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Cambridge Five Spy Ring — Part 25
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— ~~ 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
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