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Wee em ee eee © Grove Press inc. 1968 AME rights reserved IN THIS itostaiment Phiiby's malin purpase is to Glsoredit the American Intelligence and Security. Services by making senior operatives look stupid. This image is hardly to keeping with their complete round-up of the major Soret spy-ring which Philby men- tions—Dr. Klaus Fuchs, the Rosenbergs, Harty Gold, and ethers In this connection Philbs's disclosures raise ab [niriguing question, When be tnew (bat the vital atomic leakages, which saved Russia's sclentints at least i@ months of work, bad been narrowed down to Fochs, why wasn't Fuchs “tescoed™ as Maclean was ° it was eneggh = thal Maclean was “an old comrade.” whe wasnt Fuchs, who had been infinitely more trainable. iven the same sffectionate eatment 7 There are strong reasons tor betieving = =«lbai «Fuchs was WES BMUNalitauy Tob eb twine in the Foréign Office, for which be had neither the citht lemperar nor the right personal de en think:ne for deliberately sacrificed. First. he had stopped sping for Russia. Second, the Eusiins knew that since he was a Brilish sablect, his exposure Would realty damage- Angiu Americas relations—a prime Movlet target The Damage casted By Fuchs’ confession was in fact immense. Britain spect han- dreds of millions discovering guciear koow-how «wbich the Americans migtt atherwine bate given os The Russians may? Bare been confident that Fochs, who left the U.S. to work at Harwell, could not Identify any of the other Sovie, agents Whe cob: tacted Blin in America The British and U.S. security men who questloned bim ere more astufe than ber expecled Fuchs remembered that one of the couriers who picked up his information from the Los Alamos bomb faboratory had once meolioned he was bio chemist. €.3. G-mem made in- quiries ahogt evert biochemist whe could have Seem in the places Fuchs named. wher reduced g list of 1306 possibie susperta to Harry Gold, Gritain’s leading commentator on gacurity affairs , fevesliog., As ik was koown tbat way Burgesa contacted Maclean * In Lan Mae AU Ue Qbecteg that Maclean Was 296 ev mneer eerie Toner t tort eT EE ETS . activity mght iead to doubta fe eiiker fton or Oxtord He conelugons, MIS) informed Us tye about me. There seem Ate wes not But MIS did not. that clean wou proba "y be done little that couid De done aboul gitach ; “much weight to that S0pmeched hee ee tin it, but it occurred to me uhat TF detail + the ground Ghat, Ue cories CAF could help to divert suspicion oF forela - ‘en masume that all Meanwhile, certain categories im D fhe’. young, Englishmen © of Foren Office pavers woud {2 F ee vs bales 1 to Eton and Oxtora) — De. withhext from him. and hus it we " mous! ied Bobey Mace , movements would be put under Pl . mae list prov ea boy 3 ac \eureeiliance. These ‘ast two de. pau a BASE kenale Embassy security cisiona taken, presumably to e320 ofcer} with one of his Anest the Americans, were whom Fochs then {dentifiea Houra He offered me short foolish. Sut t sa no reason to ; is dull odds on Gore-Booth. cha.jenge them. 1 judged that ear. from films owe to ne nied | Why? He had been educated ~ they might serve me in good [am io. Jullus. Rosenberg. whe &% ton and Oxford: he had stead tf anything went wrong. ft calls organised spies and entered the Foreign Office In was quite right, expl secret drawings and eqaipment the middle ‘thirties; he was & I was nevertheless alarmed by to Russia, and his wife Ethel whe induced her own brother, te steal atomic secrets, Oniy the Rossian diplomat who coo trolled them ail. Anatol! Fakor- lev, escaped. fecidentaliy, the Americans were mote Justified In executing the Roseubergs thae the Russians were ip shooting Oleg Penkovsky, the Red Army Intelligence colonel, who sph for Britain. The Rosenbergs committed ther treachery during wartime THE MOST aitgoa ifcant single = fact emerging from Philby's die clotures—aond those of other pies — Ig that they are hardly ever caught because they are detected In the act of smrag. surveillance may provide the evidence that nally = brings them into court, but the Grst Information Ibat leads to their being watched almost shways comes from Rusng it comes in two ways—tither & Soviet defector to ithe Wet revenis thal infermation af a certaln nature has been Sowing to Moscow. Or Russian officials say) oor da smething which makes this shrivus, As Philby indicates, Lhe soe iciog that there was 9 4p7— Maclean — in the British Embassy tn Washington came from information trickling back from the “Soviet Union The Russians are by of means asiways at clever lp covering up their sources as Philby would have us believe. First Indications that there bad been a serious atomic leak in; the U.3S.—from Fuchs as it | turned omt—arose from remarks by Russian delegates at @ post- | war NO conference. The Rusaians used code names they could oot possibly bave known without the help of & spr This m the Soviet agents test danger. However care- al be may be ‘in the Geld * be ean be caoght through s blunder ion Moscow or the dellberate use of secret informa- Mon for polllical purposes by Commanist officials ' THE attitude of the Foreign Office in posting Bar- tets lo Washington is highiz Burgess was a rabid bome t sexual, an habitual drunk. and gTosuly aostable in other ways, why was he allowed to remain In the Foreign Office at all? E have always suspected thal ; his hemoserzcal activities pre vided him with information | about the private ves of senior colleagues which ensored hui Pretertion, convinced } y AM NOT that Philby is telling ibe truth about the @on. He talks about great Precautions w that the two men would not be seen together Vet it wee arranged that Burgess ' would call on Waclean ot his office, and later ihey lonched |) . ~- together at the BAG. Club in , Pall Mali! Philby’s consternation on hearing the oews that Borgess had ed with Maclean by anderstandahle. Wo Burges had remained, there would have been nothing , to connect Maclean's disappear-_ ance with Philbr—no overt suspicion that he wae the Third: Man whe had organised the) ca pe. who repeatedly PH iLBY, ACCUSES fester Tntelilgence of slpshod work, has falled himeelf to consult the Soviet [ntelilgence Alles to check the name of the WU15 Inlerroge- . ter be cails John Skardon. oe man who 90 ably Induced Fuchs iam James H fe confess was Wil Skardom,