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4) An YF SERS iy roughed out & report which 1 4 Joseow, — Then ") Of scuffle and - lite went dead.” eribing in detail the failure of iis, I was pretty (my mission. Necessarily, it knew what had contained my theory of Volkov's ut Wag dead. disappearance. The essence of ‘ug to clinch the , the theory was that Volkov's only to make my | Own insistence on bag communi. , nist look better. : cations pad brought about his v low : Nearly three weeks had elapsed «, Since his first approach to Page . 4 before we first tried to contact asked Page to ‘s him. During that time the _Sesperate cone 1 Russians had ample chances of 1 calling-al the | getting on to him , ae and ; aking ,; 4 Doubtless both his office ang the Secret Intelligence Service o1rog P “¢ his living quarters were bugged. There are two features of the ' Was de ed {Both he and his wife were case which suggest that Philby - pr. botiem of the (reported to be nervous. Perhaps has not been allowed by his sadily age to fhis manner given him ‘Russian mastery. to: tell. naps, Wi an jaway; perhaps he had ot . whole story t— Tt tit 2 ack. still p garunk and talked too much; ..- yy Volkov knew there” was a ; aA rha: ‘even he had cha ed -, Russian ‘ spy in. senior ody good mind and. confessed, to !8 counter-espionage ‘post in can colleagues, *\.; “ “London he must have realised thas ma i OF course, 1° admit tted, this--. ene? Fe risked his own exposure chat ak oly t= was all speculation; the wath . ’ by that spy when he offered t and 1 sat'down 7 Milght never be known. ‘defect. to the-' Britis why nother telegram Another theory — that ‘the. a didn't he go to the Americans ate permisios Russians had. been Hi of : in istan tustead PS * ‘| about Volkov's a to Secondly,’ “Philby mates it 4 ee opork te no. solid evidence clear that on the frst night the support it was. news of Volkov reached London including in! my re; , would present to the Chief, des- KE No part of the has been officially over security, Volkov Incldent as described by lentes deni ‘though the Foreign Office and M.L5 obtained coples of the memoirs weeks ago. So it seems to qualify as the worst-known example of Seti ineptitude it ularly by both branches vf the Foreign Office—the diplomatic staff and Britain's feading : commentator on’ |, — aF nies spinning out the time before his attempt to see Volkov ? The reaction of the British diplomats to Philby’s arrival is typical of the friction between the diplomatic and esplonage But dealing anches of the Foreign Office, with a deflector be from what was then an ally—- “the incident happened In 1945— ‘he -centacted his Soviet apr- { master, who must have Immedi- ‘ately alerted the - Intelligence Centre in Moscow. With such information, the centre would Soviet contact the in Istanbal Bath a-ct-., yee > gale ate . Embass; aSSy in a and ™ @ touchy business. .- . ‘ “4 eet do not t was then called, is un have. happened ontil joined the British Secre «A Service—also =k: ; Philby confirms the official Tneliet that he penetrate the Secret int Service as the resul deliberate long-term p! was pure chance that was Invited to join M. being a foreign ne “correspondent—a comm. of entry during the wai The most revealing tion is Philby's statem: _he met his Russian spy believe Philby’s o ¢laim that be became accredited member of jhe Soviet Intelligence Service” in ‘his early twenties. Nor do any of the sccority officials with whom Pbiby's The Russian Intelligence Ser-- vice does not operate that way. . is much more likely that have career. - discussed - t Philby was recrulted by a British Communist talent-scout as a potential agent when be was at Cambridge University or soon afterwards. But. . his . in the “remoter open « London.” These we donubtedly men pos Soviet Embassy diplom: Case after case has that fo every RK: “diplomat” were shad: their British counterpar Moscow—they would et lead to almost every sp country. But M.L5—the ‘espionage service—cant because the Soviet Emb:. Is so big. There are 71 current Longon Di : MLI5 had repeatedh the Government to Ii number of Russian dip} L