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WU f4-d-be) 8 the mysterious ry) (Mount Clipping In Spoce Below) THE PHILBY — 1 KNEW By DONALD SEAMAN HY and impeccably mannered Mr. Harold ("Kim") Philby, O.B.E., swept back into the headlines with announcement that he has. been missing from his home in Beirut for over five weeks. ‘y Mr. Philby works in the Lebanon as .Middie East correspondent of The Observer and the Economist. Hig wife said yesterday that the report of his’ disappearance is due misunderstanding and that “ ft, the country in great hurry on a long assignmen’ She said she had reoeived letter and cables from him in ai nehe, and she was sure he was right. Curiously. none of the cabics reached his newspaper. Nor dd details of the assignment. AS 2 rest the Observer made fa est Bip sh the Foreign the Pacypesan auth fs dito hap COINCIDENCE That any mystery shoud surround Mr. Philby's where- abouls is indeed an astonishing coincidence. . For of the many ple whose lives were shattered bp the dix- appearance of Burgess and Maclean back In 1951, perhaps no one—oulside their immediate famiies—suffered more than Philby did. In those days he was First Secretary at the British Embassy in Wasihngwn and the senior oficial of our counter-espionage staff there. He served in the Embassy - fron October 1949 until June 1y31_ (Burgess and — Maclean disappeared in May. 1951); and in the words Mr. Haroid Macmillan, when. "roreign Secre . tary to 1958 :~ “Philby had been privy to much of the tavestigation ini the Foreign Office “leakage of 1949." You may remeanber that the sources Gt this leakage information were narrory dof untd Donald Maclea: ww. left as the principal suspe las for Mr. Philoy. he ha old chum. Guy Burges. seking with him in Washing- ton until April 1951, {Inaicate page, name of newspaper, city and state.) Page 2 7 Date: Edition: Author: Editor: Title: Character: or ; Ctassitication: /? 6 Submitting Offic Mr. Tolson...——— Mr. Belmont... Mr. Moh?.....-2e Mh, Caaper . an ealinban NX. London, England , UNRECORDED COPY FILER INC .- "Daily Express" 2