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VeLoach ~ eee a aaa a op peg Mohr | : . 3 ""s® Casper Yi meer egrets _— —— _ Callahan ieee eas + ee al 3 Felt Gale —_ Rosen —__ i W | FOl t S. SPY BY KIM | Sullivan Tave] Trotter Tele. Room Holmes Gandy " orn TT pase A: P “Deveten ORY SENT /:7 ey Soviet Union” end. the 4/0 eel ile “By MIRROR REPORTER Fusion agent sporved ‘9; <TTER 2 plan. BuSsIAN: spy Kim Philby claimed yesterday that he was: -responsibie for one of the West's worst setbacks in But, said lzvestia, operation turned out lo de a. the cold war against the Communist world, . , “a catastrophe.” . ~ The year was 1951. Philby at that time was head of the British - Analysed *. ’ Intelligence service In Washington and Britain’s top liaison man with pull nalysed ever ~ the US spy network, the Central Intelligence __ possible reason, ter’ ‘the Agency. oe failure but he “could not ? CLIPPING The plan which Philby “ sabotaged ” was to send pnaging. even in 8 bir ieee TeD 221F- EF guerillas into a Communist country in the Balkans. ’ It was hoped that it would set-up a chain-reaction of rebellions through other Communist nations. “This extraordinary story—as told by Philby—was a LEASLOSE Se ced 0 PRSEWe ANT INITIALE ald opposite him had been a member of Soviet intelli- gence,” according to Bhiloy’ ‘8 Story. {The Izvestia article did published in yesterday's Izvestia. the Sovlet Government not hame the counts con- n Daily News a cerned in the plan, bu : ‘newspaper, in an article with the headline Greetings, recent British Press report tar (Washington) Comrade Philby.” For the Russian public it was their introduction to ,the man who, as a British diplomat, was giving the secrets of the West to the said that tt was Albania and that 150 men Were in. - volved in the debacle.) ew York) Inthe interview, Philby said he sometimes worked New York) twenty-four hours @ day as t a double agent. ar (Washington) Before he fled, Russia. CE Communists. . In a ceterence to his - Times None of Philby’s activi- . old frien author Ian Fleming, he said: “It was more) ties has, until now, been h easier for James Bond.” _ mentioned In the Soviet gave im an Kim Philby De ,_ ©Tr [ae ‘ en, $94 2 2 EES Cae cits. Philby — the man who a t Journal ll tipped off British diplo- ‘mats Guy Burgess and - Donald Maclean that the . British security net was > elosing in gn them—fled to Moscow in 1963. He was at that time working a8 a journalist in - Beirut after leaving the ‘Foreign Office. © His interview by two Izvestla correspondents is x: rt 7 Bg of articles F 76 Order of the Red Banner » eh 50th 4 acts A ad ae eae anniversary of the Russian Secret Service, called the Phitoy confirmed that he had been a Soviet spy since the 1930's, soon after leav- ing Cambridge University. He disclosed that he was awarded the Russian Order of the Red Banner—even before his flight to Moscew. This was how Philby said he torpedoed” Western 98 for “varlous opera- agains, the Soviet Union and other Commun: | ist countries ” The CIA with the’ per- sonal approval of Its then chief, Allen Dulles— intended to send several hundred saboteurg into the Balkan country. “The group had % stir up trouble in various places, which would have spread and led to 4n expio- sion and overthrow of the Socialist order.” It Was hoped thar laree- scale rebellions would then start against all Commun- ist governments. Philby wes called in oy Dulles as “an expert on operations against the sag Pageant eee + eye re eet Senge od Renal F FREDERICK WILLS writes: Thig ig just one more 'bserver Stage in a campaign to discredit the British and US security services. - The KGB is using Philby to undermine con- fidence in Western intelli- gence network. In this way, it hopes to © cause distrust between America and Britain, dis-- trust inside the security services and distrust of « them by their governments, At the same time Philby tries to show the Soviet security and espionage ser- vices as being ¢ everer (hap than its rivals. P2ge1C nese: Moe: oe Tre! i LP by fi 7