Sujet

Letter on disappearance of MI6 agent Kim Philby on 23 January 1963. Creator: RM Hadow.

Légende

Letter on disappearance of MI6 agent Kim Philby on 23 January 1963. MI6 agent Kim Philby vanished from Beirut, failing to meet his wife for a dinner party at the home of Glencairn Balfour Paul, First Secretary at the British Embassy.

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

Notre référence

HRM25A46_208

Model release

NA

Property release

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Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

43,2Mo (6,0Mo) / 25,8cm x 42,0cm / 3045 x 4960 (300dpi)

Mots clés

mysterious England close up communication historical country writing British letter English OFFICIAL text location collection century Britain worry secret spy handwriting ink worried Lebanon concept disappearance stamp correspondence secrecy spies close-up closeup B&W lettering archive Beirut typeface Sixties black & white black and white B W English text Soviet 1960s 20th century history historic Foreign Office Intelligence officer intelligence service MI6 Western script Paul ink on paper Kim double agent defection defector lower case 1963 The National Archives Heritage Art The National Archives UK TNA Cambridge Five RM Hadow Hadow RM R.M. Hadow Esquire Kim Philby Philby Harold Adrian Russell Philby Glencairn Balfour Paul Glencairn Balfour