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Volkov was no longer, to use ° . a polite word, available, Inv: < ape fails are fact, he Er been removed. ‘>! CLAS.LS. operation feet firstly a Soviet military ¥: aircraft. “It{struck a colleaguein +. eae at ope nad off | by’ the" ang leit aves) ice for the Sovict : That thire man was “Phi spring of At Wis COnSIC. of Philby’s*at the-time that. i). either he had been highly. in- “competent, which was not his cooreing z 0 : vat wens or that he had been, up, ee Me ons §: wae he ke ana . to a double game. . . ae , Sbout Lice Fe . & Y f the Soviet Forno doubis about iH, , MIS wes > But his colleague. assumed? «: . - that MIS, the Sccurity Service, ee corresponds roughly to,..ii7 quences in ns ithe rou; “might _practicaliy certain, Dut his own service, BY forently. Damm: one of us, ude (it oved! Nookwe 7 the _ sucess. “tives ats sco. : fact that Maclean and Burgess * infiltracors were’ methodically came into ne category}. * “met and siaughtered, About Then there was no love, 19 berweer, 5 and 6, «. bne F.B.I., would be onto that. : ye point. w They were, but not .. ‘with much force. .. No-conclus!..i, sive evidence came ‘to light... i “Philby got the benefit. ‘ot the - doubt. Bit The CLA. 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 ta 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 into the Soviet ‘Union bat. nist Balsans.: wee. ganized the’ operation with Philby has “no doubt now ‘taat treachery at works,’ ‘and that the | ime: ke arrived ip “Turkey, o - peathgee 7 Sintewem MG dased * of the. tree! mendousiy, increast Bower of the C.LA. Some M by his ir a Te pete P y homuses ’ keep maum. who denew him we - ke almost Grove gators up the wall by his -oo- a . silence, _ UNISE SPY. He wus “gaeR’ to ‘London by: - by de: nist cst! sclean was’s the fish, He ha yable atom, v “for nis Moscow master . i ‘liked Philby and admired his. : professional skill, he was never © ae , Sure what made him tick. My - ‘friend was not alone in this. - i] From my few ineetings with him in the Middle East in the forties and fifties I remember - an apparently normal member . of the British upper class—' ~ amusing, __ intelligent, -pand- ‘Vooking,:- ‘He alwavs _ drank . ane Volkov “ease” wis 2 Was rogurded Criro ane days end were a whirl of Gract: wpe , Nornasexual- MS" oe rm! “hi vhe anest ‘s operator, | a lads «between -th - clancestine dryacizations were, — Bee be “~ than gicy. iia¢ eS pieres a = See tr ee as eet