Kim Philby - Kim Philby Harold Adrian Russell 'Kim' Philby (1912 - May 11, 1988) was an employee of British intelligence and a Soviet spy. He was member of the spy ring known as the Cambridge Five, along with Donald Maclean, Guy Burgess, Anthony Blunt and John Cairncross. Philby was nicknamed Kim after a fictional spy. Born in Ambala, India the son of the British diplomat, explorer, author, Arabist and converted Muslim Harry St. John Philby, at one time an adviser to King Ibn Sa'ud of Saudi Arabia. After leaving Westminster School in 1928, Philby went on to Trinity College, Cambridge. While a student there Philby was introduced to, and came to admire, the ideals of Communism. He was not exactly 'recruited' as a spy - he volunteered. He.
Harry St. John Philby - Harry St. John Philby Harry St. John Philby (April 3, 1885 - September 30, 1960) was a British explorer and the father of the spy Kim Philby. This article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by fixing it..
KGB - national hero. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Tasks and Organization 2 Notable KGB Operations 3 Organization 4 Heads of the KGB or equivalent 5 See also Tasks and Organization Its tasks were external espionage, counter-espionage, liquidation of anti-Soviet and counter-revolutionary formations within the USSR, and guarding the leaders of the party and state. Unlike Western intelligence agancies, the KGB was (theoretically) not interested in learning enemy intentions, only their capabilites. Intentions were political decisions based on Marxist theory and the personal whims of the leadership. In its espionage role, the KGB was mostly reliant on human intelligence, unlike their western counterparts, who relied far more on imagery intelligence (IMINT) and signals intelligence. Using ideological attraction, the Soviets were successful in recruiting a number of high level spies. Most notable are the.
VENONA project - made that information from physical theft of encryption pads (a partially burned one is reported to have been recovered by the Finns) to bugging embassy rooms in which text was entered into encrypting devices (and analyzing the keystrokes by listening to them being punched in), contributed to achieving as much plaintext as was recovered. These claims are less than fully supported in the open literature. This decryption and cryptanalysis project became known to the Soviets not long after the first breaks. It is not clear whether the Soviets knew how much of the message traffic, or which messages, had been successfully decrypted. At least one Soviet agent, Kim Philby, was told about the project as part of his job as liaison between British and US intelligence. The project continued for decades,.
January 1 - North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) goes into effect 1995 - World Trade Organization goes into effect 1995 - Austria, Finland and Sweden enter the European Union 1996 - Curacao gains limited self-government 1998 - Smoking is banned in all California bars and restaurants 1999 - Euro currency introduced. 2000 - Bleen is no longer Blue and is now Green. 2002 - Euro banknotes and coins become legal tender. 2003 - Luís Inácio Lula da Silva becomes president of Brazil Births 1431 - Pope Alexander VI († 1503) 1449 - Lorenzo de Medici, statesman († 1492) 1484 - Huldreich Zwingli, protestant leader († 1531) 1516 - Margareta Leijonhufvud, former Queen of Sweden 1618 - Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, painter († 1682) 1735 - Paul Revere, silversmith, United States patriot († 1818) 1750.
John Le Mesurier - The Fiendish Plot of Fu Manchu in 1980. In most of his performances, he presented an impression of good-natured vagueness, which acquaintances claim was close to his true personality. Le Mesurier's most popular TV (and radio) role was as the upper-class Sergeant Wilson in Dad's Army from 1968 to 1977. He followed this with a memorable performance as Kim Philby in Dennis Potter's play Traitor. From the mid-1960s until his death he provided the original voice for the animated TV commercial character "Flour Grader Fred", a little man in a bowler hat who advertised Homepride Flour and related products. The character lives on, voiced by other actors. In 1975 he narrated Bod, an animated children's programme from the BBC about a boy named Bod, his aunt Flo and their friends and.
1988 - December 21 - Pan Am flight 103 is blown up by Libyan terrorists over Lockerbie, Scotland, killing 259 on board and 11 on the ground. Akira, anime film, released. Summer Olympic Games in Seoul, Korea Former pop singer Sonny Bono is elected mayor of Palm Springs, California. Televangelist Jimmy Swaggart is the focus of a sex scandal, and later admits to being with prostitutes and steps down from his television ministry. Iran Air Flight 655 shut down by missiles throwm from the USS Vincennes ship Year in topic 1988 in film Dangerous Liaisons Mississippi Burning Working Girl starring Harrison Ford Die Hard starring Bruce Willis Rain Man starring Dustin Hoffman and Tom Cruise Cherry 2000 starring Melanie Griffith 1988 in literature 1988 in music N.W.A's Straight Outta Compton is the first.
