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Cambridge Five Spy Ring — Part 29
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‘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
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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. ~~~"
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