Harold Adrian Russell (Kim) PHILBY: British. PHILBY became a committed communist...
Catalogue reference: KV 2/4737
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This record is about the Harold Adrian Russell (Kim) PHILBY: British. PHILBY became a committed communist... dating from 1963 Jan 9 - 1963 Apr 17 in the series The Security Service: Personal (PF Series) Files. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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- KV 2/4737
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1963 Jan 9 - 1963 Apr 17
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Description (What the record is about)
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Harold Adrian Russell (Kim) PHILBY: British. PHILBY became a committed communist while at Cambridge University in the early 1930s. He was recruited by Arnold DEUTSCH, an officer of the Russian Intelligence Services (RIS), in 1934 and became the first of the Cambridge Five ring of spies. PHILBY joined SIS in 1940 and rose to a senior position, serving in Washington from 1949-1951. Following the defection of fellow RIS agents Guy BURGESS and Donald MACLEAN in 1951, PHILBY came under suspicion and intensive investigation by MI5. However, it wasn't until 1963 that conclusive was obtained identifying him as a spy. This led him to make a partial confession, after which, with the assistance of RIS, he was able to defect to the Soviet Union
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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 604584 VOL 15
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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/C19404973/
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The Security Service: Personal (PF Series) Files
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