SECRET TRIAL OF KIM PHILBY

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• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 21, 2000
• Sequence Number: 47
• Publication Date: October 22, 1967
• Content Type: NSPR

22 OCTOBER 1087
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TAYLOR'S
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SECRET
TRIAL
OF KIM
PHILBY
AT 930 alt on his last clay in
England, May 25. 1951. Donald
Maclean was walking decorously
from Charing Cross Station to his
room In the Foreign Offce. Guy
Burgess, nem. a devotee of early
rising. had only Just got nut Cl
bed its his Nem Bond Street Ilat
N Aspreys. Ile was reading the
Times and drinking tea made by
his friend .lavk Geoid Kverythint,
was relaxed and unhurried.
By 1030 everything had
uhanged. dirty,. Burgess
warned. Ihrimpn Mint 1.1he
Washington that Monald Mat:lean
altoto interrogMed.
made a ital decision R, Mat
evelling Ilaultmii had gm. hl
cloud of 1,1e, ?and
liad gone with din
Mit for Burnes, s ;I
onneettyari 01.1. Mingr
eeii ter, thdereni for
Cant ably. the
Me Sole! spy int.
te Me Wtylern inlelli-
1?01111111.1.11, might hate
cl imam, ted for amid.'
it is nit,
successfully defended himself
against the charge that he man.
Communist agent. The result of
the struggle was victory for nate:
the discrediting of the S S
eventually became so acute that
ffr flit k White was promoted
froin being head of M I 5 to take
over as head of the rival S I S.
0 hich Iv remains today.
That radical break as ith Secret
Service tradition is generally
reckoned have been a great
success. Littler Sir Dick,
tirbane cis ilian skiff considerably
more administrative ability than
.d sailors olio went
before hind the S I S works
smoothly am! is reckoned ?
c specially .ffuericans?to have
high reputMind that
lose
How Burgess
and Maclean
vanished
r1,1 h 0;
is
umweimed
bible. But the damage
Me to Ms wee more
compensated by the ht
Oak loyalty of his Mends in
the dead Intelligence Service.
LTIttt.d1V1,47ph117
ahilely ritsr`,..:"TeZt
'tgtage Ylite2712e`veli during
thensbadowy period before he
became an Observer foreign
correspondent at the request of
This did mean that
Minn, the Soviet spy. had a
mend chance to penetrate
British Intelligence. It meant
that the impression gained from
Parliamentary statements on two
occasions was false.
The story of bow all this hap.
feted Is In part the stmy of a
clendestine bathe between the
two principal secret departments
of the Brhish Administration: the
Secret Intelligence Serviee
(MI 5_1 and the Security Service
(MI 5). A major turning-point
la this struggle was a strange
" secret trial.' In which Philby
t. tem
rreellT.'"glarktean
soda, not2.`1110 MM. a Irma
:ctionsehitribriZn charge
of counterBoviet operations 11146,
gees to Turkey to organise
riirer4ierg intinst the Rieseslans
MiltergritgbrelK04.-
The second phase, despite a
stubborn rearguard action by
Philby, is essentially- one of
decline, detection and ultimate
defeat: the destruction of the
TinskliutetCleTeLP:f"gebVergl'il
inthIllgencesystem.
The dividing point between th
Bwii'hases was the day of th
releitaelan defection. Tin
;,:condruet Maynaletnats.''
rat Burgess's relaxed mood that
Tirfo'tg is'atnergrOttrlibb:`riffil!:
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LONDON, NOVEMBER, 1955, Philby, smiling and eon.
fident after his name was cleared in the Commons by
Harold Macmillan, boldly holds a Press conference. A film
of the conference from the B B C archives show. complete
lack of his usual hesitations and stutter as be rattles off
denials. This is a transcript of a hat he said,
aQUESTION , If there W as a 1111 111 nun. cr hid
the third 11111 11 '.' Nr, Ito:, NW De >lea 1111111.
there War one? No corrliNcill Mr Molls-. s i?
asked to resign roin the Foreign 1nlice a lesiii,ititti, a el
Burgess and Maclean disappeared Tli, Foleign S,cctrtv
said in the past you had had Communist Thal
is why you were asked to resign' 1 III oil,cd
bemuse of on imprudent association. Thal TIT, TO, TT
lion with Burgess? Correct 0111,11 show
inmost association,' Can aiehhins shoo,
rca, wow. ;? ' .1?H,
111111 ru have al.? -piihen to Ciandihnsi
BOW ill11049thillUt it. Well. I spoke to Burgess last in April
? -
srM41%d1. He gene you no idea that.
he was a Communist, at an? Never.
