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Philby Says - Over Red Spy Ch \W (UPI)—-The Stam- ig Kremlin spy accused of ‘rating American and Brit- spionage headquarters 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 +@ Moscow hotel, Philby ‘seemed pleased with himself. : Faced with British charges that he stole enough secrets to earn the title as the twentieth century's greatest spy, Philby waggied a finger only once with a correction, He said it most certainly was not true that he began spying in 943, as reported in London. It. as in 1933, he said happily. And y? Philby, stammering still at limes, Said he became a Com- munist agent during the great depression, “The dilemma of ae working class people was fright- ful,” he said, Pe “That's why I did it—I would do it again tomorrow,” he said, Any regrets? “I do miss the casual access| to my children, although in fact . I think I see as much of them as: I would have had I remained a foreign correspondent ' (one of : his spy “cover” jobs)," Philby sail Record in Top Spots He waid he was “never hap- pier, certainly never healthier” than during the last four years in Moscow since he skipped away from Beirut. Behind him, according to Brit- _ ish official and press reports, Tay: Spying for the Soylet Union| were spotted at a Moscow con- “while serving as wartime British |cert only last week. spy chief for Spain, Portugalf He indicated he enjoys very Africa. ‘ing for the Soviet UnionJapartment supplied by a grate-| I ae eving as organizer and/iul Kremlin. He refused to show! lef of Britain's anti-Soviet es-lit to newsmen. | N cal B4 Novi7 19671 He's Happy- j i | HAROLD PHILBY ane Pane pionage network at the end orld War Il, Spying for the Soviet Unio: while a liaison man in Washing. ton for Britain's M. 1. 6 espio- Nage organization, Lendon’s equivalent of Washington's CIA, Being asked for and advising; U. 8. security officials in those years on organizing the CIA. Being the “third man” who tipped off British diplomats Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean 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 led 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; Imuch fife in a comfortable| Cc Rey ry ED COPY SENT AC Bae: DeLoach Mohr Bishop Casper Callahan Conrad Felt Gale Rosen Sullivan Tave Trotter Tele. Room Holmes Gandy We } a SYLCHER TOP Te 2ER FIA REQUEST 145 nov 47 1967 The Washington Past 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 (Baltimore) ‘The Worker ‘The New Leader The Wall Street Journat The National Observer People’s World Date fat ane . Ss Aaa NOT RECORDED