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et ae Bp : * .~ garded as elder. brothers who. At United Stites time ' he | arrived in Turkey.” : Voikov was no-longer, to use a ‘a’ polite word, available. Inked fact, he had been .removed-‘*, : feet first’ tet Soviet military Sade “aireraft. “It truck a colleaguels rz of Philby’s ‘at the.time that..t!- either he had been highly. ins — “competent, which was not his . “habit, or that he had been up ao : ot Tate ab "position. . In ‘the spring of i950, after what Was consia- ered due preparation, we in- filreated welkarmed badges into Albanian which, {rto adouble game..°.. : wr inielligence, wes , about s Peres toudy to throw off the Sovie - But his colleague. assumed: bad “yin “that MI5, the Security Service yoks, Success “there “ mig ht ; Y Service “Shave had’ Jarreaching’ conse- ‘swhich corresponds roughly to, he F.B.I, would be,onto. 'that.: * quences in’ ‘ fee throughout "Eastern ‘. “Europe. his British colleagues were re-"iJ. “oO Sout now, “that was at work; and that the -- Rad helped to’ advise on its, organization. -But before go-;: ing to Washington to com r Pee could Boe . “ pound his treacheries, Philby . 4 soph i * ae _ went, in 1946 to be near the- oN ibys 5 vee “alg tap te dand ‘of his masters.. He took « oo Baily BER j P over the highly. important sited nis BECa . oy P double atienria che We Istanbul station, from* where . it washis duty to orerate not Wee NE Ua AO Gperare Hoe _only into the Soviet Union but... .. al was, in a sense, forced. inta i by his Wruitor Colles gues Miuce in 3 the Commenist Batnanse 2. 882 to ATG Surges. ETB a “e. Ferrera “mek. was ‘a. grubby homusexus! Not not site: { “theaWey ie cae /Who, amazingly, was ages heel ptttan a ees peintcd ta ta gone poss dn ike i" _ Read office ins London “ins. Uyitish- © in Washing AM this inte his:col*’ wide. M a in we i “toa! wh en eague Siacican ively: ieerae Ke" soon’ crew unfavorebi away most Care CAIVCTY OR A ES attention "tO. ie “ay” Sroit. < waccrels tt teh cet stupid beh avior, tha: Brivish. ts -. pi ber i ined Tri from his pose in 1 um, i cy Ocio% yee 4 +3; AYE yy apt ar Vaid wna Sona acy wan rit mat “ that he was not even an effi though stih only 37, was ready for tae rap joo. in One Me ‘by both Western and Conte ve nist estimaiion—-The Washing: tas Cider to SOON SAG the! Erabassy. Maclean was another kettle eatin LS are he: was i aiatius., deh eee andes. ‘ba enews the most intimate Gaiiycon-. | | of fish, He had procured in race Wy the CALA. and. they. veluable atom.c wformanvion fh. Fae Volsov ease” WAS Go for Ris Moscow masters, bui * “oreGtte . .- he cracked ‘under the sirain of sUTSCTIEN, .- We Ste Ges Crirs ane by tha Arorics ns.s ‘just about his double ie, In oO and operator, ate Whe aust Britishr ORGOE ~ and | relgtiads -. botween the - nts were a whirl of Grank- -glancestine Gryacizations were. “per haps cleaer: Ahan Eee had: ever Detar : astonish ingly, ; mas. accoreing io: wmulatag “untest: | | | Oak, Pair were, but not: : . , ren much force. 4 No-conelus!ui.. 2, tere was ne saestion OF ‘sive evidence came ‘to light. i: Sure wrory se etaatt - Philby got the benefit. of. the aan Mera LOeS were mee ty ‘doubt. oe he faite et and sinughtered. About The C.LA. was set up in Bo Pee oar oF the force: of :1947, and Philby along with... Ty ne CLA. man Who organized . the operation with Philby has treachery: ue ~aehery. was. 5 Philsy's. | Buss: “pany” was there. cient Communist spy. ro was | ~ ‘Sack to London by’ - ondon his days ‘enc ” iene an “s vness, | -vioisnee, jomosexual dly, and 80 On. MIO bégan 1d | keep an cye ‘on hi % though, Y “a jeint C.LA-S.LS. ap eration woes vos ‘ a: ” lain was vo longer’ a nina tae thames: Hiei suey piace .or Tain. were, Upped off by’ the "th “and leis as a : for the Soviet ve Mate Oe Was he? Grhe SLA. and FB. wh nO GOoubis about i, . M5 was , practical certain, Bus own Service, NGG, Tencted a: erentiy. Dammis, the. teiler’s - a gentleman, one of us, was‘ the attitude (is overlooked the fact that Miscle ame into cha same Then there was no love, between. 5 and & “A ¢: ee an and Burgess * culegory?. lost hat Some. = woe GLA, ard he ¥ 3. ioe ines2 was srrong antl ican feeling in MIS * Dased. mainly on envy of the. tre-* trendousiy incroasing™” power-~. of the CLA. Some MES mon jointed out irrelevaaily’’ the United States was bDiamidiass in the matier af spawning tvaitors. Finals, Prilby's defenders” that a wag a victin | or: Card wisn. Phaby, recall Wa x Washington and interrogated * . a wae denew him weil said uit by his service and NIB. . Ris. taatios wero to Kees mum. A fziend* or ‘wer. i almost Grove ‘his tittesro- .. $ up tie walt ni his -ob- ¥ him rich nt Oe to nis said that watil Pr confession a thé “ord OF 1ge2 aa could believe what tant com rerercad ied ‘liked Philby and admired his. | professional skill, he was never ~ “sure what made him tick. My-. . ‘ _, friend was not alone in this. 7 a - ! ' From my few meetings with him in the Middle East in the forties and fifties I remember - an apparently normal member , of the British upper class—"~ amusing, _ intelligent, | -pand- .< ‘looking. | He alwavs _ drank .