Background
Philbv, Kim was born on January 1, 1912 in Ambala in India. Son of a British civil service officer and famous Arabist, who later converted to Islam.
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Kim Philbv
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Educated at Westminster School. Graduated from Cambridge University, where in the 1930s he was recruited as a Soviet intelligence agent.
Career
Though married to a communist, cleverly built up the reputation of being right-wing. During the Spanish Civil War, Times correspondent with Franco. Joined British intelligence, 1940, and became the most successful Soviet spy ever inside Western intelligence circles.
As head of the Iberian desk of the Secret Intelligence Service during World War II, head of the anti-Soviet section in 1944, and especially as linkman between the SIS and CIA in 1949, he was able to render immense service to Stalin’s spy network, being party to the most guarded and valuable secrets of Western intelligence. Made a great contribution to communist successes in the postWWII period. Came under suspicion when his co-spies Maclean and Burgess fled to Moscow, 1951.
Worked as a journalist for the Observer and the Economist in Beirut from 1956. Threatened by further investigations, left Beirut on board a Soviet ship, 23 January 1963. 6 months later, it became known that he had arrived in Moscow, where he worked as a Committee for State Security consultant till his death.
Religion
Religion is bad because it divides people, and is a cause of conflict and war.
Views
The emphasis on peaceful coexistence doesn’t mean that the Soviet Union accepted a static world with clear lines. Socialism is inevitable and the "correlations of forces" were moving towards socialism.
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USSR
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Awards
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Highly decorated, given a high rank in the Committee for State Security, and buried with military honours (by Committee for State Security border guards) at Kuntsevo.Highly decorated, given a high rank in the Committee for State Security, and buried with military honours (by Committee for State Security border guards) at Kuntsevo.