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. : ; ; Ge Cy Memorandum W. A. Branigan to W. C. Sullivan FY] a ie REVIEW; "THE THIRD MAN" ions such ss his ata Intelligence Agency (CIA) investigation showed Donald Maclean was handled by Arthur Adams during part of his stay in the U.8. In order to make this sound reasonable, the author refers to Adams as a KGB (Committee of State Security) agent when in truth Adams was a GRU (Soviet Military Intelligence) agent. Again on page 162 he |iao"ss during the investigation of Colonel Rudolph Abel by the FBI, two witnesses identified a photograph of Philby as a person they had seen at Abel's studio in 1951. This, of course, is pure fictions, There are several other instances in the book where the \ author exercises his imagination in order to make all the pieces of this case fit into his own preconceived notion of exactly how this case developed.,. The balance of the book tells the story of the flight of all three of these individuals behind the Iron Curtain,, the death of Burgess, and marriage of Philby to Mrs. Maclean. It adds nothing new to the case. ( ) | Bureau files show that E. #0 Cookriage, whose true ni is ,» has written several books on espionage. have previously told us that he prepares his books from Of o sources such as newspaper articles and other publications. iA tv His most recent book was entitled "Shadow of a Spy" which purported to tell the story of George Blake, British intelligence office who was a Soviet agent. (© & THE PUBLISHER: , aa The publisher of this book is Arthuf Barker, Limited, of London, England, Bureau files contain no identifiable a2) information relating to this company. if MENTION OF THE FBI: sage 163 the author quotes from the "FRI Story" the On page 163 the author q from the I Story order attributed to the Director after the secrets of the atomic bomb had been stolen "to find the thieves." He says this order put every FBI Agent on alert and over 80 Agents were kept busy for mont. on", . . the rather paltry case against Judith Coplon -- a case which was finally thrown out by the U.8. Supreme Court.” In furthe ance of the Director's order he states that ". . . forgotten suspec were run ih and put through third degree interrogations." In this . paragraph the author is running down the importance of the Coplon naam an. a Viohe +5 third jcase and shows the Bureau in a bad light when he refers to this degree interrogations. aa ( ACTION: For information, It is recommended that this book PG) placed in the Bureau Library. kK US "Mis