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\ By HENRY RAYMONT ” The forthcoming memoirs of| BaP ee a viel | 3 gence officer jn - Istanbul, ‘who was jf to defect to} :the West ttied ‘to alert the Brit-| igh Government in 1945 to the ‘existence of three Soviet under- cover agents in jts intelligence service. * But Mr. Philby writes that he was instrumental in’ preventing more specific information from reaching London. The agents were Donald Maclean, Guy; Burgess and Mr. Philby himself, —all high British secret service} officials, Mr. Maclean and Mr. Burgess defected to the Soviet! Union in 1951, and Mr. Philby} defected in' 1963. Tn an 85-000-word manuscript he ‘completed Jast' summer in| Moscow, Mr. Philby writes that, the Soviet official’s ‘defection| was” foiled, presumably after, Mr. Philby notified the Soviet] jAuthorities.’ © hes Mr, Philby‘contends that he| and his two associates were not detected mainly use of the| British Government's reluctance! to investigate anyone with their upper-class and university |background. First Part Published The first installment of Mr, Philby’s account of his 30 years| as a double agent is being pub- fished for the first time in the West in the current issue of| Evergreen Review, a monthly] magazine of literature and poli- tics published in New York. A) second installment is to appear! in the magazine's May issue| and the memoirs will be pub- lished by Wave Press |, next} month as a book, titled Sifent War,” > . Philby traces his/ the British {ntelligence; ‘rom 1940 until he be-| of the| British Embassy in Washington| in 1949, in charge of liaison| with the United States Govern-} ment in security matters. The main themes are laxity’ and rivalries{in the British and American intelligence agencies, the failure of alleged plans to foment .anti-Communist _senti-} ment. in Eastern Europe and the cold, convoluted_t) inking reguired ia the . improbable! worl Espionage, PR1O109 >, REG r. Philby, believed to be the mavermipottant Sovibeegeat ta have penetrated Western intel- ligence, has lived in Moscow} since he fled to the Soviet Un- ion from Beirut, Lebanon, where! Ihe was Middle Eastern corre- spondent of The Observer of! London. Last December, he was| acclaimed a hero of the K.G.B.,| the Soviet intelligence service, in connection with the 50th an- niversary of the Bolshevik Rev-| olution, ‘ Two-Fold Purpose Seen ! The sudden .attention given Mr. Philby and Moscow’s au- thorization of the publication of his memoirs in the West were viewed by experts in Soviet policies as serving a two-fold purpose to discredit Western’ intelligence organizations and to improve the image of the Soviet Union’s security serv- ices for its citizens. The manuscript is written as! “a personal record” of what Mr. Philby calls “the hazards of the long journey from Cam- bridge to Moscow.” Mr. Philby] rasserts that he became a Soviet! fagent in 1933 out of Commu- nist conviction gained at Cam- bridge and that he was recruited into the British secret service by Mr. Busgess in 1940. But he offers no details bone test met Wir Burgess anid Mz Mac- lean al university, nor does he identify any*of his. Soviet, contacts. . ~ “During my period of service there was no single case of a consciously conceived operation: -against Soviet intelligence bear-| ‘ing Trurthe writes.oa- a9 a ae 2 S| Callahan Detection in 1945 ponred v DELETED copy senr BY LETTER gf, 215. - “Jel-oacn Mohr __;2 Bishop + Casper —____ Gale Rosen Sullivan —— Tavel Trotter —_____ Tele. Room Holmes Gandy PERS 3A or yey ‘The Washington Post Times Herald 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 Sun (Baitimorey The Worker ‘The New Leader —_—— The Wall Street Journal — The National Observer People’s World Date SAR 1 8 196 WAetes 65 oe. + She — NOT PreARNED 191 APR § 1568 ape re