Damian Lewis, left, and Guy Pearce star in the MGM+ limited series “A Spy Among Friends,” based on the true story of British double agent Kim Philby, an MI6 operative working for Communist Russia.

Guy Pearce as Kim Philby, left, and Damian Lewis as Nicholas Elliott, right, in "A Spy Among Friends." The actors spoke to Newsweek about how surprising they found the true story behind the MGM+ ...

Independent broadcasters agreed to ban any publicity for Philby, who defected in 1963, but the BBC rejected No 10-sanctioned suggestions it was 'improper' to show the film, papers show.

The Perfect Cover. To his colleagues in MI6, Britain's foreign intelligence agency, Kim Philby was a rising star. Calm under pressure, loyal in appearance, and deeply trusted, he was considered ...

Last secrets of notorious spy Kim Philby revealed: from traitor’s confession to Queen’s involvement. Trove of newly declassified files detail investigations into some of the country’s most ...

Kim Philby was a high-flying MI6 officer - who had been tipped as a future chief - but was also spying for Russia after being recruited at Cambridge University in the 1930s. Comments.

Charming, expensively educated and shamelessly duplicitous, Kim Philby is the most famous double agent in British history. Philby spent decades passing sensitive information to the KGB at the height ...

The story of Kim Philby is perhaps too good to make up. The British spy, a double agent for Moscow, operated at the highest levels of the intelligence community; his ability to disseminate ...

The Cambridge spy Kim Philby declared he would have done it all again after he finally confessed that he had been for years a Russian agent, according to newly-declassified intelligence files. The ...

The Cambridge spy Kim Philby declared he would have done it all again after he finally confessed that he had been for years a Russian agent, according to newly-declassified intelligence files. The ...