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} DURING THE LATE 1930S, PHILBY MASQUERADED AS A PRO-NAZI JOURNALIST | AND REPORTED FROM THE FRANCO SIDE OF THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR, . WHEN WORLD WAR II BROKE OUT, PHILBY'S OLD SCHOOL FRIENDS RECRUITED HIM INTO BRITISH INTELLIGENCE AND HIS CAREER ROSE RAPIDLY, BY THE END OF 1944 HE HEADED A NEW COUNTER-ESPIONAGE DEPARTMENT DIRECTED AGAINST THE SOVIET UNION. TIPPED OFF TWO SOVIET SPIES THAT THEIR ACTIVITIES HAD BEEN UNCOVERED. BRITISH ATOMIC SPY DONALD MACLEAN AND AGENT GUY BURGESS WERE ABLE TO FLEE TO THE SOVIET UNION BECAUSE OF PHILBY'S WARNING. PHILBY IMMEDIATELY CANE UNDER SUSPICION FROM HIS AMERICAN COLLEAGUES AND HE WAS DROPPED FROM THE WASHINGTON ASSIGNMENT. SLOWLY, HOWEVER, PHILBY WORKED HIS WAY BACK INTO BRITISH CONFIDENCE, HE WAS SENT TO BEIRUT AS A CORRESPONDENT FOR THE PRITISH NEWSPAPER THE OBSERVER, ONE OF THE TWO WHICH PRINTED AN ARTICLE ON HIS ACTIVITIES SUNDAY. THE OBSERVER SAID IT HAD BEEN TOLD PHILBY WAS NO LONGER_IN THE SPY BUSINESS. BUT HE WAS ALSO IN BEIRUT AS A BRITISH COUNTERESPIONAGE AGENT. IN'1955, FORMER BRITISH PRIME MINISTER HAROLD MACMILLAN TOLD THE HOUSE OF COMMONS THAT PHILBY WAS NOT THE “THIRD MAN" WHO TIPPED OFF BURGESS AND MACLEAN FOUR YEARS EARLIER. PHILBY CONTINUED HIS DOUBLE -AGENT ACTIVITIES UNTIL 19614 WHEN A SOVIET DEFECTOR MADE ALLEGATIONS ABOUT HIS DOUBLE-AGENT BACKGROUND AND LONG HISTORY WITH THE SOVIET SPY SYSTEM, PHILBY, STILL WORKING AS A CORRESPONDNET IN BEIRUT FLED TO MOSCOW IN 1963 WHEN INFORMED THAT A CASE WAS BEING COMPILED AGAINST HIM. “PHILBY'S SON SAID HIS FATHER NOW WAS WORKING FOR A RUSSIAN NEWS AGENCY ON FAR EASTERN AFFAIRS. - ®] SHOULD THINK HE IS FAR LESS LONELY NOW," THE YOUNGER IPHILBY SAID. "HE IS AT LAST ABLE TO LIVE COMPLETELY OPENLY. HE S$ A COMMUNIST AND IT IS _A COMMUNIST COUNTRY AND WAY OF LIFE." ILBY WAS GRANTED SOVIET CITIZENSHIP. Jit3 22 PED