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jstep to Gdount Clipping in Spece Belew) for the. | t‘lamakes | i i=) acd * = ° oO ta MY FIRST direct contact with Philby was a@ telephone call to my room at the Leningradskaya Hotet in Moscow, one of those | Marveliousiy ugly wedding-cake buildings in the Stalin Gothic atyle of the "Afties. I picked up the telephone and heard a sirunge choking DURING the past few weeks, there have ‘persistent there have been per rumours that the,“ memoirs "- of the Soviet spy Kim Philby are about to be published in the West. Philby appears to hare made a number of con- wound, as if someone at the facts with Western publish- other end was trying to say mething. Then the ing organi: ms, and there sor is alsy evidence that the caller hung up, The same thing MS has been pushed by happened five minutes later—-a officiat Russian sources. ring, the same sound,-a click Recently. the Sunday Times and silence. The third time, I twcas offered the chance to picked up the telephone and publish an 80,000-word manu- { said, on the off-chance, “Mr script by Philby, After con- sidcration, we decided that we could not justify such a ourselves. he question of financial reward as not the decisive Philby? Sp | Philby, quite distinctly this time, and after a few seconds’ pretiminaries. we arranged to mect in Room 436 at the Alinsk Hotel on Gorky Boulevard (the “Broadway of Moscow”), at 8 o'clock the same night. - I knocked, the door opened, and there was Philby, smiling with hand , outstretched. I tens not interested in money for himself, It was rather a matter that memoirs from this admitted KGB officer, went ii and took off my snow. could only be a deliberate wdered hat, 4 and coat. attempt to damage Western he, room was completely inicresix, including. Western it intelligence organisations. . , Howerer, we did take steps fo ascertain what sort of manuscript Philby was offcr- ing. It turns out to be not simply his memoirs — but indictment af | 4 a le on h a briefcase, a bottle of vodka and two glasses. The table breath-taking view over Moscow, red stars shining on the ghostly white walls and spires rather an . of the Kremlin jn the distance. Western secret operations “This is a tough dynamic against the Soviet Union, city," said) Philby. =“ This 1945-55, society is going somewhere. Care for » drink?" I accepted hig offer and we Two weeks ago, Murroy Sayle was in Moscow on a scientific feature assignment sat-down. Philby was dressed for the Sunday Times Colour in sports coat and grey flannels; Magazine. Philby met Sayle be is a courteous man, smiles several times: during these a& great deal, and his weil-cut meetings, Philby made the grey hair and ruddy complexion remarkable suggestion that suggest vitality and enjoyment i : Of life, He speaks exactly as a he might withdraw his book sentor British clvil eervant if the Soviet spies Pe if the Soviet spies Peter and would about his present em- Helen Kroger were exchanged ployers—"my superiors" he jor Gerald Brooke. “The Says,“ my colleegues,” and vei rogers were sentenced in| Carly in’ our conversation he sidarch 1961 to twenty years explained “Eo am a. serving for espionage. Brooke was officer of the KG B, as you pro- sentenced in July 1965 to @ _ bably know." He made no seerct year's imprisonment and four of his KGB employment and years in a labour camp.) Continued on page 2 Suggestions vf an exchange ° have been steadfastly refused by the British Governime: This is Murry of hi stood by a window with a | name of ty and atate.) on Tiswer, hewepape: u ‘ $. Sun day f _té ben dn, “a A af pee, (2/7/67 Author: Editor, siue Here ld. Resse i Pdrian Philby character, £tp-R. WR Classification: " . Submitting Oftice: /'4,, fey [Being Investigated