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on x cee _ preak of World War Il. He is reputed to have been en- gaged on intelligence work; sconnected with counterespio- age for the Foreign Office jjfrom 1939. But this has never ‘een confirmed. His wartime exploits—what- ever they were—earned him the Order of the British Em- pire, a decoration for services to Britain. But, Heath said, British Se- curity Services now know he was working for the Russians before 1946 — when he offi- cially joined the Foreign | Office. Philby’s rapid rise in the ‘Foreign Service was believed due to his real job—an intel- ligence agent working for MI 6 — Britain's counterintelli- gence’ agency. In 1949 he was sent to Wash- ington. Within a month, Guy Burgess, whom Philby had known before the war, joined the Embassy as second secre- tary. At that time Burgess, and his friend Maclean, who was working in the British Em- bassy in Cairo, were passing secrets to the Russians. Mac- lean had left the Washington Embassy shortly before Philby arrived. _ Warns Spies Two years later, in 1951, Philby “warned Maclean through Burgess that counter- intelligence agents were on his , trail and about to pounce, said , Heath. Burgess and Maclean j left Britain secretly. They re- 4 vealed their presence in Mos- ! eow in November, 1956. :__A month after Burgess and Maclean skipped the country, Philby Was recalled to Lon- “4 é United Press International HAROLD PHILBY + + behind Iron Curtain? ' don by the Foreign Office. He resigned three months later, The revelations by Heath, after 12 years of counter in- telligence work on the case, were yet another security set-? back for Prime Minister Macmillan, Macmillan was in charge of the Foreign Office at the time Burgess and Maclean disappeared. In 1955, during a debate in which a Laborite legislator accused Philby of being the “third man” who tipped them off, Macmillan declared: ’ acmillan Defense “No evidence has been found to ‘show that he was responsible for warning Bur- gess or Maclean. While in, government service he} carried out his duties ably and conscientiously. I have Sino reason to conciude that ‘Mr. Philby has at any time; betrayed the interest of this, country or ‘to identify him! with the so-called ‘third man’ if, indeed, there was one.” Since then there has been a series of espionage cases which have shocked the coun- try and rocked Macmillan’s grip on the government. In 1961 counter intelligence agents broke up a Soviet spy ring of two Americans, two, Britons and a Soviet master spy, which filched secrets from the naval underwater! experiments base at Portland.|: Last December, Barbara Fell, a government informa-|; tion worker was jailed for two years for passing confi- dential Foreign Service docu- ments to a Yugoslav press attache. At present, Guiseppe Mar-| tilli, a 40-year-old Italian atomic expert, is awaiting trial for alleged offenses un- der Britain's official secrets act. In 1962 John Vassall, an ac-| cused homosexual empioyed at the Admiralty, was jailed for 18 years as a Russian spy. Two months ago Macmillan announced he has decided to establish a permanent secur- ity commission to improve {Britain's spy catching ability; Meanwhile, Tuesday in Washington the U.S. Govern, ment ordered an attache at; the Soviet embassy expelled] on grounds he tried to-recruit} a Government employe a spy. ‘