1110SdAVIWRIMIlit.t14111-1.11111Y Mt) sits on ? part
hemeb to be photograpked for the Sunday Times by hia Mitt
John: His quictical smile and kis Russian clothes mate a -
allay contrast to the soave diplomatle figure who twelve
years earlier had holed the WRY Preis
had Tirat't4:1.147 Ceti
elation de ment of the
a nilnotpost in the
...day,oF drink, driving
mes and inattention to duties.
as' TO career was clearly
the age of forty.
dean, outwardly, looked in
ch better shape. Only thirty.
en. be bad been Head of
ncery in Cairo. A set of
nken escapades In Cairo had
n a setback: but now, after
e off for psychoanalytical
tweak he was In charge of
American Department of the
ion Office in London, where
k was not onerous bM
mutton was always available.
as, however, hi worse trouble
Burgess: he had been passing
m sive amounts of Information
to the Russians. and the two
reef men who followed hint
at Whitehall were M I 5 men.
bout an hour after Maclean
bed his desk, a brief and
octant meeting took place
tho same building?in the
dont elegance of the Foreign
etaryls room The head of
0 Security Branch a.
high official ot?', el I,
II heiPletforrialforMin.g.0
th authority to interrogate
aid Maclean about the leak,
of information to the
ans which the British
rity men idd been investigat.
for more 0.11 11 year.
hi, brief. high.level exch.,
the result of a longer and
e agonised session the day
e at lower level Two
Is each frt.ni the three 20-
lents 1111,11-1,1-0 I S. M 5
he Fortiign Illice?hnd met
rs whether the 011111 11,1N
nt gMe Maclean 'rhe
men ar,wied for
Im Mit F
aid thal 1 Hite had eft
unit; " Maclean. dh
had
me did Mal he was
mid was hying tatt
?di telegrams, was
tly lo mark
rtreig
e dm ;he Amor, :111
11,
W1,111{11! AT. LONIM11.1 l.111116
of 1949, Kim plilby tank aeon..
S I g man in Wfalongtae.daa
be was swiftly embroiled the
spy-bunt.
The crucial fart before the ball.-
doyen officials ass that exhaustive
analysb of the Washington
embassy files If ado MacLean the
tianitan app?
riittrertCrYlit
legal evidence unless Meehan
cooid be Pertanded to meets.
Everything, themfme, hung on a
successful interrogatiOn. The
conviction of Ile P0 men that
Maeleen was "ripe " carried the
meeting.
PhIlby would have known at
the inthrrogatim decidon within
hours, he would have known from
his own part in the SYS thmati.
gation how important k Soviet
apr mntn fled saw the
tine " tar,"
gdanar had been
sharply reduced.
Th:r'giLern stilt how
berane ro did not
mean Immediate interrogation.
May 25, when the ofacial's
decision was ratified by Morrison,
was a Friday, and this meant that
the inthrrogatlea would not begin
until Monday morMne It would
almost certainly have nailed
Maclean. Mm 5 lad prepared their
best man. William Skardo. the
relentless. courteous ex.Murder
Squad detective win, had cracked
the atom -spy Klaus Fuchs.
haunted by guilts shout
loth espionage and hninosexua.
lity. was just out of psycho.
analysn. and should halo been a
helpless target.
lim Skardon never yid to his
man .1.1 about Me time lhat
'Yin wits giving his assent
on Yriday morning, Burgess
was taking the lirst ionhrele .cts
getting Donald Maclean
country
nct, itdeta had two
Mammon that nicht
Brilann, Thin 1111r1 isain
iii?ahig I'. a 11111(1/1,' with e
ng n ono) ,holn
hn,1 inet h ?
month on the ipc,,h,
Burgess went to tIlven
meet the yin. mar; and lull hint
1 he trip might halo to lie railed
Ile 1, 110 111111111 not
nil later in the
id ' Itay ;1:i
.ramereis rrom
eta."at* Mat
? ,Docim anything.,
eamotowesvorol iwoutomy pitoow
mini hi connection urns me bolh
day trip' with the atootioan.
Banco. the lithe that hoot
was cancelled, &nem warmly
ptine bar efor
made Mere
about ten days" botIght a UM
mItto.an and ll'rh""
to Paefdrm Nttai afie droneoff through the rueleheur traffic
to Donald Madeatahshouse at Tide
field in gent.
.
Meanwhile, Maclean had no.
with I drools in london. (lie mae
thirty-eight on May 25.1 Macless
was wearing his bat with the
brim turned u all round his
ItewanNe"a'abe'dr
1 shoot the otoild
hon wIle N'e'd eh:tn R:e`
7:77an had
tgut7gtill'Ittill
" tails." whose instructions were
to fallow him only &Idris the
day. saw him off on lib usual 519
train from Charing Cross.
Late that night, after dining
at Talsfield, Burgess and Maclea,:t,000lha,nploo. Al mod,00ht. they
int7e'ST-IrroMie'r!a7;:riTdeige's!
ally tin the quay. A sailor asked
w ailing, and
tt'tlessN'ell=inank 00
ygoaclay?
