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~ GETAWAY Where and exactly when these agents got Philby's confession is not known, Mr. Heath was not certain yesterday that Philby did go behind ‘the Iron Curtain. Anyway, it 1s not clear why he’ should—for Britain has no extradition treaties with iddle East countries, and for years Philby never came within British jurisdiction. One theory on how he went away came trom the Lebanon last night, January ‘23 3 Soviet freighter was ted up in Beirut harbour. Philby left his flat in the Rue Kantarl in the evening to attend, he said, a British diplomatic Party. The theory ts that he sipped across the road to the Russian commercial mission — a gardened villa from which Red agents are sald to operate — ‘and was taken by car to the docks, ‘Yhe Soviet freighter salled @ few hours after Philby left his flat. It would take a couple “of weeks to’ go through the Aegean and Sea of Marmora to Black Sea Ports of Rumania, Bulgaria, or Russia. LETTER Lom May a letter apparently ‘from Philby to his wite was pushed through the letter- » box of the flat in Beirut. Ib was written from behind the Tron Curtain. Eleanor Philby flew to England—the Foreign Omice says she is stili here—and gecurity Men studied the letter. In Moscow last night a British Embassy spokesman, Jearning about Mr. Heath's statement from a reporter, sald: “We have no record or knowledge of Philby’s Presence in Russia,” The “official” Soviet view fs that Philpy, AS | British agent. went tara Xemen to help the 3. Ing. First tu: eC. closures one began to drift through Washington & week ago as President Kennedy prepared to leave for Europe. Yesterday the magazine Newsweek said: “Western Intelligence “sources con- firmed that missing Bri This paragraph was in a round-up of British spy scandals headed “The New Pornocracy.” . It was prepared for publication: long before . Heath spoke. In London one of Mr, Heath's disclosures was that Philby worked ‘for the Russlans before 1946, when he joined — the Foreign | Service, The long spread-over of i the ‘case has particularly alarmed M.P.s. ATTACK Tory MP. Mr. John Cordeaux, who raised the Philby affair in the Com- Mons last March, said last night: “I regard this case as a serious lapse on the Part of the security officers, Particularly bearing in mind the long period of time that has elapsed since the Burgess and Maclean episode.” Labour M.P.s do not intend to let Mr. Macmillan escape Personally. Wige will Mr. Geor; attempt today to ask thi 1955 denial can be corrected, He intends to ask for a Personal apology from the Prime Minister to Mr. Marcus Lipton, the Labour MP. who was bitterly attacked for saying elght years ago that Philby was the Third Man. However, Labour leaders intend to leave the uproar to thelr back-benchers. It has not been lost on them that much of Pnilby's career as 2 Soviet agent took place during the time of a Labour Goverment. .* .