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7 5 By AJVIN SHUSTER ‘Byeclal Wi The New York Times 7 LONDOM) Wednesday, Nov. ‘15—Harol€ Philby said in an| interview published here today! that he had no regrets over his 30-year career of spying for the} Soviet Union and would do it all over “if T were young again In Britain today." °° ‘Philby,’ a ranking British in- telligence agent who defected to the Soviet Union, in 1963,} said that he led his life as aj double agent because he want- e¢ to “fight for Communis” id was “prepared to subjugdte! erything in pursuit of t se” Qt “I would do It again tomor- Tow,” he said. 9 * "Mentality of a Traitor’ He was interviewed by Roy Blackman, Daily Express re- porter in Moscow, in-a restau- rant there. - Officials of the newspaper here said that they; had not paid for the interview, and that it had resulted from “hounding” Philby. ‘ The Sunday’ Times, which published a series of articles! on the career of Philby in re- cent weeks, indicated in one of| its pieces that Philby had asked for money. for his personal story, In an editorial note, The Ex- Press saiq hat interview! cquid aad iets pea pai . whtouf, the approval vot Sqviet authorities, “whose mi tives for discrediting the Brit ish and. Western intelligence, {services are obvious.” But it! said that it was publishing the: interview because it provided! jan insight “into the mentality: of a traitor.” i Philby. had remained inac- cessible to Western correspond-' ents. in Moscow since he ar-! rived fromp Beirut, Lebanon,, four years 3ago. He was s¢eni Sunday night at the concert of: the Moscow State Philharmon-! ic, but said only that he had, itm we inothing to say. "| The Daily Express, which in-? cluded pictures of Philby and Ww | ‘and gi , It A ¥ 4 i tween “drams of vodka; and glasigs of white Georgian] / hs “I cannot " pnversion! appened at an; Point o} time,” Philby ie quoted AS say-| tng, “but I do know that after two years of painful thought J) had made up my mind in June, Calls Job Easy He said that Jt had not been ‘difficult to reach a high posi- tion in British intelligence, “I just arranged things so that J] was invited,” he added. Philby, regarded as the most} important Soviet agent to pene. [trate the Western intelligence! community, at one point head. led the British anti-Soviet intel- ligence operation. In the late! nineteen-forties he was sent to ‘Washington to work with the Central Intelligence Agency, hich was then getting organ- re He left the British intelli. gence service in 1955 and con- tinued his spying as a journalist until his defection. Philby said in the interview that, since his arrival in Mos- cow, “I have been treated with igh honor and great congidera- m” and that “I cannot really! gard my life as being pune of| idship. On British intelligencd Phil- dy said that the British Goy-| ‘ernment had great difficulties) in finding the right men to run’ their intelligence services. Mili- tary me “have never really shone” in this field, he said. Discusses Motives “I am surprised that the Americans were not better led,”| ‘he added. i In discussing his motivation for turning Communist, Philby recounted his feelings in the ‘thirties. n y | hinking was the economic] crisis an@ massive ‘unemploy-| it throughout the capitalist! Id and the ‘appareng help- Jessness of existing for} deg! with it. What a di ture it was." 1% ti -4 Asked by Mr. Blackman what) h missed of English Sife, Philby} said that he missed beer andi at the soccer matches and some| friends. But he added that there were some things he did not mind} being without, listing “the ex- jpense-account lunch, British railways, the Beaverbrook press, ‘all the humbug about police, tbank holiday, The English Channel, the rising cost of liv- Outeral she British ing, the Empire.” c g ne DELETED COPY SENT AC Bunt’ Wail Street Journat 7 1 c a oysters, an occasional afternoon! oY LETTER a}estu . PER FAA 2 tig OE fyine: eee ate — Bishop ” "Casper —____ Callahan Conrad Felt Gale Rosen Sullivan —____ Tavel Trotter Tele, Room Holmes 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 Y2/ The Sun (Baltimore) The Worker hie New Leader The National Observer People’s World Date 4245-67 Lio? ea ECORDED a St NOT RECORDED 47 0V 21 196;