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0-19 (Rev. 7-17-68) ’ -Sqviet Spy System in This One pages. $5.95. ¢ . f On New Year's. “Day 1938, near the village of Teruel, Spain, «shell fired by Spanish Republican artillery struck an automobile containing four newspaper correspondents. fe verre ha ie imal inner Three writers died, including Edward J. Neil Jr., of the As- sociated Press. The lone survi- vor was Harold Adrian Russell Philby, then reporting the civil war for the London Times. “Tn rel the incident appears fantastic,” writes E. H. Cookridge. ‘‘A Soviet spy, who for over a year had done his best to betray Franco's se- ‘Then MAN. Oy rE. a |i » badge. Putnam's. 1 ish compatriots in the Interna- tional Brigade, and bad been decorated by the leader of the Spanish Nationalists. But it wes not the first and certainly last piece of good luck Ki hilby}s life.”” Philby connived his way to an influentia) position in the British Secret Service, and persistently ‘for some 3 years funneled mili- tary diplomatic secrets to the Kremlin. Even though he was publicly denounced as @ epy, Philby could not be tra He is now presumed to living in comfort in Mos- cow. ; Intertwined with Philby’s career were those of two other spies for Russia, Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean. Philby \ was mented gan” who Book PRA eee att -$0fhe the end tipped off his an eomplices arrest imminent. They fled behind t the iron cyr- Cookridge was a “warthne secret agent forthe British and a newspaperman who has written extensively on espio- nage. He knew Philby for 33 years, and in “The Third Man” he attempts to retrace the British diplomat-s y's dle. vious movements ASSESS - his character. ; Philby is described as a good conversationalist,% despite a stammer. ‘He drank hard but could bold his liquor and never enjoyed rowdiness. In general, his relations with others tend- ed to be impersonal. Burgess, on the other band, Was witty, gregarious, a heavy drinker, a bost at disorderly ies and an unabashed omosexual, Cookridge detects indications that Burgess black- mailed Maclean into joining the Soviel spy apparatus. “Old Boys' Network” All three fitted nicely into the “old boys’ network.” Each eame from an apper-class Family, attended the right schools end bad influential friends. Philby impressed his superiors by unmasking six dangerous German agents during World War I]. This was achieved through information fed to him by his Russian bosses But it was here in Washing- ton that the trio acored its most damaging successes against the West. During the iews, toe Spy pve culreu Mp a -ef- 68. EX-103 B7 Tile 2a 1989 i | al i by Sen. Joe McCarthy reached its beight, and the cases of Klaus Fuchs, Alger Hiss, Ju- dith Coplon and others burst into the headlines But, nevertheless, Philby supplied an abundance of in- formation to the Russians con cerning U.S. moves in the Ko- _Tean war. He also helped the Reds smash a rebel invasion ~_ { Albania, a prot laid by West- ern agents. Apparently one of his cloak-anddagger contacts was Col. Rudolf Jcanovich Abel, the Soviet master apy. Washington Scenes British Embassy, in charge of ri mbassy, ie of liaison with the CIA and the 81, Philby brought Burgess here as, second secretary, Maclean was secretary of the Combined Policy Committee on Atomic Energy and accom- i lished a devastating job in traying U.S. atomic secrets. Although he was the least mo tivated of the three in spying, ’ Cookridge calls the enormity of his crime difficult to grasp. ‘The breakup came as the CIA, probing = leakage of NATO information, picked up Maclean’s trail. Warned by Bhilby, B Burgess and Maciean ed behind the iren cur- tain. Philby lost his position bere, was accused, questioned, investigated and shadowed, but continued to work for the British intelligence service in Beirut for several All the while, he stili ed for the Kremlin, "until the time came for him, also, to vanish from the Western worl =VTOSEPH G. REEFE. Byers re Qu blurs -. i RES 32 r RETOENAY 1m AUG 21 1068 oe lal The Washington Poat Times Herald The Washington Daily News The Evening Star (Washington) The Sunday Star (Washington) Daily News (New York} Sunday News (New York) New York Post The New York Times The Sun (Baltimore) The Daily World The New Leader The Wall Street Joumal The National Observer People's World Examiner (Washington)