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. (Mount Clipping in Space Below) , HERE was a time a sell-confessed spy} and Brooke hen millions read {who is not a spy) Nocera ( iy John Buchan and Masters much that would be thought how won- Available to them, but nothing erful the British Secret to compare with ‘the value to Rertul Must be Soon. sure wage! shinent of making fel tion Millions will be reading ne “20,2 provect Philby ioe Page - Leitch - Knightley* rascally Burgess and the out and saying how lousy it when they Yaitered? acon tem must have been. Dost office for their secrets. Both authors. 1 ‘neea Philby, having betrayed ag hardly say. are Wrong; the many 40 often, would surely pot truth Hes somewhere finch trom this fing! treachery, (Indicate page, name of between The Thirty-Nine Be that as it may. we as a newspaper, cily and siate,) Steps and Phitby Lf there halon cannot sit and do nothing ** 48 more hard fact and less as this dreadful story uw pub Ushed ail over the word Some romance in the latter. there . defence has to be made; some is less spite and more under- corrective found: some wa standing in the former devised of making our inteay Buchan knew the men and gence services accountable, the time ne was writing about; There were great merits—~iet | | | i EVENING STANDARD i | the three Sunday Times authors 42 he aAdmitted—in the old ! | | | ~ London, England oF tem end tt, OF AB gyetem of atafiing intelligence between them pave cunoUus with gentlemen from the Ser- Second-hand prejudices about vices and the public schools, Bo the (30's and the British ruing jong as upper-class society was Class nuchan was writing [On split by the Fascist-Com- romance for his own amuse. munist choice of the period ment: the studenis of Pnilby between wars, loyalty Was Noes “giting exposure under assured. It was cheap to run, prders, In common, I suppose, because a small permanent Whey “nad the desire to make stall could trawl good informa- money, tion from any walk of tife. and | In this } have no dount the aimost any part of the world, team of three will succeed. For from the old-boy. net, the yarn they tell is as engross- _ PL. 7 “DELETED COPY SENT Ae Bite... By LeTigR a fax tae “PER FOIA REQUEST ing as anything Buchan ever ; wrote and” controversia; wo P OMPOUS Lo / /) fé. 7, boot. It is based on no docu- a) {ore eee . ff Pos Mentation to speak of, and the ft was secretive in the way /. fe. a Sources ithe In ple hae ter that ali effective groups Bre “ 1. po to, , meus ars sone. “ot thene With Secretive: newspaper proprietors, wt bE ba is to settle ® the T.U.C.. college common . ‘ aC ho rooms, the executive committee —_— tT cannot be cailen History, of the Communist Party. ¢This ! because access to official 7ecords = is not, as John te Carré seems ‘ : has been refused. It isn’t mere tg argue in his curlously-pom.- fourna wey) expense ave Oone pous peoduction. a quality Trouble A cular cers of the into producing what will “last Inains army er gncers all, the Date: 2/19/68 and Make a book. It isn't Police 5 LS. did” not interfere in Work, because the culprit—the politics—and I wonder of haw ! } Edition: i Man who “recognised, courted many comparable organisations Author: DONALD McLACHLAN Editor: TittesNOW WE KNOW THAT PHILBY WAS THE THIRD irene clously, seduced Into a fm the world this can be cont Iifecime of “deceit” Philby, dently said. Compare the short Rlaciean and Burgess—has not history of S.LS. with that of the been identified and charged, French, German, Russian ItaHan equivalents (ah weil DANGER eer ou wth ‘@ political saesh MAN~BUR WHO WAS THE — clea. Ch aracter: . FOURTH? or This is imstant history, the As Je Carré admits, rather danger of which is that one Tudgingly at the en of its never goes on guite long enough Oration’ © pirate is tbe pics ‘to dig out all the truth that we bay for being moderately . Hight be dug. free... ”. Stupid. creduious, srg ~ wl Pave no ‘doubt at all that as the Establishment may aave Loot Mea if it really got down been. Wt erred on the aide ot CO Pea f to the regardless of reputa- rust.” ey were, ina word-- earn ryeeretne ne ” tlons, could find that culprit, fmateurs. As such, they sexed NOT REC pe - Ofte way of doing so mnay have insecurity but never suspects gecurred to the present Foreign treachery: their Naz! opposite ecretary who, it will be remen)- Aumbers always feared treachery | bered. got very angry with Lord and seldom believed themselves . A Thonison because’ the Philby capable of inefficiency, AQ Bory was written for hie news- race balten Knightley would f papers, have us believe that the Secret Tt is to offer to return to Service did little more in the ay, euUssia the Kroeger palr of spies war than sponsor successful y ha: Philby (who is - Code-breaking. This ts unfair. = and no. doubt the result of haste. - - they gone to Norway, for ° > BETES, ven a GENERATION. to example, they Would have Bruce Page, David Leitch, Phitin learned of the brillinns —work Knightiey. (Andre Deutsch, 308.) done by agents trained in this wet teg the we ‘eatin an” Pmate. :