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Cambridge Five Spy Ring — Part 25

65 pages · May 09, 2026 · Document date: Jan 27, 1969 · Broad topic: Intelligence Operations · Topic: Cambridge Five Spy Ring · 64 pages OCR'd
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bee ha a bd C Mohr Bishop Casper Callahan Conrad Felt Gale Rosen, Sullivan Tavel Trotter Tele. Room .. — Holmes — ~~ By HENRY MAULE 4 weet | Gandy Staff Correspondent of THE News _ London, Oct. 1 elve years after British diplomat f Harold A. R. (Kim}Philby was exposed in THE NEWS wt as the “third & spy case, he has admitted being a Sovitt agent for more than 30 years. - An exclusive dispatch from this correspondent to THe News in 1955 named Philby for the first time as the man who had tipped off British turncoats Guy’Burgess and Donald MacLean, enabling 5 them to flee to Russia, ‘ / The question was raised in Parliament and Harold Macmillan, ‘ } then foreign secretary, tleared Philby, former first secretay of the Bitish Embassy in Washington, declaring there was “ng reason i to conclude that Mr. Philby has at any time betrayed the interests { of this country or to identify him with a so-called third man.” . | “{ Have Come Home,” He Tells Son Philby, 55, has admitted to his oldest son, John, 24, who recent- | l fy visited him in Moscow, that his allegiance has been ‘to the Soviet Union most of his adult life. “f have come home,” he told the son, declaring himself com- pletely happy in Moscow, where he ostensibly works for a Soviet- pyblishing house. _ ee al Two London newspapers, the ‘Observer and Sunday Times, . eacried today what the Observer called his “mmatehed success story” in eEpionaze.” —_—), ’ « Katie They reported that Philby was now known toe be the most im- roa thet ie Ta portant spy the Russians ever had in the West, and that for more than a decade, while serving as a Soviet agent, he was a trusted ; senior officer at the heart of British intelligence. \. \: boy if The Washington Post Philby reportedly was assigned by the Russians in 1934 to in- py eta Times Herald | filtrate British intelligence. By 1944 he was appointed head of Bri- : H . . tish anti-Soviet intelligence. Ey I - The Washington Daily News In On British and U.S. Secrets The Evening Star (Washington) dice! He was named to diplomatic posts from which he Was able to The Sunday Star (Washington) isclose to Moscow the inner secrets of M-16, Britain’s counterintelli- i : . | gence service, and of American Central Intelligence Agency, the Daily | News (New York) { newspapers said. Hewes being groomed to head M-16 and be Bri- ‘ Sunday News (New York) tain’s link with the CIA New York Post In 1951, Philby risked exposing his position by warning MacLean ~ . . ore Fs . that he had just been unmasked as a major atomic spy, permitting bs ; YW Ue | The New York Times MacLean to flee with his friend Burgess, who since has died. a ia The Sun (Baltimore) Apparently Philby did so because he suspected MacLean and ee pert might break down under interrogation and betray him. re neces The Worker Philby was later exposed by a Soviet intelligence officer who FIO roe TES The New Leader detected to the West in 1961 and told London about him. Philby fled ; a. uD The Wall Street J I ta. Moscow in 1963 from Beirut, Lebanon, where he was wogking for Ta9 ari Qoweyy ourna the Obse Observer and, that paper said, for British intelligence, - The National Observer tir : People’s World 7 pate ____UbT 2 3957 seunri {oer 620 fo a Co , ww ; i 4 cs rF! * a wr eT “™ rae ° ne ees Pascua Pie an as a ~ Sane ptaorsn i ae Met ea Dab SS eo
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