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REDORE FROMU.S.: ‘Name the man who said sive { FBI start: security crackdown Evening Standard Reporter: N _ hima job’ Evening Standard Parbamentary Reporter rPne Government is to be Pressed in the Commons on Monday to name the person who asked The Observer to give a Job to ex-diplomat Harold Philby, “third man” In the Burgess- Maclean case, who is now behind the Iron Curtain. Lieut.-Col, J. K. Cordeaux iC, Central Nottingham) Is to ask Mr. Heath, Lord Privy Seal, what person serving in the Foreign Office urged The Observer to employ Philby: and whether the initiative was taken by this person or the. news- paper Deputy Liberal leader Mr. Donald Wade (Huddersfield West} is to ask what assurances and recommendations were given to the editors of The Observer and The Economist ‘by the Foreign Office before ‘Philby was employed by them as a correspondent in the East. Since the Philby affair broke, the Foreign Office has refused O.comment on any aspect of it. Ik is understood, however, that the official line is that no formal Government approach was .made to get work for Philby. In a statement, . David Astor, Editor of ines Observer, has said: “The suggestion that The Observer should employ Mr, bilby came from the Foseigt Sion . "Middle - DLIIIDBV f rrreps CASE i. i BIG Tre arrest 48 hours ago being Russian agents SE Li NK IN SPY C HAl ew York, Thursday of two couples accused of has caused speculation ia Washington about the existence of a complicated inter- national spy chain involving the case of Harold Philby, third man in the Burgess- Maclean (affair. The New York Times' reported this today as Washington was hit by a| ' wave of rumour that another Spy scandal was about to _ break In Britain. It ls being sald that a Gritish junior : official | is soon | to be arrested. ris enw aur a hn A the man served prisons tne British Joint Defence Stall in Washington during secret Sritish-American negotiations that resulted = in the cancellation of the Bkybolt rocket programme. There are also hints of a link between the man and the two couples FB) agents detained on Tuesday. FBI and Centra! Intelligence Agency sources had ne comment Oo make on the ie, Sllegation. And & member British Embassy who. would not name. himself said: “It is mystifying.” A big check American correspondents who . cover the so-called “ Hush hush” beat at the Pentagon said: “There could be something lo he story.” PBI agents are spreading out in key cities across the United Staces in what is seen as the mos. grimly devermined security crackdown since the McCarthy era 10 years ago. The crackdown was ordered fter Attorney-General] Robert ennedy had warned that “all Communist countries " had Slepped up espionage in the United States. in a move that could result in hundreds of dismissals agents are checkin every United States official and employee with any access to classified information. Chief of the FBI, J. Edgar oover, is sald to be seriously orried by the possibility of undiscovered holes urity network, The Attorney Genera] also Is Dressing for stronger laws to fight Communist espionage. " we Are Seriously pampered in this fie y m lack of suc leginarion Ste —sata newsmerm YOAS Aepeaned 4 in America’s a |