SPIES WITH PHILBY IN THE FOREIGN OFFICE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP70B00338R000300220031-7
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 15, 2005
• Sequence Number: 31
• Content Type: MAGAZINE

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a very distinguished Irish man of said, would do anything. as evc,y,,,,o
inft my w'ic and myself to see the ut reat univcrs ity erhaps ow-lit, at least ' centre of the study of American anugiu?c,, o-IgA
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acted in the most scientific way, for title of this leading article was a masterpiece discoveries from Oklahoma.
ecology is now very good (so I
:). But the 'indomitable lrishry;
?n brought up on Moore's Melodies,
thought 'Tara's Ffalls' were the halls
of a highly advanced society. Some
thought they were rather like Burn-
crs seemed to think that they were
-e an Odeon. cinema, and so on. Of
e results from this point of view were
disconcerting: a lot of holes in the
-where wooden structures had been
his was not what they came forth to
than that. we were told that the first
-t artefact discovered was a very phallic
-mbol, an insult to Irish chastity.
-calls to me the time I was taken over
rbratcd Indian antiquities by a plump
_I young woman from the local univcr-
before we entered the temple, asked
r anxiously, 'I suppose you know what
symbol is't' I replied that I (lid. But
entered the temple, I discovered I had
-cived: these were not phallic symbols,
luses, 'long standing' like those which
-n reported on in picture palaces in the
7imcrick.
are, of course, the ingenious frauds
on gullible collectors, Thc.type of The
-rv is not confined to Scotland, still less
to Scotland in the lifetime of Sir
Scott. After all, it was in this century
vel was launched, one of the boldest of
I took a great interest in this since it is
a area where my wife was conducting
ovations, and we were in close relations
e loci] erudits. One of them, a very
man indeed, told me that the forger
Glozel pottery had known very
lien he started on his nefarious career,
learned a great deal from his numerous
and was a much better forger and a
,otter archaeologist by the time the boom
sown. But the only way lie could be
with by French law was by prosecuting
nr charging an entrance fee to his dis-
-s, when he had no entertainment licence.
c deserved better than that.
vc, of course, no .scientific authority for
King that recent discoveries about the
s in Oklahoma are fraudulent. Still, one
-mows. I have learned to note a great deal
undercurrent of critical scepticism in the
rly world. For example. not everybody is
teed of the authenticity of the Vinland
which Yale has bought. It is perhaps un-
iate that it was bought by Yale when Yale
bought a number of extremely interest-
,r-uments from a Spanish collection. The
' h collection turned out to have been in the
.;_,r library of Saragossa Cathedral and the
p of Saragossa-and the chapter as a body
-rate-had no recollection of selling them.
inkind theory that one of the canons had
-d them on to a dealer, was widely accepted.
stood firm and refused to name the dealer
ugh his name was in general circulation
.1 New Haven) and, at any rate when I
ast abreast of the controversy, was hanging
P~Trra a`r w SPIES
Wit Phil b lie Foreign Office
GEOFFREY McDERMOTT
In his article on spies lost week Geo/Jrey
McDermott referred to Kim Philby as 'tine big-
gest fish of the lot ... undoubtedly Blake's spy-
master . . . I feel in my bones that we .shall be
hearing a good deal about him before long.'
We did.
Kim Philby, the spymaster, and Gcor'tc Blake,
the master spy, came together from the ends of
the earth. There was nothing peculiar about this
in that generation, when we were farfiung. But
Kim's upbringing was conventional upper class
British where I