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} | | | \ Hg Philby Admits ed Sp yingforReds , . By HENRY MAULE 4, Staff Correspondent of THE News _ London, Oct. 1, elve years after British diplomat Harold A. R. (Kim) Philby was exposed in THE NEWS as the “third @ Spy case, he has admitted being a Sovitt agent for more than 30 years. - ‘An exclusive dispatch from this correspondent to Tok News in 1955 named Philby for the first time ax the man who had tipped off British turncoats Guy’Burgess and Donald MacLean, enabling them to flee to Rus oa The question wi aised in Parliament and Harold Macimillan, - then foreign secretary, cleared Philby, former first secretay of | the Bitish Embassy in Washington, declaring there was’ “no reason ; to conclude that Mr. Philby has at any time betrayed the interests | of this country or to identify him with a so-called third man.” “{ Have Come Home,” He Tells Son ‘ Philby, 55, has admitted to his oldest son, John, 24, who recent- ly visited him in Moscow, that his allegiance has been to the Soviet Union most of his adult life. “{ have come home,” he told the son, declaring himself com- pletely happy in Moscow, where he ostensibly works for a Soviet~ —~ lishing house. ee = Fee rvion newspapers, the Observer and Sunday Times, cazried tojay what the Observer called his “unmatched success story in espionage.” ——_ They reported that Philly was now known to be the most im- portant spy the Russians ever had in the West, and that for more than a decade, while serving as a Soviet agent, he was a trusted senior officer at the heart of British intelligence. Philby reportedly was assigned by the Russians in 1934 to in- filtrate British intelligence. By 1944 he was appointed head of Bri- tish anti-Soviet intelligence. - In On British and U.S. Secrets _ He was named to diplomatic posts from which he was able to disclose to Moscow the inner secrets of M-16, Britain's counterintelli- gence service, and of American Central Intelligence Agency, the newspapers said. He was being groomed to head M-16 and be Bri- tain’s link with the CIA. . In 1951, Philby risked exposing his position by warning MacLean that he had just been unmasked as a major atomic spy, permitting MacLean to flee with his friend Burgess, who since has died. Apparently Philby did so because he suspected MacLean and “Burgess might break down under interrogation and betray him. Philby was later exposed by a Soviet intelligence officer who rdefected to a heles in 1961 and told London about him. Philby fed * ta. Mos jn 1963 from Beirut, Lebanon, where he was wogking fox, Re ‘Observer and, that paper said, for British intelligence, x ert Soy ote! aay <— Ak EE bs GamYE/) au yen ya9 are Ton ray Ay Bay Be Ee Mohr Bishop Casper Callahan Conrad Felt Gale Rosen, Sullivan Tavel Trotter Tele. Room Holmes Gandy The Washington Post Times Herald The Washington Daily News The Evening Star (Washington) The Sunday Star (Washington) Daily News (New York) Poe 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 Date tT 2 21957