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Ne WasSpying on th 8pe%G) to The Washingter Rast. LONDON, Fogland, Oct. 1i-T He” estranged third wife ff master spy ({Kim}Philby knew her hus- band Wis"a member of the British Intelligence Service, but never suspected that for 30 years he also was an agent for the Soviet Union. Eleanor Philby, the Amer- ican wife whom Philby, now living in Moscow, has appar- entiy divorced, said in a copyrighted story in the London Observer that her husband probably was able to keep his dual role «6 secret because “one activity . was a perfect cover for the other, and Kim’s work for the Observer was good cover for both.” wt et es Philby went to Beirut as Middle East correspondent for the Observer and the Economist in 1956, after be- ing cleared of allegations that he had tipped fellow spies Guy Burgess and Donald Mac. lean that British Intelligence was about to arrest them in 1951, While in Beirut, Philby met and married Eleanor. In January 1963, fearing sure, he fled to Russia. Mrs. Philby knew of her husband's continuing work for the British, as “it is com- mon Intelligence practice for a wife to be told that her husband is doing secret work” to keep her from get- ting suspicious about his ac- tivities. She kmew nothing in ad- vanee, Mrs, Philby wrote, about her husband’s defec- lon ee me Wyo e next ‘soirai momie=che was questioned by Inteli!- Bencéwrrieeis i tus- Sia and the West about Phil- by’s activities. She went to . Moscow later that year to live with him. “When I got to Moscow and really understood for 6 OUT 19 1967 UPPED ah TA oh a Never Knew Hubby pletely new way," she wrote. She stayed In Moscow with him for two years, but re- turned to Britain jn 1965 and later settled in Ireland. She found herself shut off from her former friends in Loin who, osha’ tried to see, them, “usuaily hesitated, ~makiit— @ -kind of excuse, and that was that. Now when they ‘read the whole story, per- haps they will understand how I felt.” The “whole story” is a book on which Mrs. Philby is collaborating with Pat- Tick Seale, who succeeded Kim Philby as the Observ- er's Middle East correspond- ent and who was also the ghosi-writer of the Observer article. The book was origi- nally scheduled to be pub- lished next autumn, but a runging battle between the Observer atid thépondcn Sunday Times to beat each Say oe orine nt the Philby story has accelerat- ed the timing, possibly to pext spring or earlier. Mrs. Philby described her marriage to Philby as “per- fect in every way” even though “Kim shut me out of a whole side of his person- ality.” She implied that she left him in 1965 because of -his romance with the wife of Donald Maclean, who- ‘also Hves in the small Brit- ish “spy ghetto” Mascoy, (TheSmee-nctont wrerions ta Geogge Blake, who escaped | last year from ndoh's : Wormwood Scrubs Prison, presumably with Soviet as- sistance, while serving 2 42- year sentence for espionage). “Kim’s affair with Melinda Maclean started when I was still in Moscow two years ago,” she said, adding this must penenere have Sraiky a breach, be y. > At tai ae e Doible ‘wife and remazried Mrs. f toon, by ieee t~ EbPa-. SC te St Callahan Conrad Felt Gale Rosen Sulliva Tavel Trotter Tele. Room Holmes. Gandy -_ a] = It wag disclosed dast weer that Piriiey-nad divorce Mac ety © ; ch "Mra, Philby sald did not s ¥ id not sur- pris 4 About half of Seale's book will be a description of Phil- by's life as double agent and journalist. The remainder is Mrs. Philby’s account of her life with him in Beitrut. “One of my personal rea- sons for writing the book,” she said, “was to work out in detail what had happened to me and to understand how I could have had such a full and intensely happy marriage with a man ] now reali: Srdzrt rea mio.” The Washington Post Times Herald — _FY The Washington Daily News The Evening Star (Washington) The Sunday Star (Washington) Daily News (New York} _ , Sunday News (New York) . New York Post The New York Times The Sun (Baltimore) The Worker _ The New Leader The Wall Street Journal The National Observer re on a ine . stryr t 1 pra 1 t OK Ly eo - People’s World Date OCT 12 1967 t “, ll *~ vat, oak,