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a. : LONDON. “ yanbary 1 1963, Harole—xartin, | “Philby, known to “all as “Kim,” disappeared from Beirut, where he was working as a correspondent of two British weeklies, The Observer and The Economist. Soon afterward, Edward Heath, then the Government} = announced in answer to| a question in the House of Commons | that Kim had skipped to the Soviet | Union. He added that, contrary to what his fellow spokesman Harold; Macmillan had said in 1955, Kim was indeed the “third man” who had tipped off his fellow traitors Donald Maclean and Guy Burgess in 1951, to defect to enabling them, Russia. a ; It was only about a year ago that bits and pieces of evidence began to , | add up. ‘The clean escape of -still too, another traitor, George Blake, from; Wormwood Scrubs Prison in London in 1966 had beef Shter. Eleanor Philby, Kim's last wife in the West, was now separated from him and ready to talk. It looked as if we had underrated his importance as a double agent. The Sunday Times of! London started a worldwide investi- gation and hired me as consultant. Our report has appeared over the last month and has startled many people in the United States as well as Britain. ‘ To judge from Foreign Secretary George Brown’s antics at the Savoy Hotel on Nov. 1, it has startled him. -So it's worth saying —contrary to Mr.. Brown's assertion then to The ‘Sunday Times’ publisher and other! ‘diners that the ‘report “helped the ' | Russians’4—that it contained nothing! "which theSCommunists did not know! : already, though it probably had the - ‘salutary effect of showing them.that we knew froreabéut their Tsion pare » oe ~t - i ~ _ Janies, Bond | Coul uld Have Learned From Philby fa 0 i v Puce { ph, ! ibs Russia in 1963, Britain's ‘upper-crust pee rammemnemnmer—eer | Callahan Conrad Felt Gale os Rosen Sullivan Tavel Trotter Tele. Room Holmes he? By GEOFFREY McDERMOTT naneenianentiariiiat A Rw SH. ft I \04.For 30 years before he skipped to —=— —_—— ‘agent H. A. Philby lived one of the most | successful—-and treacherous—lies in al: ! es, i envdam = and FLandan here's = Law. ise See wes SSeS Ss & 1 GEQFFREY McDERMOTT cipent 27. years in the’ British Diplomatic Senice. He now writes on foreign ofeis ~~ 0 at *] « i) ‘ than suspected. On the other. hand, it told the public in the West, who are not babies, some serious facts of life which they have every Tight to know and to judge them- selves, Of course, the authorities " ! 4 would have preferred to continue to live a quiet life with those facts under the carpet, where they had lain for sO My Foreign Office duties in He nineveen’ ifties and early sixties had placed me fairly and squarely in the middi&eitresAnglo-American intelli- gence community. _ For some years I chaired the Joint Intelligence Com- mittee, which included representatives of our intelligence departments. Sir Patrick Dean, now British Ambassador | in Washington, was my immediate, boss. Representatives of the C.1LA.: sat in on our meetings, and in return: the representative of the British | Secret Intelligence Service, otherwise: ; ‘called MI6, was right in on- the: American intelligence setup in Wash-: ington, Philby had been that man. from 1549 to i951. in 1956, ibecame of} i Date 5 4057 Foreign Office adviser to the chief of ACT a Noy the S.LS., Sir Dick White. This, a ¢ ANG we Shall sce, was another crucial ,) ‘year for Philby. eos aaa ?- Wee PER Foca BR ES The ne) Times Herald ost The Washington Daily News The Evening Star (Washington) The Sunday Star (Washington) Daily News (New York) Sunday News (New York) New York Post “Tat Are aor ea hte 3 lok Times L The New The Sun (Baltimore) The Worker The New Leader The Wall Street Journal The National Observer I People’s World } AS a result of my position I was. Jess bewildered than some by these ' chilling developments. I kpew from. exverisige-Umit deception w was one of. vi yi a | as