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Cambridge Five Spy Ring — Part 29
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Moscow, Dec. 18
Comrade _ Kim Philby, as
cvestia deséttbed “him tiem,
laimed in an interview with the
oviet Government newspaper that
ie knows of a growing number of
vople in the western intelligence
ervices who have “ devoted them-
elves to the cause of international
olidarity of workers "in the same
ay as he has.
Introducing him to the Soviet
cople, Jzvestia confirmed that Mr.
*hilby had been responsible for
forming “the Centre”, as he
Mled his Moscow security service
sntrolfer, about an Anglo-Ameri-
sQ attempt to overthrow com-
vunism in Albania by means of
terrilla-fomented uprisings. The
scapade was a disaster, believed
» have cost 150 fives, because, as
“vestia put it, there was a staff
ember of Soviet intelligence in
1¢ person of Mr. Philby facing
tr, Alan Dulles, the Central
velligence Agency director dur-
wg the meeting where it was
tanned.
Mr. Philby's autobiography, out-
ned to his Russian interviewer,
lows closely the life history
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* Hello, Comrade Philby ”, says the beadline under which an Izvestia interview appeared.
assembled by the western press.
He said that while at Cambridge
during the depression be made
trips to Germany and Austria for
summer holidays, and these proved
to be decisive in his career,
When Austria was flooded with
the blood of workers, he said, “I
understood on what side of the
barricade my place was. I felt
ceaselessly that my ideals and con-
victions, my sympathies and will,
were on the side of those struggling
for a better future for mankind.
The heroic Russian people, build-
ing a new world, were the personi-
fication of these ideas.”
After searching “ agonisingly ”
for ways of being useful to com-
munism, “ the great movement of
our time”, Mc. Philby said he
found the” way by joining the
Soviet intelligence service. “I
thought at that time, and still
think, that in this work I served
my own British people.”
Asked if he were happy, Mr.
Philby answered: “The greater
pact of my life is behind me and,
looking back over the years, I be-
lieved I have not lived them in
|. vain. Yes, J am happy.
“T want to repeat for myself the
words of Felix Dzerzhinsky, that
knight of the revolution and great
humanist: ‘If I could live my life
again J would begin it the way I
did.'" = [Dzerzhinsky was the
founder of the Cheka, the Soviet
security service, today known as
the K.G.B.]
Mr. Philby said that he had just
completed his memoirs, “ Within
the framework of what is possible
and reasonable”, he said, he had
cast light on certain moments of
his life from the point of view of
an intelligence officer. It is not
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relevance to certain circles i
number of western countries
His meaning is probably
they will discredit western secu
organizations, or sow discord
tween them. This appears tc
his purpose in sa of his W
ington job as liaison officer
tween the British security ser
and the C.LA. that “I was fa
with the very delicate task of
fending the British security ser
from the C.LA., which was ¢
stantly displaying the clear in‘
tion of swallowing up its ally’
{n the course of his narrat
Mr. Philby states that
Graham Greene, the novelist, ¢
Jan Fleming, the creator of Jai
Bond, had worked for British
telligence in the post-war peri:
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