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‘time Volkov was no | a Polite e yo ord, available, fact. ad been fact, remo feet ne Soviet military aircraft. Tt struck a colleague of Philby's at the time that either he had been ‘highly in- competent, which was not his habit, or that he had been up to a double game. But his colleague assumed that MI5, the Security Service, which corresponds roughly to he F.B.I., would be onto that point. They were, but not with much force. No conclu- sive evidence came to light. Philby got the benefit of the doubt. The GLA, was set up in 1947, and Philby along with his British colleagues were re- garded as elder brothers who had helped to advise on its organization. But before go- ing to Washington to com- pound his treacheries, Philby went in 1946 to be near the land of his masters. He took over the highly important Istanbul station, from’ where it was-his duty to operate not only i into the Soviet Uriterrbat by the A the ‘a opera ator, between the i were ables! 2 of time came, in May, Samerttise wot the spring of t wes con preparstion, we in- s into according for the Sovict U: ‘@ man was Ph s he? The CLA ODIs no the fller’s nN. one of us, was Fiasco. : hodically’ Btered. About foree of pinacd on hin, 5 Philby S Rear sl Sap tin weal Gay) head his. a from Togete confession at the he could not be what proved to be the tr Ho, cornea that wat Re liked, Philby and admired_his Mee omar, he was never sure what made him tick. My friend was not alone in this. From my few meetings with him in the Middle East in the forties and fifties I remember an apparently normal member of the British upper class— lean was another k He had procured in- nts were a whirl of drunk- jenee, hormasexual- on. MIS began to ¥ n though, bee amugjng, _intelligent_.. 2008- “ looking. ~ He alwavs drank renee ae .