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DURING THE LATE 19305 AND REPORTED FROM THE FRANCO SIDE OF THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR. WHEN WORLD WAR II BROKE OU PHILBY'S OLD SCHOOL FRIENDS RAPIDLY. BY THE END OF 1944 HE HEADED A NEW COUNTER -ESPIONAGE T Essen HIM INTO BRITISH INTELLIGENCE AND HIS CAREER ROSE A angi ge cnn en ® : i DEPARTMENT DIRECTED AGAINST THE SOVIET UNION, IN 1947, PHILBY WAS NAMED CHIEF OF BRITISH INTELLIGENCE IN TURKEY AND TwO YEARS LATER HE HEADED THE WASHINGTON STAFF. PHILBY'S CLOSEST BRUSH WITH DISCOVERY CAME IN 1951 WHEN HE TIPPED OFF TWO SOVIET SPIES THAT THEIR ACTIVITIES HAD BEEN UNCOVERED. BRITISH ATOMIC SPY DONALD MACLEAN AND AGENT GUY BURGESS WERE ABLE TO FLEE TO THE SOVIET UNION BECAUSE OF PHILBY'S WARNING, PHILBY IMMEDIATELY CAME UNDER SUSPICION FROM HIS AMERICAN COLLEAGUES AND HE WAS DROPPED FROM THE WASHINGTON ASSIGNMENT. SLOWLY, HOWEVER, PHILBY WORKED HIS WAY BACK INTO BRITISH ONFIDENCE, HE WAS SENT TO BEIRUT AS A CORRESPONDENT FOR THE BRITISH NEWSPAPER THE OBSERVER, ONE OF THE TWO WHICH PRINTED AN ARTICLE ON HIS ACTIVITIES SUNDAY. THE OBSERVER SAID IT HAD BEEN TOLD PHILBY WAS NO LONGER IN THE PHILBY MASQUERADED AS A_PRO-NAZI JOURNALIST | SPY BUSINESS, BUT HE WAS ALSO IN BEIRUT AS A BRITISH COUNTERESPIONAGE AGENT. IN 1955, FORMER BRITISH PRIME MINISTER HAROLD MACMILLAN TOLD THE HOUSE OF COMMONS THAT PHILBY WAS NOT THE “THIRD MAN" WHO TIPPED OFF BURGESS AND MACLEAN FOUR YEARS EARLIER. PHILBY CONTINUED HIS DOUBLE-AGENT ACTIVITIES UNTIL 1961, WHEN A SOVIET DEFECTOR MADE ALLEGATIONS ABOUT HIS DOUBLE-AGENT BACKGROUND AND LONG HISTORY WITH THE SOVIET SPY SYSTEM. PHILBY, STILL WORKING AS A CORRESPONDNET IN BEIRUT, FLED TO MOSCOW IN 196% WHEN INFORMED THAT A CASE WAS BEING COMPILED AGAINST HIM. MOMILBY'S SON SAID HIS FATHER NOW WAS WORKING FOR A RUSSIAN NEWS AGENCY ON FAR EASTERN AFFAIRS. |. S] SHOULD THINK HE IS FAR LESS LONELY NOW,° THE YOUNGER PHILBY SAID. "HE IS AT LAST ABLE TO LIVE COMPLETELY OPENLY. HE SA COMMUNIST AND IT IS A COMMUNIST COUNTRY AND WAY OF LIFE." ILBY WAS GRANTED SOVIET CITIZENSHIP. Jt3.22 PED cop Sa cae eae So aD dial ee FT en TP oa et "hE ca 5, ‘a! ee Ce Lyte Ok gett od ae haa ee ta 5 7 a is hee er eR ae a, + *, oan jie whi a. Re a RR att a: 7 teak Tote . ing Toa. nek Te . =