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Top British Intelligence Aide Spy 34 Years ) of what he has done, I know he did not enjoy abusing his posi- tion or his friendships as a spy. “When I saw him in Moscow, he was being treated excellent- ly, as one would expect to be treated for thal service, a very important person, a VIP." Marevs Lipton, the Labor Member of Parliament who in 1955 named Philby as the “third man” in the Burgess and Ma- clean affair, said last night, “There must be many red faces in the Foreign Office and in our securily services now... It the Foreign Office eight years Bared as Red LONDON (UPI) — Britain's Secret Service today faced a rigorous check-up after the disclosure that a former top inteHigence official and Britain’s top link with the U.S. Centrai Intelligence Agency, had been a Russian spy for 34 years. : Johny Philby told radio and jtelevision auciences that his father, Harold (Kim) Philby, ‘who vanished from Beirut four years ago while working as a -Inewspaper correspondent, told (im recently in Moscow he had a spy for the Russians isi @ 1933, t was reported that Kim (Philby, now 55, had been re leruited by Soviet intelligence ‘only a few months after he left _ |Cambridge University. He later "| became a senior officer in British intelligence and was Jslated to become head of M16 _ before he was fired. Informed sources said that discover that I was right . J. They and the Secret Service behaved with incredible stupidi- ty in going to all lengths to clear him.” Lipton said that former Brit-, isn Prime Minister Harold . Macmillan, who was foreign -¥.. secretary a the time Li ton ! , named Philby as ir ‘Philby recruited Guy Burgess Poe an,” got up in the House of ‘and Donald Maclean as Soviet, . . ; Commons and gave Kim Philby jagents in 1938 while they were|Sion you could draw — that he |ihe warmest of testimonials. _ ‘working for the British Foreign | did it for ideological reasons. “Philby had access to the very’ | \service and he tipped them off] Fauby said his father is nowlhiehest secret intelligence,” ‘that they had been discovered. | Working in Moscow as a journal-|}ipton said. “He was in close Burgess and Maclean defected |ist and is “‘free for the first time |touch with the CIA in America. in 1951. Maclean still lives in|im 34 years to think and speaking wonder the Americans were ‘Moscow. Burgess died there. freely and being rewarded|fed up to the back teeth when it Philby visited his father in|excellently for those many/was discovered he was the third | Moscow recently. years’ service to communism.”” | man,” “T admire him very mucb,| “I am absolutely convinced —-/ It was reported that Philby, Philby said. “For what he didjand it is obvious —thatheisajwho is now employed by the could’ not have been easy—and|Communist and has served the|Soviet feature agency Novosti, he did it very well. He worked| communism of Soviet Russia for|may be working ‘on the new ‘for fthe Russians for 30 years|34 years, ever since he left| English language digest magaz- without reeeiving any bhalen ae ‘ 1 an saben ily due ta ar HAROLD (KIM ae son hw des eee FM ten IeCEIVE ahyWiig LOG Palle Uo o99 te 6G : grhinh tc ; 1333, iné OpPlik, Whiten is aie it, There was only one conclu-!. ‘‘Although Yo not disapprove | appear in Britain later this Year, “4 NOT RECORDED 199 OCT 6 1967 On | é ne f un Or ta ea a . . . + ae rane dete, Me wae ae a : ae vat One vo 3 ee ya th. ' : As aed i. * 7 iq Peake ae i a ‘ ho . an cane d . 7 . oe ae mE TEN a TE at Hiner =D. at Faget eR ete Sa ee TRAE ae ee sine eS te FN SE alae ei tM TOT EO ee Mohr Bishop Casper Callahan Conrad Felt Gale Rosen Sullivan Tavel Trotter Tele. Room Holmes Gandy The Washington Post Times Herald The Washington Daily News r The Evening Star (Washington) Dp? The Sunday Star (Washington) Daily News (New York) Sunday News (New York) New York Post The New York Times The Sun (Baltimore) The Worker The New Leader The Wall Street Journal The National Observer People’s World Date _fO> 2-67