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|= The Washinaton Dost ald ial et) beet ieee ie t Pi K WOE Vol It Ne. 19 Ofeatih Cop ~~ MAY 12, 1968 ju—Y4 : ‘ Cleveland Amoryon { Paul H. Douglas Paul West on S.LA. Marshail on The best new the Right People on life insurance | early Nabokov | the Italian campaign | cookbooks, p. 7 wy Kim Philby of Her Majesty’s Secret Intelligence Service THE PHILBY CONSPIRACY. By Bruce Page, Phillip Knightley and David Leitch, Mustrated, Doubledsy. 312 pp. fe Aghast, one puts down The Philby Conspiracy. The *. joint product of a team of journalists working for the + London Sunday Times, it is the most sustained, the most i horrifying and the best account of international espio- : nage that has been written, at least since Rebecca West's The Meaning of Treason. The mind searches for reassurance. Finding none, it springs to self-defense. “Thou shalt not bear false wit- ness,” it recalls. One would not have known such a man, he could not have been in the circle of one’s friends. I> But the exercise is fruitless. Kim Philby was in the circle of one’s friends, not in the close sense of “what ‘S* friends thou hast and their endurance tried” — he was a fact ., which might go unnoticed only in a secret service where ** amicable disengagement is also good security. But one had a drink with Philby at the house of friends, Be- cause he was the personification of the alliance, Her Majesty's representative on matters “most secret,” one greeted him in the office of the boss rather more cheerily than one might greet a fellow member of “the firm. never that to anyone, not even to his w: