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...caught with shoes that had hollowed-out secret compartments in the heels and that his cigarette packages contained wafer-thin pads with secret codes and passwords. Finally, there was the case of Harold Adrian Russell Philby, journalist, ex-Foreign Office official, and boon companion of Communist Spies Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean, whose reappearance in the news recalled the most notorious of Britain's sex-and-spy scandals...
...Sight. "Kim" Philby had known Burgess since undergraduate days at Cambridge, welcomed him as a boarder in his house when both were stationed at the British embassy in Washington in 1950. When Burgess and Maclean eloped to Russia in 1951, Philby was forced to resign from the Foreign Office amidst a flurry of rumors that he was "the third man" who had tipped them off that the police were on their trail. Later, this charge was indignantly denied by Harold Macmillan, then Foreign Secretary, who personally vouched for Philby's good character. The Foreign Office even asked the Observer...
Naked City (ABC, 10-11 p.m.).* Burgess Meredith is an alcoholic poet trying to get back manuscripts he exchanged for drink. Repeat...
...reader is encouraged to believe that this new novel by Nicholas (The Cruel Sea) Monsarrat is about the celebrated defection of British Diplomats Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean. It is an exemplar, say the publishers, of a series dramatizing issues "weighing upon men's minds in the mid-Twentieth Century...
...case of Burgess and Maclean could indeed serve as a topical framework for a fictional dramatization of the rival moral claims of East and West. Why did two members of the British Establishment opt for the enemy in the cold war and turn up in Moscow with denunciations of the civilization that produced them...