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OPTIONAL FOAM NO. 10 : 196 MAY 1942 EOITION GS6 GEN. RED, NO. 27 UNITED SIATES Ge AENT Memorandum ii, TO : DIRECTOR, FBI paTE: 4/8/63 ni Rec. VEO (Cain (@) / | aa SUBJECT: narou EOrLny, aka (© h 8 S 4 Harold, Adrian Rusgelt Philby, HAR S Philby, Ki Hilby ESPTONAGE — The ‘Washington Post and Times Herald" on 3/4/63, carried a story captioned "Mystery Grows in Case of Missing Ex=diplomat", This news story related to the recent disappearance of HAROLD PHILBY, a London newsman and former First Secretary in the British Embassy in Washington, D.¢., who disappeared in Barut, Lebanon, around 1/23/63. ( @)> Qh advised that in approximately 1950, while he himself was a member of the British diplomatic establishment in Washington, D.C., he attended a party at the home of KIM PHILBY, who he described as his "direct channel to the office afthe Prime Minister’, Sil explained that ail highiy classified matters with whichhe became involved were nC for transmission to Great Britain by HAROLD PHILBY. Qi stated that among those present at the — | party was GUY BURGESS, who was also a British diplomat. { employees of the British Foreign Office who defected to the nerd ad T Scviet Union in May, 1951, They were afforded considerable 1 newspaper publicity at that time ( It is noted that GUY BURGESS and DONALD MACLEAN m7 Pope acetate an