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IAN we). ‘CHARLES DOUGLAS-HOME and E.,.1 Reporters in London, Beirut, Washington and. Moscow: | AROLD PHILBY, former “diplomat named in the Commons yesterday as the Third Man who tipped off Burgess and Maclean to escape to Russia in 1951, admitted his guilt to British Secret Service men more - «. than FIVE MONTHS AGO just as he This tS in turn vanished behind the tron Curtain. This admission, emerging in London lasl Harold night, started a new security uproar. And . Labour M.P.s are convinced the Government wack Y is now releasing the facts only because America’s Central Intelligence Agency “leaked” them to papers in Washington first. The fact that Philby was the Third Man was announced suddenly in the Commons yesterday by Mr, Edward Heath, the Lord Privy Seal. As a result, he and Mr. Macmillan will/next be pressed to answer these quéstions :— behind WHY was the whole truth about the Philby affair with- the held from M.P.s until yes- terday ? WHY aia mr. Heath tell the Ir on House on March 20 that he had “given all the Informa~ Cur tainvos hich nds in our possession when making a : Statement about’ Philby's January disappearance ? WHERE ana in what cir- cumstances did Philby make his confession to security men 2 - ‘ me, RESIGNED there ‘ “Kim” Philby was -First Secretary at the British Embassy in Washington in 1951 when his old friend Guy Burgess vanished from London with fellow-diplomat Donald Maclean. Soon afterwards Philby - was forced to resign from the Faraton Sarvira tae SOPSiBA Service, But in 1955 Mr, Macmillan, then Foreign Secretary, . cleared Philby of tipping off the two men on,the very éag3——— M&S. PHILBY security agents were closing . She’s in Britasse——’ in on them. : _— In January this year $l-year-old Philby, living in Beirut as Middle East correspondent for The Observer newspaper, vanished | —though the news did not ‘gome out for several weeks. . Arnaprinan offen Dlaanne 2 tle FAO TUT WALD COL, Prt the British Embassy, | reported om missing. One report said that he was away . er. ut on “an assignment,” another to ls wife from Cairo. b Tadually jhe unt iv L- Lebanwe-pottee died down.. But not by British agents.