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a +l a FRI HSS a Asylum, ante DL | INUOQOIM vr VUltilo itizenship Flay ivy hoscow. July 30 (AP).—Harold ceimy oP missing granted political. asylum and Soviet citizenship, Izvestla [ani newsman and former diplomat, "has" asked and been reported today. , A page 2 announcement in the Soviet government news- (rr Said: “British citizen H. A. R. Philby, who occupied a leading sasiiion in the British intelli. | gence service, addressed the Soviet authorities with a re- quest for political asylum and the granting of Soviet citizen- ship. “It has been made known that the Supreme Soviet of the USSR satisfied the request of A, A, BR. Philby.” Philby disappeared last Jan- uary from his jcb as a news correspondent jin Beirut, the capital of Lebanon. Warned Burgess, Maclean Subsequently the British gov- ernment identified him as the man who tipped off Guy Bur- zess and Donald Maclean, the ee fected to the Soviet Union a decade ago. The Moscow broadcast, based on a atory in the Soviet govern- ment newspaper Jzvestia, said: “The British subject Philby, who occupies a leading position in British Intelligence, has ap- plied to the Soviet authorities for political asylum and Soviet citinzenship. It is learned that the USSR Supreme Soviet (Parliament) has compiled with Philby’s request,” Philby, 51, was a leading figure in British journalism in the Middle East for years. He had a wide circle of acquaint- ances among British and Amer- Foreign Gilice men who deé-'‘ican newsmen and diplomats. a ee eee al roy nd : Belmont “__ CA neers — . asper Callahan Conrad “f¥DeLoach r Evans Gale n al af un Sdeean = Tavel Trotter Tele Room Holmes Gandy ON Meas fer 1 NOT RFCORDED 191 AUG 2 1963 The Wesh imgton Post ang ______ Times Herald The Washingtan Daily New The Evening Star __ FINA, New York Herald Tribune New York Journal-American New York Mirror New York Dally News New York Post The New York Times The Worker The New Leader The Wall Street Journal The National Observer Date JuL du igbe a sia “a ae Aes Seeoe eed ae aint, 2.