RCMP feared traitor Kim Philby knew ‘most interesting’ Canadian secrets: documents
RCMP documents reveal Kim Philby likely accessed key Canadian counter-espionage operations and warned Moscow of arrests, though damage was later assessed as minimal.
- On July 1, 1963, the U.K. House of Commons was informed of Kim Philby's espionage for Moscow and his disappearance behind the Iron Curtain.
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The RCMP feared that the British spy for the Soviet Union, Kim Philby, would have repeated in Moscow the confidences of the defector Igor Gouzenko.
RCMP Feared Traitor Kim Philby Knew ‘Most Interesting’ Canadian Secrets: Documents
The early-1960s revelation that British spy Kim Philby had worked for Moscow alarmed Canadian intelligence officials who feared that he had betrayed confidences gleaned from Soviet defector Igor Gouzenko, once-secret archival records show. Harold Adrian Russell “Kim” Philby was recruited by Russian intelligence in the 1930s. He joined Britain’s Secret Intelligence Service, known as MI-6, during the Second World War, rising through the ranks to b…
RCMP feared traitor Kim Philby knew 'most interesting' Canadian secrets: documents (Canada)
The early-1960s revelation that British spy Kim Philby had worked for Moscow alarmed Canadian intelligence officials who feared that he had betrayed confidences gleaned from Soviet defector Igor Gouzenko, once-secret archival records show. Harold Adrian Russell "Kim" Philby was recruited b...
RCMP feared traitor Kim Philby knew ‘most interesting’ Canadian secrets: documents
The early-1960s revelation that British spy Kim Philby had worked for Moscow alarmed Canadian intelligence officials who feared that he had betrayed confidences gleaned from Soviet defector Igor Gouzenko, once-secret archival records show.

RCMP feared traitor Kim Philby knew 'most interesting' Canadian secrets: documents
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