ESPIONAGE: Harold Adrian Russell Philby
Beginning in 1933 and continuing for three decades, Harold Adrian Russell Philby and four other Cambridge-educated men penetrated British intelligence at its highest levels, passing secrets to Moscow while rising through the establishment unchallenged. Philby ran the very section of British intelligence designed to catch Soviet spies, and when he was finally confronted in Beirut in January 1963, he disappeared before any formal accounting could be made. The full list of operations burned and agents lost to the Cambridge Five has never been confirmed in any declassified record, and some files…
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