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My friend was not alone in this. From my few meetings with him in the Middle East in the forties and fifties I remember an epparently normal member of the British upper class— amusing, intelligent, good- looking. He always drank more than he should; so did @ good many other people in diplomatic circles. J never found his stammer obtrusive. Perhaps he was in a relaxed mood on these particutar occa- sions. Like many others who knew him far better than I did, I noticed absolutely noth- ing suspicious about him. Pisy had to be removed from the S.L5S. but no yore Stringent measures were taken against him, because the case was “not proved." This point was made in stalements in the House of Commons. I was able to see for myself that. happily, close collaboration in the imtellipence sphere be- tween Americans and the Brit- ish was resumed. In the twilight years that followed 1951, Philby lived, poorly, on odd bits of journal- ism or anything else that came his way. Most of his British friends remained faithfa) to him and helped him as and when they could He con- tinued to drink and wench as much as he could afford to. The charm remained. MI5 watched him, and he watched them watching him. Clearly his Moscow masters were in touch with him and instructed him to play it quietly. He has since said that, chafing at the inaction after the deys of splendor, he longed to finish it and go to Moscow. But his orders were to siay. In 1955 he got another lucky — ™“.... a ee break. These happened so often in his life that we may well suppose there was some Communist-inspired manipula. tion behind the acenes. A Labor M.P.. Marcus Lipton, stated in the House of Com- mons that be had firm evi- dence that Philby had indeed been the “third man” and be asked then Foreign Secretary Harold Macmilian: What about ft? Macmillan, after consult- ing his F.0. and §.1.8. advisers, replied that it was nonsense. Lipton Claimed that fe had his information from “a secu- city source,” which suggests MIS. The question here would seem to be: Who was fooling whom? The F.0. evidently thought © that the poor fellow had been eo. one hardly done by. So they now gave him semiofficial backing in getting the Middle East correspondent’s Job on The Observer and The Economist. Centered in Beirut, be could travel widely and make useful, to him, Communist contacts all over thet part of the world. Shortly after this, Sir Dick White became head of $.15. As head of MI5 he had had grave suspicions of Phifby’s joyalty, He decided to make the most of e bad job and gave him some small assign- ments im the hope that be would betray himself through his conduct of these oper- ations. | became Foreign Office adviser to White later in 1956. I can confirm that Philby never tripped up. tn his spare time he seduced and marned the American wife of an American journal- ist who was # close friend. His father, St. John, robust as ever in his 70's, visited Beirut and father and son had some lively parties together. How- ever, the nightclubs finally proved too much for the oid chap, and he died, uttering the memorable words: “T'm bored.” His son was shattered by his death. Yur another traitor enters the Philby story at this point. George Blake, who had doubt- less been under Philby's con- trol in the good old days when he was riding high, had done his dizbolical work as 5.15, man and double agent in Berlin from 1954 till 1959, and he felt he deserved a rest. So did his grateful but unwitting head office in London and they sent him to M.E.C.AS. (the Middle East Center for Arab Studies) just outside Beirut. Naturally, bis equally .£teteful but by No means un- witting other head office, in Moscow, fiad 00 Objection at all to his getting together with his fellow traitor once more. It was pot for long. That fame year, 2 contact of Blake's came clean to our side and incriminated him. He was brought to London, where he confessed his guilt. He was sent to prison for 42 years, a record sentence. Inside prison, he was treated very well, and further interro- gated in a genticmanly way. At lest—it was by now 1967 —he slipped up and reveaied 8 piece of information (con- cerming one of the complex operations in which they were both involved} that pointed indubitably at the truth about Philby. A personal friend of Philby's ee = : Sugar Hill Pine... _as Early American as Ben Franklin. Sores Early American furniture thar | ‘brings out the Patriot in 3ou Ou Sugar eke ‘ollection in Adare See Section 11 in today's Times: The Altman Christmas Magazine a treasury of gifts raady for you now at B. Altman & Co. on Fifth Avenue and af White Piains and Manhasset, N.Y. Short Hills and Ridgewood/Paramus, WN. JL and St. Davids, Pa Nete: This M@-pege Git Magazines © in every copy of today's Times, If, accidentally, it ie mot in your paper and you would like a copy, write B. 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