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Cambridge Five Spy Ring — Part 20
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Ir. H. ALR. Philby, 51, Middle East correspondent of the
server, who has been missing from his home in Beirut lor
five weeks, and his wile, Eleanor.
: MR. PHILBY
From ERIC DOWNTON
(Continued from Pl, Col. 6)
plorer. He resigned from ‘the
Foreign Office in 1951, and in 1955
was cleared of allegations made.
in the Commons that he was im.
plicated in the disappearance of
the diplomats Burgess and
Maclean.
With Mrs. Philby in Beirut are
her daughter by a previous mar.
riage and a son and daughter of
_Mr. Philby’s former marriage. Mrs.
Philby said to-night that her hus-
-band might have gone from Cairo
to Yemen and Saudi Arabia.
CAIRO MESSAGE
“ Details following”
She showed a cable she had
received yesterday. Apart from j
two personal phrases, it read: “ All
going well. Letters with all details
following.” The telegram, signed
Kim Philby. gave Cairo as the place
of origin.
According to the copy received
by Mrs. Philby the cable was de-
‘posited in Cairo at 3.38 a.m. on
Friday. She did not know her
husband's Cairo address.
j uring his five-week absence shi
had reccived four letters and tw
‘cables, But two of the letters froi
Cfiro took about three weeks t
reach her.
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