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Ped yee eee f . ( The Spy Trade BY LLOYD SHEARER, Sak al __ Philby helped plan the operation, then pranmpte ip ped off the Conimttniits who, he says, captured 150 of our men as soon as they landed. Philby also claims that he handed over to the CIA, control of NTS (Union of Russian Solidarists), a Russian emigre movement whose members smuggle anti- Communist propaganda into the Sovict Union. Philby first began to work for the Soviets in 1934 when he was graduated from Cambridge. But it was not until July 1962, when a Russian agent named Anatoli Dotnytsin defected to the CIA, that we finally learned the truth about him. The CIA notified the British, but they moved too slowly, and Philby es- caped to Moscow where his co-conspira- tor, Burgess, died, and left him $5600. Philby, four times marricd—his latest is Chicago-born Melinda MacLean, whom he stole from her ex-husband Donald MacLean in Moscow last year—is pre- pared to withdraw his manuscript from imminent publication. He is willing to save British and U.S. intelligence serv- ices further embarrassment if only the British will release two Soviet spies, Mr. Mrs. Peter Kroger who_are really m7 arold _ "Kim" Sune 56, “qiastér double agent who { spied for the Soviets while he worked as an intelligence chicf for the British, has penned in Moscow, between his seduc- tions and ‘benders, an untitled, 80,000- word manuscript of memoirs. | | If published, these espionage revela- tions might well prove damaging to the BI and the CIA, because Philby worked closely with both organizations for years. In 1949 he was temporary first secretary at the British Embassy in Washington, assigned the vital job of security liaison with the Americans. Consistently he duped the best mirds in our intelli- gence agencies. He helped Guy Burgess, an old Cam- bridge classmate and a raging homo sexual who worked as a second secretary in the British Embassy and who lived with him, pass top secret information to the Reds, He also joined with another Cambridge chum and bisexual, Donald MacLean,head of the American Depart- ment of the British Foreign Office, in, tipping off the Soavicts about Anglo- American counter-espionage plans, rn Philby was not only “The Third Man” Morris and Lona Cohen of the Bronx, who warned Burgess and MacLean that New York the jig was up and that they had best escape to Moscow, but in his trusted post at the embassy, he caused untold harm to our agents. He admits, for example, that he was responsible for one of America’s worst defeats in the cold war against Russia. In 1951, he claims, he sabotaged the CIA plan to start a revolt in Albania, which Allen Dulles hoped would start a chain reaction of rebellions in other*Commmd- countries! SP ays Dulles called as “an expert on operations against the, *- Soviet Union,” explained that he p], to drop several hundred gueryil ; Albania... “to stir up trouble } ous places whicl ei pt 4 led to an ig rama Sociaiisr’ - eden” The Cohens, alias Helen and Peter Kroger, are top-echelon Russian agents now imprisoned in England. They were involved in the atomic bomb spy case , With Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, and they were important cogs in the spy apparatus run by Rudolph Abel, the bril- liant Russian agent who operated out of New York. The U.S. exchanged Colonel Abel for U-2 pilot Gary Powers in 1962. In 1950, however, when the FBI be- gan solving the atom spy case and mov- ing in on the Rosenbergs, Abel ordered the Cohens to flee the country. They settled in Vienna and from there wrote the New Zealand Embassy in Paris for pret laiming that they were Peter s Kroger, citizens dt NewZea- LeLoach ¥ —_ Mohr ee Bishop / (co Casper Callahan Conrad Felt Gale Rosen Sullivan Tavd} Trotter Tele. Room Holmes Gandy ——____ & 2p Y red me th REQUEST PER FAS The Washington Post Times Herald a ‘The Washington Daily News —..— The Evening Stat (Washington) —_ The Sunday Star (Washington) ——— Daily News (New York) Sunday News (New York) ———_ New York Post ‘The New York Times The Sun (Baltimore) The Worker —__————___________ The New Leader ——WH~ The Wall Street Journal The National Observer ——_____ People’s World 4999-8 466} Date 167 FEB 1 1969 . nw