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.

No intelligence official has left a bigger mark on his nation's service than Kim Philby, the British MI6 official who blew the cover of dozens of British spies around the world before fleeing to ...

SPY chiefs probed a suspected “Russian double agent” at the heart of MI6 in a 20-year global operation, it has been revealed.

By now, the story of British double agent Harold “Kim” Philby may be the most familiar spy yarn ever, fodder for whole libraries of histories, personal memoirs and novels.

BOSTON — Kim Philby was the most devastating Soviet mole ever to penetrate the British secret service. Graham Greene was one of the century’s great novelists and an iconoclast. Together, they ...

Kim Philby (Guy Pearce, left) and Nicholas Elliott (Damien Lewis) on the hotel balcony in Lebanon in 1963. Adi Marineci/Sony Pictures Telev “I think Philby, in the end, probably felt most hurt ...

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 ...

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+ ...

British double agent Kim Philby’s deceit was finally exposed by the daughter of a Jewish-Russian oil magnate offended by his ...

Officials' efforts to stop a TV show about Kim Philby's son going on holiday to Russia to see the Cold War traitor fell on deaf ears at the BBC.. Independent broadcasters agreed to ban any ...

Your, Kim.” Philby fled to Moscow shortly after his confession and in 2010 was honoured with a plaque at the headquarters of the foreign intelligence service in Moscow – although he had died ...