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CLAYTON FRITCHEY PIN: asper Callahan Conrad Felt Gale Rosen Suffivan#@ T je rotter —_______. Tele. Room Holmes Gandy Must a Spy Agency Bea. ‘Gentleman’ sC lub’ club’? Must, or should, a nation’s secret intelligence agency be a “gentleman's club’’—a kind of closed circle of upper class “old boys” who hang together and maintain a snobbish yin In Washington, the head: } quarters of CIA, this is an old but rather private ques- tion. In London, however, it is the question of the day. The papers are full of it, and t full of demands for an overhaul of the British Secret Service. All this. has occurred in the Britain of new revelations shout rita super spy, Harold “Kim'""Philby, who defectea- ee Mose in 1963 after being a double agent for both Eng-— jand and Russia much of his e. Philby, now 55, went to Cambridge University, where he had a brilliant record and made friends among the elite who later Tose to prom- inence in the government, including the British Secret Service. He was secretly recruited by the Russian secret service (KGB) shortly alter graduation, and has j Temaized, loyal to. the Rus- sians for 30_years while work-__ ing as a journalist and a British spy. Philby is femous in America as the “third man” made it possible for the late Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean, then serving as British diplomats in Washing- ton, to escape to Russia in 1952 just before they were to be arrested as Soviet spies. Years later, it was discovered that they were alerted by Philby, at that time head of the Soviet section of MI-6, which was supposed to counter Russian espionage. When Philby- defected in 1963 the Hritish government pooh-poohed its importance on the grounds Philby was incon sequential, but it now appears the MI-6 ‘section chief had access to all British secret data on Russia, as well as similar access to the equiv- alent U.S. intelligence. aiso contended that he came close to being the head of MI6 ~ itself. The clamor for a housecleaning has been height-_ ened by disclosures that Phil- by had marked leanings to the left. even ip college, and that — _his Trext wife was a who - full-fledged foreign Commu- nist. It is also being asked why he was kept at ML-6 desnilte strong sus picions that he was the “third man’? who saved ~ Maclean and Burgess. ; American intelligence has had a vivid interest in the case . for years, for it was U.S. agents who discovered the du- plicity of the Britishers and tipped off M1-6 about them in 1951. Moreover, as far back as © 1950, the United States had tagged Maclean as a homosex- ual drunk while he was serv- . ‘ing in the British Embassy at - Cairo. He was sent back to London, but instead of being | dismissed he was made the head of the American desk at j the Foreign Office. This has provoked what the Londen Telegraph calls a “wave of anti-gentleman, dow n-with-the-o I d-boy-ring, let's expose-the-Establishment. fervor.” In defense of the ' system, the Telegraph says: ““A secret body must be a ’ co-opted one; it cannot be cho- sen by competitive examina- tion. Its members must be , highly educated, loyal, intelli- _ gent, ruthless, etive and ready to be lonely. The field is ~ - DELETED COPY SENT Ac Brew a TETTER alsa| V5 io _ “PUA RIQUEST 21% * {7 aa) ” ‘ foe yi i} The Washington Post ' Times Heraid The Washington Daily News —." The Evening Star (Washington) AU} ; The Sunday Star (Washington) ____ Daily News (New York} Sunday News (New York) New York Post The New York Times The Sun (Baltimore) The Worker The New Leader The Wall Street Journal The National Observer People’s World oe OCT 16 1967 r.42 “4A of KOF 5 71 NOT | RECORDED | 397. ar toad / 167 oct 19 1967 - WO RT os an’ sf . i lind CO OCT Ss fae; — ee ety jU so ap ree wy: ter” em eth ~ . ; a 7 Age ae” ee ay