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Linn rer v ‘ se + 4 : i-- + fy . i r rif “f MY SECRET WORLD: PART TWO Sie oa Just how was Donald Maclean, the in this Sensational affair. Now at last . -« Foreign Office traitor, tipped off about ~ comes Philby’s own story of what oy his impending arrest ? happened in those tense hours—and~ . | For years, debate has raged about of ihe dramatic and unexpected last: 8 Kim Philby’s. role as the “Third Man” ~ minute development, - HOW | ORGANISED ~MACLEAN’S ESCAPE Ws THE summer of 1949 [while Serving in Istanbul] | om : ination from he BRT ed ey received 2 telegram offering me ihe Secret tntelli ence Service . ; gua ‘referred to one and the representation in the United States, where I would be workin A carefut gludy of the fies Jin liaison with both the Centrat Intelligence Agency and the Federa mmediace feare 40 aig ou, Bureau oF investigation. Tt look me all of half-an-hour to decide euDbOsed LO Operate inside the _ tO accept ihe offer. . United States. Investigation of The jure of the American post waa irre- . , sible for two reasons, At one atroke, It would A 1 b was in the hands of une ou take me right back nto . \ fhe middia of Intelligence WT i a ea ae] ce re as. dees a os ee ey PUL 1D an immense amount of work reauylting in ad immense amount of waste paper Tk had ao far occurred nalther eo then . oT io ite Britian that « dipio : Mat was involved. let alone @- Tak? senior diplomat. poiicy - makin and ott would give me & close-up . ; Instead. the investigation nag . Moscow diversions: Philby and Metinga Maclean play view of the " Americaa concentrated on oon-diplomatia : purtlcugnyer ane those Tocally would cerieiniy bavg to be done ree! Jona] objection 1 Ae not be Pileular Totelligence Orgadiaations. Da certainty fea slag tcetional the oft Characterwucally, they nad ” . recruited-.the sweepers, clean before fashingion. me. i: These, | was Beginning Lo . tor one ay eae ey ueetion _bottle-washera, and the rea” Heaven Enew ebete ™ oext There was another considera: which wx euepecy, Were already of tact ip [atanbul He nad asked A charlady with @ Latvian appointment would We; Tight tion which inched me towards gation ? stealer importance trom my - me iif l had any means of dis @rendmother, for insiance, Well lose al) control of the Cae Agreeing with Burgess’ sug- The de : int of wt th th coveriog what the Britten were would rate @ 1S-page report Tt la OO easy to mate a gestion # knew from the flee waa yoke : boint o ew than their Srokmerce at the end of from the Briusn Smpawsy io Suing in @ case under invest cronded with Insignificant detail . Boherent picture of my wour of that his record was quile clean, fren ione British opposite numbers Washington during ihe veara Gao oy the PBI: aw case in- ‘of herself, her family, and guy in the Una Stat in the sense that there was outside ( dig not even thing it wortn My Orieting aroused grave 1044-45 and another from the volving the British Bmbasse La friends, her private ie and Liaison with the PBI alone. f Dothing !recorded against. him that the | ees Wailing for confirmation from. wtlety in omy mind. lt was atomic-eneray esadlisahment Washington tholidat babies beer Gouodueted Bviiticaliy But he was very that Guy’ » (Ms Bovier colleagues The event given me oy the formidable Los Alamus Ac tne tte of asking there It was testimony to the thocoughiy. Would Have been a apt bo get inte bersonal scrapes the orobl: Wuatifed my action No dount a. ang inciude fag no idea ebout Loa Was avlhing tnnat EC could have enormous fesources of the PBF full-time joo. It was the ere of of = apectacuiar nature. 1 Lhere ~ is ome intuarg i a onlay ed 2newhere of the oo of the drat Alamos Gul @ suit check of done But ft acemed afer me and tue Pitiful extent to McCarthy ty Tull evil blast. It raed teas a that Be was into our c - untimited potentialities of my Unportance the releoans Foreign Ofce tai lke h whieh th esources wera Wad also the era of Hiss. Conlon, in the gr new assignment {, was Joint Anglo-American invest. belt wre im little doubt about tha numoleg: uneeld Lnat ar tha squandered” hoa enough to Fuchs.” Gold Creenaless and self pnapicuous eae note: fubtect or aTraneed that | should tesve gation of Bovey Intelligence identity of the source in ‘M@ problem, Within « Few dava, convince me that urgent action the brave Rosenberas—no to hold than to # bac sud fied Sant diac for London at the eod of ep activity ‘in the United States British embassy. fie was confirmed by my Rus would not be necessary. bul ihe: mention others who are sill piece every evening wor aimeculty 2 B vember and. after a month's had vielded a strong suggestion My snzlety was rempered by sian friend in London After the cage would require minuts nameless Lislon with CLA . seen Maci f, uriefing at beadquarers ail that there bed pees “t leakage ellet. since ] bad been nageed sheck ne wilh beadayarters be; watching @omething drastic covered an even wider fed aignty mf eee enced £8 Wasmnct ' bas aes . CN ee ct oisney,, bade Ef in cherne Mackengie showed me e tetter jn [maqne : of security Was my principal be had fecelved from anna | nag a a . {contact with the and I Poster. then head 0 he Werte how he saw him several Umee #9 wees, Office securks branch, Warning ine et tT either in hla oMflee or at noma ea emer wets § arrival. lances 4 He wes one of Noovei’s urivinai peccentricities. would be lure to tr