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—, lifence paymasters. Only the C.LA., it is argued, would pay an. agent 80 Jiberally, And so, the theory goes, the Russians kidnapped him, mot wanting fo take any chances. 7, UA mistake. 4. a In a remarkable broadcast on the B.B.C, Home Service yesterday, Mr Douglas Stewart, the correspondent in Washington. re- counted a conversation he ha with Philby in the Middle East several years ago. during which Philby exolained his role in the Burgess and Maclean affair. ". According to Mr Stewart, Philby claimed that, ;far from tipping off ‘Maclean. he’ had advised the “Foreign Office security branch that _they were making ‘a mistake in "having Maclean ‘shadowed and ‘keeping secret documents. away from him. ‘He told them it would “be better to: leave; Maclean alone ‘in’ the hope that other. security weaknesses might come fo light. But. Philby told Mr Stewart. his advice was not taken, Later i he himself was interrogated for ‘three days by “a huge man of _ about six feet three inches, with ‘a face of cement and steel.” whose name Mr Stewart said he knew, but could not reveal, There is a belief among some people who know Philby that his admission to being “the third .man” was not truthful, and was made for some undisclosed reason. j possibly under the influence of drink.. Close friends of Philby living in London have told me that allegations that he was a homo- sexual are “utterly ludigrous.”_» —_ =~ ——.-—__..