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Witness History: Kim Philby: The Third Man

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11/05/2016 GMT

Kim Philby: The Third Man

BBC World Service - Witness History, Kim Philby: The Third Man

In May 1988, the death was announced in Moscow of the English spy Kim Philby.

In May 1988, the English spy Kim Philby died in Moscow. His granddaughter talks about her memories of one of the most notorious double agents of the Cold War.

On May 11th 1988 one of the most notorious double agents of the Cold War, the English communist spy, Kim Philby, died in Moscow. Philby, who was the so-called Third Man in the Cambridge spy ring, had defected to the USSR a quarter of a century earlier. Witness has been speaking to his granddaughter, Charlotte Philby, about her memories of visiting him in exile. 

Photo: In November 1955, Kim Philby (right) denies to journalists that he is the Third Man, after the defection of two other Cambridge spies to Moscow. (Credit: Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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