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CLAYTON FRITCHEY PAVE Must a Spy Agency Must, or should, a nation’s secret intelligence agency be a “gentleman's club”—a kind of closed circle of upper class “old boys” who hang together and maintain a snobbish clique? . In Washington, the head- quarters of the CIA, this is an old but rather private ques- tion. In London, however, it is the question of the day, The Papers are full of it, and full of demands for an overhaul of the British Secret Service. All this bas occurred in the wake of new revelations about Britain: super spy, Harold “Kim'Phiby, who defected” 0 Moscow in 1963 after being a double agent for both Eng- land and Russia much of his life. Philby, now 55, went to Cambridge University, where he had a brilliant record and made friends among the elite who later rose to prom- inence in the government, including the British Secret Service. He was secretly recruited by the Russian secret service (KGB) shortly after Braduation, and Pies Temained. loyal to. the Rus- sians for 30 years while wor rk: ing as a journalist and a- | Bich spy. Philby is famous in America as the “third man" who made it possible for the late Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean, then - serving as British diplomats in Washing. ton, to escape to Russia in 1951 just before they were to be as Soviet spies. Years later, it was discovered that they were alerted by Philby, at that time head of the Soviet section of MI-6, which was supposed to counter Russian espionage. - When Philby defected in 1963 the British government pooh-poohed its importance on the grounds Philby was incon- sequential, but it now appears the MI ‘section chief had - access to all British secret data on Russia, as well as similar access to the equiy- alent U.S. intelligence. ft is also contended that he came close to being the head of MI-6 itself. a The clamor for a~ housecleaning has been height- ened by disclosures that Phil- by had marked leanings to the left. even ig college, and that his” ir wife! was a DELETED COPY Y LEER al FIA REQY ea a ae : full-fledged foreign Commu- nist. It is also being asked why he was kept at MI-4 despite strong suspicions that he was the “thir Maclean and 5 American intelligence has had a vivid interest in the case for years, for it was U.S. agents who discovered the du- Plicity of the Britishers and tipped off M1-6 about them in 1951. Moreover, as far back as 1950, the United States had tagged Maclean as a homosex- ual drunk while he was serv- ing in the British Embassy at - Cairo, He was sent back to London, but instead of being dismissed he was made the head of the American desk at the Foreign Office. . This has provoked what the London Telegraph calls a “wave of anti-gentleman, dow n-with-the-o 1 d-boy-ring, let's expose-the-Establishment. fervor.” In defense of the system, the Telegraph says: “A secret body must be @ co-opted one; it cannot be cho- sen by competitive examina- + tion. Its members must be » highly educated, loyal, intelli- nt, Tuthless, vetive Feady to be innely, The fat 7 SENT AC Grae va [7s ‘ Est f fae bd yf man” who saved © Age ach - ‘asper Callahan Conrad ——_____ Felt Gale Suffivan#___ Tgve) ——___ totter _______ Tele. Room Holmes Gandy wie Be a’Gentleman's Club’? The Washington Post * Times Herald ‘The Washington Daily News The. Evening Star (Washingto1 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 Journal The National Observer People’s World OCT 16 1967 Date 65 Len47 4 / NOT RECORDED 167 oct 19 1967 ———- ms 40 The Sunday Star (Washington) —___