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we ™= ‘Philby Says 7 He's Happy ver Red Spy Charg : x (OSCOW (UPI1)—The Stam- mering Kremlin spy accused of Penetrating American and Brit- Jsh es piona ge headquarters smiled today and said he really wouldn’t mind doing it all over again, Harold Philby, the upperclass Englishman said to have served Moscow while heading Britain's anti-Soviet spy network, emerged for the first time from Soviet espionage shadows and talked with Western newsmen in a Moscow hotel, Philby seemed pleased with himself. Faced with British charges that he stole enough secrets to earn the title as the tventioth century's greatest spy, Philb: waggled a finger only once with a correction, He said it most certainly was not true that he began spying in 1943, as reported in London. It was in 1933, he said happily. And why? Philby, stammering stilt at times, said he became a Com. munist agent during the great depression. ‘The dilemma of the working class people was fright- ful,” he said. “That’s why I did it—I would do it again tomorrow,” he said. Any regrets? “I do miss the casual access, fo my children, although in fact: T think I see as much of them as J would have had I remained a foreign correspondent (one of his spy “cover” jobs),” Philby said, Record in Top Spots He waid he was “never hap-! pier, certainly never healthier than daring the last four years in Moscow since he skipped! away from Beirut. Behind him, according to Brit- ish official and press reports, y: Spying for the Soviet Union| while serving as wartime British spy chief for Spain, Portugal ind Africa. Spying for the Soviet Union while serving“as organizer and: chie®of—Britain’s anti-Soviet es- et Ob ne Eg Mee sneer cce tt ° HAROLD PHILB jonage network at the end of ‘orld War I. Spying for the Soviet Union while a Jiaison man in Washing- ton for Britain’s M. I. 6 espio- Mage organization, London’s equivalent of Washington's CIA. Being asked for and advising U. S. security officials in those years on organizing the CIA. Being the “third man” who tipped off British diplomats Guy Burgess and Donald Maciean in time for the pair to make their famed 1951 flight to Moscow, steps ahead of British counter- spies, That Was Undoing According to British reports, it was Philby’s known friendship with both Burgess and Maclean that Jed to his undoing, Eased out of sensitive fields, he re- turned to being a foreign corre- spondent, fleeing at last to Mos- cow in 1963. . Some things Philby refused to talk about. This included his re- ported marriage to Maclean's ex-wife, Melinda. She and Philby were spotted at a Moscow con- cert only jast week. He indicated he enjoys very much life in a comfortable apartment supplied by a grate-| fal Kremlin. He refused to show; to newsmen, - ce Ogre CEOLILA NOY RECORDED. 145 WOY 17 1957 Callahan —_____ Conrad Felt Gale Rosen Sullivan Tove Trotter Tele. Room Holmes Gandy DELETED COPY SENT 4 C Beew oY LETTER Dp s>}7- PER E34 REQUERT i¢ Washington Post Times Herald ‘The Washington Daily News The Evening Star (WashingtonP st The Sunday Star (Washington) CNL, Daily News (New York) Sunday News (New York) —_-____ New York Post The New York Times The Sun (Baltimore) —— The Worker The New Leader The Wall Street Journat The National Observer —____. People’s Worl) OTS ey