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_ and retained it all his life. - Harold Adrian Risseby Philby also known as Kim ‘Philby Ee prvadl said al though if did not know whether he was. oem ween i ie e " to be 1 "a y communis’ and espouse the Communist “phi logophy, at Cambridge University, at the time Philby attended in the ‘ome . It was opinion Philby adopted socialism ab that time é At the time Burgess and Maclean disappeared in 1951, Philby was requested to resign and he did in fact — tender his resignation which was accepted. He did this to . avoid embarrassing the British Goverment. noted at this point that Philby had previously received an award from King George VI for his service to the Government and that he had — similarly been granted a decoration by the Franco forces during the Spanish Civil war. @} related it was > understand- . a. ing that for the next three or four years, Philby undervent —- severe hardship since he was attempting to earn a livelihood ~ for him and his five minor children in England.In 1955. Prime Minister MacMillan "cleared" in Parliament of any cbmplicity in the Burgess and Maclean incident. He had at this time obtained employment as a newspaper man and ' gubsequently was assigned to the Middle-East. 7 It was eee Beirut, cee Philby through ae a — a _ ——=- —— — a : . nd - -h.