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al ls-db f4-4-b0) r) T KNEW By DONALD SEAMAN (Mount Clipping in Space Below) THE PHILBY — Mr. Tolson...—=— Mr. Beimont.._. My. Mohr.......—2- Mr, Craper . ete Caltq ha ou ate, Comrad aia ae te tot t f a bouTy, é “ or Oe od Teh Prem Mist Holmes. ...- Mies Gandy......... 1 eepanse HY and impeccably mannered Mr, Harold (“ Kim") Philby, O.B.E., swept back into the headlines with the mysterious announcement that he has. been missing from his home in Beirut for over five weeks. Tat : : i i 1 4 : i 1 Mr. Philby works in the Lebanon as -Middie East eorrespondent of The Observer and the Economist. Hig wife said yesterdar that the report of his disappearance is due to a misunderstanding and that “he lef the country in a great Me ure on a long assigninent.” She said she had reoeiyed letter and cables from him in Cairo and she was sure he was ali right. Curiously. none of the cabics Teached his NEWSPAper. Nor did details of the assignment, As a Tesult the Observer made fa est through the Foreign ve that the Egypeian autlioti- tig slaould.be. asked to bheaip nim. 7 1 COINCIDENCE That any mystery should surround Mr. Philby’s where- abouls is indeed an astonishing coincidence. For of the many lives were shatter by the dis- appearance of Burgess and Maclean back in 1951, perhaps ng one—outside their immediate families-~sulfered more than Philby did. In those days he was First Secretary at the British Embassy in Wasihngton and the senior uple whose oficial of our counter-espionage - siafl there. He verved in the Embassy - froin October 1949 until June 1951 «Burgess and Maclean disappeared in May 1951), and in the words of Myr. Harold Macmillan, when Foreign Secre- . tary fn 1955 :-- . "Philby had been privy to touch of the investigation into the Foreign Office ‘leakage uf 1949." Yuu may remember that the sources of this leakage information were = narrow dopn unt Danald Maclea w.& left as the principal suspe las for Mr. Philoy. he ha hig old chum, Guy Burgesé, sieving with him in Washing- ton 1 until April 1051, {Inaicate page, name of newspaper, ctty and state.) Date: Author: Editor: Title: or Edition: Classification: / Submitting Office: Page 2 . ” ~ 3 "Daily Express" 2 \ London, England , CORDED COPY FILER IN C7 YUNA Charactar: oct "