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departments must siwaye be immune ablic censare Foreign Olbce jets ati! sqairm when anyone suggcets that thet ron the Secret Unielligence ‘Bervice of spies operating abroad, though this wee reluc- tantly admitled in Parliament eight years ego apd every for- een Government Bas known It for much longer 4 ut the Foreign Office feets #0 || ashamed of bring involved in the Bret line of defence in the H-bomb missile age Shed Inte}. - ligence 1s eltah vo survival. the Sask heold be transferred to wore Siber less sensitive Benes: | fe] i 2 a Z i z & Exprem bac produced bis name as the chief sorpect in tipping iter fied with Burgess in 1851. bore wember discussing Philoy then at the likeliest “Third Man” with Mr. Cyril Connolly of the sundaes Times. 1 bave @ memorandum frow Dalle Es prese investicator Donald Beaman which he eb mitted in 195. ginting that & former member of M15 bad told bins = that Philp) fad “plerted the Boriet Embassy in Wasninetos, who passed fhe warning vo Macieah via Uhelr , embpasy fn Lendon” He aino stated that Philbt was “a Com munist axebt from youth.” The Dally Express oonld pet | ase this informetian becansr of the fibel kaw. Tre secoritr authorities refused te comment on ft, and ihourk ont of Philor’s - B.15. colleagues privatel? rich. / coled it, other jYeads snErestet | {har i could well be true. = This—po1 an? * feud with the Foreign Office * _er plains wh the Heaverbrook Hewspapers continued © investigate tbe | backgrounds of Philby. Burress. : Mactean and Mrs. Maclean whe | aiso fied wo Mascow and has 4 since bett her husband & lite |} with Philby. Further circomsiantial eri. dence against Philos was ool: fected dUTInE poet and $955 and ; gome of this was passed bs me | security ‘authorities eantinued . to be annelpfn! wo tne pew * pers or bo ‘bet themselves Throughoo! these omemolts Pplibs has jibed mt the security . sersices for tbeir ick of action: now Be jibes &t the newspapers , for being tenacious. Bis venomous remarks aboot . resigned = frem the Secret inguirtes were far more dangerous to him than any [nvestigatione by the securitT puthoriues, who bad a big, venied interest in preserving | wat innocent bot wee peing victimised. Official inquiries into Paitbys activities werr dropped in f 52 and wert remumed tbree yeart tater only hen disclosures OF Petrov, _ the Russian who detected to ‘Australia, forced & reopening of the case. Then, atter Phiiby's name bad been oleared in Parliament, be wat East agent with the cover job of ferelen correspondent for The Observer ! As Philby reveals, the Bea rer- ‘ prook newspapers remained od jobs track for severn) mort FOare |go be bad ge reason for hating them. Hit remarks about them also further the Bussian propaganda purpase of den!- rating the “wicked capitalist teu. ON & point of accutacy J oan find mo evidence tha’ Philby ever operated Wiegalls } Nazi Germany -* he Talo, claims, though he wan in tor with mmunisic io Vien the early ‘thirties Pao ther is me Tube at Vau l ”