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TA a Frald “en us . me : him and helped him.as and "a good many other people in : diplomatic circles. I never. “found ‘his ‘stammer. obtrusive.” Perhaps he was in a relaxed, _,mood gn these particular ocea-j,' sions, e Like many others who.,- ‘knew Fim ‘far better than did, I noticed absolutely noth--”: ing suspicious about him p Bow had to 5 be ‘removed “from the S.LS., bu$ no more stringent measures were taken *\ against him, because the case ~ was “not proved. *. This point”? . was made in statements in the” Wnanes af Cammone'’ ft SEO Me Wels s sable to see-for myself that,. , happily, clase collaboration in’ . the intelligence sphere be- ‘tween Americans and the Brit- : ish was resumed. in the twilight years that ' followed 1951, Philby lived, wae was ism or anything else that came .. -. his way.’ Most of his British ». friends ‘remained: faithful to when they could. He con-~” tinued to drink and wench as - much as he could afford to. . The charm remained. MIS — - watched him, and he watched them watching him. » Clearly | his Moscow masters were in . .,- touch with him and instructed “2 ima nein ve PERU *- | * splendor, he longed to finish ” 5 . him to play it quietly. He has © . since said that, chafing at the > daw ‘the 2 days aoftan alte of. it and go to Moscow, . But his “ orders were to stay.” . In 1955 he got another lucky break. These happened so often in his life that we may well suppose there was some Communist-inspired manipula- tion behind the scenes. A Labor M.P., Marcus Lipton, Stated in the House of Com- mons that ho had firm evi- dence that Philby had indeed ‘been the “third man” and he - asked then Foreign Secretary | Harold Macmillan: What about | it? Rfarenilian We wiaCiisal, aftnae segnenit. a@iier COonsuute . "ing his F,Q. and S.1.S, advisers, , ; “replied that it was nonsense...,.- Lipton “his info ‘rity sourge,” which suggests”. ath oo sfaion that - he had © _MIS. The question here would *. “seem to be: “Who was fooling | .;whom? “oe ; The F.0. eyidently_ ‘thought } that thie" poor fellow i nad. been ° f ms more than. he should; so. ‘did hardly done by, to him, Communist contacts all over that part of the world. — Shortly after this, Sir Dick White became head of S.LS. As head of MI5 he had had grave suspicions of. Philby's djoyalty. He decided to make _ the most of a bad job and’ gave him some small assign- :; ments‘in the hope that he *. ations. : - Office adviser to White later. . poorly, on odd bits of journal-. ny |. ation from “a secu- .* | : incriminated him. . brought to London, where he: confessed his guilt. ‘sent to prison for 42 X years, 3 al 2 would betray himself through So they now’ - gave him semiofficial backing «~! in getting the Middle East. ". cortespondent’s job on The.‘ Observer and The Economist.;: Centered in Beirut, he could = «.- travel widely and make useful," “ his conduct of these oper--.. I became Foreign in 1956, I can confirm that Philby never tripped up, la his spare time he seduced and married His father, St. John, robust as. -ever in his 70's, visited Beirut’ and father and son had some :. “lively parties tagether, -How-- > ever, the nightclubs finally proved too much for the old chap, and he died, uttering the memorable words: “I'm bored,” His son was shattered d by his death. - : ‘ Foor an another traitor enters. the Philby story | at this point.” Feet ttt eo ad Paes George Blake, who had GOuUDL, an less been under Philby’s con-. trol in the good old days when he was riding high, had done - his diabolical work as S.IS.-" man and double agent in Berlin from 1954 till 1959, and ‘he felt he deserved a rest. head office in London and they sent him to M.E.C.AS. °: {the Middle East Center for | Arab Studies) just outside .. Naturally, his equally °° grateful but by no means un. in - Beirut. witting other head office, Moscow, had no objection at all It was not for long. That’; same year, a contact of Blake's . came clean to our side and’ He was. record sentence. . So'; did his grateful but unwitting - tna hie aattine tacgathar urith ” mli Ui idia Betting MGV ete FRaeae his fellow traitor once more.* “He was_ the American ° - wife of an American. journal-- ist who was a close friend. *. “ —he slipped up and revealed % cr, @nilby Saw the Bathe was up, . t tt ".. @ Mickey Finn ond wh r Heyea it » “hird owen he wrote about the iai- an “ter in 1663. might ae The could conunue iis aor * ities Inside prison. he was treated very well, and further interro-'=“" gated in a gentlemanly: way. At last—it was by now 19625 a piece of information (con-9 cerning one of the complex operations in which they were both involved) that pointed.’ indubitably at the truth about” Philby. A pei sual friend of Philby’ Ss. 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ALONE no fewer Sa Ol treacherous oti QW G wal O Cacaergus atis he confessed io bong man” in 49532.- raters 200 : oar . . noe Delles had no ‘doubt of this; wae thi | is gene: : is te fates) erally accepted couat stir remcins it cause PHitsy’s whole Hfe was if . jGevoted iG HecyE ion aac TAMAS ot his, confessias coure wel ae have been Gogus +60. nave oeen provecting "third man’ so 4 ‘of ie : tae Tear hat among us. re ee ran ~ . : ‘AD i been in his i eel — gators piace T world b strongiy in rclinec to sl: off t6 London, But the l law was st 1 vues bine ip wail i f andy recy paibey Was sul inno- proveé guilty by | and 5 of the sovved, cent until due judizict Process, was ThOUgGL tat the Leganese authorities wedge ier. _seated firm action of this kind — mwhich T very 1m ch douse: iz would, of edurse, have been - useless Tor his RewspApers ice t aave . Sungai tier) pack, he would noe have obeyse rn on Isi it “possi ble Sherk Paitay fs mow of triple agent?