Kim Philby
1912 to 1988
7 documented presences
6 places
Quo Fuit places 7 dated presences for Kim Philby across 6 places, from 1912 to 1988. Each one keeps the sentence it was taken from and a link to its source.
Harold Adrian Russell "Kim" Philby (1 January 1912 to 11 May 1988) was a British intelligence officer and a double agent for the Soviet Union.Wikipedia, full article · CC BY-SA
Where Kim Philby was documented, and when
1 January 1912exact date
Ambalaattested
“Harold Adrian Russell Philby was born on 1 January 1912 in Ambala, Punjab, British India, to author and explorer St John Philby and his wife, Dora Johnston.”
source: Wikipedia: Kim Philby
1940year
Londonattested
“In 1940, Philby began living with Aileen Furse in London.”
source: Wikipedia: Kim Philby
1948year
Istanbulattested
“Upon her return to Istanbul in late 1948, she was badly burned in an incident with a charcoal stove and returned to Switzerland.”
source: Wikipedia: Kim Philby
1948year
Switzerlandattested
“Upon her return to Istanbul in late 1948, she was badly burned in an incident with a charcoal stove and returned to Switzerland.”
source: Wikipedia: Kim Philby
1949year
Washington, D.C.attested
“Philby had been briefed on the situation shortly before reaching Washington in 1949; it was clear to Philby that the agent was Maclean, who worked in the embassy at the time and whose wife, Melinda, lived in New York.”
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1 July 1963exact date
Moscowattested
“That view of Philby was not shared by Balfour Paul's contemporary, Alan Munro who recalled Philby and Eleanor kept '...a hospitable establishment in the Rue Kantara and are rarely to be found sober.' It was not until 1 July 1963 that Phi…”
source: Wikipedia: Kim Philby
January 1988month
Moscowattested
“Though he claimed publicly in January 1988 that he did not regret his decisions and that he missed nothing about England except some friends, Colman's mustard and Lea & Perrins Worcestershire sauce, his wife Rufina Ivanovna Pukhova later…”
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Places Kim Philby is documented in
Moscow2 presences · 1963 to 1988Istanbul1 presence · 1948London1 presence · 1940Switzerland1 presence · 1948Washington, D.C.1 presence · 1949
Ambala1 presence · 1912
Other places tied to Kim Philby in the record
In each of these, a source puts Kim Philby and the place in the same dated sentence without stating that Kim Philby was there. They are kept apart from the timeline above for exactly that reason: a mention is not a presence, and Quo Fuit does not quietly promote one into the other.
1928year
Westminster Schoolmentioned
“Following in the footsteps of his father, Philby continued to Westminster School, which he left in 1928 at age 16.”
source: Wikipedia: Kim Philby
1933year
French Third Republicmentioned
“The organization was one of several fronts operated by German communist Willi Münzenberg, a member of the Reichstag who had fled to France in 1933.”
source: Wikipedia: Kim Philby
1934year
University College Londonmentioned
“In early 1934 Arnold Deutsch, another Soviet agent, was sent to University College London under the cover of a research appointment, but in reality had been assigned to recruit the brightest students from Britain's top universities.”
source: Wikipedia: Kim Philby
February 1934month
United Kingdommentioned
“Following the Austrofascist victory in the Austrian Civil War, Philby and Friedmann married in February 1934, enabling her to escape to the United Kingdom with him two months later.”
source: Wikipedia: Kim Philby
February 1934month
Viennamentioned
“In February 1934, Philby married Litzi Friedmann, an Austrian Jewish communist whom he had met in Vienna.”
source: Wikipedia: Kim Philby
June 1934month
Soviet Unionmentioned
“In June 1934, Deutsch recruited Philby to the Soviet intelligence services.”
source: Wikipedia: Kim Philby
1937year
Moscowmentioned
“His controller in Paris, a Latvian national named Ozolin-Haskins (code name Pierre), was shot in Moscow in 1937 during Joseph Stalin's Great Purge.”
source: Wikipedia: Kim Philby
1937year
Parismentioned
“His controller in Paris, a Latvian national named Ozolin-Haskins (code name Pierre), was shot in Moscow in 1937 during Joseph Stalin's Great Purge.”
source: Wikipedia: Kim Philby
February 1937month
Spainmentioned
“In February 1937, Philby travelled to Spain, then embroiled in a bloody civil war triggered by the coup d'état of Falangist forces under General Francisco Franco against the government of President Manuel Azaña.”
source: Wikipedia: Kim Philby
April 1937month
NKVDmentioned
“Philby's Soviet controller at the time, Theodore Maly, reported in April 1937 to the NKVD that he had personally briefed Philby on the need "to discover the system of guarding Franco and his entourage".”
source: Wikipedia: Kim Philby
May 1937month
Sevillementioned
“Philby worked at first as a freelance journalist; from May 1937, he served as a first-hand correspondent for The Times, reporting from the headquarters of the pro-Franco forces in Seville.”
source: Wikipedia: Kim Philby
24 May 1937exact date
Londonmentioned
“However, such an act was never a real possibility; upon debriefing Philby in London on 24 May 1937, Maly wrote to the NKVD, "Though devoted and ready to sacrifice himself, [Philby] does not possess the physical courage and other qualitie…”
source: Wikipedia: Kim Philby
1938year
Parismentioned
“In 1938, Walter Krivitsky (born Samuel Ginsberg), a former GRU officer in Paris who had defected to France the previous year, travelled to the United States and published an account of his time in "Stalin's secret service".”
source: Wikipedia: Kim Philby
1938year
French Third Republicmentioned
“In 1938, Walter Krivitsky (born Samuel Ginsberg), a former GRU officer in Paris who had defected to France the previous year, travelled to the United States and published an account of his time in "Stalin's secret service".”
source: Wikipedia: Kim Philby
1938year
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1943year
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Documented at the same place, the same year
Georgy MalenkovMoscow · 1988Necmettin ErbakanIstanbul High School · 1948Erich Maria RemarqueSwitzerland · 1948Emil LudwigSwitzerland · 1948Anna AkhmatovaSoviet Union · 1963Vladimir HorowitzSoviet Union · 1963Guntis UlmanisSoviet Union · 1963Tereza KesovijaSoviet Union · 1963Jackson PollockUnited States · 1949Theodor W. AdornoUnited States · 1949Süleyman DemirelUnited States · 1949Arthur KoestlerUnited States · 1949
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