A feud breaks
out in the
secret world
SIM. as for a mittitimo,
1111, 1,1'111141 1,1(11L,.11. 11.
1,111/11,1. .Nnil it stomas that
'Milts t luck Kin Tilll
Illicsims for 'yawed lhal
ne?tir guile erillain to
item. N1f1,1011. t hose tit go
ad w with Maelesn
Ilti 110 met italtlt in,t;Itod
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remains, and On thP M Ht. .9
was a longstanding friend of
Phlibyht
irredstibly, hilly was prw
moted In being one of the top
halfaloaen suspects: II on/st
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Maclean suspects and a lid of
'
Bu gess suspects he was
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INSIGHT
or2A919:7
, VegeGiliEDR7
..... the begInn ng of the war, and
'o'ieznirbMAI:iLz. irritroitZ:V.
who began complaining Ilk fessional intelligencemen. In
terly that they had given a inek the rengbusting police.
man free run of the CIA for ... si, .perny giii....., ...
18 months whom they now made Director of M 15/ ita
found had shared his house driein.,,,Re R. n man
with a
ous insecure notoriousmlyan a n d named- Dick White. who had
obvily who
had capped all his indiscre. onng graduate in 1836. ao5
Joined the service as a bright
tioneywzzmztrg, e, ,I chalk up some not.
fection a fouthman team led able RF:nl. aZ, =ger'
by a A. Carey-Foster, the
head of Q-Branch in the F 0, SOS, fortultuously, had
flew to Worthington and gees avoided wartime reconstrmk
Boned Philby. Almost ire- bon, its leadership remained
mediately afterwards Philby
ex-m9,_ntba et/M
was withdrawng is= 1gr,:?.rggir g:tg1.n. Z ,:ge or
apart from any suspicions the Thareem -Maclean defeetion,
British had, the America. the Service was still being ?
were no longer prepared to run by Stewart !denies, and
deal with him the day. when lois henchman
n? n .en.e. Iowa, n of Colonel Claud Dansey cou/d
part 00 0000 bath to London kr,171nY,....T. 4.,...1%,..I,
Piece of nerve on Philby's MY that he would : never
than facedefect himself M the 'But the SIS was clearly
and the music, rather
y But having trouble matching.,
;gr..' es 7,,P11,,nnit-.R...nii, to the massive arid powerful
In his favour nal I eOf couree. 000001 KG 0?.11'. would
R... inevi.nbii, in ti...... 0, hove been hard enough even ?
the investigation of the without the fact that the
"third 'n'n . 'ff''' Kut "" LAtngIrTirfgeleZ.n
'ST i't'f= tiV" =Mt.? thfc'o those days."?says on ex-SIS
desk man, we just dicta t
entirely different philoso , .., ,, .., , .
phies Of security were bound fie`n a% Tp-Em: tr:
sion. n:ver did until Penkovski
to come into headlong colli.
came along in the sixties" 0
The M I 5 PhilesolthY waS anything, this feeling of being , in _ ? ? ...... ,__. oi .
ne of meticulous examine- under pressure probably ;,?.1,?:,,...7.z=1:?,? 0.1z?...?,?.v.,????
ion of files and records: the strengthened the SI S deter- e..//..i..j. oh.,,,,?nn? h sacs ....ie .., ..., ka,...., arid:.
depart mem was a group of mination not to lose their best / / " ? " /
spy/nit/hers, trained in build- "pro" because of the prth
ing OP eaies Vale. thsPeets. judicies of Sillitne and White the Impression that Philby touch allow no ronsIdecotion
The fits philosophy, essen- in 5115 had been dismissed limn oil of political borders to int.
Gaily, was Med on Pe""al Philby has to resiee freei 004',Qm glhf,?rdid 1000 010lute. it was told in Cyprus. it
trust. ee in til fere. At the Melkonian lest,
Immediately and predict.
. his Sefeigs on,.,. ---1,.. his rery malicious job in was possible to send a mes?
inevitahlY. And it . isis A erica. and resumabl his :Jog, to Soviet Armenia .
tr th ' t four davs
tit on h. t. h.dlo the bmh Harold Mite:Milan, in e iliTes s gisifig ,r.jij P SP
.1 ins sr hiiis S ' S of ,,u000 ePt.P'rseP. It the ee'e Of It IsSIL,Itt?t,Pr;,f,oe n r4T,Tzor!..;:l'IV,einegt 71;
an allernalice. which wsts tffit was to admit that Phi., ;rjo,jj
6 0 0 3 30 0 47dtanol=7: Rot' irlat!,1,1
RcibhGe!';,. they had githin two bask 'Items &MIMI* Ow
B aCt 00 Faro mbeg'insi tUhn:: 7/sTrktionPrrIta rat 474
discuss?howlhe could have which wendeseribld last week
000 10 Degubayasit.
