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I FVOW AKNOPOTISON WiDy Opy vase or ia ‘Speclat (o The New York Times \|- LONDON, Oct. 7—The case ff the “third man"—diverting: “nga theme for fiction by’ Graham Greene but vexing and disquieting when it is real— has been reopened by Britain's: Sunday press. ;. The “third man” sod {Adrian Russell (Kim: hilby, [OEMS who wasespy for the Soviet Union while Serving sometimes as a journal- ist but more often as a counter- intelligence expert for Britain's) MI6, key department of thei British Sercret Service. if The London newspapers have, iHisclosed that his duties in. lean countering Soviet espi- Rage, commanding British tn-| telligence operations in Turkey) and liaison with the Central; Intelligence Agency in Wash- ington, with access to Amer- ‘ican secret information. With such djsclosures as, jthese, The Sunday Times andiConservative coalition of si- {The Observer have shaken this capital. Perhaps most unnerv-| ing of all their disclosures is| that Philby managed to carry ,on his career for 30 years, until the beginning of 1963, when he' ‘defected to the Soviet Union. Followed More Precautions 1 His defection came long iafter British security precau- ftions were supposed to have deen strengthened—in part to insure that there would be no jfepetition of the 1951 Burgess! Maclean affair. The “third man” label was attached to Philby after it be- came known that he had en- abled the late Guy Burgess and Donald Mactean, then serving {a8 British diplomats in Wash- ,before they could be arrested ‘on espionage charges. ‘The articles in the two Sun, lay papers contended that as Ihead of the MI-6 section scek- ing to counter Soviet espion-| age, Philby had to have access to_allof Britain’s- Secret_infor- mation about the Soviet Union| jand similar access to the equiv- ‘alent American intelligence, ( “TF'so, he was tnuch more im-] jportant than has hitherto been| J, Alarmed and embarrassed, the British Government must} ‘xpect that the press will now lclve into the workings of , British intelligence. Three weeks ‘ago, with cach of the Sunday| Rewspapers engaged in a war| ‘of nerves and cach chafing to start its series of articles first, the Government issued a notice "70 OCT 17 1967 to all newspapers, consolidating all previous notices about pub- lication of information about) British intelligence and counter- intelligence. Known as a “D notice” this! document amounted to a warn- ing to the press that prosecu- tion might result from the pub- lication of names of inteili- gence officials or information about the organization of intel- ligence. Officially, Government de- partments are saying nothing about the Philby stories, Pri-| vately, officials comment wryly on the unhappy fact that Brit- ish. journalistic —_ enterprise should serve the Soviet Union's interest in denigrating British intelligence with new disclos- spoken Philby. After he left the Foreign ures about the handsome, quict-j that have traditionally supplied] to this fantastic infiltration.” He believes it will make clear a need for reforms in many spheres. 4 But David Astor, owner ant editor of The Sunday Observer, laughs off the social signifi- cance of the story. “As I see it, there is no social meaning in " he said. “Philby could have. deceived anybody. The Rus- sians, like us, recruit their agents among the socially satis- fied segments of their societys; Itis silly to blame the ‘old boy networ) \ i 1 5 1 The “old boy network" is 4) reference to the tribal confi dence and mutual backscratch- ing said to exist among the graduates of exclusive, class- oriented British private schools large percentage of British pubiic servants. im Service in 1955, rumors and! open charges were met by of- ficial denials, then by a Labor- jence. Finally in the summer the Government as a Sovi agent. . Born in 1912 in India Philby was born in Ambala, India, on New Year's Day in| 1912. His father, Harry St. John) Philby, was at various times an, author, desert explorer, Arab! scholar, Moslem convert, friend: of T. E. Lawrence of Arabia, adviser to King Ibn Saud, ard official in the civil service India. record at Westminster School jbridge, where he first showed! an interest in Communism. inever been a Communist al- though I have known peop; who were Communists at Cam-| bridge and for years aftet-| ward." The two Sunday: papers dif- fer on the date and site of his| recruitment by Sovict intelli- gence, but both agree that it] was in the early nincicen-' thirties and that Philby's as- signment was to penetrate Brit- ish intelligence. ' His qualifications as a jouj-' nalist, established during th Spanish Civil War, led to hig! employment in. British intelli?} igence. Harold Evans, editor of The! Sunday Times, feels strongly! that the Philby disclosures will f 1963 Philby was identified y Young Philby had a brilliant! and at Trinity College, Cam-' 3 “T have always been on the)i ington, to escape to Moscow/left," he once said, “but I have! " "The significance of the Phil“ [by disclosures that is worrying - Many Britons was expressed by this week's Spectator maga- zine. It said: “While there are. master minds and active bodies like Philby and Blake at’ ‘work in Moscow, we had better hwatch out. If they have not, ictually left some time bombs ehind they are considerin, how to get them into position wow.” an ” George Blake is another Brits ish spy, who last October es- caped from Wormwood Scrubs prison where he was serving & 42-year sentence. Inthe same week that The junday Times was publishing picture of Philby in Rey quare, other newspapers a 4 ublishing . pictures of Bl: imming i ancasian lak LSCCLEOP-f NOT RECORGED~ 46 OCT 16 1967 make many people “wonder! just what kind of social and! administrative structure led up] Joo- ‘V eX pritain —_— sper Callahan Conrad Felt Gale Rosen Sullivan —______ . Tavel Trotter Tele. Room Holmes ———_—_<. Gandy - pnt a SOY) he Whe. 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 —<2_05 The Sun (Baltimore) The Worker ‘The New Leader The Wall Street Journal ‘The National Observer People’s World er ou bag Ra ee es Moench a te