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| i | | | : | | ? é i tf pe ar ? i | © “WHERE SECRETS — FROM EAST = AND WEST ARE BOUGHT AND SOLD Phi {Mount Clipping In Spece Below) ister World ; Mr. Tolson. © Mr. Belmont ___ DALLY BAFNAD Wenicoene | BY RONALD: BURNS BEIRUT, Tuesday. I sat down to Junch next to a man who iB 4 small restaurant, here in Beirut today » Lis almost certainly a Russian agent. What - 18 more, everyone in the he was, and’ as he vegetable soup, no bit of attention to and spy. Beirut, the city . where spies are not in - short supply, It is a world of intrigue, of deals in - glittering cocktail bars of the big hotels, a city where ~ well-dressed’ men of no- known means can be seen : Spending fantastic sums of instrc ee kigmode e , Mbney in’ fabulous night &pots. ‘ On the outskirts of Betrut, too, 1s the Middle «East Centre for Arabic Studies, Which is run by the British Foreign O Oo provide” . A 5 urses for e Forelgn '\ ' ~ lee and their wives in | fy Arab language and history.” ( room knew what supped the excellent one paid the him. - For this is Beirut and the ex of Harold “Kim” Philby, Foreign Office man, journalist, — . ee slightest } pensive, sinister world | Se iby Mr. Mohr Mr. Penne | Mr wee “sy Yr. Tavel | Mero Tee top Tele, Room Miss Holmes Miss Gandy a ern me a (Indicate page, name of hewspaper, city and state.) DAILY EXPRESS —_London J i 23 ja Date: 7/3/63 Edition: Author: Ronald _Burns Editor: (_ Character: ESF ~ BR or Classification: Submitting Office: NOT-RECORDED 191 gut 1s ron 7