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Sunday Express Reporte IM & H. A. R. PHILBY, the’ former diplomat who was exoneral : seven years ago of* being involved in the Burgess-Maclean affai .: has been missing from his ‘home’ in, Beirut, for five weeks,” it was disclosed last night. pr In 1935 Mr. Philby was accused by an M.P. of being the Third Man who ‘tipped off: the defecting diplomats “that their arrest was imminent. He was cleared by Mr. Macmillan, then Foreign Secretary, and challenged the M.P.s to repeat the accusation outside the House. Mr. Philby, who i is 49," is “the Middle East correspondent , of: The. Observer. and the Economist. The Observer said. last night that al was last seen in Beirut on January 23 when| he left his flat to go to a dinner party at a: diplomat's house the same evening. He failed to arrive. Nor did he send any message, Next day his wife, fearing he might be ill, reported his disappearance to the Lebanese police through the British Embassy. . “ But two days Sater," said The statement, “Mra, - r police inquiries be discontinued pier she had received & eassuring letter from her , she auosequntly recelved & - “@able sent from Cairo on * ebruary 1 and another letter omising details of her hus- "3 pians later. ‘This letter,” postmarked as sent from Cairo‘ ary 4 and received jae Beirut on ebruary 8, is the last message so far received “com Mr. Philby. “It is understood that the Lebanese | police inquiries had shown no evidence that Philby had ert the Lebanon, at at least” up January 29. Foreigners leaving the Lebanon normally require an exit visa and their names are recorded at the rontier and airport passport nto) posts. ‘There ts no evidence that Mr. - hilby has been: seen 2 Ba leirut or Cairo sin . his disappearance MRS. PHILBY She went on ahead