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‘¢) Top British Intelligence Aide LONDON (UPI) — Britain’s Secret Service today faced a srigorous check-up after the disclosure that a former top intelligence official and Britain's top link with the U.S. Central Intelligence’ Agency, bad been a Russian spy for 4 years, | John Philby told radio and television audiences that his \father, Harold (Kim) Philby, ; Who vanished from Beirut four years ago while working as a newspaper correspondent, told him recently in Moscow he had oY for the Russians | was reported that Kim Philby, now 55, had been re- ited by Soviet intelligence ‘only a few months after he left Cambridge University. He later became a senior officer in British intelligence and was Jslated to become head of M16 , before he was fired. Informed sources said that Philby recruited Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean as Soviet jagents in 1938 while they were working for the British Foreign service and he tipped them off that they had been discovered. Burgess and Maclean defected in 1951. Maclean still lives in Moscow. Burgess died there. Philby visited his father in Moscow recently. “I admire him very much,” Philby said. “For what he did ‘coulg not have been easy—and he qd it very well. He worked for Russians for 30 years without receiving anything for vit, There was only one conclu- You4rs, “Mb one nce ARN Ce RY Ratt Ra bie 74 a ‘OLD (KIM — sion you could draw — that he did it for ideological reasons.” Philby said his father is now working in Moscow as a journal- ist and is ‘‘free for the first time in %4 years to think and speak freely and being rewarded excellently for those many years’ service to communism.” “TI am absolutely convinced — and it is obvious —~ that he is a Communist and has served the communism of Soviet Russia for 34 years, ever since he left Cambridge i in 1933. “Although {Go not disapprove be Owl” Bared as Red Spy 34 Years. of what he has done, I know he did not en} abusing his posi- tion or his friendships as a spy. “When I saw him in Moscow, he was being treated excellent- ly, as one would ex to be treated for that service, a very important person, a VIP.” Marcus Lipton, the Labor Member of Parliament who in 1955 named Philby as the “third in the Burgess and Ma- clean affair, said last night, “There must be many red faces in the Foreign Office and in our security services now ... It the Foreign Office eight years discover that I was right . }. They and the Secret Servi behaved with incredible stupidi- ty in going to all lengths to clear him.” Lipton said that former Brit- isa Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, who was foreign secretary at the time Li named Philby as the “third PHILBY— an,” got up in the House of Commons and gave Kim Philby the warmest of testimonials. : “Philby had access to the very’ highest secret intelligence,” Lipton said. “He was in close touch with the CIA in America. No wonder the Americans were fed up to the back teeth when it was discovered he was the third man.” It was reported that Philby, who is now employed by the Soviet feature agency Novosti, may be working ‘on the new English language digest magaz- ine Sputnik, which is due appear in Britain later (Ay }! fA 2 = i NOT HoT RECORDED 199 OCT 6 1967 ee ee ee Mohr Bishop Casper Callahan Conrad Felt Gale Rosen Sullivan Tavel Trotter Tele. Room Holmes Gandy 7 The Washington Post Times Herald The Washington Daily News The Evening Star (Washington) D- 7 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 ate (62 2-67