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FROM SUBJECT: iy vi | ase OPTIONAL FORM HO. 10 010-166 . . é, ous ore. mao. eT 2F <q | UNITED STATES Gt 2RNMENT _ é Memorandum ) am cctosch Mr. W. C. sul DisleX DATE: March 4, 1968 7 Z ” P W. A. prants 1 ~~ 1 _— — BOOK REVIEW 1 ieee, 'TRE™PHIRD MAN" ‘y 3 IPL; slc}), by E. H. Cookridge — ae mr c This memorandum is a review of the above a book. BACKGROUND: O This book alleges to be the "truth about Kim Philby, double agent.’ Philby is the. former British inteliIgence “S¥ticer who defected to Russia in 1963 and is still o cunidiaieenanaebnnseamnientees there. Prior to his defection, Philby admit t cc quesinennanaaIII + hat he had been a Soviet agent during his whole career. He further admitted that he had warned Donald Maclean, British diplomat and also a Soviet agent of his impending arrest in 1951. Philby said that he used Guy Burgess, another British diplomat and Soviet agent, for this purpose, As a result Of his Warning, 1 both Burgess and Maclean fled to Russia in 1951. Philby, “- his actions, earned the title of “the third man." THE BOOK: n fe In: this’ “pook, the author traces the backgrounds on Philby, Burgess, and Maclean, all of whom attended Cambridge University in the early 1930s, and refers to them as the unholy trinity. He f0liows their careers Doth in and out ort the service of the British Government and shows how each progressed in the employ of the Government. He claims that Philby was the master mind who organized plans to obtain infor- mation for the Soviets, Burgess was the cruei taskmaster who carried out Philby's plans and Maclean was the weakest one of the three who was manipulated by the other into Jina i his country. f o7 BEG ne ] a make the story more plausible. For example, he, o occasions, assumes that Philby was in touch with a }kpown Soviet intelligence officer if both were stationed in a certain Cookridge makes a great many assumptions | ° BEE Pa - se 7 country at the same tima’, Such assumptions: man lead to strange 8 : ‘wou 19196 Sa : uy | a Same TT ae er i ee ere oan ; fe eee a 1 seme ee