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(Mount Clipping tn Spoce Below) Igod had“a line on U.K. defector . TORONTO ~ (CP) — The Telegram says that 18 years before spy Kim Philby es- caped to” Moscow, Igor Gon- zenko told the RCMP there as a high-level spy inside ritish Intelligence, In a copyright story, the newspaper prints the text of a memorandum by former Rus- sian cypher clerk Gouzenko saying that British authorities could catch the spy by care- fully checking the movements of Soviet embassy personnel and by entrusting the investi- gation persons outside British intelligence, which he calls Ml- 5. The memorandum is dated May 6, 1952, seven years after Mr. Gouzenko defected to the West and'718 ~years before GOUZENKO Philby, head of the Russian department of Britain's secret intelligencé_service, was re- vealed as @ ii o———4)-5 ASKED It is addressed to then Supt. George McClellan of the REMP. The Telegram says it | was prepared at the request of British counter-intelligence, ‘ The memorandum says Mr | Gouzenko saw a telegra: describing a graveyard hidin, place for documents ftom a! man from MI-5. It also, describes information he re- Ceived late in 1944 or early in | 1945 which could mean “that Moscow had an inside track in the British Mi-5." “The mistake in dealing with this matter ... was that ' the task of finding the agent | was given to MI-5 itself. conclude this from the fact : that on two occasions repret | sentatives of Ml- talked with : me in Ottawa... ‘ } i “My humble suggestion is, | and 1 think it is aot too late ; | yet to entrust this job to some | | Beople_putside of MI-S Scot- | : ane ed i } i i a) DELETED coPY ey ad PHILBY land Yard, active army me: ete” . Gouzenko says: “I am sure that if, during the last six years, British authorities had established a 2¢hour, month- after-month check on the movements of menberg of the Soviet embassy, conumercial attache, military attache, ete, ~~ and a real check, not just token —~ they would have not just one, but dozens of agents now.” in their hands by Faia: SO Mr. Tolson.. Mr. Sullivan Mr. Mohr Mr. Rithop yy, Mr.Bren; , MI Mr. Casper. » Conyad au » Galo Rowen | Mr. Tavet (Indicate page, name of newspaper, city and state.) Ay by — Al THE GAZETTE, Montreal Quebec, Canada p.36 Date: 9/8/70 Edition: Author: Editor; tie: HAROLD ADRIAN RUSSELL PHILBY, ai (Bufile 65~68043) (Character: ESP - R or Classification: Submitting Office: OTTAWA (7) Being Investigated senT Ac i