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\ \ UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT UF JUSTICE FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION In Reply, Please Refer to San Francisco, California File No. February 23, 1965 HAROLD ADRIAN RUSSELL PHILBY The "San Francisco News-Call Bulletin", January 19, 1965, edition, contained the following information: “MRS. naand For, American wife British defectér Harold A. RB. 'Kim" PBsiey, has returned to Moscow. She CRanisned in the United States in July, ava but was seen by people in Moscow who cir- lA culate in Western Communist circles. An i American citizen, she reportedly returned Amu via Mexico and Cuba. Friends say she is I. bitterly disappointed because she had to re- turn without her daughter by a previous marriage. Her former husband, journalist /+ y: - Sam Pope Brewer filed a suit in New York —-— ~— last y charging there was imminent danger his ex-wife would take their daughter, then 15, to Russia. Brewer, a correspondent at the UN for the New York Times, won custody of the child." The "San Francisco Chronicle", January 20, 1965, edition, contained the following article cap- tioned "Defector's Wife Back in Moscow", datelined Moscow: “Moscow “Eleanor Philby, American wife of British defector Harold A. R. (Kim) Philby, has returned to Moscow, it was learned yes- terday. "Mrs. Philby vanished in the United States in July. She failed in an attempt oyii win custody of her daughter by a previous GOPIES pESTR sitet stage to journalist Sam Pope Brewer." goo Se This document contains neither recommendations nor conclusions of the FBI, It is the property of the FBI and is loaned to your agency; it and its contents are not to be distributed - = your agency. ENCLOSURE ae