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a, OWN STORY: PART { one-man. Now that man— niPhilby—-presents his own sion of what happened when faced Ne interrogators, Englishman talk that way a i .8 present crisis, he woud ve been Ladd if he had Givi) war. [Xrivitzky was a Red Army Intelligence officer who defected in 1937.) But there were no further {dentifying particulars and many | young men trom Fleet Street had gone to, Spain. There was the awkward fact * that Burgess had got me into mdered how much “the Hoover. ‘quaintance with Burgess. uded that Ladd’s personal would work in my ere lalso of F.B./,J. T was quite norm knew about his him we went to see Hs discussed the escape with tnd be ventured a few ; to put 28. me so wil voat unlikely 2 before am his solid. earnes: ch guegested far from the truth. I J Quilding much reizeved as possible that doi ad Lamphere were con- se actors who had me. But it was no good gat shadows: I had to if the PBL were still dark. : 4$ possible thay at any : MLS might ask the me under sur- They could easily out my know= using the FBI. repre- in London as a direct \N th Washington. here again T felt that a few davs’ grace. It that M15 but a foreign security onto me without the eat: of MI6, and I i that the latter would that he pounding ani. slur, on one}, gWashington could be turned to ‘advantage. Would I be Ge as the Secret Service in the frst piace. I had already decided to citcumvent that one by giving the name of a well-known lady Who might have been respon- aibie for my recruitment. If she admitted —— responsibility all woud be well. If she dented st I could argue that I would scarcely have named her ff 1 had not really believed that she Was responsible. - ad The ceally aimcult problem was to explain away my rela- tions with Burgess. 1 shared very few of his tastes. very few of his friends, and few of hs intellectual interes:s The essential bond between us was, Of course. political, and that Was @ point that had to be blurred to the best of my ability. To @ certain extent geography helped. While 1 was in Austria, he was at Cambridge; while Twas in Spain, he’ was in mdon. much of the war period he was In London, but was in France, Hampshire, and Hertfordshire: then went to Turkey, and he only caught up with me in Washing. ton after @ year. I could therefore show that real intimacy never had @ chance to grow ; he was simply & stimula! ing but occasiona: companion, veo the fact that he had -stayed with me. in‘ Sates ait niin it ae! yable to;the PBL Kim Philby: Jou course, Would solve Maclean's roblein, since Burgess, through iS cotitact, could. make Gl Decessary arrangements This was strongly su; ported by the fact that it was Burgess who locked after the detais such as hiring the car. And why did Burgess go too? Well, kt was clear to Paterson and Mackenne that Burgess nas washed up in the Foreign Office, and preity near the end of his tether in general. Doubtless, nis Soviet friends thought it would be best to Temove him from a scene in Which bis presence might con- stllute @ danger to overs. Such was story and I stuck to It. It had the advan- tage of being based on known facts and almost unchallenge- able assumptions, “The only people who could disprove. {t were the two who had vanished and myself. 1 was also happ’ the theory was yw! Bc he th i 0 Reset ete Iba a and id,‘ ta. with to see that; When the bus. was full, Bocepte }: Eulooked ove; ‘ hi sect ibd tos OE my yay rnalism provided a cover for experienced some mild social embarrassment when the news broke. with all the carefree em- beilishment of the popular Press, One of the snooiter of the embassy wives gave me @ glacial re a: one of the amoassador's gardea “parties. Bur Lozdon remained ominously silent One teeeram arrived from London saying that “tt, was “understood” that I kaew Bur- Ress personal! could T throw any light on his behaviour ? But the ore 1 was expecting was & most immediate. personal, Gecioher yourself telegram from the chief summoning me home. At last the summons came. I booked my passage for the following day. { arrived in London about oon. and ‘was immedateiy Involved in a bizarre episode. . 1 had boarded the airport pus and taken @ seat immediately Rex: -to the door.” Poe, an’ agitated figure appeared on thi 2 analog. petra rin} frantically <, scrutiols @ passengers. - He lefp, shouider,>* he his reat ac the Secre: T knew very look:ng for. Yards aw two feet, hv have svoied briefed Philo: in Washtingtc perceptible x. end of the Lir Easton asked and I toid hur to come over Secret Intettig. Quarters) stra Of course no I took relish : the panic t spread when } Don-arnva aston looks when T entere