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oA a Mac Faces New Scandal Over (951 Shy Case LONDON. July 2 CUPD.— Prime Minister Harold Mac- milan faced @ new scandal today over the revelation that} a former British diplomat was| the “Third Man" in the 1951 Burgess-MacLean defection to} Russia, Lard Pulvy Seal Edward Heath announced in Parlia- meptyyesterday that H: A. R.| Kim Philby, a former British dipfoinat and newsman missing from Beirut, Lebanon, since} January, had tipped off ac- cused Sovict spies Guy Bur- gess and Donald MacLean on! May 25, 1951, that British: security officials were on to! them. Burress and MacLean, for-| mer Foreign Office officials, both fled to Russia the same day, Lord Heath sald Philby, 51, may have gone beyond the Iron Curtain. He said Philby, a for- mer first secretary of the Brit- ish Embassy in Washington, was a former Communist and had been & Soviet agent before 1946 while working in the for-. eign office. ‘The reveration carhe asa few blow. to Mr. Macmillan, wndse government has been rocked by the sex-and-security scandal involving resigned War Min- ister John Profumo snd 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' case, SPEAKS TO COMMONS The Prime Minister planned a major foreign policy speech! to the House of Commons to-| morrow following his weckend H meeting with ¢President Ken- inedy. The speech was inter-| preted as paftly designed to’ _ {boost his wavering political’ prestige in the wake of the Profumo scandal, The pre-trial vige’ héaring: of; T society Osteopaths arepien, Ward, who introduced Profumo to Christine, resumes~ tomore: row. TAPERS ASK “WHYT" The trial of Sovict spy John Vassall already had produced! questions about the efficiency! jot British security services. {London Newspapers today asked ‘why it took 12 years to discover, Philby's role in the Burgess- MagLean affair and why he. was, permitted to escape. > Philby, | who had been wor ing in Beirut'ts a coirespond- ent for the British newspapers Sunday Observer and Econo- mist, left his Beirut apartment! Jari. 23 to attend a party. He never arrived. i His American wife reported! his missing, but later asked Police to call off the scarch when she reccived @ telegram irom Cairo signed in his name. | Lérd- neath said “yesterday that_Mrs. Philby now in Eng~ land, Nas” since received @ letter indicating her husband ds {n a Soviet-bloe country. In Moscow, Burgess denied Philby was the “third man” in ‘the case. He said he had not sheard from Philby and had ng idea" ‘wnere ne was. Paid ard ; 7 ( ~ i 2 7. 4le “3 . . Co. a i NOT RECORDED 191 JuL 5 1962 enka titan ore LS ee TOR _ at Pate emg te eZ ee tO es RO RTE en Mohr Casper —____ Callahan Conrad ——_ DeLoach Evans Gale Rosen ——_____ Sullivan Tavel Trotter Tele Room —___ Holmes ——W__ Gandy - ‘The Washington Post and ‘Times Herald The Washington Daily News The Evening Star New York Heraid Tribune Now York Journal-American <P New York Mirror New York Daily News New York Post The New York Times The Worker The New Leader The Wall Street Journal —____* ‘The National Observer — Date JUL 2 19ga