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ron + LONDON, “Aanan he‘was working as a correspondent of two British weeklies, The Observer and The Economist. Soon afterward, _.| Edward Heath, then the Government “| spokesman, announced in answer to a question in the House of Commons that Kim had skipped to the Soviet Union. He added that, contrary to . what his fellow spokesman Harold _) Macmillan had said in 1955, Kim was. + | indeed the i Maclean and Guy Burgess in 195], enabling them, too, to defect to Russia. w . _" © It was only about a year ago that: bits and: pieces of evidence began to!_ > :] add up. ‘The-clean escape of still, : another traitor, George Blake, from ‘ ‘Wormwood Scrubs Prison in London} . in 1966 had been a pointer. Eleanor| Philby, Kim’s last wife in the West.] was now. separated from him and ready to talk. It looked as if we! “Thad underrated his importance as a’ double agent. The Sunday Times of London started a worldwide investi- gation and hired me as consultant. Our report has appeared over the last _ | month and has startled many people |. Lin the United States as well as Britain. : To judge from Foreign Secretary George Brown's antics at the Savoy. Hotel, on Noy. 1, it has startled him. So it's worth saying-——contrary to ¢, Mr.. Brown's assertion then to The “ss: Sunday Times’ publisher and other diners that the report “helped the’ Russians"#-that it contained nothing’. which the}Communists did not knowy,,” “already, though it probably had ‘the’ * salutary eh ect of showing them that owe knew fi fare about their ‘ubversion’, tipped off his fellow traitors Donald ’ than they -suspected. . 0: “hand, it told the public in the West, © who are not babies, some serious - Rearmed From Philby ‘For. 30} years ; before he ‘skipped to Russia it 1963, Britain’s upper-crust ‘ agent H. A. Philby lived one of the mos. MOWwOSCH Mohr Bishop ‘Casper gone Callahan ——___ Conrad Pie Trotter Tele. Room .*, Holmes Gandy _By GEOFFREY REY McDERMOTT an : successtul—and treacherous—lies in a spydom, « end, London hasn't recovered yo in the other: facts of life which they have every right to know and to judge them- selves. Of course, the authorities would have preferred to continue to live a quiet life with those facts under .. the carpet, where they had lain for so long. . My Foreign Office duties in. the nineteen-fifties and early sixties had *.- placed me fairly and squarely in the middle’ uf: ie “Anglo-American intelli- gence community. . For some years I chaired the Joint Intelligence Com: mittee, which included representatives of our intelligence departments. Sir Patrick Dean, now British Ambassador in Washington, was my immediate boss. Representatives of the C.I.A. Sat in on our meetings, and in return | the representative of the British: Secret Intelligence Service, otherwise, called MI6, was right in on- the Aincrican intelligence setup in Wash-~ ington. Philby had been that man from 1949 to 1951. In 1956, I became ~ Foreign Office adviser to the chief of _ the S.LS., Sir Dick White. This, as =p we, shall sce, was another cues year} for Philby. “_ AS ‘a’ result of my SSicr1 & I ef less bewildered than some by these ‘ Hehilling | developments. I knew fran . experience that deception was_one.o! + NOT SEOORUAE f M45 NOV 217 1967 fe 43- — ‘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 Pose —_________ mae hee Gor’ Fines 2 SE The Sun (Baltimore) ‘The Worker ‘The New Leader The Wall Street Journal ‘The National Observer People’s World Date © en 4987 ELETED COPY SEN Ac 6.-~ LETTER Afi sfay oo REQUEST. 4 aa