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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Vanessa Thorpe Arts and media correspondent

‘A clever agent’: notes from ‘watchers’ of spy Kim Philby made public for first time

Kim Philby in 1961.
Kim Philby in 1961. Photograph: Jane Bown/The Observer

Secret surveillance of Britain’s ­notorious double agent, Kim Philby, made public for the first time in archived documents, reveals how keenly the Security Service wanted to confirm or disprove early suspicions of his high-level treachery.

In daily bulletins submitted to MI5 in November 1951, undercover operatives describe how Philby, codenamed Peach, moved about London.

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