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o-19 (Rev. 7-27-67) 44s50R ———____—_ om... ry cee, wRalanch Vex Britain (New Reporis on ¥ ilby Spy Case.of! ke | : |to all newspapers, consolidating| to this fantastic “infiltration.” ahan | LONDON, e ye the case|2!! previous nolices about pub-|He believes it will make clei en d | ine. di lication of information about|a need for reforms in’ many: onra i f the “third man”—diverting |p itish intelligence and counter-|spheres. * 4 Felt 3 a theme for’ fiction by intelligence. But David Astor,’ owner a Gale raham Greene fut vexing and) Known as a “D notice” thisleditor of The Sunday Observer, T | isquieting it is real—|document amounted to a warm-jlaughs off the social signifi- N Rosen — has been reogpigid by Britain’s|ing to the press that prosecu-|cance of the story. “AS T see it, y Sullivdg j Sunday press. tion might result from the pub-|there is no social meaning in: * er | ‘The “third " is Harold}lication of names of intelli-|it,” he said. “Philby could have, iN Tavel i Adrian Russell (Kim) Philby,|gence officials or information|deceived anybody.’ The- Rus-| Trotter an Englishman who was a spy|about the organization of intel-|sians, “like” us, “recruit their) NI Tele. Room for the Soviet Union’ while|ligence, > ~,° lagents among the socially satis- . serving sometimes as 4 journal-| Officially, Government "de-|fied segments ‘of their socie oo) Holmes ist but more often as a counter-|partments are saying nothing|I€ is silly to blame the ‘old “s Gandy intelligence expert for Britain’s|about the Philby stories. Pri-|network.’"".. ."° Fy ~ ‘MI6, key department of thejvately, officials comment wryly; The “old boy network” is fio . / ‘British Sercret Service. ‘lon the unhappy fact that Brit-|reference to the tribal confi?{\N Op yy L . The London newspapers havelish. journalistic _enterprise|dence and mutual backscratch- t ' | isclosed that his duties in-\should serve the Soviet Union's|ing said to exist among the) ~ j lean countering Soviet espi-linterest in denigrating British|praduates of exclusive, class- X \ | nage, commanding British in-lintelligence with new disclos-loriented British private schools C ! lligence operations in Turkey|ures about the handsome, quiet-|that-haye traditionally supplied) Cc 4 and liaison with the Central/spoken Philby. - - ‘lg large -percentage. of « Briti: . Intelligence’ Agency in Wash-| “After he left the Foreign|$ublic servants.2«4% “Wii.” jington, with access to Amer-|Service in 1955, rumors and ‘The significance of the Phi -ican secret information. open charges were met by of- digclosures that is worryin| i With such djsclosures _asificial denials, then by a Labor-|f¥ d#eclosures essed b these, The Sunday Times and|Conservative coalition of j-/Many,Britong was exp q \The Observer have shaken this|lence. Finally in the summer pfjthis | week’s , Spectator magi capital. Perhaps most unnerv-/1963 Philby was identified Hy,zine. It said: “While there are. ing of all their disclosures is\the Government as # Sovidt)master minds and active bodies - tn his carcer for 36 years, untl|"e ny, on ee a eat ter is ve ‘the beginning of 196%, when he Bom In 1912 in India work in Moscow, we had better: defected to the Soviet Union. ; Philby was born in Ambala, ‘tually lett some “time ‘bomb§- ' ‘Followed More Precautions |1979" tis father, Harry St-Johnjpehind they are considerin; QO ants piglection came long) Philby, was at various times an ow f0 get them Into positi ir Brit security precau-jauthor, desert explorer, Ai . . tions were supposed to havelscholar, Moslem convert. friend] George Blake is another 1 Brits” been strengthened—in part tolof T, E. Lawrence of Arabig,Jish spy, who last Octal Serube insure that there would be no| adviser to King Ibn Saud, caped from Wormwood Scrubs” repetition of the 1951 Burgess-lofficial in the civil service {nj prison where he was serving & ‘Maclean affair. India. : 42-year sentence. The. The Washington Post The “third man” label was! Young Philby had a brilliant’, In the same week that The - Times Herald ‘attached to Philby after it be-lrecord at Westminster SchooliBunday Times was publishin imes Heral jeame known that he had en-|and at Trinity College, Cam-|f Picture of Philby -in, The Washington Daily News labled the late Guy Burgess andibridge, where he first showed: Bquare, other newspapers werf = 7 (Washington) Donald Maclean, then servinglan interest in Communism. + | publishing ‘pictures of Blakp ‘The Evening Star (Washing as Eritish diplomats io, Wash| jdhave always, been on. the| swimming in,a Caucasian lak& °° the sunday Star (Washington) ‘ington, escdpe to Moscowlteft,” he once said, “but ve} ily No ‘New York) before they could be arrested/never been a Communist al- Daily News (New York) in espionage charges. - though I have known peop! Sunday News (New York) ‘The articles in the ¢ ne Sun: pene were communists at or New York Post ——______ jay papers cont as|bridge and for years after i as ead of the MI-6 section seek- ward.” aie The New York Times — wg to counter Soviet espion-| The two Sunday papers dif- ‘The Sun (Baltimore) 1\|age, Philby had to have access|fer on the date and site of his| The Work: | to Por bia ae Eaton recruitment Py, Soviet intelid me Ne i? 7 Mation about. ryiet aigence, jut both agree that oO i¢ New Leader cess'to the equiv-was in the early nineteen.| //)¢? 3 - i intelligence. — |thirties and that Philby’s as- h Oe - STEP. ‘The Wall Street Journal “If so, he was much more im-|signment was to penetrate Brit-| NOT RECORDED The National Observer portant than has hitherto been’ ish intelligence. mi People’s World realized.“ gt. His qualifications asa fous’ 46 QCT 16 1967 Alarmed - and, embarrassed,|nalist, established during thl the British rnment must/Spanish Civil War, led to hi . Date Detodia $ 299 ‘xpect that thegpress will now/employment in. British -intell*] wee © 7 mmm / itch inteligedge Thee wreeks|® Harold. Evans, editor of Th : ritish in e. weeks} Harold Evans, editor of The} 7 co ye igo, with eachof the Sunday|Sunday Times, feels strongly, ' ————~ XERox fs iwewspapers engaged-in a watjthat the Philby disclosures will : n mE ane jot nerves and each ghating to|make many ‘people “wonder| ~ start its series of articles first,/just what Kina of social and ithe Goyatnment issued a notice administrative structure led up’ rr C se DED COré — dO UNTEC