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The recruiter Mr Filavell's interesting letter last Jay—supgesting that the spics’Philby, Burgess and Mac- lean“MmghT have been recruited by some Trinity Don through the Machinery of the Aposties—fails on several grounds. Apart from the fact that Donald Maclean was up at Trinity Hall, there is plenty of published information about this Cambridge society. ¢ Your own reporters’ book, | “ Philby—the Spy Who Betrayed A Generation,” makes clear that neither Philby nor Maclean were members of it (information based, they claim, on interviews with contemporary members), although Burgess was, Several other references (Iar- rod's Life of Keynes, Russell's Autobiography, Holroyd's Lytton Strachey) make it equally clear that this society was not only not confined to Trinity men, but that a cardinal principle of its re- crujtment and its transactions was that members should both resist the received ideas of the material world in their argu ments, and that they should maintain a strict mutual loyalty in not using or referring to the society in their professional lives. gain, Insight’s Philby book repeats the evidence of Harrod's “Keynes ™ that prior commit: ment to Communism ruled out of consideration many bright young PHILBY | | { been considered. Your reporters concur with both Cyril Connolly _ (The Missing Diplomats " ") and Tom Driberg (‘ Burgess—a Por- trait. with Background") — in “emphasising that Burgess felt a . C It seems unlikely, in one _so Sdivereet_ and impulsive as Bur- fess, that he would have held the friendship of non-Comununist Apostles for so long if in fact he had been a party to the society's exploitation by KGB recruiters. In any case, it is undisputed . that all three of the spies were | involved with Communists and Left-wing groups in Cambridge wholly unrelated to the ‘Apostles. { Whoever recruited them, it would seem far more likely that the contact was made in the context of avowedly political discussion and organisation than that it took ; lace within a tiny, private group either devoted to politics no} Indeed, open to Philby or Macleai Jan Angell |. Gibraltar DELETED COPY SENT A C. Grow? BY LETTER J 15 Joe men who would otherwise have! ppg FOIA REQUEST ; Mohr —— Bishop ——___—__ Casper ——___—_ Callahan Conrad Felt ——_____ Gale Rosen Sullivan Tavel Trotter Tele. Room Holmes Gandy The Washington Post Times Herald The Washington Daily News The Evening Star (Washington) The Sunday Star (Washington) ——— Daily News (New York) Sunday News (New York) —_—__ — New York Post The New York Times ~ The Sun (Baltimore) ——_______.._... The Worker The New Leadér The Wall Street Journal —__.--— The National Observer __. People’s World ma oe lasting affection for the Apostles, - lasting affection for the Aposiles (aq , rejurned this. —— - Jee wv da Va Dye é NoT or RECOR = y of) 167 WAR 19 1968 BIMAR20 1968 —_— oe