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role jor 30 years? Was his pronounced stammer a result of the constant grinding. stomach-turning strain of those years? What unsuspected fanaticism sustained his Communist fervor through the Stalin years of disillusionment? What inner strengths, or weaknesses, enabled Philby to deceive friends and colleagues, and 10 live with himself as he set about destroying a society that had been kind 10 him as only the British Upper-Class Establishment can be kind to its own? For those who seek answers to these questions, Philby's book offers scant material beyond the comment that “as | look over Moscow from my studs window I can see the solid foun- dations of the future I glimpsed at Cambridge.” It was then. in the early 1930s, that he and many of his contemporaries espoused either socialism or Communism. Throughout, the book displays an astonishing dichotomy. on the one hand Philby describes with pride his achievements for the British SIS, while on the other he was a spy dedicated to betraying it. He sneers at the British Establishment on one page, and on the next identifies and categorizes his colleagues by the schools and universities they attended But if Philby reveais little of himself, he does dangle three fascinating threads for students of what has come to be known as the Third Man Affair. There is, of course, the repeated hint that there is yet a fourth man — and a fifth. and more He seems to believe that he successfully hoodwinked the SIS into regarding him as an innocent victim of circumstances in the Burgess-Maclean affair, and that for this reason the SIS continued 10 use him os a free-lance agent after he had been forced by the scandal to leave the service. In fact. it seems likely the SIS by then knew he was a Soviet spy. and used him as a pipeline 10 send faise information 10 Moscow Then there's his revelation that he did not know Maclean personally, and that Burgess, the alcoholic homosexual, should not have skipped to Russia at the same time as Maclean — in- deed, in doing so he may have queered Philby's chances of ultimately pulling off the most stupendous espionage coup in history. Since they didn't know one another, there was nothing fo connect Philby to Maclean's escape @ jump ahead of his arrest in 1951. Nothing, that is, except Burgess, the friend they both had in common. Hf Burgess had not disobeyed orders and gone with Maclean. it's likely no one would ever have suspected Philby. And since Philby was a young man ‘on the way up. Britain's secret service might today have had « different chief Kim Philby, Russian superspy As it is, Burgess is now dead: Philby is living with Melinda Maclean after enticing her away from her husband, and they have lutle or nothing to do with fellow Westerners in Moscow, other than the occasional dinner with another defector. Ap- parently, they don't have much to do with the Russians either. Jn her book The Spy 1 Loved, Kim's third wife, Eleanor, tells of @ dreary existence in @ Moscow suburb in which Philby often drinks himself insensible, and wallows in a "sea of sad- ness." She says, “In spite of his discipline, I sense in him a profound gloom" Perhaps it wax better to be a fellow fraveler than to arrive. HE FIRST SERIOUS CRISIS of my career was Jong drawn oul, lasting roughly from the middle of 1951 to the end of 1955. Throughout it, I was sustained by the thought that nobody could pin on me any link with Communist organizations. for the simple reason that } had never been a member of any, The first 30 years of my work for the cause in which I believed were. from the beginning. spent underground. long phase started in Cental Europe in June 1933; it ended in Lebanon in January 1963 Only then was 1 able to emerge in my true colors, the colors of & Soviet intelligence officer. In case doubt should still lurk in devious minds, a pl statement of the facts is perhaps called for. In early manhood. T became an accredited member of the Soviet intelligence service. J] can therefore claim to have been a Soviet intelli- gence officer for some 30-od¢ years. and will no doubt remain ‘one umiil death or senile decay forces my retirement. In the summer of 1949 [having set up and directed the British Secret Intelhgence Service's! Soviet Section and been in charge of the SIS station in Turkey) I was offered the SIS representation in the United States, where I would be working in liaison with both Central Intelligence Agency and Federal Bureau of Investigation. The intention was to upgrade the job for a significant reason. The collaboration between C1A and SIS at headquarters level (though not yet in the field) had become so close that any officer earmarked for high position in the SIS would need intimate knowledge of the American scene. The lure of the American post was irresistible for two reasons. At one stroke, it would take me right back into the middle of intelligence policy-making and it would give me a close-up view of the American intelligence organizations These. I was beginning to suspect. were of greater importance from my point of view than their British opposite numbers. I did not even think it worth waiting for confirmation from my Sovtet colleagues. The event justified my action. No doubt Was expressed anywhere of the unlimited potentialities of my new assignment It was arranged that 1 should go for a London briefing, then sail to America at the end of October. In London, } found that Air Commodore Jack Easton {assistant chief of S15] had the general supervision of relations between SIS and the American services, and 31 was from him that I received most of my instruction. My briefing on the counter-espionage side aroused grave anxiety in my mind, Joint Anglo-American investigation of Soviet intelligence activity in the U.S. had yielded strong sug- gestions that there had been » leakage from the British Embassy in Washington during the years 1944-45, and another from the atomic-energy establishment at Los Alamos. Thad no ideas about Los Alamos, but & swift check of the ‘The SIS totherwine MIB) is the one British Iniellpence group eethorized by the government te gather secre! anformation broad by illegal means After an appremiceship in SIS counteromtelligence. Portuguese and Spanish divisor Philty became head of the bey Sevier Section set up toward the end of the war ap keep reach of ‘Communist pies and autveruves throughout the ‘world Two years Inier he wa posted 10 Turkey