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| Book by Philby Says He Foi \ By HENRY RAYMONT iwho was preparing to defect to :the West ttled ‘to alert the Brit- ‘ish Government it 1945 to the ‘existence of three Soviet under- cover agents in jts intelligence jservice. * _ But Mr. Philby writes that he was instrumental in’ preventing mote specific information from reaching London. The agents were Donald Maclean, Guy Burgess and Mr. Philby himself —all high British secret service officials. Mr. Maclean and Mr. Burgess defected to the Soviet) 7 Union in 1951, and Mr. Phiiby [defected in'1963. ‘In an 85-000-word manuscript he ‘completed last: summer in Moscow, Mr. Philby writes that the Soviet official’s ‘defection was- foiled, presumably after Mr. Philby notified the Soviet ‘authorities.’ ‘ hea ' Mr, Philbycontends that he and his two associates were not detected mainly because of the British Government's reluctance ‘to investigate anyone with their upper-class and university j background. First Part Published The first installment of Mr. Philby’s account of his 30 years as a double agent. is being pub- lished for the first time in the West in the current issue of Evergreen Review, a month} magazine of literature and poli- tics published in New York. A second installment is to appear! in the magazine's May issue| and the memoirs will be pub- lished by Wave Press | next month as a book: titled={My)- Sent Warp" weer fw he manuscript of thel: book, a copy of which became available to The New York Times, Mr, i is), career in the British {intelligence service, from 1940 until he be- came First Secretary of the British Embassy in Washington in 1949, in charge of liaison with the United States Govern- American intelligence agencies, the failure of alleged plans to foment .anti-Cammunist senti- ment. in Eastern Europe and the coid, convoluted—fhinking required in the . improbable Espionage, : Harold A. R - 7 Welaocn yo sy me, Mohr 1-2 Bish cia led oo, Casper - ~ wed gg ees | Callahan a Detection in 1945\ comes RE . Philby r Philby, believed to be the mo tant Sovittagent to have penetrated Western intel- ligence, has lived in Moscow since he fled to the Soviet Un- ion from Beirut, Lebanon, where he was Middle Eastern corre- spondent of The Observer of London. Last December, he was acclaimed a hero of the K.G.B., the Soviet intelligence service, in connection with the 50th an- niversary of the Bolshevik Rev- olution, ‘ Two-Fold Purpose Seen | The sudden .attention given Mr. Philby and Moscow's au- thorization of the publication of his memoirs in the West were Viewed by experts in Soviet policies as serving a two-fold purpose to discredit Western intelligence orgarizations and to improve the image of the Soviet Union’s security serv- ices for its citizens. © ; The manuscript is written as “a personal record” of what Mr. Philby calls “the hazards of the long journey from Cam- bridge to Moscow.” Mr. Philby -asserts that he became a Soviet agent in 1933 out of Commu- nist conviction gained at Cam- bridge and that he was recruited’ into the British secret service by Mr. Burgess in 1940. But he offers no Hetails aene Beet met Mr. Burgess and,Mc Mac- Tearing univerdity, nor does he identify any?of hi contacts. en “During my period of service; there was no single case of a consciously conceived operation Against Soviet intelligence bear- ing fruit,” he writes.c_- 9 . Soviet Gale Rosen Sullivan Ca Tavel - Trotter ______ Tele. Room Holmes Gandy DELETED COPY SENT 64%: -Futrs. BY LETTER gf. ty. PERT 54 2 yeese The Washington Post Times Herald 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 —!2 The Sun (Baltimore) The Worker a The New Leader ee The Wall Street Jounal — The National Observer People’s World Date MARL 8 1968 She “Not Tren Dep 15] APR § 1988 oe oe