Letter: All in all, a nicer kind of spy

Saturday 18 September 1999 23:02 BST

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FOR KIM PHILBY and his comrades it wasn't their country and they never sold anything. They served a greater cause, at some personal risk. Melita Norwood is defiant in her old age: "I did what I did not to make money but to help prevent the defeat of a new system which had, at great cost, given ordinary people food and fares they could afford." They merely betrayed their class: Labour's leaders betrayed theirs.

ROBERT STYLES

London SW18

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