TOP BRITISH INTELLIGENCE AIDE BARED AS RED SPY 34 YEARS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP70B00338R000300220042-5
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
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• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 15, 2005
• Sequence Number: 42
• Publication Date: January 20, 1967
• Content Type: NSPR

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Top British Intelligence Aide
Bared as Red Spy 34 Years
rigorous check-up after the
disclosure that a former top
intelligence official and Britain's
top link with the U.S. Central
Intelligence. Agency, had been a
Russian spy for 34 years.
John Philby told radio and
television audiences that his
father, Harold (Kim) Philby,
who vanished from Beirut four
years ago while working as a
newspaper correspondent, told
him recently in Moscow he had
been a spy for the Russians
since 1933.
It was reported that Kim
Philby, now 55, had been re-
cruited by Soviet intelligence
only a few months after he left
Cambridge University. He later
became a senior officer in
British intelligence and was
slated to become head of M16
before he was fired.
Informed sources said that
working for the British Foreign
service and he tipped them off
that they had been discovered.
Btxgess and Maclean defected
in 1951. Maclean still lives in
Moscow. Burgess died there.
for the Russians for 30 years
without receiving anything for
it. There was only one conclu-
sion you could draw - that he
did it for ideological reasons."
Philby said his father is now
working in Moscow as a journal-
ist and is "free for the first time
in 34 years to think and speak
freely and being rewarded
excellently for those many
years' service to communism."
"I am absolutely convinced -
and it is obvious - that he is a
Communist and has served the,
communism of Soviet Russia for
34 years, ever since he left
Cambridge in 1933.
"Although I do not disapprove
of. what he has done, I know he
did not enjoy abusing his posi-
tion or his friendships as a spy.
"When I saw him in Moscow,
he was being treated excellent-
ly, as one would expect to be
treated for that service, a very
important person, a VIP."
Marcus Lipton, the Labor
and Donald Maclean as Soviet member of Parliament who in
agents in 1938 while they were, Philby 'visited his father in, 1955. named Philby as the "third
Lipton saidliat former Rrit
ishh Prime Minister Harold
Macmillan, who was foreign
secretary at the time Lipton
named Philby as the "third
man," got up in the House of
Commons and gave Kim Philby
the warmest of testimoniails.
"Philby had access to the very
highest secret intelligence,"
Lipton said. "He was in close
touch with the CIA in America.
No wonder the Americans were
fed up to the back teeth when it
was discovered he was the third
man."
It was reported that Philby,
who is now employed by the
Soviet feature agency Novosti,
may be working on the new
English language digest magaz-
ine Sputnik, which is due to
appear in Britain later this year.
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Moscow recently.
"I admire him very much,"
Philby said. "For what he did
could not have been easy-and
he did it very well. He worked
man" in the Burgess and Ma-
clean affair, said last night,
"There must be many red faces
in the Foreign Office and in our
security services now ... It took
the Foreign Office eight years to
discover t . ,
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behaved wlPiAw e stupidi-