7. Harold Adrian Russell "Kim" Philby was a high-ranking member of British intelligence, who worked as a double agent, before defecting to the Soviet Union. He served as both NKVD and KGB operative. 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 John Cairncross. Of the five, Philby is believed to have been most successful in providing secret information to the Soviet Union. His activities were moderated only by Joseph Stalin's fears that he was secretly on Britain's side. Philby was an Officer of the Order of the British Empire(OBE) from 1946 to 1965.Born at Ambala in the Punjab, while it was a province of British India, Philby was the son of St. John Philby, a member of the Indian Civil Service and, later, a civil servant in Mesopotamia. His father was a well-known author, orientalist, convert to Islam, and advisor to King Ibn Sa'ud of Saudi Arabia.