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a uit cen et ee ae Mohs . And so, taking his.gime ta the lasiarey deceiving his new , wife just. as he“ft deceived the rest @f them, Philby made his arrangmments to depart. A few week® later, in January, . . 1963, he did so, by night ona Soviet ship. _ His son John Philby visited - him in Moscow last September. | He reported that Kim was. looking younger and more re-, ‘Taxed Hjs slammer True to form, he has tonoved | » Macican’s Amentan Win Me: . ~ dindw® Tréaraim, without bows. | . 1 ering to inform his legal wiic, .~' Eleanor. This spy has come in ° from the cold. Or, in Kim's .. own words, “I have come . horne.” He has been joined by his colleague in treachery, George Blake, who was casily re-. moved from his London prison - by his Communist friends. ; Kim holds an important pos:- 1 tion in the K.G.B., the Soviet | Security and inicliigence De- partment. Between them, they should have many more years of activity in the cause to which they have devoted their lives. , Penetrating the K.G.B. in the . Western cause. It is true that with Philby almost anything is been a remote possibiliuy, it would by now have oeen Speculation socut it in the | said straight to Eleanor when’ she went to see him in Mos-! cow in October, 1963: That he, bad dedicated himself wholly! to the Communist cause since | his student days and would! stick to it rather than to his, family. I believe the judgment .of a close friend of his who told me Philby did it from “idealism,” howewer grotesque _that_may sé&%n. ~ : 2 i ' One theory is that Pailby is ; now a treble agent, busily : | possible. But this, I-fear, is; wishful thinking, Had it ever! ’ blown to pieces as @ result of. “West. I believe what Kim| of disagreement and disrup-!* . tion in tne non-Communist : world today. Men like Phiby. and their agents everywhere will be quick to recognize any. weakness — human, political, economic —and to exploit it. to the full. tr The supply of traitors un-.: happily always seems ample: to meet the demand. Since .. . . the very future of humanity isl ; invoived, it is up to us all taj pongar the lessO¥ju Ot ashe macabre’ FMilpy story. = ! Te Topey