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Philby bared [Red Red Spy- (Warned Burgess Ne Méclean (\\ LONDON. July 1 (AP) —A government minister disclosed , day Jeymer British Diplomat {Harol&Philby was the third min in the notorius Maclean- | Burgess case, had spied for the f Russians while in the Foreign’ Office, and now ts believed to’ 1 be behind -the Iron Curtain. Edward Heath, deputy for-! eign minister, told the House of Commons Philby warned Don- ald Maclean and Guy Burgess, - two other Foreign Office men, \that British security services } Were about to arrest them. As a tresult the two fled to Russia in June, 1951. Philby quit the Foreign Sery- ice in 1951, turned newspaper- man and vanished from his post in Beirut, Lebanon, as correspondent for the London Observer Jast March. Worked for Reds } —— 1 Mr, Heath said Philby had {admitted to British security of- fictals he had worked for the iRussians before 1946—while he jas in the Foreign Office. 1 Philby also’ had admitted warning Maclean, through Bur- -gess, that the security au- ithorities were about to act. ‘Mr, Heath said thut Philby was the third man in the Maclean jand Burgess mystery that !shook the nation when tt was [reveaied. Both Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, when he was foreign minister, and ‘ormer /Prime Minister ‘Sir Anthony iEden, now the Earl of Avon, had told the House in 1995 there was no reason to suspect; ;Philby had been the tipo?f man in the Burgess and Maclean icase. Mr, Heath recalled Lord Avon had reported no evidence had been found to show Philby |warned Macleag and Burgess. Wite Recelyes Message Mr. ‘Heath said messages rPurporting to come from Phil- by had been received by his wife from behind the Iron Cur- jtain. He did not name the jeount © nent began try- __'nilby after his pearance. “I can now tell the Houre that more recently Mrs. Philby! nas received messages purport-' ing to come from Mr, Philby! trom behind the Iron Curta! he said. “On the other hand the Soviet newspaper Izvestia :Feported on June 3 that Mr. ‘Philby was with the Imam of the Yemen. Imam Fighting for Throne “There is no confirmation of | this story. Although there is, as yet, no certainty concerning Mr. Philby's whereabouts there! Phas been @ development which; may throw light on the ques- tion.” The Imam or King of Yemen was overthrown last fall and now is fichting to try to re-| gain his throne, Mr, Heath related it was dis- covered—evidently during the probe following the defection of Maclean and Burgess—that Philby had Communist asso- ciations. In 1951, Mr. Heath continued, there waz no evidence to show that Philby either had werned Burgess and Maclean they were under suspicion or that he had betrayed Eritish interests. Admission on Warning j, Since then inquiries have been golng on uninterruptedly, Heath said. He added: “They (the security services) are now aware, apparently as & result of an admission by Mr. Philby himself, that he worked for the Soviet authorities be- before 1946 and that in 1951 he, in fact, warned Maclean, Unrough Burgess, that the se- curity services were about to take action against him. “This information, coupled with the latest message re~ ctived by Mrs. Philby, suggests) that he left Beirut he may have [gone to one of the qfuntries jof the Soviet bloc.” Mr. Heath recalled that Lord Avon told Parliament in 1955. that Philby had Communist associations, Lord Avon then said Philby( had been asked to quit the’ Forelgs—Gervite and did. HAROLD PHILBY APT WTeD fe b Kein Casper Callahan — Conrad Evans Trotter —____ Tele Room ____ Holmes Gandy The Washington Post and —__ Times Herald The Washington Dally News .. The Evening Star ‘ New York Herald Tribune New York Journal-American New York Mirror New York Datly News New York Post The New York Times The Worker — The New Leader The Wall Street Journal —____ The National Observer Date 3 = JUL 7 1965 NOT RECORDED 191 Jut 8 1963 .