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‘ope y een f ~ oO Vex Britain. ‘Special to The New York Times ' Borport, oct. 7srmnewerte of the “third man’—diverting: as a theme for fiction by Graham Greene but vexing and! disquieting when it is real—| has been reopened by Britain’s| Sunday press, . \ ae “third mane is: Id Adrian Ri im) Philby, areng lishman who was a spy for the Soviet Union while serving sometimes as a journal- ist but more often as a counter-! intélligence expert for Britain's MI6, key department of the British Sercret Service. The London newspapers have disclosed that his duties in- clean countering Soviet espi- jonage, commanding British in- telligence operations in Turkey and liaison with the Central intelligence Agency in Wash: ington, with access to Amer-| ican secret information. | "With such disclosures as! these, The Sunday Times and| The Observer have shaken this ‘capital, Perhaps most unnerv- jing of all their disclosures is ithat Philby managed to carry {on his career for 30 years, until ithe beginning of 1963, when he defected to the Soviet Union. Followed More Precautions , His defection came long! after British security Precau- tions were supposed to have been strengthened—in part to! insure that there would be no repetition 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) Donaid Maclean, then serving! as British diplomats in Wash- ington, to escape to Moscow! before they could be -arrested on espionage charges. ° ;, The articles in the two Sun-| day papers contended that as’ head of the MI-6 section scek- ing to counter Soviet espion-! age, Philby had to have access to all of Britain’s secret infor- mation about the Soviet Union and similar access to the equiv- alent American intelligence. If so, he was mach more im- portant than has hitherto been reid ed oc? ce GC OCT 201987 f oO | |®éw Reports on Pittlby Spy Case Of 763 Jarmed, and barrassed, Smet GoversaeeaeS: expect that the press will now delve into the workings of British intelligence. Three weeks ago, with each of the Sunday newspapers engaged in‘ a war of he Mes and each chafing to “Start its series o! arficles first, the-Gordfament issued a notice! to all newspapers, consolidating alpreviucs notices’ Ib- 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 intelli- gence officials or information about the organization of intel- ligence. Officially, Government de- jpartments are saying nothing {about the Philby stories. Pri- vately, officials comment wryly fon the unhappy fact that Brit- ish journalistic enterprise should serve the Soviet Union’s interest in denigrating British intelligence with new disclos- ures about the handsome, quiet- spoken Philby. After he left the Foreign Service in 1955, rumors and open charges were met by of-| ficial denials, then by a Labor- Conservative coalition of si- jlence, Finally in the summer of 1963 Philby was identified by; the Government as a Soviet! 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, Mosler convert, friend of T. E. Lawrence of ‘Arabia,! adviser to King Ibn Saud, and Official in the civil service in! ia. Young’ Philby had a brilliant! record at Westminster School! ~ and at Trinity College, Cam- bridge, where he first showed an interest in Communism. “I have always been on the| left,” he once said, “but I have| never been a Communist al- though I have known people, who were Communists at Cam-| bridge and for years after- wire — eS DeL.oach Mohr Bishop Casper Callahan Conrad Felt Gale Rosen Sullivan Tavel Trotter Tele, Room Holmes Gandy HOT RECORD AP OD spe 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 = The Sun (Baltimore) The Worker The New Leader The Wall Street Journal ‘The National Observer People’s World pue___OCT 8 1967