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saa . Asylum, Citizenship | froscow, July 30 (AP).—Harold (Kim) 5 Phitby, missing | ats newsman and former diplomat, ~has’asked and been Branted political asylum and Soviet citizenship, Izvestla reported today. , A page 2 announcement in the Soviet government news- a said: “British citizen H. A. R. Philby, who occupied a leading M6) gence service, addressed the Soviet authorities with a re- quest for political asylum and ‘the granting of Soviet citizen- “It has been made known that the Supreme Soviet of the USSR satisfied the request of HH, A. R. Philby Philby disappeared last Jan- uary from his job as a news correspondent in Beirut, the capital of Lebanon. Warned Burgess, Maclean Subsequently the British gov- ernment identified him as the man who tipped off Guy Bur- mess and Donald Maclean, the 1 Office inen who de-'ican newsmen and diplomais. | an Belmont Cries —_— asper Callahan Conrad “PADeLoach Evans Gale Ro wa “0 Sdiffoan aa Tavel Trotter Tele Room —__ Holmes Gandy te tlo fected to the Soviet Union a | decade ago. ‘The Moscow broadcast, based on a story in the Soviet govern- ment newspaper Szvestia, said: “The British subject Philby, who occupies a leading position in British intelligence, has ap- plied to the Soviet authorities for political asylum and Soviet eitinzenship. It is learned that the USSR Supreme Soviet (Parliament) hes complied with Philby’s request." Philby, 51, was a leading figure in British journalism in the Middle East for years. He had a wide circle of acquaint- ances among British and Amer- NOT RFCORDED 191 AUG 2 1963 Tre Wesh lrgton Post ane ___ ——— Times Herald The Washington Daily Neb a ‘The Evening Stor — HVA, New York Herald Tribune —_— New York Journal-American . New York Mirror New York Daily News New York Post - The Worker The New Leader The Wall Street Journal —___ The National Observer Date ate , JUL Su 186° bb 80f2-A a wee. ao, PIS ge wins we ae er Rae a eS