A new exhibition celebrating the life and work of the late MI6 officer and Soviet agent Kim Philby has opened in Moscow.
As a member of the Cambridge Five group of spies, Philby supplied secrets to the Kremlin throughout the 1940s and 50s before he moved to the Soviet Union in 1963.
As a member of the Cambridge Five group of spies, Philby supplied secrets to the Kremlin throughout the 1940s and 50s before he moved to the Soviet Union in 1963.
Among those at the opening of the exhibition was the head of the Russian FSB. He spoke of Philby as a man who was a convinced Marxist and a passionate believer in communism.
Kim Philby died in Moscow three years before the collapse of the Soviet Union.
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