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_ _ The Washington Host i aed * ies . Vel II, Ne. 19 OP enirih ae | , MAY 12, 1968 | ol re Cleveland Amoryon | PaulH. Douglas | Paul West on S.LA. Marshall on . | The best new the Right People on life insurance | early Nabokov | the Italian campaign | cookbooks, p. 7 | Kim Philby of Her Majesty’s Secret Intelligence Service ed THE PHILBY CONSPIRACY, By Bruce Page, Phillip Knightley and David Leitch, [lustreted. Doubleday. 312 pp. i Aghast, one puts down The Philby Conspiracy, The i joint product of a team of journalists working for the li London Sunday Times, it is the most sustained, the most ' horrifying and the best account of international espio- : nage that has been written, at least since Rebecca West's ¢. TheMesningofTreason, ‘The mind searches for reassurance. Finding none, it i - springs to self-defense. “Thou shalt not bear false wit- ness,” it recalls. One would not have known such a man, he could net have been in the cirele of one’s friends. But the exercise is fruitless. Kim Philby was in the &8\ circle of one’s friends, not in the close sense of “what (y's friends thou hast and their endurance tried” — he was be never thst to anvone. not even to hie wife — a fast never that to anyone, not even to his wife fact _ which might go unnoticed only in a secret service where ‘* amicable disengagement is also good security. But one ‘had a drink with Philby at the house of friends. Be- cause he was the personification of the alliance, Her | Majesty’s representative on matters “most secret,” one : greeted him in the office of the boss rather more cheerily than one might greet a fellow member of “the firm.” B ”