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the contagts—@o get that sort : of job ongig own,” sald one of His cofi@fgues, “I know it'w Burg ss who rang up. “som @ and got him in.” :* The ‘Iberlan * auhenatlan'ts an SuUYVOTLEHVH # ¢ "theater was ‘a: vital one, ‘ Spain was a neutral, friend-- "ly to Germany, and provided" the perfect base for opera- . tions against Britain's com- . munications keystone, ' Gi- * braltar. Portugal ; * friendly to - Britain, but “ Portuguese Mozambique . Was the center of German ‘espionage operations -southern Africa. It was in ,this connection that Philby 2 sent Malcolm Muggeridge. to Lourenco Marques and Graham ‘Greene to Slerra iLeone. os As a boss, Philby was a. “quick success. He possessed’ “bo grasp and human sym- pathy, faculties which evi- de tly won him intense per- “son al doyalty. This was to be a feature of his entire ij career, and it is with an al- ‘most unspeakable sense of irony that associates recall the word which they always - - felt summed him up: “in- 4 tegrity." i: “You didn't just like him,.. + admire him, agree. with ~ him,” Says one man . who 7 war. : until «You worshipped him.” By 1043, two years after In? "coming in, Philby was firm-. ‘ly established as one-of . _.. Night. But Kim broke that: » Menzies’ very best men. i But by early 1944 Philby ' was getting bored by’ the , limitations of the. Iberian . ‘ subsection, . ‘. It}was then that Menzies , ask Philby, just a few months before D- -Day, to re- the def unct a Urey, a Waver CU ter- espionage operation against Sg ven: . “Was... “ months, occupied an e : floor and employed * confidence of his staff. . them has recalled. {saw him often. from the." his defection. the Soviet ‘Union. To Philby, this must have seemed the ultimate opportunity, and. also to represent ultl-: mate folly of the me above; him, es > a 3 wt too 4 Philby's appointment is. al ‘measure of the blind faith! in him on the part of his” ' superiors, whose own repu-' tations had been aided by. Philby’s work. Had Philby?s - early Communist experience . been forgotten? Had it been | obliterated from the record, by his excellent perform: ance? Or was it, just con- ‘ceivably, noted and, in a mo- naivete, ignored? — . 7 The aging: colonel. who. was the sole incumbent ‘of. the inactive Soviet section. Was pensioned off, and Phil.” by moved in to build an em-: ‘ pire which, within fig ° ire, re” than 100 people. Within two” years, the section had az.’ cumulated a vast store of in- formation on Communists in - Western countries, front or- ganizations and the other ° now-famillar’ stuff of ‘Cold | War counter-espionage. And ! } Kim Philby had acquired the: Sue + ment of ftipreme political “He could get them to do . anything for him," one’ of This witness remembers’, that everyone there came from a strict security back-" ground, where the rigid + tradition was that office * desks should be locked at | tradition as he broke ap: many others.. “Don't worry: about that,” he s. iia aa Jock them up later."f "i: }° “I didn’t like to Ido it this witness now says, “byt” he was 50 charmin, that I. couldn't refuse anything he. asked.” a ae — vr ; : United Preag-Int “ HAROLD PHILBY ~~ ° >>> eae » the ommunist disgulsed as an establishment, oop tg