ALL IN THE (SPY) GAME

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP70B00338R000300220025-4
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 15, 2005
• Sequence Number: 25
• Publication Date: October 2, 1967
• Content Type: NSPR

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John Philby (left) photographed in London yesterday and (right) the photograph he took of his father in Red Sq
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w, repro uteri by arrangement wtth The Sunday limes._.
BY THE NEWS TEAM
The publication of phbtogra,phs
of Mr. George Blake and Mr..
" Kim " Philby in Russia in one
week, together with details of
their espionage careers, brings to
a climax a spate of inside informa-
tion about the inner Aork'ings of
intelligence operations and govern-
ment secrets from both the east
and the west.
It began with the revelations by
Mr. Gordon Lonsdalc, .the Soviet
spy, in a book at the end of 1965.
when he poured scorn on the
efficiency of British spy-catching. It
lc,oked very much like an attempt, to
discredit the trustworthiness . of
British intelligence in the, eyes ? of
America. Driving' a wedge between
the two countries has long been' an
aim of Soviet policy.
But Mr. Harold Evans, editor of
The Sunday Times, emphatically.
denied yesterday that his paper's
articles on Mr. Philby were facili-
tated by Russian connivance.
"It is not a plant", he said,
explaining that the material was the
result of nine months' .research ? by
a large team of reporters working
in many parts of the world.
Counter blows
Philby's son. John, came on the
son. John, came on the
scene and was sent off to Moscow
to i
his father with a list of
questions and a camera.
virtually complete before Mr
Wynne He said the investigation
The Observer. These were said to
be notes and sketches accumulated
by Mr. Olcg Pcnkovsky. who was
sentenced to death in Moscow in
1963 after an espionage trial in which
Mr. Wynne was co-defendant. '
The Russians condemned them as
false and even some western quarters
saw the hand of the .American Cen-
tral Intelligence Agency at work. '
The memoirs of Mrs. Svctlana
Alliluyeva provided the next move
in the espionage propaganda chess
game. The Russians attempted to
discredit her by circulating a version
of her book supposedly left behind
in Moscow, evidently believing that
the western version would have been
largely ghosted by the C.I.A...
Intrigues profitable
for both sides
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un
ay Times was taking
More embarrassing to them, how-'
a great interest in the case that The
ever, has been Mr. Wynne's book
Observer prepared the article carried was 't The Man from Moscow in which he
in yesterday's
s issue.
throthat for three days he went
synopsis of the book was in
The through a dress rehearsal of the trial,
the hands of the publishers, Hamish
in the Moscow courtroom.
Hamilton,
, and the book would be
Both sides would appear to be pre
published in
n about six months' time.
pared to take their chances in making
But he agreed that had the This image-consciousness would whatever, capital they can from the
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have ensured he h running the ortland.'spy. ring and their job easy.
The same must apply to the Blake swapped in April 1964 for Mr.
photographs which were obtained in . Wynne, started writing his memoirs.
Moscow by his mother after Mr. ' Certainly his book Spy was con-
Blake himself instigated her visit. sidercd an impressive shot in the
The fact that the Russians did not . propaganda game, and credit was
prevent these two British newspaper felt to belong to the Soviet state
scoops suggests that they are content i security K.G.B. department.
for both to act as counter-propa- It was followed by a riposte, if a
panda blows to the Greville Wynne fortuitous one, in the form of The
book just published. ? _ ' ' Pevrkovsky Papers published in
Newspaper rivalry over the Britain by Collins and serialized in
Philby exploits has been intense.
A source on The Observer said
yesterday that the paper's chief
Middle East correspondent, Mr.
Patrick Scale, who had been Mr.
Phitby's number two in Beirut until
he vanished, had been working on
the story ever ? since the disap-
pearance.
..Hand of the' CIA
at work
.At the same time he had been
allowed time off to work on a book
with Mrs. Eleanor Philby, to be
published in about six months time.
He was also preparing a series of
articles on the Philby' case which
The Observer had been planning to
carry next summer.
It was only when it was discovered
that Th
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