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Beirut, Tuesday, January 22, 1963, 11 pm. In the bar of a seaside hotel, foreign correspondents drink gin and watch the lights of the harbor. A lit-up Soviet freighter waits for the tide.
On Saturday, Syrian police arrested two informants of the British embassy in Damascus, a schoolteacher and a telegraph operator. Their names and addresses were only on a list typed on January 14.
The embassy's chief of station, Quentin Harcourt, called the police. Tomorrow at 6 am the freighter leaves port, and whoever sold the list may be on board.
Three people came close to that list. One of them knows where the two men from Damascus are, and does not want to know.
Seafront hotel bar in Beirut, 1963, at night, still ceiling fans and a freighter.
Suspects
Crispin LedyardCorrespondent in Beirut for a London weekly and paid embassy informant, 51 years old
Fenella MarchbankCipher clerkcipher clerk Embassy or military employee who encodes and decodes secret messages. at the British embassy in Beirut, 29 years old
Boutros TannousHotel barman and hired waiter at the correspondents' dinners, 44 years old
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Kim Philby, the third man
Beirut, Lebanon, 1963
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