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. ee | 7 . box of the GETAWAY Where and exactly when these agents got Philby's confession is nat known, Mr. Heath was not certain yesterday that Philby did ga behind the Iron Curtain, Anyway, it is not clear why he’ should—for Britain has ho extradition treaties with Middle East countries, and for years Philby never came within British jurisdiction. One theory on how he went away came from the Lebanon last night, On January ‘23 2 Sovlet freighter was tled up in Beirut harbour. Philby left his flat in the Rue Kantarl in the evening to attend, he said, a British diplomatic Party. The theory its that he! sipped across the road to the Russian commercial mission — a gardened villa from which Red agents are Satd to operate — and was taken by car to the docks, Vhe Soviet freighter salied & few hours after Philby left his flat. It would take a couple of weeks to: go through the Aegean and Sea, af Marmora to Black Sea Ports of Rumania, Bulgaria, or Russia. LETTER Tn May a letter apparently from Philby to his wife was pushed through the letter- flat in Beirut. It Was written behind the weRAULELD from Iron Curtain. Eleanor Philby flew ta England—the Foreign Office Says she 1s stili here—and security men studied the letter. — In Moscow iast night a British Embassy spokesman, learning about Mr, Heath’s statement from a reporter, Sald: “We have no record or Knowledge of Philby’s Presence in Russia.” The “official” Soviet view fs that Philby, as. British agent, went tae io Yemen to help the ys king. Cc. closures abou began to drift through a week ago as Kennedy prepared for Europe. Yesterday the Magazine Newsweek said : “ Western IntelHeence sources con- firmed that missing British journalist KH. A. BR. (Kim) nilby, an ex-diplomat whose loyalty Harold Macmillan defended in the House of Commons in 1955, had in fact mPa me D8 Gciécvea to the Russians.” This paragraph was in a round-up of British 5Py scandals headed “The New Pornocracy,” ; Prepared to leave It was publication - long Mr. Heath spoke. In London one or Mr, Heath's disclosures was that hilby worked for the Russians before 1946, when he joined the Foreign Service, The long Spread-over of the case has particularly alarmed M-P.s, ATTACK bef Tory MP. Mr John Cordeaux, who ralsed the Philby affair in the Com- mons last March, said last night: “I regard this Case as a serfous lapse on the Part of the security officers, particularly bearing tn mind the long period of time that has elapsed since the Burgess and Maclean episode.” Labour M.P.s do not intend to let Mr. Macmilian escape Personaliy. - George Wige wil attempt today to ask the Speaker how Mr. Maemillan’s 1955 dental can be corrected. He intends to ask for a Personal apology from the Prime Minister to Mr. Marcus Lipton, ‘the Labour M.P. who was bitterly attacked for saying eight years ago that Philby was the Third Man. However, Labour leaders Intend to leave the uproar to thelr back-benchers. It has not been lost on them that much of Philby's career as a Soviet agent took place during the time of a Labour Government,“ | |