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nterview “oN C Vo: , MOSCOW, Dec. 18 (Reuty: —Following, in unofficial trey lation, is the text of an artis in Izvestia based oj i view with Herold a rebhiien a Briton who for Moscos and now is a Soviet ‘ci a . A frosty December morn-t ing. The ‘night's gloom hr-> not yet Jett the snow-covere rect e trees Boulevard are vered Wak : Fuzzy hoartrost, At the troi- fey stop stands a chain of , le, wiping their cheel and stamping their feet, Peon ple are hurrying. A new day, with its cares and concerns, Xs beginning. Automobiles are urrying i A no longer voung but stitl young strong 1jan of mitde, elght walks ; Unhurriedly * along the sidewatk, breathing He is wearing a warm sk De skin-lined coat ang 2 fur hat. The man is Obvidbslpetie: lighted by the mornin ge and the frost and the hing stream of pedestrians. Oc- castonally people bunip into him, “Excuse me,” they hast- ily say to him. “Don’t! men- tion it,” he answers pleas. speaking with a slight ees at the peonk aces at the people, t trolleybus stop ‘and, with cheerful good-nature ful gazes, after a fashionable young girl in a minicoat, who is being borne along to the saving warmth of a subway’ station. He looks with inter- est at boys with schoolbags’ on their shoulders throwing snowballs at each other on 2s boulevard. He always » this man wit and open face. th = good Who is he, what Is he smil- ing at, what unusual things has he found on the boule- vard, in the coated trees, on this ordinary Moscow morn- “tng? The young boys on the houles arg, the passes-hy, on GSTAR? 7 OY covered with a F ’ assistant, Frank Lindsay. the sidewalk—who of them could imagine the surprising life story of the man who smiled at them this: morning?- He has been called a mystery man—his life a riddle. Long years, whole decades, 30 Jong years of eter: ‘iddles. A life as complex as a labyrinth. A Meeting at the C.LA. In the spring of 1951, an Important meeting was called in the office of one of the leaders of the Central Intelli- gence Agency, the sanctum sanctorum of the American secret service. In addition to Allen Dulles, around the long table sat Frank Wisner, the head of the service for super- secret subversive political op- erations. His post was a secret even to trusted work- ers, he was listed as an as- sistant to the director of the department for policy coordi- nation. Alongside him was his The participants in. the - meeting were waiting for an important guest. Kim Philby, , the head of a special liaison * mission between the British secret service and the C.LA. in Washington, was supposed to take part in working out an operation of extreme im- portance. The CLA. had pinned high hopes on. ‘the British guest, a prominent member of the British secret service who was considered an outstanding expert on op- erations against the Soviet Union and other Socialist countries. Philby had stood at the cradie of the C.LA.—the American espionage system was created under the guid- ance of the highly experi enced Bri secret ser The Englishman was as precise as ever. He arrived on the minute. Very elegant, thoughtful, he was the model of a British gendeman, A slight stammer did not spoil his speech, and lenends of <4 ~~. "NO? RECORD! 5 an 9 1968 ago C of Izves.... Based ” With' Philby, O'Spied. the power of his charm cir- culated in both the C.LA. and the British secret serv- ice. After cordially greeting those assembled, he took his seat at the table. The C.LA. had been ordered to wor! it an operation on organi: a counterrevolu- tionary uprising in one of the Dalkan Socialist countries. The first siage in this action ‘was supposed to be the dropping of a group of sev- eral hundred saboteurs on the territory of this country. Almost all of them were emigrés fi the , The*kroup ‘was soppo sstit mp trouble in. variou; places, Which, when merged together, would lead to an explosion and the toppling of the existing system. A big stake had been placed on the operation. Ac- cording to the thinking of its originators. It was, in the first place, a “test stone’ and, in the second, was sup- posed to become the siart- ing point for broad countre- revolutionary actions against all the Socialist countries. ‘The teams of saboteurs were waiting for the signal for the drop. Lindsay, Wisner’s as- sistant, had been designated the immediate executor of the operation. Philby approved the plan; certain details seemed to have been inadequately worked eut and he made a number ot cosrections, The partici ants in the meeting caught Kis: every word; Philby’s opinion was worth @ good deal, Dulles, puffing on his pipe, listened to the English guest with emph. ie spect. He had vast informa- tion about him. He knew that Philby had gathered experi- long before as the Ispanish. Civil Was, | that lFranco had personally pinned CM OYS — vence 28 Callahan Conrad Felt —— Gale —_-__«_ Rosen Jor Sinan POA Tavel Trotter Tele. 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