Anglo-German Fellowship - England; Admiral Sir Barry Domvile; Admiral Sir Murray Sueter; and Prince von Bismarck. However the organisation had a pro-Nazi leaning, as well as a number of fascist members, and was infiltrated by British spies Guy Burgess and Kim Philby..
Cambridge Five - passed information to the Soviet Union during World War II. The five consisted of Kim Philby, Donald Maclean, Guy Burgess, Anthony Blunt, and John Cairncross. Cairncross's role in the spy ring was a mystery for decades. During this time, there was a great deal of speculation that Victor Rothschild was the fifth man. Indeed, speculation continues that Cairncross was a sixth man..
Communist and post-Communist Albania - to build textile and sugar mills and other factories and to provide Albania agricultural and industrial machinery, Stalin told Milovan Djilas, at the time a high-ranking member of Yugoslavia's communist hierarchy, that Yugoslavia should "swallow" Albania. The pro-Yugoslav faction wielded decisive political power in Albania well into 1948. At a party plenum in February and March, the communist leadership voted to merge the Albanian and Yugoslav economies and militaries. Hoxha, to the core an opportunist, even denounced Spiru for attempting to ruin Albanian-Yugoslav relations. During a party Political Bureau (Politburo) meeting a month later, Xoxe proposed appealing to Belgrade to admit Albania as a seventh Yugoslav republic. When the Cominform expelled Yugoslavia on June 28, however, Albania made a rapid about-face in its policy toward Yugoslavia. The move surely saved Hoxha.
Wabar craters - Quarter", or "Rub' al Khali" in Arabic, is one of the most desolate places on Earth. In 1932, a British explorer, Harry St. John "Abdullah" Philby, father of Communist spy Kim Philby, was hunting for a city named "Ubar", that the Koran claimed had been destroyed by God for defying the Prophet. Philby mistranslated the name of the city as "Wabar", which in a way was fortunate because he found something else that deserved a different name. After a month's journey through the wastes that was so harsh that even some of the camels died, Philby found was a patch of ground about a half a square kilometer in size, littered with chunks of white sandstone, black glass, and chunks of iron. There were two large circular depressions partially filled with.
Stuttering - to blocks can be partly intentional. In the past, this disorder was often attributed to psychological problems, but perhaps the most prominent current view is that stuttering is caused by neural synchronisation problems in the brain. Recent research indicate that stuttering is correlated with disrupted fibres between the speech area and language planning area, both in the left hemisphere. This disruption could have been caused by early brain damage or a genetic link. The disorder can be compared with dyslexia which is another disorder affecting communication. Famous people who stuttered: Lewis Carroll Winston Churchill Marilyn Monroe Kim Philby Alan Turing The famous fictional characters who stutter include Warner Brothers animated character, Porky Pig and Ken Pile in A Fish Called Wanda, played by Michael Palin, who has done a considerable amount.
Stewart Menzies - Churchill. He also coordinated operations with SOE (although he reputedly considered them "amateurs"), OSS and the Free French Forces. After the war, Menzies reorganized the SIS for the Cold War. He absorbed most of SOE. He was sometimes in odds with the Labour governments. He also had to weather a scandal inside SIS after revelations that SIS officers Guy Burgess, Donald Maclean, and, eventually, Kim Philby, were actually soviet spies. Menzies resigned in 1956 and retired to rural Gloucestershire. He died in May 29 1968..
May 11 - Mari Sandoz, writer (†1966) 1904 - Salvador Dalí, surrealist painter: The Persistence of Memory (†1989) 1907 - Rose Ausänder, poet (†1988) 1911 - Phil Silvers, actor, comedian (†1985) 1913 - Robert Jungk, publicist and futurologist (†1994) 1916 - Camilo José Cela, writer. Nobel Prize in Literature (†2002) 1918 - Richard Feynman, physicist (†1988) 1921 - Hildegard Hamm-Brücher, politician 1928 - Mort Sahl, comedian, political commentator 1933 - Louis Farrakhan, Black Muslim leader 1940 - Juan Downey, video artist (†1993) 1946 - Robert Jarvik, physicist, inventor 1950 - Jeremy Paxman, British journalist and author 1952 - Renaud Séchan, French composer 1952 - Frances Farmer, actress 1952 - Mike Lupica, sports journalist 1963 - Natasha Richardson, actress Deaths 1812 - Spencer Perceval, Prime Minister of.
