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His father St. At this time the German Abwehr was active in Spain particularly around the British naval base of Gibraltar which its agents hoped to watch with cameras and radar to track Allied supply ships in the Western Mediterranean. At the time Spain was embroiled in a bloody civil war triggered by the rebellion of Nationalist forces under General Francisco Franco against the socialist Republican government of President Manuel Azaña.
In 1963 Philby was revealed to be a member of the spy ring now known as the Cambridge Five the other members of which were Donald Maclean Guy Burgess Anthony Blunt and another uncertain individual. Of the five Philby is believed to have been most successful in providing secret information to the Soviet Union. He served as both an NKVD and KGB operative.