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HVOW INCPOLTISON WDy OPy Vase OF OV ex britain —_ hin /asper— Sheclat to The New York Times {to all newspapers, consolidating| to this fantastic infiltration.” - Callahan \].- LONDON, Oct. 7~—The case,2/l previous notices about pub-/He believes it will make clear d ire “third "diverting li¢ation of information about)a need for reforms in many: Conra f the “third man”—diverting)p ich, intelligence and counter-|spheres. 1 Felt “s.a theme for fiction bylintctipence. But David Astor, owner an4 Cal Graham Greene but vexing and! Known as a “D notice” thisleditor of The Sunday Observer, ave disquieting when it is real—/document amounted to a warn- laughs off the social signifi- Rosen has been reopened by Britain's) ing to the press that prosccu-lcance of the story. “As 1 see it, Sullivan Sunday press. tion might result from the pub-|there is no social meaning in |, The “third man” isg,Harold}tication of names of intelli-\it” he said, “Philby could have, . Tavel Adrian Russeli (KimfUPlulby,igence officials or information| deceived anybody. The Rus-! Trotter aEMEMsMnMtan who wasveSpy about the organization of intel- sians, like us, recruit their, | ' for the Soviet Union while ligence, agents among the socially satis-| Tele. Room Serving sometimes as a journal-| Officially, Government doe-!fjied segments of their society, ist but more often as a counter-!partments are saying nothing |It is silly to blame the ‘old boy intelligence expert for Britain's|about the Philby stories, Pri-/network" ; i} MIS, key department of thejvately, officials comment wryly| The “old boy network" is iy British Sercret Service. on the unhappy fact that Brit-jreference to the tribal confi hat? London newspapers havejish, journalistic —_enterprise!dence and mutual backscratch- Hisclosed that his duties in-ishouid serve the Soviet Union’s\ing said to exist among the Flcan countering Soviet espi-linterest in denigrating British|graduates of exclusive, class- phage, commanding British tn-inteiligence with new disclos-\oriented British private schools {elligence operations in Turkey|ures about the handsome, quiet-ithat have traditionally supplied and liaison with the Centralispoken Philby. ‘lq large percentage of British intelligence Agency in Wash- After he left the Foreign pubiic servants. i Jngton, with access to Amer|Service in . Tumors and’! The sienifi hib * acan s¢cret information. lopen charges were met by ofel me ianificance of the Pat * With such djsclosures as ficial denials, then by a Labor-[0Y S'sclosure rye - ithese, The Sunday Times and!Conservative coalition of si-/any Britons was expressed by \The Observer have shaken this|jence. Finally in the cee this week's Spectator maga- Holmes ee, Gandy capital. Perhaps most unnerv-/1963 Philby was identificd bl.zine. It said: “While there are . ing of all their disclosures is!the Government as a Sovic that Philby managed to carry . on his career for 30 years, until the beginning of 1963, when he ‘defected to the Soviet Union. master minds and active bodies like Philby and Blake at’ work in Moscow, we had better Philby was born in Ambala,|watch out. If they have not, India, on New Year's Day in feng Jeft soma time bombs agent. \ Born in 1912 in India Followed More Precautions }39)9" yg father, Harry St. John|pehind they are considering | His defection came long/Philby, was at various times an; OW to get them into position jafter British security precau-lauthor, desert explorer, Arab|OW- tt jtions were supposed to havelscholar, Moslom convert, friend}, George Blake is another Brit« been strengthened—in part tojof T. E. Lawrence of Arabiz,/ish spy, who last October es- insure that there would be noladviser to King Ibn Saud, arid’ caped from Wormwood Scrubs repetition of the 1951 Burgess-lofficial in the civil service in, ptison where he was serving & Maclean affair. ; India. 1 42-year sentence. The “third man” label was, Young Philby had a brilliant!, In the same week that The attached to Philby after it be-lrecord at Westminster School Sunday Times was publishing Times Herald came known that he had en-land at Trinity College, Cam.) picture of Philby in Reid The Washington Daily News i ~ ners wera. abled the late Guy Burgess andjbridge, where he first showed| Square, other newspapers wer The Washington Post @MGINAL FILED IN Donald Mactean. then serving'an interest in Communism. | publishing pictures of Blak The Evening Star (Washington) :a8 British diplomats in Wash-| “J have always been on the iswimming ina Cancasian lak® aye sunday Star (Washington) ington, to escape to Moscow/left," he once said, “but I havel~ i jbefore they could be arrested never been a Communist al- Daily News (New vor) On espionage charges. though I have known peop@ ms Sunday News (New York} The articles in nares Sun-iwho were Communists at Cam- New York Post —_____.____ ay papers contended that aslbridce and for years aftet-| . . as de of the MI-6 section scek- ward,” y The New York Times —— Z ing to counter Soviet espion-| The two Sunday: papers dif- The Sun (Baltimore age, Philby had to have access|fer on the date and site of his ¢ ) to_allof Britain’s-secect_infor-lrecruitment by Soviet intelli- The Worker mation about the Soviet Union|pence, but both agree that it The New Leader {{jand similar access to the equiv-lwas in the early nincicens| The Wall Street nal }{ alent American intelligence, ~~ |thirties and that Philby's ase ¢ Wall Street Journa lt, -Tf'so, he was thuch more im- signment was to penetrate Brit- The National Observer portant than has hitherto becniish intelligence. ' ~ *g Worl ‘}realized, | , His qualifications as a jouy-| l Se lL SOL?- wy Peop le's World | Alarmed and embarrassed,|nalist, established during the —_ 5 . é the British Government mustiSpanish Civil War, led to hist ~~ Dae _/ ¥ xpect that the press will nowjemployment in. British intelli! NOT RECORDED clve inte the workings of|gence. ; i British inteligence. Three weeks! Harold Evans, editor of The 46 OCT 16 1967 a } ( : ~* 13g0, with each of the Sunday Sunday Times, feels strongly - aewspapers engaged in a war|that the Philby disclosures wil) - { ive lL, “of nerves and cach chafing tojmake many people “wonder| ==" = nm " ' Start its series of articles first,|just what kind of social and’ a the Goyernment issued a notice administrative structure led i up| é - : 7 ear? call hed ET gg ge . * hg woo * et oe an oo aeons a de . 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