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‘ <5] have no reason to conclude that Mr. Philby has at — Uhny time betrayed the interests of his country,” said _ Harold Macmillan in 1955. By the time the Foreign Secretary gave this per- sonal acenrance te Parliament, Harald Adrian Rurecell when he was only 22. The real Philby was a master of duplicity who earned a Fascist decoration on his first Communist assignment. From the tnid-forties through the coldest years of the Cold War, he used his official positions within both American and British political axes to grind and no personal consciences to soothe or protect. As an advance reviewer in Publith- ers’ Weekly notes: “No less an authority than John le Carré endorses what the authors say, in his introduc- tion to 4 true, hair-raising spy story.” In that intracuc-