They had not passed hint s?intishteerV?Ikco"liapee4W of 'd ;he'.
on the road from Kars Albanian subversion mission.
nkorth'eodm nVnen gguarthwee stoodiksPIrditybeermrethliraled
road was blocked by snow, both casee, the trial was an
and no one at checkpoints on embarrassing chorister forth.
the Erzurum road recorsed authorities It lasted three
wha'ny. tilsgt/in th'en' dr'ird eon noneled tt:
elliighte:t glaw.
became convinced that Pl.
could have reached Donubaya- sion_
.Earldvanphin,,b,Soyicro.el /kerma enthit Winlewnn:
ito r?,?...L"ti"o7dthe,1712?1
border,
At that thne the Turkish Irbas,,yersr"who were Lolindelmeew%h
side of the border was only for th,r wartime security
loosely patrolled. But the clearance. One of them, sum-
Soviet side was lined with ming up the ensuing dialect-
two rows of barbed wire ond kat Must. said: s It was solo
fortified with watch towers the cleverest man in the world
half a mile apart If Philby e ere lieinF tirossonuned by
had crossed to Turkey from the stupidest man in the
Russia/ Men he. had either world s?a harsh judgment
taken an incredible risk or on Milmo, who did no worn
else had been permitted to than anyone else inight,haye
done M the fare of such finely.
'Tile implications of this tuned defences
were so startling that the Phdby's to?hnique was in
scientists. who were not fact relatls off. simple. to
accustomed to nieeting Ill deny everything. and to spin
officers decided that it is oold nut hi, stoic., lo the most
Ito best to Qrget the Mcident. straightforoffrd questions " I
It is easy to in:deo:laud know it looks stralige." he
their reasoning It is 10,0 easy would say. " Out I diffiffi II
tS?1
agent under suspleit. of evidence. beyond the bare
working for the Soviet Uniott association with Burgess
into an area where he is Washington. the prosecution
b_o?ohndc,oe into oimant could get sm fur.,
" Was it a line day .1
11nly Pro theorists can Mils, wo.thl ask " I think It
explain this. Either the S I S was 57 degrees, a klIght north.
thought tffil Philhy had boo ris cond. somc
ully s?leatod or cis,. P ffile " ffis,
were plat toe hoe lis a tine
a ? Inth? Ja, Poo ?, Ph st utter,
a ee hour- of ths, treatment
Qs tunic, mined inhici,i
toe alslitios, lino of inifinlion-
1. yet en,.
ini e.e. of most S 1 S
mon ihn /ht 1.11.11,
P ilhj (A, M , 5 wanted to 1n55, and Edward Heath in r the Ser'l'' d b r- ',',', ,.?' ,.. 1"".""."v -""
ave been kome e a e xi 1/1 p at cr. sou dlIffic ,..inned a
make a looff. detailed intesQ Ica. made great pl in their
imposed this They offered Commons. Heath. whose task of the ear he was back hard the NIelkoman liplitut ? 1 lp
General So. Stewart Alen., loialties had at last been kind c'ff *agent in goe field to explain?espec iffily after
the chief of the S I S Ihrouch. finally proved by his defec. .. a Isparre encounter nbi.
inn Ishillphs mets?ssrie 100. non II' Russia, was portico. ffilI it looks. Iron, Ike ef ow or?,, jo ,
hould spend a day talking holy energetic. dence as though they used ,o ,ho o ?trot. ,.../,j,?./;_t ,j,, utw ey
gs mer w iM PhilbV to Heath said that Philby .6 !in,',.,,!.?,,r., '?n,..n.'"jr','!?.`"jd? A group of 11 British
if pivIlling has! gone asked to resign from Qe b"c"lhtee ii/-7. l? 'ije ? Pout s?sl smffitists mi a field
Iff rnin,. inevitable, nes fforeigq Seffiice in July. Oil '-1 , e"cee' .lu; -' chocilitinh in Greco!, t
Pita, donuts. was e?sp?ilan'ted /VosY '
l'hillis h!oi h's'cl t,.,',.. ,i.'?Z'j,uit etko?sto Toils, and ,S
11. I iff II. anteponiein a nip. of " eint. einpin . '" 1,11 "fi ? ' dr., into ,,
Qum, s 3 s ',sentC'se , pori i iilli il
n eilit tni. intif . lure 1M 1" 111''' ' ' ? ""'"" ' rit and elopped Iiir m '1 Philby 's
qith an eininen1 Foreign Olt. en:ctn.:4rd in ettendant told thi 1, t
snit of Philip s career
tor in. :I the Whitehall like to gist. him a sub ,..?
