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`PRIVATE LIFE' OPENS NEW CHAPTER ON MASTER SOVIET SPY KIM PHILBY.(Lifestyle)(Review)

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From: Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA)
Date: 20000515
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In Edward Everett Hale's ``The Man Without a Country,'' the hero is condemned by a military tribunal never to hear the name of the United States again. The plaintive novella appeared in The Atlantic Monthly during the Civil War, and no doubt the author couldn't envision a bleaker destiny.

Kim Philby, the maestro of the 20th century's espionage game, was indeed a man without a country. From the time he defected in 1963, after British authorities finally identified him as the ``third man'' in the infamous ring of Cambridge-educated, Soviet-recruited spies, he presented a threat ...

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