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0-19 (Rev. 7-17-68) o™ viet Spy System in This One 1D MAN. ay E. hpoutdge. Putnam's, 261 pages. $5.95. ¢ { On New Year's Day 1938, near the village of Teruel, Spain, s*shell fired by Spanish Republican artillery struck an sutomobile containing four Edward J. Neil Jr., of the As- sociated Press. The jone survi- yor was Harold Adrian Russell Philby, then reporting the civil war for the London Times. “In the incident appears fantastic,” writes E. HL. Cookridge. “A Soviet spy, who for over a year had done his best to betray Franco's se- frets, had escaped death from a shell possibly fired by Brit- ish compatriots in the Interna- tional Brigade, and had been decorated by the leader of the Spanish Nationalists. But | , was not the first and certait last piece of good cd in io kine Philos life.” Philby a his way to an influential position in the Ee poate ‘or some 30 years funneled mili- tary and diplomatic secrets to the Kremlin. Even though he was publicly Ganouteed ase Philby could not wy, be tray He is now presumed to living in comfort in Mos- cow. spies for Russia, Bess. and Donald Maclean. Philby was tie third man” who Book eaal ‘ge nae tw © {= we ms snccomplices imminent. IS fled behind the iron ey. Gookridge was a “wartime secret agent forthe British and a newspaperman who has written extensively on espio- mage. He knew Philby for 33 and in “The Third he attempts to retrace the British diplomat-spy’s de- vious movements assess his character. Philby is described as agood conversationalist« despite a stammer. He drank hard but could bold his liquor and never enjoyed rowdiness. In Beneral, is relations with others tend- ed to be impersonal. Burgess, on the other hand, ‘was witty, gregarious, a heavy ay at disorderly ies and unabashed jomosexual, Cookridge detects indications that Burgess black- mailed Maclean into joining the Soviet spy apparatus. “Old Boys' Network” All three fitted nicely into the ‘‘old boys’ network.” Each came from an apper-class family, attended the right schools end had influential friends. Philby impressed his superiors by unmasking six dangerous German agents during World War Il. This was achieved through information fed to him by his Russian bosses. But it was here in Washing- that the trio acored its by Sen. Joe McCarthy reached it, and the cases of Klaus , Alger Hiss, Ju- dith Coplon ‘and others. burst into the headlines. But, pevertheless, Philby supplied an abundance of in- formation to the Russians con- cerning U.S. moves in the Ko- rean war. He also helped th Reds smash a rebel invasion of Albania. a plot laid by West. ern agents, rently one his cloak- was Col. Rudolf Icanovich Abel, the Soviet master spy. Washington Scenes As first secretary of the British Embassy, in je of liaison with the CIA the #F5I, Philby brought Burgess here as, second secretary, Maclean was secretary of the Combined Policy Committee or Aten Atomic Energy and accom- piste a devastating job in traying U.S. atomic secrets. Although he was the least mo- Cookridge calls the enormity of his crime difficult to grasp. The breakup came as the CIA, probing # leakage of NATO information, picked up Maclean’s trail. Warned by Philby, Burgess ep and Maclean dodg' iron cur- tain. Philby Tost his position bere, was accused, questioned, investigated and shadowed, but continued to work for the British jplelligence service in Beirut for several years. the whl, be il wed for de Kremlin, unti] the time came most damaging successes for him, also, to vanish from against the West. the the Western wor! 19508, the spy ‘SEEPS wiitred up =JOSEPH G. EFE. mywssre) Washington Post 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 Daily World The New Leader The Wall Street Joumal The National Observer People’s World Examiner (Washington)