Espionage: Philby’s Flight

The 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.