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NN cert Mohr Casper __ Callahan Conrad DeLoach Evans Gale Rosen Sullivan Tave}! Trotter Tele Room Holmes Gandy ; © Britain ’s Latest Spy Case Rdi ises Some Puzzling ng ——ag Vuestions eee een ee OY Oe a ee ee toe haart By Clare Hollingsworth The Manchester Guardian LONDON, July 2—An air o Taystery hangs over Brit- arn’s newest spy case invelv- ou missing journalist H H.A.RL ilby, The government disclosed yesterday that Philby had worked as a double-agent and ad been the “third man” in e Burgess-Maclean ‘spy andal of a decade ago. Diplomats Guy Burgess d Donald Maclean fled to the Soviet Union in 1951, The government disclosed yester- day that Philby, who was at- tached to the British Em- assy in Washington in 1951, had tipped them off then that they were about to be arrested in a security inves- tigation. Philby, who left the British Foreign service in 1955, dis-- appeared in January from Beirut, Lebanon, where he was working as a foreign correspondent, : It is understood that Phil- by admitted his role in the spy seahdal shortly before — his disappearance. There is Apeculation that he made his confession to a British Em- -bassy official in Beirut after having learned that someone had “squealed.” li Philby was a spy and a traitor, as the government disclosures yesterday would indicate, why was he spared the misery: of a trial and prison sentence, punishments that have been imposed on lesser agents? Balfour Paul, a senior member of the Embassy staff, who should have been the Philbys' host eat dinner the night he disappeared did not alert either the Embas- by or the Lebanese police. Philby, in any case, fol- lowed his former friends to the Soviet Union, but Russians apparently ha not yet deciced to allow hi to make a public appearancg¢, Philby’s wife Eleanor, The Washington Post and Cal Times Herald The Washington Daily News ___ The Evening Star New York Herald Tribune cee eee kt BE ferment oe ee ce an New York Journa]-American New York Mirror New York Daily News New York Post The New York Times The Worker The New Leoder The wall Street Journal The National Observer Date "GS aw at Fe my oye ae, oe - -