, lion of Qv porters os. 1 nee tbdt the f Op. er nu ' .'i's sssII resil'. "OXik?'""'"""I'"1 secret
1 ., I11.1 I 41.111
traMthin he obi, h S I S men sop, of asmrse ISO Obkerver e,:,,,,, on ,nn no,,,,on rucksack and tffies?ffitig on , ? ?
e
0111,ln . the Friends ph as esirrespondent Q
?ffitl oleakly. ? I used to Beirut, that Ph., held at the foot
found thla _tnai
encounter ......-
...." Pleted their mammoth In.
b. them as " the time of hts defffition in strange
Januury, Iticia. est, after I.' hbeti.,_. MEANWHILE, MI5 had corn-
,. isca sert the tut, rffiffing berues?is the lire..
lettermen, xi. enttrely M P m ould probabl, hole Rol
Mil
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IIIIf.'irr
ilentottint tb:
Ift r ean 111
fnierl
- ? '&11'0%1 Za tgert2:1 tirehilbieLltall .'. ,,' ? .'
h.... IM ...ilk Twit:. test. The mmhod flnallychosen But Pbilby's sreiffieribgi
in Turkey "M ir4 "r. .. -
.... was a full?ate mock tnal, in in Turkey, and Ma four
=4,-..- ? ?/ ?././ _Willek . the almenee of an ram out In the cold went
of ?
? newcomer to rematn a
like Cyprus ft difficult for .ibi. in rn n on? n. doe to it000ver. bo, t?otso
o.o.
I n October, 1935, Col. Marcus
or bad Ine1g-
Manger for long, So when l',?,1,12x.74ktbaurTer,l,rg ., Lipton, M P, electrified the
Malty arrived there in Oct. trudged through the snow th whether a criminal proseco- House of Commons by
her,1911,1hree months after T lion of Philby was likely to naming Philbv as the "third
tds " resignation" he was the ocal tea room, a shanty succeed. In July. 1952.1earned man " behind the defection.
soon swept hire the island or tin and tent poles. Kim counsel were briefed. What.
social round. Philby was Inside alpohm tea exactly. would they be able
and smoking a cigarette,
Gradually the impression holding court in Turkish with to bring lb evidence?
crept around that Philby was the locals. Although something must
" something to do with the One of the scientists who
British BM /I 0 "?the British knew Philby well said hello torPillitl;'Irc'd41%1"Z
Middle East Office. Once an to him and then asked him
acquaintance who was a per. what on earth he was doing
meet officer was gauche there. Philby, who had taken
enough to ask what he was the unexpected meeting with
igigo. "Sitlying6rople,:. considerable c a I m said
'n agliai ' satngs1.07rnif or;
holiday." The scientist, who
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think there's room for both
of us."
It was the sort of answer
which could have been true
because it was difficult to find
t'Veorgll'gr4ti:T:tvgle.
(Sir Andrew, who was Gov.
ernor from 1.9 until 1959,
admitted that he had visited
IhneowtrL'at Vite't
did they dor).
Philby's office was in a
collection of huts in the
atdrt of an 'er"1,Ztiff.s.":
known locally as the 'stud
farm." Unusually for a re.
search station. it had radio
masts, underground tunnels.
and a heavy .security guard.
Phillay was seldom there.
His real job. of eour., was
still with the SI S. Instead
of running a .nbetwork of
sgmnie, film tome toe SimoIlt heckled
out of his office in Washing.
ton, he had been sent out
into the field
As well as his charm and his
S drinking there were
two other things about Philbs
donna this ffiriod uhich
stood out?his sudden interest
in Armenian Qlk music. and
his frequent spells boa, from
Cyfirso
Soon after he arrived on the
Philb, bonen to attend
Melkonino Institute. e con-
.? frmittentert Arirentein
Inint all intl. the Lek. bill
1.111, be Anomie:, fron:
Siimet Arbon. 11 nee
lutenist rin place Arioiont.
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Correction
It.
al,. le to 1,11
it seems clear tgat the probe
did not stretch very far: three
separate witnesses to the
Vienna period of burgeoning
and unconcealed Communist
conviction recall, with some
surprise, that they were nee,
approached by British in.
had suspected Philby's SI S yestigaters.
0000000. the p000ln 10-
penal. They merely in
totem ? and. as it
happens. justified?
suspicion that thee were
pawns its some subtler gambit.
Col. Lipton himself seems to
favour Ihe idea that the CIA
planted the Information on
him, prosumably to ember-
rass the Briti. Government
into taking action against
Philby A more Machiavellion
interpretations holds that
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else: way which could neur be
Now Philby began to crack, done in England.
He seemed to be undergoing This was acceptable also to
the same collapse under Macmillan since Phi.)'a re.
strain that Maclean had turn to Britain under any to,.
suffered in Cairo more than a cumstances would result lea
decade before; but this was messy trial and demands Inc
Ixamt,Lg=T:,7,12?ci??" ,Trn ty.'the ..Sreur':11V,
than Maclean bad ever pts- Philby had already damaged
aessed a man who was a SIP morale enough. Far
better if he left the Vfiest for
The CIA, less worried
about public. opinion. wanted
more direct action and at one
point were considering a swift
j'ait'eter rret;
1120?r fir7seer'ii-elar'vlit
the British Embassy: they
became so Third Man con-
'grd
In try to lind out if he had
given the warning.
