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Cambridge Five Spy Ring — Part 29

69 pages · May 23, 2026 · Broad topic: Intelligence Operations · Topic: Cambridge Five Spy Ring · 69 pages OCR'd
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0-19 {Hev. 7-47-67) -_ DeLoach Mohr Bishop Casper Callahan Conrad Felt Gale Rosen Sullivan Tavel RI ae Trotter Tele. Room Holmes Gandy ‘Philby Tells of His Spy Role -He&éin Book Released Today While Yerving Sovietgin Washington he served as/his imminent arrest and to spy, Harold (Kim) Philby sat{British Intelligence liaison of-'take charge of Maclean's “res- 01 cy Committeebficer with both the CIA and|cue,” Philby writes. in Washington which plannedjthe FBI. Ingenious and Simple . land executed joint British-| He identifies his chief con-/ The scheme was ingenious American clandestine ‘{ntell-;tacts in the CIA as James An-land simple, although it. re- gence missions in Albania and|gleton and William J. Howard./quired the unwitting coopera- the Ukraine.‘ Of Angleton, he says, “We/tion of Virginia Gov. John S. + Philby represented British/formed the habit of lunching/Battle, British Ambassador Sir” Intelligence on the Commit-lonce a week at Harvey's . . .|Oliver Franks and Secretary tee. The other members he/te was one of the thinnest|of State Dean’ Acheson. Bur--. identifies as Robert Joyce,| en 1 have ever met, and one \8°ss Was simply told to go out representing the State Depart-, ' and get arrested three times ‘ment; Frank Lindsay of the oe the biggest eaters, Lucky/in one day for drunk and reck-, Central Intelligence Agency, less driving in Virginia, Philby and Earl Jellicoe, from thela Gentle Snore says. Associated Press HAROLD PHILBY * a ey writes of spyrole British Embassy. Joyce is now Burgess did. Battle obliged retired and lives in Greece. Philby reveals this in his memoirs “My Silent War,” re- leased today by Grove Press in New York. The clandestine operation in took place in 1949, and involved the landing “of a small party” in Albania “to detach it... from He de- scribes the operation as “futile Albania, he contends, the socialist bloc.” from the beginning.” — CIA Is Silent He describes meeting Angle- ton “for a pleasant hour in a bar,” just after he had been ordered home to London as a suspected spy, The CIA offi- cial “did not seem to appreci- ate the gravity of my personal position,” Philby says. Philby describes Howard as falling asleep at dinner at his house one night and “snoring gently until midnight when his wife took him away.” He adds that Howard “cooperated well... in the construction of the State Department. s. tipped off British Maclean intelligence writes. The State Department obliged by|’£, protesting to the British Em- bassy, and Ambassador Franks obliged by sending Burgess back to London pronto, Philby ays. Once in London, Burgess that was aware of his spying for the iSoviets, and both shortly flew the coop to Moscow, Philby =" DELETED copy spur Ac. be jby protesting vehemently to 3Y LETTER afir fo. RFI REIS The Washington Post . ! >a Times Herald Ac! ‘The Washington Daily News The Evening Star (Washington) The Sunday Star (Washington) Daily News (New York) Sunday News (New York) New York Post The New York Times The operations in the}ine famous Berlin tunnel.” wd Ukraine took place from 1949 Philby says he once asked to' 1951, Philby writes, and in- ., , i BI director J. Edgar Hoover volved six British parachute What he “really thought” of drops and “some” CIA cour enate Joseph R. McCarthy, ie quotes Hoover as replying: “Well, I often meet Joe at the race track, but he has never The Sun (Baltimore) The Worker —. The New Leader The Wall Street Journal The National Observer iers, t “I do'not know what hap' pened to the parties con- teerned,” Philby writes, “but I can make an Informed guess.” The CIA yesterday had no comment. - “My Silent War" will be must” reading in both the IA and the Federal Bureau f Investigation, not only for its description of clandestine operations but also for its inti- mate personal descriptioi the men hee; agencies. — AR 20898 given me a winner yet.” in 1951—ostensibly for a’ ing his diplomatic status—' all part of a Communis spiracy. The Communists back in Lon a Philby says that the expul- sion of British diplomat-spy Guy Burgess from Washington don to warn fellow diplo. ~~~" Donald Maclean ‘ot RECORDED ~ 167" war 19 1968 needed = a, y People’s World Date
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