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HAROLD ADRIAN RUSSELL PHILBY organization of overthrow of Government, organization of clandestine radio stations, sabotage and espionage activities, publication of newspapers and magazines, the leading of or causing of failure of international conferences, election influence and many others..,'" The editors then asked, "Could you, in connection with these documents, give some concrete facts concerning the activities of the -BIS?" PHILBY answered, “In my opinion, the most disquieting fact, as far as the world and the British commonwealth are concerfied, is that the BiS has penetrated the means of Engldsh mass news media on a wide scale. Uninlbeachable documents concerning the alliance of British Intelligence and the BBC indicate that the respectable BBC is capable at any time of broadcasting the basest disinformation prepared by the Propaganda Section of the SPA. The SPA Propaganda Section maintains constant touch with BBC concerning any materials prepared by the Special Opcrations and Materials Service which have any propaganda value at all and which the leaders of BIS deem necessary to turn over to the BBC for broadcasting purposes, This is how the tasks of this section are explained in one of the documents concerned, "Paid British Agents work in scores with editorial staffs of provincial and London newspapers. These papers include such widely known publications as The Daily Telegraph, The Sunday Times, Daily Mirror, Financial Times, The Observer, and many others. "Scores of names of Agents whom the BIS has co-opted from among journalists and writers are mentioned only in connection with journalism. On each of them the Intelligence Service maintains a file which lists their ‘debits and credits,' their faults and human weaknesses, aS weil as recommendations when and in what capacity they can be used. It is exactly this category of a