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TAN “, CHARLES DOUGLAS-HOME and Ea... Reporters in London, Beirut, Washington and Moscow AROLD PHILBY, former diplomat named in the Commons yesterday as the Third Man who tipped off Burgess and Maclean to escape to Russia in 1951, admitted his guilt to British Secret Service men more .. than FIVE MONTHS AGO just as he This iS in turn vanished behind the tron Curtain. This admission, emerging in London fast Harold night, started a new security uproar. And Philby Labour M.P.s are convinced the Government is now releasing the facts only because who America’s Central Intelligence Agency . “leaked” them to papers in Washington first. is The fact that Philby was the Third Man was announced suddenly in the Commons yesterday by Mr, Edward Heath, the Lord Privy Seal. As a result, now he and Mr. Macmillan will/next be pressed to answer these quéstions :— behind WHY was the whole truth about the Philby affair with- the held from M.P.s until yes- 7 terday ? WHY aia Mr. Heath tell the Tron House on March 20 that he ad “given all the informa- Curtain: hich nes in our Possession” when making a . statement about’ Philby's January disappearance ? —to WHERE and in what cir- cumstances did Philby make get “ his contession to security men? . RESIGNED there ‘ “Kim” Philby was First Secretary at the British a Embassy in Washington in 1951 when ‘this old friend Guy Burgess vanished from Red London with fellow-diplomat Donald Maclean. . Soon afterwards Philby 8 hi was forced to resign from Lp the Foreign Service. a But In 3955, Mr. Macmillan, hen Foreign Secretary, f may cleared Philby of tipping off the two men on,the very das———> MRS. PHILBY h ave security agents “were closing She's in Britaxe——" su January this year ~ -year-ol y, living in taken Beatie es Midate “Bast correspondent for The h , Observer newspaper, vanished UMN =~; Sthough the news did not ‘come out for several weeks. fi His American wife Eleanor, TOI __ enrough the British Embassy, reported him missing, One D2. t report said that he was away UU on “an assignment,” another } nD that he had sent a message \é to this Nite from Cairo. Grad he hunt by Lebant ce died down.. But | ot 7 British agents.