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FROM SUBJECT: | double agent." Philby is the former British intelligence officer \ y vo, OrTIONAL FORM HO. 40 010-106 ma 1902 BDITION: O64 orm. Mao. m7 27 UNITED STATES GU ZRNMENT : Memorandum OP"... Mr. Ww. c. sul Die” pare: March 4, 1968 Farr Ww. A. brant ~ BOOK BEVIEW "THE“PHIRD MAN" by E. H. Cookridge | This memorandum is a review of the above captioned book. BACKGROUND: OO o This book alleges to be the “truth about Kim Philby, ° who defected to Russia in 1963 and is still living there. Prior to his defection, Philby admitted gaat AnOtE+ hat he had been a Soviet agent during his whole career, He further admitted that he had warned Donald Maclean, British diplomat and also a Soviet agent of his impending arrest in 1951. Philby said that he used Guy Burgess, another British diplomat and Soviet agent, for this purpose, As a result of his warning, both Burgess and Maclean fled to Russia in 1951. Philby, through his actions, earned the title of “the third man." : THE BOOK: ‘ , —_—_—_ oe 4 . In this *pook, the author traces the backgrounds of Philby, Burgess, and Maclean, all of whom attended Cambridge University in the early 1930s, and refers to them as the unholy trinity. He foilows their careers both in and out of the service of the British Government and shows how each progressed in the employ of the Government. He claims that Philby was the master mind who organized plans to obtain infor- mation for the Soviets, Burgess was the cruel taskmaster who B carried out Philby's plans and Maclean was the weakest one of r 2) the three who was manipulated by the other into betrayi: q his country. | 7 BEG 100 t Cookridge makes a great many assumptions in make the story more plausible. For example, he, aT ff occasions, assumes that Philby was in touch with a known . Soviet intelligence officer if both were ftationed in a certain j country at the same tim \Such assumptions'can lead to strange CONTINUED ~ OVE