◆ SpookStack

lo, Be ee foe i an Englishman who was a spy for the Soviet Union while serving sometimes as a journal- ist but more often as a counter-! intéiligence expert for Britain's MI6, key department of the: British Sercret Service. The London newspapers have ‘|disclosed that his duties in- (clean countering Soviet eSpi- ‘upeiy lonage, commanding British in- telligence operations in Turkey and liaison with the Central Intelligence Agency in Wash- ington, with access to Amer- ican secret information. With such disclosures as s notices b- lication of information about British intelligence and counter- intelligence. ~ Known as a “D notice” this document amounted to a warn- ing to the press that prosecu- tion might result from the pub- lication of names of intelli- gence officials or information about the organization of intel- ligence. _ Officjally, Government de- t all newspapers, consolidating al-preetvcs jeartrpents are saying nothing about the Philby stories, Pri- vately, officials comment wryly : DeLoach —______ oe an © © Mohr —_____ Bishop —___ 3 Casper —__ Mew Reports on Pitilby Spy Case of ’63. Gre Sate _ Sn ee mm Conrad Vex , t Felt | Vex Britain. Gale | Seectal to The New York Times larmed. and harrassed, Rosen ORDO, Oct. 7—The~eee th Government’ must Sullivan of the “third man"—diverting expect that the press will now Tavel as a theme for fiction by delve into the workings of Graham Greene but vexing and British intelligence, Three weeks Trotter disquieting when it is real— ago, with each of the Sunday Tele, Room lhas been reopened by Britain’s newspapers engaged in‘ 2 war Holmes Sunday press. of nerves and each ‘chafing to olm The “third man” ig-Harold Start its geries of aricles—tirst, Gandy Adrian Russell (Kim) ‘Philby, nment issued a notice these, The Sunday Times and h Brit- “i by = be (4A . The Observer have shaken this’ ish baenie es net enterprise een Ly ‘capital, Perhaps most unnerv- ‘ing of all their disclosures is ‘that Philby managed to carry (on his career for 30 years, until ithe beginning of 1963, when he defected to the Soviet Union. Foliowed More Precautions His defection came long! after British security precau-| tions were supposed to have. been strengthened—in part to insure that there would be nol repetition of the 1951 Burgess- Maclean affair, The “third man” label was attached to Philby after it be- came known that he had en-| abled the late Guy Burgess and) Donald Maclean, then serving as British diplomats in Wash- ington, to escape to Moscow before they could be ‘arrested on espionage charges. : . 1 The articles in the two Sun- day papers contended that as head of the MI-6 section scek- ing to counter Soviet espion-| age, Philby had to have access to all of Britain's secret infor- mation about the Soviet Union and similar access to the equiv- alent American intelligence, If soa, he was much more im- portant than has hitherto been ene er eee ‘brjdge and for years after- should serve the Soviet Union's interest in denigrating British intelligence with new disclos- ures about the handsome, quiet- spoken Philby. After he left the Foreign Service in 1955, rumors and open charges were met by of- ficial denials, then by a Labor- Conservative coalition of si- rlence, Finally in the summer of 1963 Philby was identified by the Government as a Soviet agent. ‘ Born in 1912 in India Philby was born in Ambala, India, on New Year's Day in 1912. His father, Harry St. John’ 'Philby, was at various times an ‘author, desert explorer, Arab! ‘scholar, Mosiem canvert, friend! of T. E. Lawrence of Arabia, adviser to King Ibn Saud, and official in the civil service in India. : Young Philby had a brilliant record at Westminster School ‘and at Trinity College, Cam- bridge, where he first showed an interest in Communism. “I have always been on the left," he once said, “but I have never been a Communist al- though I have known people who were Communists at Cam- AP OS LS gor The Washington Post Times Herald The Washington Daily News The Evening Star (Washington) The Sunday Star (Washington) Daily News (New York) __ Sunday News (New York) New York Post — SEs The New York Times” = The Sun (Baltimore) The Worker The New Leader The Wall Street Journal The National Observer People's World Date ___ OCT § 1967 Zz 6 ( oct ba a rn ane) / 3 f at . - . . a ~ OLR ‘ Tare tr AE a BS he ee OE en an NN eee ieee lk if