Aft. the disappear.nn
came the pattern ol itorife
letters now so familiar from ,
t e Burgess.Maclean case
Einiilhnc none of his fiends
ho h-lightest suspicion
s going to Russia.
even atter reports
t he had arriod in Mos.
1.111, most 01 Beirut
friends remained tog..
vim. until ono of them. an
Indian journalial railed God.
frity Bram, wrote to Philby
addressing the littler ?.
Phi., My Mingto of
For,. Attairs, Moseno."
In two week: he got a
? The letter ....rated
ly til tarn/. , ranes
. ahr
T.. Demons Wham Its Marais Upton, MP, Above: IC. Palley enjoys a joke with Fix Mu Russola as
ot 618 taPer.
?stre' ad gas, mg mud, ocho asked the owed and Jordan at Amman a tuna. Bleat Peaky .1hEleanor Pognarewer
for Entkeraten Imam Blau Forks ratted ea Philbr mu 1111.1.11 tater eh .1.1 .re to Beirut, 0.91.
Philby's and friends aaa nged
it, knowing that the lack of
proof would leave the boa-
moment no choice but to
"ge trulli'is more Prosaic.
The whole thing was planted
by Mr Jack Fishman, the
resourceful news editor of the
Empire News, a Sunday paper
now defunct. Liplon, direct
informant was the Empire
News crime reporter, Johnny
Hunt-Creiclew
It was a textbook example
tireftge tlieu'art'f
libel, which hinges upon the
privilege a newspaper has of
reporting what is said in Pao
liament with no fear of a libel
action.
Fishman was a connoisseur
of .is technique and he
decided to prime too Labour
M its?both wiled for the
catholicity id their parlig
111..11 II II S?Cltl.
Marcus Bolton mut the late
Norman Dodds.
hoo? had thr fimpint
1,101. /11tarll al/11111 Philby
the first pt., iahrgn is
reticent: he murmurs of
r Fast necnian contacts." But
a..., matt mho worked on
the Amy. bra a rather differ.
11. 111 ollection Ileum Maul,
fig Ignittin editor of the New
York Yung, News, until to
intri for the Empire News
da, a week. rah he says
/ahem Pont-Crow ley
tin 1. /rain 1.111 Kt/.
roa Ito man at.. nt
- en the free& al the
into the defecilos. In
sped, tem, It Is meth:Milt
bow the details he adduced
jumble Ingltylemet accurecY
"AO sot cold feet about
:Itga'arrnesiealtr;mrre
spy-minded blitlItbB1101 0,,,.
1,7r..71g.rg?r:
Parliamentary quedlen
the time, Sir Patrick Dean enough to conduct a radical
now Ambassador In Washing. SI g reform. The Prime
ton). And it was, according Miraster, Anthony Eden, even
to one excellently-placed confided that he took Inc
source, a document remark- whole operralon as "a
able for what it did not say personal affront."
At this political level, tine Sinclair ptatoptly retired,
reconstruction of events is and Williams, the unfortu.
naturally a delicate matter nate PS A, was moved to
But the PS apparently felt another lob Et-en though tin.
thatIts jab was to play safe elates successor was already
The brief therefore detailed virtually decided, a three-
only what little was proved month interval elapsed before
against Philby: a Communist his formal appointment.
past and an " imprudent amo-
nation," as the jargon had it,
At this limo there was
certainly some powerful
lobby], for Philby. headed
by the Influential Con.
servative kl P and former
S IS man, Richard Broomall.
White but there is no evidence
that this derided Macmillan.
Macmillan foond a troth
promise Publ., what
weighed with hint was his
familiar preoccupation with
the
liberty of the 1111(1
the power of the Slate /le
was therefore prepared to go
Mtn the Common, and clear
Philliv?Itecause there was no
prim(
But ...de his terdirt
wits Mi. I'M. must To
.1.41411. ahnut liberty in this
crettem Itmenillan said. Pm
not sheeting hitn. Just firing ? m lirst discos,.
o Sir DOM when he
o tth arr., hil, roust
Mr Mlit? statennett I.111 h .
t that ht. tail
If in Kin Phil. wits mill
than,-
rn`lr,Y?t% t'nfearM Me all of Philby's Beirut
friends, combed his recollect.
takes (and admitted them), lion for clues which might
the worst no his Beirut have indicated that Philby
friends thought. Being an ill. was concealing strong Left.
advised hut not discreditable wing political views. He
11PerZe0
11;PEP,,7t could recall only two?very
sihtstcaee in the wind
()ne night Fistere w.
