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Having a ball, the finest 400; ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDANTS.
The Daily Mail (London, England)
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July 9, 2005
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The Moscow reminiscences of Kim Philby
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; ...hundreds of articles have been devoted to Harold "Kim" Philby, the celebrated British turncoat. Philby himself wrote My Silent War, a KGB-approved...and a spin-off in the U.S. titled The Philby Conspiracy soon appeared. One of its authors...
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A Cold War Love Story.(Russin spy Kim Philby and his wife)
Magazine article from: Insight on the News
; ...Cold War British `double agent' Kim Philby reveals the details of what happened...notorious British `double agent' Kim Philby was devoted to for the last two decades...so-called "Magnificent Five": Kim Philby, Anthony Blunt, Guy Burgess, Donald...
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SPY KIM PHILBY'S LIFE IN EXILE AS A HOMEBODY
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; ...t envision a bleaker destiny. Kim Philby, the maestro of this century's...by three other kinds of material. Kim Philby's previously unpublished autobiographical...by-products," Peake notes, "Kim Philby would become for one side the model...
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Tinker, tailor, soldier, spy Double agent Kim Philby's friendship with novelist Graham Greene was laced with deceit - yet loyal to the end
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe
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Interview: Author Phillip Knightley discusses the life of British double agent Kim Philby
Transcript from: Weekend Edition - Saturday (NPR)
; ...the life of British double agent Kim Philby Host: SCOTT SIMON Time: 1:00...and for that matter literature, is Kim Philby. He was charming, cunning and ruthless...not convict him, of espionage. Kim Philby wound up fleeing to Moscow. His...
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`Kim' Philby, 76, dies; British spy fled to U.S.S.R.
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times
; LONDON Master spy Harold "Kim" Philby, the British traitor and notorious...the Soviet Embassy in London. Mr. Philby, born to a prominent British family...When the ring began closing in on Philby himself, he went to Moscow in 1963...
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Soviet Spy Kim Philby, 76, Dies in U.S.S.R.
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post
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