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4 a PHIUBY (ASR RAYA 10 DISTURB ALS Intellivence Aides Retain Faith in. the British By ALVIN SHUSTER Special to The New York Times LONDON, Nov. 4--The Amer. ican intellicence community re-| tains confidence in its British counternart despite the recent flurry of sny reports here, That js the judement’ expressed bv sources here and in Washing- ton. The -erticles in the British press have covered old pround —namelv the case of Harold A_R. “Kim* Philby, who spied for the Russians or 30 years.! He worked for British Intelli- gence until 1955, continued his spying as a journalist, then four years ago defected to the: Soviet Union, where he now lives. Some new details in the casr have turned up, but United States officials say they have Jong known about Philby, worked with British officials the nineteen-fifties to expo him, and see no reason to fal that the articles jeopardi; Brfish- American intelligence refations. US. Spending More he United States, of course, has become the “big boy” in the intelligence field now and spends many times more than the $30-million or so the Bri ish allocate for such activities each year. The United States for exam- ple, is far ahead on the tech- nological side with its compli- cated and sensitive electronics equipment and its Samos recon- naissance satellites. The Brit- ish have kept such expenses down. Despite the huge United States operation, sources in ‘Washington, when asked about the present state of the rela- tionship, said the “British pull their weight” and have an “un- doubted genius” for intelligence work. - AS one put it: “What binds us is common language, com- mon interests, common law and neither of us is a police state. In a democracy, you're going to have Philbys inevitably. Mi-6 and MI-5 have both done a hell: of a good job.” MI-6 is the serv- ice that deals with counter- espionage, while MI-5 deals with extesnclintelligence ac- 62 NOV 13 1967317 ouch praige by. the Bren EAP ericans of heard in the nineteen-fifties, Perhaps the low point in the relationship. This was because ‘of the Philby case and the de- fection to the Soviet Union by former British diplomats who had worked in Washington— Guy Burgess and Donald, Mac: In those years, the eri- cgn and British inteltifence cpmmunities were said tofhave id drifted far apart. [here is an increasing reluctance bY United States officials to share information with the British and a clear unwilling- Ness to accept British security clearances automatically. @ personality of the thi head of MI-6 was also a factor in the declining relationship. Sir John Sinclair, a major gen- eral who headed military intel- ligence toward »the end of World War Il, was said to be! seen h ior wl ™ American| nts had less igh- ean! an the high-' i afesfre . bs~b lo f DELETED COPY SENT Ac. Oak)” BeLoach Mohr Casper Callahan Conrad Felt Gale Rosen Sullivan Tavel Trotter Tele. Room Holme Gandy ‘The Washington Post Times Herald ‘The Washington Daily News. ‘The Evening Star (Washington) —__ The Sunday Star (Washington) —__ Daily News (New Yor! Bishop T T Ss k) Sunday News (New York) YE New York Post The New York Times ‘The Sun (Baltimore) ‘The Worker ‘The New Leader The Wall Street Journ People’s World Date eg Cy b7°%e 4 No? RPLORDED 179 NOV 9 1567 . The National Observer