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| | ! * conviction. ; Philby fled to asylum in So- a ——— A_ BOOK: FOR TODAY ~~ San a Spy Fae Sovied § op By JOSOPE G- O'KEEFE “MY SILERY” WARS By Kim “Philby. Grove Press. 262 pages. $5.95. In one of the final incidents of his career. in espionage in Washington, Kim Philby drove to Great Falls, slipped imo the woods and buried a cam- era, tripod and related acces- sorics. . All this, the British diplomat accomplisned in haste and se- crecy, since the threat of expo- sure appcared to be edging up on him. But in ensuing events, neither American nor British intelligence investigators could complete the chain of evidence that would assure his In the interval, viet Russia. Now Philby has begun his memoirs in “My Silen: War” to add to the poo: of books and newspaper articles ” written about _him_and his tye accom- plices in spying for the Soviet Union, Guy Burgess and Don- ald Maclean. To expect Phil- by's work to be the final defin- itive volume in the revelations of the diplomat-spies is to be overly-optimistic. Instead, “My Silent War” is rather narrow in scope. Introductory Sketch The author announces in a preface that the book is an introductory sketch of his ex- periences in intelligence work, and that move will follow. He apologizes for any embarrass- ment he may cause former colleagues in both the U.S, and Britain and adds: “Ihave tried therefore to confine the naming of names to former officers whom I knew to be dead or retired.” Rut apart from the i nt of the buried cance: aalby Offers alraost_ no details of his Operations- the Kussiins. Presumably fe wants to keep the channels open for current and future espionage. There is much information, however, on “American and British spying and ¢ ait ers spying against the ‘Germans in World War H. The author majtains that British agents commilfed more sabotage Fe | | grudging “word of atmtaoa against the Germans in this counizy in the early stages of the war than the entire Ger- -born colony in the states, Harold Advian Russell Phil- canre ty Washington in 1949 a8 top British Secret Service ollicer_ working in liaison with ihe CIA and the PBI. For years he had funneled seerct information te Russian agents, and with Burgess and Mac- lean, continued to do so, All three were weli-born Britons in sensitive positions with full access to strategic data. When exposure threatened, Philby was the mysterious “third man" who warned the others, Burgess and Maclean dodged dehind the Iron Curtain. Attacks US. Otticiats But it is difficult to accept at face value a so-called factual account by an author who built @ 30-year carcer on treason and deceit. Philby warily re- veals what he wants revealed and not a syllable more. & reader could well assume the author is simply paying off old grudges by the degree of vin- dictiveness with which he at- tacks American officials. Dwight D. Eisenhower is de- scribed as “The myst pedes- trian of United States presi- dents.” Philby says of Allen Dulics: “I had no fear of the bumbling Dulles; years later I was to be puzzled over Presi- dent Kennedy's mistake in taking him seriously over the Bay of Pigs.” {Of J. Edgar Hoover: “His methods and authovitari fjanism are the wrong weapons fer the subtle world of intelligence. ; But they have other uses. [They enable Hoover to collect and file away information about the personal lives of lions of his fellow couniry- men.” But to the Rosenbergs who‘ were executed for passing tomic secrets to Russia and vito “Judith Coplon who was sim- [“ ilarly accused but never con: victed, Philby apphes the word “brave,” One American to win a | ern e, irom, the_British spy is Gen. Walter Bedell Smith: “Hehad a cold and fishy eye and preci- sion tool brain. Bedelt Smith, I had an uneasy fecling, would be apt to think that two and two make four rather than five.” But Philby fails to find faule with the gullibility of Prime Minister Harold Macmillan who told the Parliament that no evidence existed that Phil- by had beirayed his country. ! Presumably, this whitewashed the espianage agent. Nevertheless, the author manages to inject a fictional note of suspense to his story | as he relates how he pitted his wit and audacity against Bfit- } isk intelligence agents 0 | tried earnestly to bring do this s slippery operator. ENT seu on s gr cay BY TER ay PER FOIA REO" M~OCCT Mohr ue - fiser et c aspet Callahan —___ Conrad Felt Gale Rosen Sullivan Tavel Trotter Tele. Room __ Holmes ‘ Gandy 4 { ’ A t.? The Washington Post ‘Times Herald ‘The Washington Daily News — ‘The Evening Star (Washington) 2 £ Daily News (New York) Sunday News (New York) ————_ New York Post The New York Times The Sun (Baltimore) The Worker ‘The New Leader The Wall Street Journal ‘The National Observer People’s vorta Nery Aows tL Peels é 7 eee SE Aaa RD 19) may 2 1968. oof 3 es