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_ TOLD HIM THIS, SAYS SON 41 Philby a Double Agent-tor 30 Years LONDON, Oct. 2, (UPD — son of Harold “Kim” Philby, beg British spy who defected to Mos- cow in 1963, said yesterday his father “worked for the Russians for 30 years.” Philby once was Britain's chief liason man in Washington with the CIA. Philby’s son John, #4, told a British Broadcasting Corpora- tion commentary he met his 55 - year - old father in Moscow two weeks ago. “I have come home,” he quoted his father as saying. ‘ Philby's career as a double - agent and ‘the circumstances of his discovery and flight have re- mained subject to speculation and controversy in England, but two London newspapers yester- day pieced together an account of his activities over three dec- ades that read like an incredible spy novel. Philby was so successful, by these accounis, that at one time he was chief of Britain's anti - Soviet section and came close to being named head of the entire British counter intelligence net- work, MI - 6, before his luck ran ou . Philby gradualed from Cam- bridge University in 1933. One year later he began a long ca- Teer with Soviet intelligence by becoming a courier. He soon graduated -to higher level Soviet mtelligence work. . During the late 1930s, Philby ean as a pro - Nazi journalist and reported from the KIM PHILBY - ——— Franco side of the Spanish Civil War. When World War II broke out, Philby’s old school friends re- cruited him into British intelli- gence and his career rose rapid- ly. By the end of 1944 he headed a new counter + espionage de- partment directed against the Soviet Union. In 197, Philby was named Chief of British Intelligence in Turkey and two years later he headed ihe Washington staff. Philby's closest brush with discovery came in 1951 when he tipped ‘off two Soviet spies that their activities had been’ uncov- ered, British alomic spy Donald Maclean and agent Guy Burgess were able to flee to the Soviet Union because of Philby’s warn- ing. Philby immediatély came un- der suspicion fi ‘ican ay 10 0 3 Woys colleagues and he was dropped from the Washington assign- ment. Slowly, however, Philby worked his way back info Brit- ish confidence. He was sent to Beirut as a cot nt for the British newspaper the Ob server, one of the two which printed an article on his activi- ties Sunday. The observer said it had been. told Philby was no longer in the spy business. But he was also in > Beirut as a British counteres- pionage agent. In 1955, former British Prime “Minister Harold MacMillan told the House of Commons that Philby was not the “third man” who tipped off Burgess and Ma- clean four years earlier. Philby cofftinued his double - agent activities until 1961, when a Soviet defector made allega- tions about his double - agent background and long history with the Soviet spy system. Philby, still working as a corre- spondent in Beirut, fled to Mos- cow in 1963 when informed that a case was being compiled against him. Philby’s son said his father now was working for a Russian ews agency on far @astertef- first by LAL? Nor FLCOR 139 0¢T 8 oe LN os oa 4 Callahan ——___ Conrad Felt Gale Rosen Sullivan Tavel Trotter Tele. Room Holmes Gandy “T should think he is far less lonely now,” the younger Philby said. “He is at last able to live compleiely openly. He is a com- munist and it is a communist country and way of life.” Philby Las granted Soviet citizenship. The Washington Post Times Herald ‘The Washington Daily News a 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 OCT 2 1967 Date