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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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VOW! ——— Mohr Bishop Casper Catlahan Conrad Felt ———am __- Gale Rosen Sullivan Tovel “Philby talks of other double agents From KYRIL TIDMARSH 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 3PARCTBVRTE, TOBAPHI OHNE Sey een nen ee rere 8m I itarenisnapcerstl ett reese smo rim, me tian anne, ree Rene Sy a sda ee oor em 8 ewer prs atontes os emo wre np a RM ey te ‘apenas OO yi ac eh aaraage gny ors * 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 DELETED COPY SENTA( raw REBA yor cuIPPS nete0 2A The New Leader The Wail Street Journal —_____ entirely clear what he was hit at when he added that “n pages of the book have a di 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: \ The National Observer afis\a> QM Lbs Lb af Date 4. L anclon ) 3 People’s Worta LEAT GS Th e 71 mes page ant
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