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Events on Wednesday 11 May 1988 1
1912 – 1988Kim Philby (1912-1988)Died 11 May 1988, aged 76Kim Philby was a British intelligence officer who spied for the Soviet Union for decades as part of the Cambridge Five spy ring. He defected to the Soviet Union in 1963 after his cover was compromised. He died in Moscow, where he had lived in exile.