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. - we tee” Seater dee Atte a t w (Mount Clipping in Space Below) HERE was a time hen miutitons read 4 John Buchan and 3 thought how won- Bert the British Secret rvice must be Soon. millions will be reading Page - Leitch - Knightley* and saying how lousy it must have been. Both authors. 1 hardly say. are wrong; truth Hes somewhere between The Thirty-Nine Steps and Philby if’ there 4s more hard fact and less romance In the latter. there 4s less spite and more under- standing in the former neea the between them second-hand prejudices about the ‘30's and the British ruling class. Buchan was writing romance for his own amuse ment; the students of Pnitby Were writing exposure under orders, In common, I suppose. ‘hey “had the desite to ‘make money. In this 2 nave no doubt the team of will succeed. For the yarn they tell is as eng ing as anything Buchan’ ever controversiag to ith ple hake Oak yiews with people harking bac 30 years. some of them with scores 60 settle. I cannot be cated | history, because access to official recor: has been refused. It isn’t mere journalism, because great rouble and expense have gone Into producing” what will “last find make a book. It isn't police Work, because the culprit—the man who “recognised, courted and consciously seduced into a Ufetime of “deceit” Philby. Maclean and Burgess—has not been identified and charged, DANGER —_—_—_—— This 1s imstant history, the danger of which’ is that’ one Never goes on quite long enough to dig out al! the truth that might be dug. + yi Pave no doupt at all that Whitehall. if it really got down Wo the Job regardless of reputa- tlons, could “find that culprit. - Ohe ‘way of doing so inay have ured to whe present Foreign etary who, it will be remem- 1 Bered. got very angry with Lord a ‘Thonison because’ the Philby story was written for hiy news- papers, It Is to offer to return to Russia the Kroeger pa'r of spies 61. ¥ hat penlipy (wie Sa * PHILGY: THE — sp: WHO Khighties Andre Deutse! 308) & selt-confessed spy) and Brooke feo, is not a spy) Who sould provect y, rascally Burgess and the’ out fageous Maclean; threaten them when they faltered; provide the Dost office for their - secrets. Philby, having betrayed a0 many 0 often, would surely not inch trom this final treachery, Be that aa it may, we as a pation cannot sit and do nothing as this dreadful story is pub Ushed all over the world, Some defence has to * some Sorrective There were great merits~iet ft be admitted—in the old system of stafling intelligence with gentlemen from the Ser- fees and the Dublis Schools. So jong @& upper-class society was Bot split by the Fascist-Coin- tunist choke the period foyalty POMPOUS ——— ft was that ali secretive: Secretive in the way effective groups ‘common the executive committee Communist Party. «This as John le Carré seems to argue {n his curiousty-pom- Pous introduction, a quality pespilar to ex-officers of the gpeian Army.) Above all, the tooms, of the ench, German, Russian. AtsHan equivalents * (at) well documented) ‘and the British fome out with a politicat record that ts clean le being moderately free.” Stupid. credulous. sug as the Establishment may aave bee: ed on the side of They were, in a word-~ As such, , insecurity but ‘never suspected treachery: thelr Naz! opposite num bers a eared treachery and seldom believed themselves capable of inefficiency. Page-Leitch-Knightle: would have us believe that the Secret Service did little more in the War than sponsor successful Code-breaking. This is unfair, 4nd no doubt the result of haste, Had they gone have ie brilian: work agents trained in this Ji: NOT R: 43 hak 4 i968 ener Clasaitication: + [Submitting office: London f f- (Indicate page, name of Rewspaper, city and state.) EVENING STANDARD “London, England PP. 7 “DELETED COPY SENT Ac Aeon 1. By LeTigR afi dae “PER FU:A REQUEST 1+ “ Yih’ / Date: 2/19/68 Edition: Avthor: DONALD McLACHLAN Editor: TWle:NOW WE KNOW THAT PHILBY WAS THE THIRD MAN~BUR WHO WAS THE Character: FOURTH? ESP - or R , occa " f Lx G20 i Rares,