Word: macleans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Russian government mouthpiece, Izvestia, announced last week that British Journalist and longtime Foreign Office Staffer H.A.R. ("Kim") Philby, 51, the famed Third Man in the Burgess-Maclean spy case, had turned up in Moscow, where he will probably spend the rest of his wretched life. Philby vanished last January from Beirut, where he had been a correspondent for London's Economist and Observer. Presumably he had been sent to the Middle East as a British agent, but had actually been a double agent for the Russians as well...
...Dolnytsin, a former senior Russian intelligence officer who defected to the West 18 months ago, and had spent the intervening time being thoroughly pumped by U.S. and British agents. One reported result: the revelation that British Newsman H.A.R. Philby was indeed the "third man" who enabled Spies Burgess and Maclean to escape arrest and flee to Russia in 1951. Last winter Philby, too, slipped behind the Iron Curtain just ahead of pursuing MI-5 agents. Although the government had made quite a show of asking the British press not to print the story, the authorities had in fact leaked...
...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...
...Heath revealed that Philby had surfaced "in one of the countries of the Soviet bloc." New information had come to light, said Heath, that revealed that Philby had been a Soviet agent while working for the government and in fact had been the tipster who had warned Burgess and Maclean...