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Kim Philby (International) assertion Kim Philby i(A61316 works by) (birth name: Harold Adrian Russell Philby)
Born: Established: 1 Jan 1912 Punjab,
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India,
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South Asia, South and East Asia, Asia,
; Died: Ceased: 11 May 1988 Moscow,
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Russia,
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Former Soviet Union,
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Eastern Europe, Europe,

Gender: Male
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Born in Ambala in the Punjab, Kim Philby was a high-ranking member of the British intelligence who notoriously served as a KGB operative. A member of the spy ring now known as the Cambridge Five, Philby defected to Russia in 1963 when it was revealed he had been working as a Soviet agent.

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