MI5 - of its role has continued, after a brief post-war power struggle with the head of the Special Branch, Sir Basil Thompson. MI5 also managed to acquire responsibility for security operations not only in mainland Britain but throughout the Empire, which gave it a significant role in Ireland. MI5 now has a role similar to that of the American FBI, if not as extensive, which includes crime-prevention activities as well as political surveillance and counter-espionage. This expansion has happened almost entirely without supervision; MI5 had no responsibility to Parliament, and is often able to act with considerable independence even from the Cabinet and Prime Minister. Since the 1997? MI5 activities have been subject to scrutiny by Parliament's Intelligence and Security Committee. MI5's Irish operations were an unmitigated disaster. Its operation was penetrated.
List of former pupils of Westminster - Crimea Sir James Robert George Graham (1792 - 1861), politician Lord John Russell, 1st Earl Russell (1792 - 1878), Prime Minister John Nelson Darby (1800 - 1882), Irish clergyman Benjamin Hall (1802 - 1867), Commissioner of Works and Public Buildings responsible for, amongst others, the current Palace of Westminster Gilbert Abbott a Beckett (1811 - 1856), writer Charles Dodgson (1832 - 1898), author under the pen name "Lewis Carroll" George Henty (1832 - 1902), author of more than 80 popular books for boys William Knox D'Arcy (1849 - 1917), entrepreneur A. A. Milne (1882 - 1956), author and journalist Henry Tizard (1885 - 1959), scientist and inventor Sir Adrian Boult (1889 - 1984), conductor Sir John Gielgud (1904 - 2000), actor and director H. A. R. (Kim) Philby (born 1912), journalist.
List of people by name: Ph - V - W - X - Y - Z Pa-Pd - Pe - Pf-Pg - Ph - Pi - Pj - Pk - Pl - Pm - Pn - Po - Pp - Pq - Pr - Ps - Pt - Pu - Pv-Pz Phair, Liz, singer-songwriter, musician Phelps, Anson G, (1818-1858), diarist Phidias, (circa 490 BC-circa 430 BC), Greek sculptor Philaret, Patriarch, (1619-1633), Metropolitan of Moscow Philbin, Regis, US television personality Philby, Harold "Kim, (1912-1988) British SIS agent and KGB double-agent Philidor, François-André Danican, (1726-1795), chess player Philip III of Spain, (1598-1621), Portuguese monarch Philip II, Metropolitan of Moscow, (1566-1568) Philip II of Macedon, (382 BC-336 BC), king Philip II of Spain, (1580-1598), Portuguese monarch Philip I, Metropolitan of Moscow, (1464-1473) Philip IV of Spain, (1621-1640), Portuguese monarch Philip of.
Kath and Kim - Kath and Kim Kath and Kim is a humorous Australian television series shown on the ABC network. The first series was released in 2002 and following it's outstanding success, a second series was released in 2003. Both series were created and written by Gina Riley and Jane Turner who both play the leading roles. The main characters are Kath - an empty nester who wants to enjoy time with her "hunk of spunk" Kel and her her twenty-something daughter Kim. Kim's husband Brett and Kim's second best friend Sharon add chaos. The characters were originally developed in the early 1990s with the highly succesful "Fast Forward" comedy sketch show. The strong script and highly developed alternative vocabulary and mis-pronunciation of words by the two main characters was.
Kim Stanley Robinson - Kim Stanley Robinson Kim Stanley Robinson (born March 23, 1952) is a writer initially identified as a leading member of the "humanist", or literary, camp of science fiction authors in the 1980s, but whose Mars trilogy is a solid example of hard science fiction. His fiction frequently delves into ecological and utopian themes with a political sophistication and point of view rarely seen elsewhere in the field. The utopian novels Robinson's utopias are strikingly different in that the society portrayed is dynamic and subject to flaws and outside pressures, rather than the static perfection displayed in more classic utopias, in which literary values take a back seat to the political argument. His utopian novels include the Three Californias trilogy, which consists of the post-disaster novel The.
Kim Il-sung - Kim Il-sung Kim Il-sung (김일성 ; 金日成) (April 15, 1912 - July 8, 1994) was the autocratic Communist ruler of North Korea from 1948 until his death. To this day, even after his death the North Korean government continues to recognize him as the nation's "eternal" president. He was born Kim Song-ju (김성주; 金成柱) in Pyongi (변경 ; 邊京?) or Mangyongdae (만경대 ; 萬景台) near Pyongyang, Korea. After following his father to Jilin, China in 1925, he studied at Fusong Number One Elementary School (撫松第一小學) for a year, then spent four years in Yuwen Middle School (毓文中學). It is during this period that he organized an anti-imperalist society. He was a founding member of the Young Communist League of Korea in 1927. In 1930, he founded.
