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Mohi Cc Cc Bishop Casper . Callahan London P. Trace Philby’s Ri Fe ‘condon apers Lrace 1 y's fuse Felt ee . Gale . Rosen Ip British Intelligence as Soviet Spy! i. ' ; | Tavel 1G to The Washington Post Times, “he defended himself; In late 1961, however, infor- Trotter LONDON, Sept. 30—The brilliantly.” Burgess died in/mation became available ‘the| ° |London Observer and the Lon.| 1963. Observer says fem a Soviet Tele. Room .| In 1955, Philby was publicly|defector; the Sunday Times; Holmes don Sunday Times tonight re-| J .sred by Prime Minister|says from counterspy George 6. dy vealed what both claimed) Harold MacMillan and a year! Blake) that made it impossible randy were “exclusive” Is of the|later the Observer, acting on/for Philby to deny he was a career of Haro} hilby, ajthe assurance that Philby was, Soviet agent. ee end, a ny 7 no longer a government agent,|the Observer, ry admitte. Soviet spy mno penetrated thelTent him to Beirut as their|to seeing bis contact in the| gence. {Middle East correspondent./Russian Embassy once a) “Philby, who fled to Moscow} But, the two papers say, Phil-/ month. - from Beit Wi {by had never been taken off} On Jan. 23, 1963, he flbkd, crulted "into Mhe Soviets oy the government payroll and|and says the Observer, “Bhit- system in 1933, at age 22 and,|Roped to work his way backjish authorities either woud according to the Sunday, into the Intelligence Service.'not, or could not stop him." Times, was given only one Sine — job—to penetrate British in-| Higence. { This Philby did in 1941 after erving as a. correspondent) jor the London Times in pain and as a minor official’ in several secret departments’ of the British government, During World War II, his position” in the Intelligence 'Service (known as MI-6) grew ,40 such an exten( thal he was ‘al one time tioped as a pos. ‘sible future chief of the Serv- liee. | In 1944. say the two papers, ‘The Washington Post ‘ {Philby was selected to head Times Herald L074 7 la new section of MI-6 devoted wmes . to counter Soviet espionage, The Washington Daily News activities, the Sunday Times |reports, and his unsuspecting British superiors even gave ie him permission to play the ' , ‘The Evening Star (Washington) sy ‘The Sunday Star (Washington) —_—- / : Daily News (New York) ——___.— part of a double agent with mn DREAD Sunday News (New York) Russians. Not RECORDED New York Post In 1949, Philby was sent to 199 OCT 6 1967 Washington to serve as British The New York Times —.. liaison with the CIA and FBI. ‘The Sun (Baltimore) ———___— When the Russians exploded _—_ ee The Work their first atomic bomb in He WOER CT ree 1949, the Observer says, Philby The New Leader and his staff worked day and The Wall Street Journal night for four days coding and ‘decoding and transmitting . The National Observer s vital British and American ex- People’s Wortd changes. Philby's carecr came to a halt in 195) when two of his «closest coNeagues, Guy D. Bur- gess and Donald Maclean, fled to Russia. He was ordered to return to London for a se-: eret_trigl where, fays_tne| Date ——___ Rann nan eae 4 PO Saves