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Cambridge spy Kim Philby declared he would have done it all again, according to declassified intelligence
Mr Harold 'Kim' Philby , 43 year old First Secretary at the British Embassy in Washington, at a press conference at his parents home in Drayton Gardens, Kensington, November 8, 1955

CAMBRIDGE spy Kim Philby declared he would have done it all again after finally confessing to being a Russian agent for years, according to newly declassified intelligence files.

The dramatic moment in January 1963 when he owned up after being confronted by his oldest friend, and fellow MI6 officer Nicholas Elliott, is vividly captured in a transcript of their conversation released to the National Archives in Kew, west London.

Philby admitted to his old friend in the Lebanese capital, Beirut, that he had been working for the Soviets since the 1930s.

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