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Cambridge Five Spy Ring — Part 20

82 pages · May 09, 2026 · Broad topic: Intelligence Operations · Topic: Cambridge Five Spy Ring · 82 pages OCR'd
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\ o-19 Art 7-27-67) Pats jujson = Ov. fedieq' . |New Repo ilby Spy.Case.of {oz Vex Britaini—— |New Reports on F .alby Spy.Case.of‘6. Vex Britaini~— -_ Te “thi “Sinfittration.” eclal to The New Yors Times ‘(tO all newspapers, consolidating | to this fantastic “infiltration. | LONDON Oct. 7—The case|#!! previous notices about pub-/He believes it will make cle Callahan . uP : Conrad sf the “third man’—divertin, lication of information about/a need for reforms in’ many: ; * ; . “N8/ British intelligence and counter-|spheres. roo | Felt s a theme for fiction byl intelligence. But David Astor, owner a Gal raham Greene fut vexing and) Known as « “D notice” thisleditor of The Sunday Observer, ale 5 sisquicting woo it is reai—-)document amounted to a wath-jiaughs off the sociai signifi- “\ Rosen ——_______ has been reo d by Britain’s| ing to the press that prosecu-|cance of the story. “As I see it, ' Sullivdg Sunday press. | ue |tion might result from the pub-|there is no social meaning in \ The “third niin” is Harold)lication of names of intelli-lit," he said. “Philby could have; Tavel Adrian Russell (Kim) Philby,|gence officials or information|deceived: anybody.’ The - Rus-| y . Trotter an Englishman who was a spy|about the organization of intel-|sians, «like ” us, “recruit their| ~ Tele. Rooi ‘for the Soviet Union’ while|ligence, ,..: “,- lagents among the socially satis- ele. hoom serving sometimes as 4 journal-| ‘Officially, Government de-|fied segments ‘of their societ | mt Holmes ist but more often as a counter-|partments are saying nothing|It is silly to blame the ‘old boy! -+ Gand intelligence expert for Britain’s|/about the Philby stories. Pri-[network’""“-- i'° °°) 4: os andy ‘MI6, key department of the vately, officials comment wryly; The “old boy ‘networ "is on the unhappy fact that Brit-lreference to the tribal confi t, The London newspapers havelish. journalistic _enterprise|dence and mutual backscratch- feelncad that hie duties Inclekanla snes olin Gaeaing Tleinete tt cet oan peice ae she br ¢ SESS fee Mules SIT SOUWIG SEIVE Lit SOVIEL UTIGT Siing Said 10 EXIST &aMmOng he ‘British Sercret Service. ; lean countering Soviet espi-linterest in denigrating British|praduates of exclusive, class- nage, commanding British in-lintelligence with new disclos-loriented British private schools lligence operations in Turkey|yres about the handsome oN ’ BS) Ay » quiet-}that-havye traditionally supplied and liaison with the Central|spoken Philby. vee eae neye y nee ; ‘ a large ‘-percentage,! of « Briti Intelligence Agency in Wash-|" After he. left yservants. ord if in’ t ‘ the Foreign |/$ublic servants./<:.g6/ “Wis.” jington, | with | access to Amer- Service in 1955, rumors and “The sionificance of the Phi jcan inform . open charges were met of- “anlage a sad | With such djsclosures as ficial denisis then by a Labor.|fY sigclosures that is worrying - jthese, The Sunday Times and|Conservative coalition of sj-/"any,Britong was expressed by, ; 'The Observer have shaken this|lence. Finally in the summer pf)this | week's . Spectator maga: . capital. Perhaps most unnerv-/1963 Philby was identified Hy;zine. It said: “While there are ; _ f - 6 \ ing of all their disclosures is|the Government as a Soviét)master minds and active bodies - “\)h that Philby managed to carrylagent.... | ": Nine - Philby and“ Blake’ at” J on his career for 30 years, until : ¥ : i . Philb born in Ambala,|watch out. If they. have - no defetied to the Soviet Union India, an New Year's Day in ctually left some time bombg- _ Followed More Precautions /19)9’ His father, Harry St. Johnjpehind they are considerin ie beginning of 1963, when he Born in 1912 in India “| work in Moscow, we had better: | _ His ., defection came long/Philby, was at various times an] pow to get them Into positie aftor rvitic eeacnrityu nearauelowtbee teen et seelacee ao-Ligow, FO “mee _ awwe SFkaNGEh Gey PEC TAULOr, GESEr, CXPIOTer, Aa) y~ ~~ “. tions were supposed to havelscholar, Moslem convert. friend| George Blake is another Brits been strengthened—in part tolof 7. E. Lawrence of Arabig,|ish spy. who last October es-” insure that there would be no|adviser to King Ibn Saud, ami caped from Wormwood Scrubs - repetition of the 1951 Burgess-lofficial in the civil service $n Ptison where he was serving &@ ‘Maclean affair. i ~ | India. : 42-year sentence. 0": * ai . p 3 ‘The “third man” label was| ‘Young Philby had a brilliant/, In the same week that The: The Washington Post ) ‘attached to Philby after it be-/record at Westminster SchooliBunday Times was puousnin, Times Heraid Q ‘came known that he had en-land at Trinity College, Cam-|— Picture of Philby -in, Ref +4. Washington Daily News MS iabled the late Guy Burgess andibridge, where he first showed: Pquare, other newspapers werg - ; . iG Donald Maclean, then servinglan interestin Communism. : ublishing : pictures of Blakp- The Evening Star (Washington) O as British diplomats in, Wash- “I have always been on the [swimming ina Caucasian lak@® tye Sunday Star (Washington) ____. QR ington, to escdpe to Moscowlleft,” he once said, “but I have[——————— OCS Co=:s 2 before’ they could be arrestedinever been a Communist el Daily News (New York) rt pn espionage charges. though I have known peop Sunday News (New York) =) ‘The articles in the two Sun-jwho were Communists at Ca New York Post —_- ay papers contended that as/bridge and for years afte ; Zo ead of the MI-6 section seek-|ward.” wo The New York Times fa ing to counter Soviet espion-| The two Sunday papers dif- The Sun (Baltimore 1 age, Philby had to have access|fer on the date and site of his ( } Li a to_aif t_infor-jrecruitment by Soviet intelli- The Worker th iO ail Of Britain s—secret_infor- mation about the Soyiet_Unionigence, but both agree that it , The New Leader i! |dlid-sitnilar access to the equiv- i @ ly nineteen- Y/ Dad set Y - A talent American intelligences —~ was in the ear Yhilby's ee Oo - 37 7 / 9? The Wall Street Journal Tt s0, he was Much more im-|signment was to penetrate Brit} NOT RECORDED The National Observer SEE portant than has hitherto beenlish intelligence. ‘ realized. fee ade His qualifications as a fou! ae pny te ses People’s World ——_____-_____ Alarmed - and, embarrassed,|nalist, established during the my ULI 16 be f f the British. Gofernment must'Spanish Civil War, led to hif . Date Deboden P7967 xpect that thegpress will now/employment in. British intelli] “seme © | mew } ; elve into" workings of|gence. 7 ; : ritish intelligenfe. Three weeks) Harold Evans, ‘editor of ‘The ; toe go, with each'of the Sunday|Sunday Times, feels strongly, — . “~~ XEnox ~ | Sada jweWSpapers engaged in a warjthat the Philby disclosures will make many people “wonder Gt 16 967 + * of ‘nerves and each chafing to start its series of articles first,/just what kind of social and {the Goyssnment issued a notice administrative structure led up 70 OCT 171907 © yr at 3 -/}. puadid (7. t ‘
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