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ricgn, is cooperating with Baitish securtty authori. ties, " They, in turn, are giving her protection and although she ig said to be in Britain now, her. whereabouts are secret, . She is, of course, free to nter or leave ¢he country as he wishes. ‘| ‘Mrs. Philby is, in fact, be- Ing treated with the same kid ,Bloves that British security ~¢ }eept his earnings as a for-” authorities wore when deal- ing with Melinda Maclean, the wifé of defector Donald Maclean who confounded them and her triends by fol- lowing her husband to the Soviety Union. Immediately after Philby's disappearance, friends of his wife in Beirut suggested that she was “very worried about money.” But a short time lat- er Mrs. Philby left for Eu- rope with her two children, a trip that must have cost be- tween $1500 and $2000. Philby had no money ex- | eign correspondent which are assumed to bave ended. { He may not be as useful to the Soviet Union as Maclean was when he disappeared. But surely any man who has worked in a British counter. espionage organization must have some value, ' There is little need to stress the similarity between the Maclean and Philby cases. Both men are from similar backgrounds, the same age, Communists in their youth , ‘and Soviet agents while they | worked for the British For- ; eign Service. Further, they were attrac- tive to-women, had American wives, but indulged in emo- tional relationships with oth- er men, and both were drunk- ards. Philby used the once lux. ! urious Normandy Hotel in- Beirut as his office and gen- eral meeting place. He had much of his mail addressed there and when his—dents’ were mounting and-his-ered- itors became restless he would suddenly announce that he would soon be in the chips. When the money ar- rived he paid the barman and other creditors for a} party, which would continue | afterwards, or until Philby Passed out. ‘ United States security of- ficers in Beirut are under- stood to have suggested, so! two months ago, that th had evidence that Philby wi behind the Iron Curtain.