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fo) 0 Kine Casper ——___ ~ Callahan Beton Evang ! nye cy | vs I fvan pu Vw» vel Trotter —___ Tele. Room 0! UPI-41 . (NEWSMAN ) BEIRUT, LEBANON--THE MYSTE, DEEPENED TODAY IN THE REPORTED DISAPPEARANCE 7RE HAROLD (KIM YY, Si, A LONDON NEWSMAN ONCE | FENTIONED AS T An® tn THE BURGESS-MACLEAN PHILBY FORMER DIPLOMAT WHO WORKED AS MIEDLE ASTERN CORRESPON- DENT FOR tut LONDON OBSERVER AND THE E nist BEEN SEEN IN BEIRUT FOR FIVE WEEKS, LI tairy THOR ITIFS SAID THEIR RECORDS SHOWED HE OT LeFT® LEBA BY ANY LEGAL yen ROUTE, WAS JARO as Hee AS... ’ THE OBSERVER REPORTED HIS DISAP: ARANCE A FRONT ‘PAGE NEWS” STORY IN LONDON TODAY BUT HIS WIFE, MI TOLD UPI HE WAS NOT. *MISSING® AND THAT SHE HAD HEARD FR CENTLY. SOME UNCONFIRMED REPORTS SAID PHILBY HAD BEEN STEN RECENTLY IN PRAGUE, CZECHOSLOVAKIA,BUT MRS. PHILBY SAID CAN TELL YOU THIS, HE IS NOT BEHIND The IRON CURTAIN AND pip not HISSING. S| BY SUBMARINE. AS FAR AS I AM CONCERNED, HE'S NOT . | HE SAID SHE RECEIVED A CABLE FROM HER HUSBAND YESTERDAY, DATED MARCH 1, FROM CAIRO WHICH SAIDs ALL GOING WELL. ARRANGEMENTS OUR REUNION PROCEEDING SATISFACTORILY. LETTER WITH ALL DETAILS FOLLOWS. LOVE, KIM PHILBY ba SHE SAID tits WAS _A REFERENCE TO A FAMILY ANNIVERSARY AND THAT THE SIGNATURE WAS NOT UNUSUAL BECAUSE EGYPTIAN AUTHCRITIES INSIST CABLES MUST BE SIGNED WITH A FULL NAME. “I HAD NOT HEARD FROM KIM FOR 20 DAYS (PRIOR TO THE RECEIPT OF THE TELEGRAM) AND IT WAS MOST UNUSUAL FOR HIM," SHE SAID. ®HE ALWAYS WRITES REGULARLY.* SHE SAID NEITHER ShE NOR THEIR THREE CHILDREN HAD RECEIVED ANY LETTERS FROM ANYONE FOR 20 DAYS. SHE EXPRESSED HOPE THAT REPORTS OF PHILBY'S DISAPPEARANCE WOULD CAUSE HIM TO CONTACT HER, RO REPORTS SAID HE WAS LAST SEEN IN THE UsAsR. CAPITAL IN guys TT S6e WHEN HE ATTENDED THE REVOLUTIONARY ANNIVERSARY Ya eee AND HAD NOT RETURNED THERE SINCE THAT TIME A BRITISH FOREIGN OFFICE SPOKESMAN SAID IN LONDON THE OBSERVER | HAD ASKED FOR ITS KELP IN TRYING TO LOCATE THE MISSING NEWSMAN. HE | = SAID THE BRITISH EMBASSY IN CAIRO WAS INFORMED BY UsAsRe IMMIGRATION AUTHORITIES THAT PHILBY HAD NOT ENTERED CAIRO RECENTLY. AMTSSPES dif pony oR eeee A , of 184 Man 6 1959" EYE. mrad ra 191963 washihbXG cariti-news-somvec , ;