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ead (Mev, 12-966) # Bri tish'Sec guised Spy ‘Slipped * ps His Lax Superic rs. sty pig Phy new okt yy LETTE 8 8 ya REC ar bw rey DeLoach ——___ Mohr —————»—____ Wick - Casper Callahan Conrad Felt Gale . Rosen Sullivan Tovel Trotter Tele. Room Holmes Gandy pe yc SoBe SEU gis London Sunday Times: , LONDON. — Harold (Kim) ~ ~~ Philby’s achievement in be- coming head of the Soviet section of the British Secret Intelligence Service, while , himself being & Soviet agent, must rank as one of the’ great professional coups in the twisted history of espionage. Philby later went on to higher things when he be-_ came the linkman between the SIS and the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, from which position he could give his Soviet spymasters thor- ough general knowledge of p operations of both the *: mpjor Western Antellig ce ncies. . ut there Js a clagsic quality about’ the earlier’ - ‘caricature’ of ‘the establisn- ‘But above these qualities’ ment, and so this is an ac- : Philby had the capacity to , count of a great breach that df&guise his feelings ang in-' '. opened up the defenses of a tentions, a crucial prpfes-|: social class, and therefore — ‘signal attribute of a spy.\For., the defenses of the nations j 30* years he lived as a pas- y..was born.on sf { sionate Communist belind’ Year's Day, 1912, in Imperial } the facade of a middle-class — —. Englishman with Liberal-to- * . Conservative opinions. W0b.2 HIE? ca fA Nor RECORDED /, 447 (OCT 16 1967 ——_——_— India. Ironically, young | Phil. It is stil! almost impos- bys Indian playmates nipk- sible to find chinks in the-. named him “Kim,” afjer mask that Kim Philby first thy half-caste boy of the put on when he was 22. Kipling book whose cent$al ‘There are one or two clues: ’ theme is intelligence work. His writing was careful and The boy's father, Harry Testrained, and many people __.. St. John Bridger Philby, was who knew him recall an an Officer of the Indian lusive sense of distance or Civil service, a distinguished . lemoteness. Rarely did he Arabist who, though he low himself to be engaged , came of middle-class back- such a way a* to.re al ! * ground, rejected its ordered ‘ for the passionate, ‘The Washington Post 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 World Journal Tribune achievement. The selection in 1944 of Philby, already a’ Soviet agent of more than ten years’ standing as the man to’ conceive, build and control a new British opera- tion against the Russians is! an event embodying the purest essence of espionage, ; Well Equipped med How was Philly able to do UP Sor vy i First, he was superbly! equipped for th cellent, his mind was swift | clear, his nerves ere stn ing. Despite some ere! mn drinicing, he .rem: ea? ‘Boor and a ly atts Biftish — establishment ‘Mt sonis Fehr his inner thoughta, Had Philby been forced to Spend more time in first-; class intellectual company: | during those 30 years, it is questionable’ whether hev ; could have kept up: the charade. But the ineptitude of the British Intelligence Service helped to make hi fantastic career possible. ° Because the SIS bureauc- : racy was protected by Jay-’: of official mystery, Rhe - agency was even less pre- pared than others in cope with the mid-20th cen-. tury. The Service: Was aye , Cambridge,’ where (future colleagues ‘Guy Bur- \ ess and Donald Macle: + Philby’s e je Wises 22 egoti: culture of the -, Arablan deserts. St. :John<3 Philby, like T. E. Lawrence, fought to free the Arab’: lands: from’ Turkish rule’ "and later came to share the “Arab” belief that Britain. ; reneged‘on her promises ate the end of World War I” “In 1929 Kim Philby entered : t he met- I bent ws’ + J politic steadily leftwards. His vieys 2 ere expressed more in pfi- ." Snealthough with “great peonviction. :_-! The Sun (Baltimore) “The Worker The New Leader The Wall Sueet Journal ‘The National Observer ——____ People’s World (New York) Date taf flay ___