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{. | By HENRY RAYMONT The forthcoming memoirs of Detection in 1945| ook by Phill ways e:Foiled vo spy Harold A. R. (Kim) Pr ish Goveriment in 1945 to the: existence of three Soviet under- cover agents in its. Intelligence service, But Mr. Philby writes tha he| was instrumental in preventing more specific information from, reaching London. The agents were Donald Maclean, Guy’ Burgess and Mr. Philby himself ~—all high British secret service! officlals, Mr. Maclean and Mr. Burgess defected to the Soviet, Union in 1951, and Mr. Philby; defected in 1963. : In an 85-000-word manuscript lhe completed last ‘summer in| loscow, Mr. Philby writes that! he Soviet official's defection ‘was foiled, presumably after! ir. Philby notified the Soviet }@uthorities. {| Mr, Philby contends that he| and his two associates were not detected mainly because of the! British Government's reluctance ito investigate anyone with| their upper-class and ‘university background. : First Part Published ip ihe, first installment of ‘Mr. Philby’s account of his 30 years] as a double agent is being’ phb-| lished for tho first time in the West in the current issue of Evergreen Review, a monthly! magazine of literature and poli- tics published in New York. A) second installment is to appear| in the magazine’s May issue! {_ Mr. Philby, believed to be tl most important Soviet agent shayp penetrated Western inte! liggnce, has lived in Moscoy 'sinfe he fled to the Soviet U jon¥rom Beirut, Lebanon, where he was Middle Eastern corre- jspondent of The Observer of| jLondon. Last December, he was acclaimed @ hero of the K.G.B., the Soviet intelligence service, in connection with the 50th an-| jbiversary of the Bolshevik Rev- ‘olution. " ‘Two-Fold Purpose Seen The sudden attention given Mr. Philby and Moscow’s au- thorization of the publication his memoirs in the West we viewed by experts in Sovief!. policies as serving a two-fol Purpose to discredit Western} intelligence organizations and: to improve the image of the Soviet Union's security serv- lices for its citizens. 4 The manuscript is written as| “a personal record” of what Mr. Philby calls “the hazards. of the long journey from Cam- bridge to Moscow.” Mr. Philby! asserts that he became a Soviet! agent in 1933 out of Commu- nist conviction gained at Cam- bridge and that he was recruited into the British secret service} by Mr, Burgess in 1940. But he ol no details, how. he ,firet t Mr<'Butgess and Mr. Mac- ét the university, nor does hO identify any of his Soviet contacts. . “During my period of seryice there was no single case of a) consciously conceived operation Dereres cosy: BY LETTER alas DeLoach Mohr Bishop Casper Callahan Conrad Felt Gale Rosen _ Sullivan Tavel Trotter —___ Tele. Room Holmes Gandy “7 } lf i e PER FOIA ROQEST The Washington Post Times Herald —_____. The Washington Daily News ‘The Evening Star (Washington) —_ The Sunday Star (Washington) ___ Daily News (New York) Sunday News (New York) against Soviet intelligence bear- ing fruit," he writes. The tip to the British Gov-| ernment that could have led to} the exposure of his spy ring, he says, came from a Soviet \intelligence agent identified as Konstantin Volkov. Assigned to Case Mr. Philby says he prevented more specific information from reaching London by getting himself assigned to the case “because it nearly put an end to a promising career.” By ghe time he arrived in Istangul, ree weeks after Mr. Volkov . st made contact with fhe! ‘itish, inquiries at the Soviet, bassy were greeted with a ise “Volkov’s in Moscow.” _| land the memoirs will be pub-| lished by Wave Press next| month as @ book titled “My Silent War.” aa in the manuscript of the; bqok, a copyof which became| avpilable to The New York Times, Mr, Philby traces his! career in the British intelligence service, from 1940 until he be- came First Secretary of the British Embassy in Washington in 1949, in-charge of liaison; with the United States Govern- ment in of matters. The maig themes are laxity|/ — : 4 and tvaltife i the Best a G I 6 (043-4 American Intelligence agence 5 al te the failure of alleged plan} Ee AGED ment’ anti-Communist s] AD Oy ‘nent in Eastern Europe me Mr? 21 1968 ‘the cold, convoluted. thinl§ng| ig inthe ;improb: f . SMAR-2519 Sse New York Post _ The New York Times e i The Sun (Baltimore) ____ The Worker ————_ ‘The New Leader — ‘The Wall Street Journal The National Observer People’s Worl eo Date 3 a