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..] Macmillan had said in 1955, Kim was {] Russia, - Sunday Times' publisher and other Lonpon. ~~~ sande Ti 1963, Harolé—xurtin iby, known to “aI-as “Kim,” isappeared from Beirut, where he was working as a correspondent of two British weeklies, The Sone and The Economist. Soon afterward, Edward Heath, then the Government spokesman, announced in answer to a question in the House of Commons| that Kim had skipped to the Soviet; Union. He added that, contrary to what his fellow spokesman Harold indeed the “third man” who had tipped off his fellow traitors Donald Maclean and Guy Burgess in 1951, enabling them, too, to defect to It was only about a year ago that; bits and pieces of evidence began to; add up. ‘The clean escape of -still another traitor, George Blake, from) Wormwood Scrubs Prison in London| in 1966 had been -a-pOfiter. Eleanor Philby, Kim's last wife in the West, was now separated from him and ready to talk. It looked as if we had underrated his importance as a double agent. The Sunday Times of! London started a worldwide investi- gation and hired me as consultant. Our report has appeared over the last month and has startled many people in the United States as wellas Britain. To judge from Foreign Secretary George Brown’s antics at the Savoy Hotel on Nov. 1, it has startled him. So it's worth saying——contrary to Mr.. Brown's assertion then to The |Russians”4-that it contained nothing! .which theSCommunists did not know’ ‘already, ‘though it probably had the salutary effect of showing them.that we knew froreabbut their Tsion ‘diners e the ‘report “helped the epryet 1967 vert ed Have Learned From ‘philby Se By GEOFFREY McDERMOTT Hol ‘dvsad | 1.For 30 years before he skipped to vi Philby, Russia § in 1963, Britain’s upper-crust agent H. A. Philby lived one of the most Callahan Conrad Felt Gale Rosen Sullivan, Tavel Trotter Tele. Room Holmes Gandy ~—____ A Rw A. fea | suceessful—and treacherous—lies in al: i |spydom, a: and London hasn't recovertd yet GEQFFREY_ McDERMOTT pent 27 yeas in the’ British Diplomatic Service. He snow _wiites on foreign ein, than spected. On the other. hand, it told the public in the "west, who are not babies, some serious facts of life which they have every DELI Tight to know and to judge them- selves, Of course, the authorities would have preferred to continue to live a quiet life with those facts under the carpet, where they had lain for so long. My Fereign Qffice duties in nineteen tee oaa early sixties 24 placed me fairly and squarely in the Pee he cknale Ane ea gence community. _ For some years I chaired the Joint Intelligence Com- mittee, which included representatives of our intelligence departments. Sir Patrick Dean, now British Ambassador | in Washington, was my immediate’ boss. Representatives of the C.1.A.: sat in on our meetings, and in return, the representative of the British! Secret Intelligence Service, otherwise: called MI6, was right in on: the: American intelligence setup in Wash-;~ ington. Philby had been that man from 1949 to 1951. In 1956, I became the S.LS., Sir Dick White. This, a: Ma 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 ane Rew York Times 3-b ‘The Sun (Baltimore) The Worker ‘The New Leader The Wall Street Journal The National Observer People’s World Foreign Office adviser to the chief SMT. 2 to! we shall sce, was another crucial year for Philby. AS a result of my position I was less bewildered than some by these ' chilling developments. I knew from. experience leception was one of. 47