WOMWIlrght'i'n'r:7411.).t1
know, or failed to notice at
first, was the amount of time
spent with the British S I
station officer and his t re.
qucnllripolofiypra,. theme, were the fundamental
As far as his work?or aims of American democracy
The name which emerged eocer?as a journalist oat and Russian Communion the
astounded the secret world? concerned he began nib same? Me, said the Arabs.
not least the C I A. The name certain advantages. He kneo Of course not, said Fistere.
of the new C had 0000 100 some Arabic. hc had .ra The aim of soviet Coin.
priority target for the Clan pendious knowledge 01 the multi. was to enslave free
fop man In London for weeks. Middle Fast and. of course. he meh Fishre appealed to
bot wns not suritosing that was the son of the eminent Philip'. 'ho managed to star.
in this particular 1111..11 he arabist Si tonn Hew people nor out that he thought the
fulgt1Dick rPillan and ''''Titestm'oalt hriltafrit'rth'startr 'r!'f'f71 "?0,7,m1",
Professionai. bad susceeded another:. one owary reader Eini was for the Free World."
Siiiitoe al Mllnlhinnloanr saidi Ito St 10000 lame Sister? recalled recently s I
earlier For tine man to swrfch e . impecoaltle hold not understand how he
an
tiinilOr ? rehave in Atwb eyes. lie could eq.!. Comniunisin and
lne :Shot' was bal.,' lhil 011 had friends everyo.m. the Amen/. Das.
ab1. least of all in the hoii:uC Kini 0110 hn..tor usr d In Meanwhile PhUby continued
of s I S. White's Club. BillIe 11,15- Thanksgiving WM, to expand his official contacts.
decision was form th John II Sister,. a former Ile spent a gm. deal of time
ly by /tarot ethic inagmine writer mare than .y other cur.:.,
treign mitre nth running a pend,nt, with people from
math bt latiri. rind the British and American
Cabinet o En.assitm Ile x-as it constant
s?s? ? os ea,. on the S S
? chief.. old friend. and
'friendly with Miles I' p M t
ottli known to he a retired
C I A man
1114?Ise WNW. ni MR passim, Me
ss Incredible scr.1.0 ,1r. he dld et care b
:8 set snore "
P Mat notVerrodn
are ledispee seem to Inhn Plelby could do
able. Philby was fired in any harm at all sitting in
October 1956. For at least Beirut
six months be was without 5 In April, Phdby had begun
regular Mb. But when Philby negotiations to establish. a
r1;81:c3oge"42d:rfeort har 1:w11=tr.,"Ass7nrIro7coVeigit'
Observer and the Economist. ?nice man had made an
he was secretly employed as official approach to The
difficult bustnesa of keeping
up a long-term cover.
His work for hls two papers
dried almost to a trickle. His
drinking began to embarrass
even bis most tolerant
friends. After a few cocktails
he would be incoherently
drunk and social evenings
often lasted only long enough
to get Kim into a taxi.
In fact, Philby was the best Why did the British Govern.
Informed man in Beirut. In ment do nothing a/mut him?
IPSS, for example, he pre. It seems that Sir Dick White
dieted posiliveR that the was offered four 00.000.
American Marines were going Philby could be eliminated.
to and in Lebanon three days (Sir Dick immediatelo re.
before they did in fact arrive jected this chimer as abhor.
Fine years Passed in Beirut. rent.) The Lebanese Security
As far as a journalist can Police could be taken at their
have a routine. Philby had word (" There is no reason
one. lie rose around ten am., why we should interfere with
Or often as not with a hang. the removal of a wanted
ever, drank a prairie oyster Britt. subject. to his home.
to Ms lion recipe, and walk. land and PhUhy brought
t'o0O=V.
Sum Her, be cheeki-d his mail per.ade Philby to returMartil
face charges Or there could
Philip M. defecting"
Tu Harold Macmillan, n
Prime Minister. it w
nmtler of small imporl
? it as ilob then thou
Phil. was doing Ohne.
he oas under sus, suspicio
But to the S S
gaily Boheirtmn so
T 'PT
? .t o e
sr Most afternoons he held
coUrt at the Normandu. and
man, evenings he dined out
with his Is ide 111010 of friends
and contacts
Then in 1.1 it till mflommurmi
Georg, Krikis the Itussimi
sp,. was arrested and Philby.
ith his agent, inbuilt
d? ?r dt.ter?tor kneo that he
mer safe When the
n Illaki. o as
complt S 1 S man. a
r lose 11 1 of
0101 00 Born London midi
a brief Mg immaraming
,. told him 1 hat there o
rem irreftiMble
11 My had hem, ir?or
1411.
