1963: Douglas Stuart on meeting a spy

The World Tonight presenter Douglas Stuart (pictured) recalls a meeting with Kim Philby in Beirut in 1958.

Kim Philby, the so-called "third man", had been cleared by Foreign Secretary Harold Macmillan of any spying activity and was at this time working in Beirut as a correspondent for the Economist. In 1962, however, evidence was to come to light that conclusively proved him a spy, and he fled to the USSR in January 1963.

BBC Archive: Originally broadcast 04 April 1963