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VW ww Moly Bi ft 4 Callahan : - Conrad ——_____ She Never Knew Hi cole Never Knew Hubby Gale c ae _ J Rosen , Sulliva WasSpying on the Double Tove . TO! x - “2 — a ae Wie ae mae anged | third Bhe Bee Tete rate. Mactit aee a lene serkcn Gandy wife gf master spy King Pane knew her fus- band ‘a member of the British Intelligence Service, but never suspected that for 30 years he also was an agent for the Soviet Union, Eleanor Philby, the Amer- ican wife whom Philby, now living in Moscow, has appar- ently divorced, said in a copyrighted story in the London Observer that her husband probably was able to keep his dual role a secret because “one activity was a perfect cover for the other, and Kim’s work for the Observer was good cover for both.” woes Philby went to Beirut as Middie East correspondent for the Observer and the Economist in 1956, after be- ing cleared of allegations that he had tipped fellow spies Guy Burgess and Donald Mac- lean that British Intelligence Was about to arrest them in 1951, While in Beirut, Philby met and married Eleanor. In fanuary 1963, fearing expo- sure, he fled to Russia. Mrs. Philby knew of her husband's continuing work for the British, as “it is com- mon Intelligence practice for a wife to be told that her husband is doing secret work” to keep her from get- ting suspicious about his ac- tivities. She knew nothing in ad- vance, Mrs, Philby wrote, shout her husband’s defec- eee w. e Re i next se whe “was questioned by Intelll- Benck-sttieeys dP-botir-stus- sia and the West about Phil- by’s activities. She went to . Moscow later that year to live with him. “When I got to Moscow an@ really understood for the first sine that Kim had 6< VET 19 1967 him for two years, but re- turned to Britain in 1965 and later settled in Ireland. t She found herself shut off rom her former Sriengs in Lofrice*—who, Wher~-she tried to see, them, “usually hesitated, ~makitit—tortie kind of excuse, and that was that. Now when they ‘read the whole story, per- haps they will understand how I felt.” The “whole story” is a “book on which Mrs. Philby Js collaborating with Pat- rick Seale, who succeeded Kim_Philby as the Observ- er’s Middle East correspond- ent and who was also the ghost-writer of the Observer article, The book was origi- nally scheduled to be pub- Ushed next autumn, but a running battle between the Obsérver—aild thé-Pomdvn, Sunda Times to beat each othe?” of print “wint—the Philby story has accelerat- ed the timing, possibly to next spring or earlier. Mrs. Philby described her marriage to Philby as “per- fect in every way” even though “Kim shut me out of a whole side of his person- ality.” She implied that she left him in 1965 because of "Mra, Philby said di t y, id not sur. pri - About half of Seale's book will be a description of Phil- by’s life as double agent and journalist. The remainder is Mrs. Philby’s account of her life with him in Beitrut. “One of my personal rea- sons for writing the book,” she said, “was to work out in detail what had happened to me and to understand how I could have had such a full and intensely happy marriage with a man I now reali; 3 realy’ s faites ‘The Washington Post Times Herald FY The Washington Daily News The Evening Star (Washington) ___ ‘The Sunday Star (Washington) ___ Daily News (New York} ; Sunday News (New York) —_-_____ . New York Post The New York Times his romance with the wife coe of Donald Maclean, who , also lives in the small Brit- ish “spy ghetto” In Moscow. CTheSminenctene REDON Geoqge Blake, who escaped | last year from’ mdoh's ° Wormwood Scrubs Prison, presumably with Soviet as- sistance, while serving a 42- year sentence for espionage). “Kim's affair with Melinda Maclean started when I was N still in Moscow two years ago,” she said, adding this must inevitably have caus , a breach, between, Bhilby. and Ma ale The Sun (Baltimore) ‘The Worker The New Leader The Wail Sueet Journal ‘The National Observer People’s World Date OCT 12 1967