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Cambridge Five Spy Ring — Part 32
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Philby Tells of His Spy Role 7
Herein Book Released Today
While serving as a Soviet} in Washington he served as his imminent arrest and to
SPY, Harold (Kim) Philby sat)British dintelligence Uaigon of-(take charge of Maclean's ‘ ‘Tes
“jon a Special Policy Committee/ficer with both the CIA gndicue,” Philby writes. 7
in Washington which planned the FBI. . lingenious and Simple ; &
and executed joint British-| He identifies his chicf con- The scheme was ingenious ;
gence missions in Alba Peer _ in the OA as James An-land simple, although it re- ,
eton and Willi . tau : i
ee Uleraine. 8 ee eton am Y. Howars. quired the unwitting coopera-
Philby represented British , , Says, We ition ef Virginia Gov. John S. '
Intelligence on the Commit-/formed the habit of lunching Battle, British Ambassador Sir
tee. Th® other members he:once a week at Harvey's .. (Oliver Franks and Secretary
identifies as Robert Joyce,!He was one of the thinnest|of State Dean Acheson. Bur-
representing the State Depart-/men I have ever met, and one gess was simply told to go out | Pou
ment; Frank Lindsay of the/o¢ the biggest eaters. Luck and get arrested three times |
Central Intelligence Agency, Jim” Yin one day for drunk and reck-
and Earl. Jellicoe, from the|’"™ less driving in Virginia, Philby
British Embassy, Joyce is now|/A Gentie Snore says.
retired and lives in are ni He describes mecting Angle- |, Burgess did. Battle obliged
Philby reveals this in his « y protesting vehemently ty
memoirs “My Silent War,” re- ton . iret Pleasant ee in en the State Department. Th
leased today by Grove Press) oo aered ho eto L 4 een|State Department obliged by
in New York. suspected i Th ome ane protesting to the British Em-
The clandestine operation in| "praia net ceom to apprech lene tane Ambassador Franks
lAlbania, he contends, took ‘ not seem.to appreci-|obliged by sending Burgess
place in 1949, and involved the|4'€ INE Bray ily Ot my personal jback to London pronta, Philby
landing “of a small party”’in Po ohitbe dent iY, BAYS. ed as (ee ice | .
Albania “to detach it... from|). in) vince af dinner at hisitisgea” in London, Burgess
the socialist bloc.” He de- house one ni at dinner at hisjtipped off Maclean that
scribes: the operation as “futile ousé one night and shoring British intelligence was
gently until midnight when|aware of his spying for the
his wife took him away.” He|Soviets, and both shortly flew
CIA Is Silent . |adds that Howard “cooperated the coop to Moscow, Philby
The operations in the well... in the construction of writes.
Ukraine took place from 1949|the famous Berlin tunnel.’ ve Bu celal, creep be hee
to 195), Philby writes, and in-)_ Philby says he once asked “
untae ‘1 ate Britich oarachutelFBI director J. Edgar Hoover
volved BiA BLAMED PL BNE XK
drops and “some” CIA cour-|what he “really thought” of
jers. . {Senate Joseph R. McCarthy.
“I do not know what hap-}He quotes Hoover as replying:
pened to the parties con-/“Well, 1 ofteh meet Joe at the
werned,” Philby writes, “but Ijrace track, but he has never
aiven me a winner vet,”
vale te” Ips mak
Pethane aeaabiee Fe,
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from the beginning.” « /
ebs sr Fewoe nd mutes
lean MAKE ai informed BuUtaS. giver mae & Winner ye
| The CIA yesterday had no! Philby says that the expul.,
comment. sion of British diplomat-spy
1 “My Silent War" will be Guy Burgess from Washington
{{must” reading in both thelin 1951—ostensibly for abus-
CIA and the Federal Bureaujing his diplomatic status—-was
jof Investigation, mat only forjall part of s Communist bon-
its description of clandestine |spiracy.
operations but also for {ts inti-| The Communists needed
mate personal descriptions of|Burgess’ back in London
the men he dealt with in both|quickly to warn fellow dipio-
agencies. During his t two yeare mat spy Donald, Maclean of
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