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John Nicholas Rede Elliott (15 November 1916 – 13 April 1994) was an MI6 intelligence officer. His MI6 career was notable for his involvement with the Lionel Crabb affair in the 1950s and the flight of double agent Kim Philby to Moscow in 1963.
Mar 13, 2023 · Lewis plays Nicholas Elliott, the best friend of Pearce's Kim Philby, who is widely seen as one of the most notorious double agents in history.
Dec 12, 2022 · Cambridge-educated Nicholas Elliott and Kim Philby became close friends in 1940, when they were both working in separate departments of the British Intelligence Service.
Apr 15, 1994 · Nicholas Elliott, the British agent who confronted his colleague H. A. R. (Kim) Philby with evidence that Mr. Philby was a Soviet spy, died on Wednesday in London. He was 77.
Apr 17, 1994 · Nicholas Elliott was a distinguished and colourful intelligence officer who served in various posts around the world, including Berne, Vienna, London and Beirut. He was involved in the controversial cases of Lionel Crabb and Kim Philby, and later became a director of Lonrho.
Mar 12, 2023 · A Spy Among Friends tells the tale the friendship between British spies Kim Philby and Nicholas Elliott. Philby, notoriously, was a double agent for the Soviet Union, and defected to Moscow...
Apr 2, 2022 · When Philby was finally unmasked as a Soviet mole in 1962, intelligence chiefs in London despatched his close friend and drinking partner Nicholas Elliott to Beirut to confront him.
