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- Se a a ce ee caesar il i Na NR cite IPE le ae ence 7 ee \s - “Burgess and MacLean are directly responsible for the death of 33,600 of our ‘boys!'" Finally, only since 1963 has the identity of a “third man" been known; the one who sounded the alarm for Burgess and MacLean, and made them flee, thereby saving them from an arrest, a lawsuit, and a scandal. The “third man" was Harold Philby, better known through his good friends under the pseudonya of One could write a book on Philby alone. He, the son of the most fanous British agent in Arabia since Lawrence. (presumably referring to Lawrence of Arabia) is handsome, elegant and distinguished. He has an air about him of tweed, white tobacco, good whisky, evenings at the “Club,” the University, cricket games, and conversations full of good humor in the most fashionable parlors of the Middle East or Burope. In brief, he belongs even more to “the Establishzent"™ than Burgess and MacLean. He is in the elite of the elite. 4 BRE BECOMES A JOURNALIST At 53 years old, after years of working for the English Counterespionage Service, when Philby was settled at Beirut as a journalist, he suddenly disappeared without notifying his wife. (Apparently this is the vogue ip diplomatic circles. He left with a small traveling bag. He was not seen any more. In July, 1963, Moscow announced that the USSR was giving him the right of _ political asylum, and Soviet citizenship. A new scandal in England, and new explanations by the Government. It was then established that: 1. Since 1930, Philby had also been at the service of the Soviets. Since Cambridge ... and it was undoubtedly he who “recruited” Burgess and MacLean, both of whom were younger than he, and were seduced and captivated by the fabulous “Kinz.” 2. In 1955, Philby was eccused of indiscretion (he must have resigned from the Foreign Office in 1951 after the flight of Burgess and MacLean), but was “covered” by cmillan. He was never uneasy, because all his life he had practiced "counter - counterespionage" (working for the English, the Russians, and the English again, and thereby deceiving every one). 3. It was Philby who put the main people in the Profumo - Keeler Affair in touch with each other, tee yo"