Kim Philby

by Tim Milne

  Section IX Kim Philby works for 1, 2, 3

  kept secret from OSS 1

  information on given to Soviet Union 1

  Sharp, Noel 1, 2

  Shortt, Peter 1

  Sinclair, John 1, 2

  SIS see also Section V and Section IX Tim Milne joins 1

  first approaches Kim Philby 1

  officer sent to Soviet Union 1

  at end of Second World War 1

  and Konstantin Volkov 1

  possibility of Kim Philby as chief of 1

  tries to establish Kim Philby’s innocence 1

  Skorzeny, Otto 1

  Smith-Cumming, Captain 1

  SOE Kim Philby works for 1

  Marie Milne works for 1

  Solomon, Flora 1

  Spain Kim Philby as journalist in 1, 2

  Tim Milne travels to 1

  demarches sent to 1

  Stewart, Michael 1, 2, 3, 4

  Storm Petrels, The (Brook-Shepherd) 1

  Stuart, Charles 1

  Sunday Times 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7

  Szegedi-Szűts, György 1

  Szegedi-Szűts, István 1

  Thomas, Bertram 1

  Times, The Kim Philby works for 1, 2, 3, 4

  Travis, Commander 1

  Trevor-Roper, Hugh 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7

  Trevor-Wilson, A. G. 1, 2

  Trinity College, Cambridge Kim Philby at 1, 2

  Trott, Adam von 1

  Tucker, Nannie 1, 2, 3, 4

  Turkey Kim Philby posted to 1, 2

  Tim Milne visits 1, 2, 3

  Twenty-Five European Languages (Lyell) 1

  Ustinov, Klop 1

  V-weapons 1

  Vienna Kim Philby moves to 1, 2

  Vivian, Valentine 1, 2

  Volkov, Konstantin 1, 2, 3

  War Room 1

  Webster, Tom 1

  Wesley, John 1

  Westminster School Kim Philby at 1, 2

  Tim Milne at 1, 2, 3, 4

  description of 1

  White, Dick 1, 2, 3

  Wilson, Harold 1

  Winnifrith, John 1

  Wolff, General 1

  WOOD 1

  Wyllie, Tom 1

  Yogi and the Commissar, The (Koestler) 1

  Yugoslavia Kim Philby in 1

  Kim Philby and Tim Milne in 1, 2

  Zaehner, Robin 1

  Tim Milne, 1929.

  Tim Milne (front row, second from right) and Kim Philby (front row, first from right) on stage at Westminster School, 1928.

  Tim’s wife Marie with Tim’s uncle, the renowned author A. A. Milne.

  A rather pensive Kim Philby, 1933, shortly before he was recruited as a KGB agent.

  Commissioned into the Royal Engineers in 1940, Tim was recruited into MI6 only a year later by his childhood friend Philby.

  Kim and Aileen Philby’s son Harry with Tim’s wife Marie and their daughter Catherine.

  The Cambridge Four: (clockwise from top left) John Cairncross, Anthony Blunt, Guy Burgess playing the piano at a friend’s house in Moscow and Donald Maclean.

  A report written by the KGB’s London Rezident created from information provided by Source SOHNCHEN (Philby’s KGB code-name). It details the locations of various secret British intelligence and Special Operations Executive bases.

  Kim Philby’s uncomplimentary hand-printed report to Moscow Centre on Nicholas Elliott, who believed himself to be a friend of the KGB ‘master spy’.

  The author Graham Greene, who worked alongside Milne and Philby in MI6.

  Philby gives a press conference at his mother’s London home after then Foreign Secretary Harold Macmillan told Parliament: ‘I have no reason to conclude that Mr Philby has at any time betrayed the interests of his country, or to identify him with the so-called “Third Man”, if indeed there was one.’

  Macmillan, who as Foreign Secretary cleared Philby of being the Third Man and was Prime Minister when Philby admitted spying and defected to Moscow.

  Nicholas Elliott, who ran Philby as a freelance agent in Beirut and went to the Lebanese capital to interview him after it emerged that Philby was indeed a Soviet spy.

  Dick White, who sent Elliott to Beirut to interrogate Philby.

  Kim Philby in Moscow with his Russian wife Rufina and members of the KGB.

  Milne, MI6 head of station in Tokyo, 1961.

  Tim with his brother Tony in 1980.

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