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rw te ‘ . peace UI eyayeneeumcae ats se meme SE, 0-19 {Hev. 7-47-67) De ehh Philby Tellsof His Spy Role. Herein Book Released Today | While ¥erving “Sovie spy, Harold (Kim) Philby sa on cy Committe in Washington which planne and executed joint British- American clandestine ‘fntell- gence missions in Albania and the Ukraine.’ | icer with both the CIA and he FBI. : He identifies his chief con- tacts in the CIA as James An- gleton and William J. Howard. Of Angleton, he says, “We Philby represented British|formed the habit of lunching Intelligence on the Commit- Identifies as Robert Joyce, representing the State Depart- ‘ment; Frank Lindsay of the once a week at Harvey's . men I have ever met, and one of the biggest eaters, Lucky ‘Central Intelligence Agency,|Jim!” and Earl Jellicoe, from thela Gentle Snore British Embassy, Joyce is now retired and lives in Greece. He describes meeting Angle- Philby reveals this in his|tom “for a pleasant hour in a memoirs “My Silent War,” re- bar,” just after he had been leased today ‘by Grove Press ordered home to London as a in New York. suspected spy. The CIA offi- The clandestine operation in|cial “did not seem to appreci- Albania, he contends, took|ate the gravity of my personal place in 1949, and involved the | Position,” Philby says. landing “of a small party” in Philby describes Howard as Albania “to detach it... from|falling asleep at dinner at his the socialist bicc.” He de-jhouse one night and “snoring scribes the operation as “futile;gently until midnight when from the beginning.” CIA Is Silent The operations in Ukraine took place from 1949 to 1951, Philby writes, and in- volved six British parachute drops and “some” CIA cour- iers, . “I donot know what hap pened to the parties con- cerned,” Philby writes, “but I can inake an Informed guess.” The CIA yesterday had no comment, - j ; “My Silent “must” reading in both thejin 1951—ostensibly for a fra and the Federal Bureau!ing his diplomatic status—vwh forlall fart of a BUD ees ; Raed Of Investigation, not only its description of clandestine |spiracy. operations but also for its inti- mate personal descriptions of ayencies, Sail APye War" will be|Guy Burgess from Washington his wife took him away.” He adds that Howard “cooperated well. .. in the construction of the | the famous Berlin tunnel.” Philby says he once asked BI director J, Edgar Hoover what he “really thought” of enate Joseph R. McCarthy. Je quotes Hoover as replying: “Well, I often meet Joe at the race track, but he has never given me a winner yet." ; Philby says that the expul- sion of British diplomat-spy 167 Communists needed back in The in Washington he served aslhis imminent arrest and to: British Intelligence liaison of-/take charge of Maclean's “res- cue,” Philby writes. Ingenious and Simple . The scheme was ingenious and simple, although it. re- quired the unwitting coopera- tion of Virginia Gov. John S.-+ Battle, British Ambassador Sir’ te On © . . .(Oliver Franks and Secretary tee. The other members hejye was one of the thinnest of State Dean Acheson. Bur-..’ gess was simply told to go out . and get arrested three times in one day for drunk and reck-, less driving in Virginia, Philby _. says. Burgess did. Battle obliged by protesting vehemently to BY the State Department. The State Department obliged by|'f protesting to the British Em- bassy, and Ambassador Franks obliged by sending Burgess back to London pronto, Philby Says. Once in London, Burgess tipped off Maclean that British intelligence was aware of his spying for the Soviets, and both shortly flew the coop to Moscow, Philby writes. MAR 19 1068 London . to warn fellow diplo- ~~ ~~" ; “ DeLoach Mohr Bishop Casper Callahan Conrad Felt Gale Rosen Sullivan Tavel Trotter Tele. Room Holmes Gandy x, oo Assootated Press - HAROLD PHILBY * sey writes of spy.role ELETED COPY srr Ac. Be ae! LETTER @ | wef, R FON RENUEST The Washington Post A ~ Times Herald £1 The Washington Daily News The Evening Star (Washington) The Sunday Star (Washington) Daily News (New York) Sunday News (New York) New York Post The New York Times The Sun (Baltimore) , #he Worker The New Leader The Wall Street Journal The National Observer People’s World MAR 15 1659 Date Donald Maclean ‘of ETireoney > : nd we. es boca tee Saar 2 a . Be, . : : . A oat ae ; ae er mg eee ge a = , oe es Pe ee ees ro + pie a a oO oe. wnt wot ~* - ~ ae . . pe wet CA egg tl Tigers ps eg Rtn Solty nies ed et A Pee BE Andie balan s