.f l? ? I
hen .1.iggerl
slog remark
1 t
en hts mtli
tit mire, it.,
ir al of Ihrtld
that /Terlel
NEXT WEEK WEEK the lent:011s of the affair
duced from the New Yorkl 10011l Tchst Seoler TereMo
:TerretteirWIDtrptoenttd't ?..
to be the tea case against it burprising
had written It in the Empire
new
News's office in lAndon.
rise, however, could have
Nobody behind thls exer. is appointed
foremen the consequences
the question would have. In hate
PARLIAMENTARY de.
public, Hie only response it ate in November had pro-
drew MN a categorical gimp l'Hedtt,ktnre nPfiertneitY for
ance from the Fonelgn Seem dl5.'5.555.
tort, Herold Macmillan: c I on'1s.. Hot 5ue
Otter time
y `,7.:Thg; iT5'llt"e'i571,5Ttrr:InlAl?5"tt
lime betrayed tne interests It d S:n.c15liLlnite on the
thls country, or y ,fieng,
hnn with the so-called ' third +PP
man,' if Indeed there was Flitted ?re retirement of
Spring
nsa the cod tho%set
To the jubilant Philby, des. t,
1raallereflro'24,Vt7,t. gome'l!e"roglil 2fieady
leas ease. it looked like the 'ref!, inlMed by tlia? revival,
final rehabilitation. t; 1Noly,t
00 tam
How Harold gzitvgw,t9G.::,rv.
Out., later ambassador in
Macmillan W re
rff st'lLpe'rrvZrenc
over S I S's activities.
decided .,1,7.1t%.2rTr'FcJI:
to Michael Williams (now Minis.
sorrel ?as ?,tr, Inc to Inc Holy See) was
Man. '
degree." Ill ll .00 1i3O ectly involved in Inc
"r"' "mek'Per ?VI nrn ralst
come and tell' me t.very tim of
said. He adhered to the code C
ril
Mat politicians should know 19%; who fa,ifird to reXurn
Ithlot lie, a iot I e liccmmoy nses4okust rar,T, a sr lOb 1100.011101000
oimll:iimm, 01,11 lini,hiIo't 011
gW..irDierr.rIldtzt,,,vt?tr?y,tthigtLi:: tilt'ethst,sant'ttriT of thc
ings. except on ohat he called mIld guard. this struck a
and bolts trechnical
''?'?!1111 not the
nest discernible :alma.
Br set the linimitgin.le
cal risks invoked
at it should ever has
conceived is an apt
tire of Sinelair's
lt.-11. of his WM
.iihrtinctive .11.111I .11.
Ihnaies would have
him So would limner
T
iglectly
.111 mt?hi One of blaitnillan's
1111.1101 colleagues esl
the Aldo. pithily.
thing rf the Busman
Ehat
1Md
The Economist through a
third party. I! has always
been a sore point with Donald
Tverman. then editor of the
Eionomist, that, although he
checked on Philby with
Harold Caecla at the F 0, he
was never told either by the
Zce or bv The Observer
t nay's Wing MAU,'
bad been strictly an official
There is considerable evi-
dence that the Comas Int.
inntarinr
Ph'ileavInanit He had
"TtibiliZglirncnnittnalit'et
he
Ugonnrite'dirDetirl"M
ld
It
When Sir Dick took over.
negotiations were virtuVly
rgiVimTpahcl
SP4rfle;7171:',',,=.
certain th' doorne of suspi.
oion may hale bed in April,
tom Inc Middle fisot. it
ebectutnln 100 in the
nnnme hr a1as at last definitely
Philby
cracks?and
disappears
RIM PHILEY was easily Inc
meat popular man in the
mc Obinil Tium Olin oh.
Tga!rrae,,,f Le Tv
cuiR groups by feuds and
Iim0000l0 Kill 0,10 yoallhmiOl
" he managed to
II . And Or had
vein, soittal career in
Beirut by stealing another
wite,
even M., last months
when he finally began to crack
d back. Drunk or set,.
? often drunk?Philhy
t. of those rare inim
OAKS
stripes
again!
We put stripes back
where they belong.
Straight down men's
suits.
Now we've striped
again for the Autumn
with a new range of
subdued herringbone
stripes in pure new
wool Scottish tweed.
Stripes and tweed
suits are 'in'.
It al it
d ths
The Philby book
[lilt to Sorttem.
,ith ...ugh! hatil
heal that debate
Ilint Bei th
m
OAKS button 3 suit with
long side vents,
in five exclusive shades
subdued
herringbone tweed stripes.
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No. 7534 22 October 1967
Moscow suburb: Melinda and Philby
PHILBY
The first pictures of him
with Melinda in Moscow
Kim Philby and his fourth wife,
Melinda, formerly married to
defector Donald Maclean, whom
sne followed to Moscow after the
Burgess-Maclean flight. Pictures
taken in Moscow by losepline,
Philby's eldest daughter by his
second marriage.
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