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Scandal Over 1951 Spy Case LONDON, July 2 (UPD —| Prime Minister Harold Mac- millan. faced a new scandal today over the revelation that! a former British diplomat was| the “Third Man" in the 1951 Burgess-MacLean defection to| Russia, Lord ¥rivy Seal Edward) Heath announced in Parlia- ment-yesterday that H- A. R, iby, a former British diplomat and newsman missing] from Beirut, Lebanon, aince! January, had tipped off ac-| cused Soviet spies Guy Bur- gess and Donald MacLean on May 25, 1951, that British security officials were onto them. Burgess and MacLean, ‘for- mer Foreign Office officials, both fled to Russia the same day. Lord Heath sald Philby, §1, ‘may have gone beyond the Iron ) Curtain. He said Philby, a for- > mer first secretary of the Brit- Yish Embassy in Washington, “was a former Communist and had been « Soviet agent before [1946 while working in the for- ielgn {tice ihe vevelation nh Come a NeW blow “o-tir—"Macm fire —wivose ( government has been rocked by j the sex-and-security scandal involving resigned War Min- | \ister John Profumo and call +|girl Christine Keeler. Mr. Macmillan, then Foreign Minister, defended Philby in 1955 against opposition accusa- tions that he was the tipoff man in. the Burgess-MacLean cast. . . SPEAKS TO COMMONS ‘The Prime Minister planned a major foreign policy speech to the House of Commons to- mosrow following his weekend meeting with’ President Ken- nedy. The egeech was inter- preted -as partly designed to -j{boost his wavering political prestige in the wake of the ‘Profumo scandal. U Wardr-ske-titroduget Bratimo| to Christine, resumes tomor-' row. PAPERS ASK “WHY?” ‘The trial of Soviet spy John Vassall already had produced quesiions about the efficiency of British security services. London newapapers today asked why It took 32 years to discover Philby’s role in the Burgess- M ffate he was permitted to etcaye, j Philby, who had Qeen work- ing in Belrut“as a corraspond- ent for the British newspapers Sunday Observer and Econo- ‘mist, left his Betrut apartment, Jan, 23 to attend « party. He! ever arrived. His American wife reported his missing, but later ssked police to call off the search when she received s telegram from _Catro signed | ie Heath wait yereey af Atce_Bhily Tp in Bee and, has “since Tecelved” » letter indicating her husband is in a Soviet-bloc country. In Moscow, Burgess denied Philby was the “third men” in re ase. He said he had nog Tom he ¥ and had ng le JE WAS. pe \ ‘The pre-trial vice hearing x Beg es socket ore ‘e Opa ttr—Sieph JUL? Aap O De NOT RECORDED 191 yuL 9 1963 eee I fMohr . Casper Caliahan ge rad (fides | Evans Gale Rosen Sullivan a Tavel Trotter Tele Room Holmes Gandy VY ‘The Washington Post and Times Herald The Washington Daily News The Evening Star New York Herald Tribune —____ New York Journal-American New York Mirror New York Daily News New York Post ‘The New York Times ‘The Worker The New Leader ‘The Wall Street Journa! —__ Y » Pie National Obsery uy Date “JUL 2196 a c