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Look into Contadina ' NEW SLICED — BABY TOMATOES ° ° ri e "n read like fresh was sent to Beirut in Decem- Maclean's American wife, Me- y ber, 1962, to have it out. Now linda. from him, without both- Philby saw the game was up; ering to inform his legal wife, ; perhaps even he feli be Bad Eleanor. This spy has come in i played it jong enough. ‘Be from the cold. Or, in Kim's sides, he was sure he could own words, “i have come . , ze where he most wanted to He has been joined by his colleague in treachery, George Philby confessed to his still Blake, who was easily re- I incredulous friend. Among 3 . he confessed to being the kim holds an important posi- ‘third man" in 1951. Allen” tion in the K.GB., the Soviet . Dulles had no doubt of this cecurity and Intelligence De- when he wrote about the mat- partment. Between them, they ter in 1963. And this is 880° ghould have many more years erally accepted. If a burking of activity in the cause to doubt still remains it-is be which they have devoted their cause Philby’s whole life WMS jives id devoted to deception and parts ‘One theory is that Philby is of his confession could well now a treble agent, busily have been bogus too. He penetrating the K.G.B. in the might have been protecting western cause. It is true tha! the real third man 6 that with Philby almost anything is be could continue his activ. possible, But this, | fear, is ities among us. wishful thinking. Had # ever H been a remote possibility, it AD I been in his interro- would by now have been gator’s place 1 would have felt blown to pieces as a result of strongly inclined to slip Philby speculation about it in the a Mickey Finn and whip him West. I believe what Kim t off to London. But the letter said straight to Eleanor when | f F . i af the lew wes strictly ob ashe went to see him in Mos- served, Philby was still inno- cow in October, 1963: That he cent untii proved guilty by had dedicated himself wholly . . due judicial process. And it to the Communist cause since was thought that the Lebanese his student days and would authorities might have Te stick to it rather than to his fl ; : family. I believe the judgment beni frm action of pnts aoe of a close friend of his who ——which I very muc - told me Philby did it from it would, of course, have been idealism,” however grotesque wseless for his newspapers to that may seem. summon him back; he would There are al] too many signs not have obeyed. of disagreement and disrup- And so, taking his time to tion in the non-Communist the last, and deceiving his new world today. Men like Philby ; Look at the new tomatoes that_go “Use ovr new Sliced Baby Tomatoes 7 ‘everywhere fresh tomatoes go—Sliced in your salads, sandwiches and gar- p-yet they're always in season, ripe and ~ a canal them today~pew Contadina® . , his arrangements to depart. A weakness — human, political, i i geady on your theif, --°- ~~ © Sliced Baby‘Tomatoes. “fo . few weeks later, in January, economic and to exploit it H - ae ete eet eee! 1963, he did so, by night on a = to the full. H ‘: BT rs rer Soviet ship. The supply of traitors un- © FROM THE 8 GREAT TOMATO FOLES ~- His son John Philby visited happily always seems ample can .< eo , aim - Ps him in Mascow fast September. to meet the demand. Since a t=5 &> ; L. 3 &3 tes ton. | . He reported that Kim was the very future of humanity is ce wa? tee Le. Witge + mais Papen looking younger and more re- involved, it is up to us all to i —— Maree ite yee S. ; laxed, His stammer has gone. ponder the lessons of the A i ve wa “aah - nites -f ‘~ ee . ; Truc.to form, he has removed macabre Philby story. # 7a 2 g ; THE NEW YORK TIMES MAGATINE