European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 13, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse Wednesday. April 13. 1988 the stars and stripes a i Page 3 Philby interview Sparks controversy first since spy defected 25 years ago a i the pm isl of treachery past joined unions Al i hair breakfast tables during the pan Nur sundays As the sunday times published a four pan interview with Anrold Kim i Hilby the Gen ii l Man Iraq for who spied for inc soviet Union and defected 10 Moscow in i a. I he interview was inc first i Hilly gave in a Western journalist since his defection and critics say its publication by the times which has a circulation of 1.4 Mill inn. Was a propaganda gift to inc Katib the soviet is rect police Agency which still employs Philby now journalist Phillip Knightley inc evening of Jan. I1when he entered Philly s apartment in Moscow climaxed 20 Yean in he secretly corresponded Mih i i lev while inc master spy refused to Sec him. I Hilly dropped no bombshells in the interview hut u reveals an English gentleman who despised his priv the cd background Capo Mictl soviet communism As a v am Ridge University student in Hie 1130s and pc curated inc highest Levels of British intelligence in the Kremlin s sen of his High in Ntaris in Washington Philby was Able in betray and Send Many Western agents to thu in a Caius and was even Able in head off the a Fec my of .1 soviet Diplomat who threatened to expose the most controversial Pomi in the interview is plan by s Contention that Liri ush intelligence let sum defect rail ice than face an embarrassing Public trial. He told Knightly he suffered severe Selmont Afier fleeing to Moscow a and began drinking he Asniv. Doubt is a terrible he said. Had i done the right thing you see. I never swallowed everything about soviet communism. I never look it All Philby said he has found peace with n Happy fourth Marrinee to a russian woman feels no Home in the soviet Union and believes today s England would he a foreign country to said he like to keep in touch with British gossip listens to the hic does the times of London Cross word Public and misses English Mustard. I Don t like deceiving people especially mends and contrary to Wii i some people to Clicc i feel very badly about he said in inc interview. Hut then decent soldiers feel badly about the necessity of killing in unmasking of 1 Hilby Afier he had been under suspicion for 11 years climaxed a Nightmare episode for British began in 1951 with the defection of lop spies Guy h unless and Donald Mclean and reverberated into the 98us with the revelation thai Anthony Blunt another upper class englishman had been secretly unmasked is a traitor and a Cal unpunished. When Philby def Ccu a a Liing was Jiun immunity i Runi prosecution in Cic Hange Lor . He tiler lil came Arl adviser to Queen e1i/.ilx-Ih 1. I mull died in i is hut the scandal continues to shake the in1 Diligence . There Are allegations that the late sir k. Re e. Sii of i or Simonella. Sicily. Rota. Spam . I Ilu Pat and 1 or.,ton
