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oO Vv Casper Callahan Conrad 4 . , DeLoach —____ wf he Third Man ! Evans ae Gali : timing of the new spy scandal in Gri Ronen could not have been worse for Prim; Sulliven Minister Macmillan. Whatever lift Mr, Macmill Tavel received from President Kennedy's fleeting avel, ra) has been dissipated by the disclosure that Harold Trotter Philby was the “third man” who tipped off Burgess Q Wages gees Tele Room and MacLean, thereby enabling the two traitors Bene. } Holmes to elude arrest in 1951. Yet it was Mr. Macmillan Gandy himself who exonerated Philby from this charge when tt was made by @ Lebor member af Parlia- ment in 1955. For months, rumors have been creulating about Philby, who was reportedly a British counter-es- pionage agent during World War Il. From 1946 to 1951, he held important diplomatic posts, in- cluding assignment to the British Embassy in Wash- ington, where he apparently served as security officer. Until his disappearance in Lebanon last January, Philby had been a correspondent for the Economist and the London Observer in the Middle East. Now i develops that Philby was a Soviet spy who probably served as a double agem during the Second War. If there were any doubts on the matter, this confirms again the energy and persistence of Soviet espionage in reaching into Western intelligence systems (witness the current attempt in Wash- ington to recruit a CIA employe). But it also strengthens nagging doubts about British seeurity. No one could sensibly maintain that Mr. Mac- millan or his Laborite predecessors are soft on “communism. But in the higher reaches of the civil service there is a seeming class bias in assess- te ing security reliability. If (as was the case with The Washington Post and Philby) @ trusted official comes from a prominent Times Herald family, went to the right schools and speaks in The Washington Dally News — the approved upper-class manner, there is a dis- position to refuse to believe that he could be a Soviet agent. This tendency is fortified by the otherwise admirable British reluctance to snoop The Evening Star New York Herald Tribune —— New York Journal-Amesican into private affairs. New York Mirror In highly carieatured form, the attitude is re- New York Datly News flected in the James Bond stories written by lan New York Post Fleming. British agent Bond, forever struggling ‘The New York Times . With the sinister SMERSH (the Soviet counterspy _ The Worker apparatus) somehow always manages to imbibe the . The New Leader “ight” wine, to wear impeccable clothes and to “4 om The Wail Street Sournal tool through London in the smartest roadsters. A: «We Bt im the light of ac The National Observer Mp. Bond’s adventures are a trifle misleading. Vv Dete 13:6 Q unwashed proletariat of SMERSH seem more ective in Tife than in ert. 4 a L a - G8 JUL 2 us ig nor wearin r