PHILBY SAYS HE WRECKED CIA'S BALKEN REVOLT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000600330007-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 21, 2000
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: December 19, 1967
• Content Type: NSPR

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MOSCOW. Dec. 18-An Eng-
iti ]man , w,. sovict sp ,
llarr?r1 n1' P.. by, 55, sai
rsonai y torpedoe
can P in for a
mist rr volt in th
i,ilka
For this ervice anion
others, i c was awarded th
Soviet Un oil's Order of the Re
Bann^r. Philby said in a
''w in the soviet govern
newspaper Izvestia.
l'i]e interview marked th
,oth anniversary Wednesday o
state security committe
Joy's employers.
L,_. said that, in th
;prig: c. 1951, the America
r:entrul ii:lligence agency wa
tannin :punter-revolution i
cemn?Mr :t-ruled nation in th
't did not name th
it used his radio apparatus and
secret dispatches to transmit
misleading data about the
location of troops, defense
bases, and the submarine fleet.
Fabrications, U. S. Says
"Apart from attempting to
glorify the Chekists - from the
old KGB name of Click - on
their anniversary, the article
'I The embassy reported that cow. It said "they were briefly
the incident occurred in June of detained but the accusations
last year at Orsha, a town against them were without
about 300 miles west of Mos- foundation." __
seems to be part of a series of
soviet fabrications regarding
alleged western and particular-
ly United States espionage."
the United States embassy said
in a statement.
KGB also said that two
United States military attaches
had been caught snooping at a
military installation.
intelligence service was sitting
in on the conference." i
Spy for 30 Years
Philby was a soviet spy for 30
years, until the day in 1964 I'
when he fled from Beirut to i
lake up residence in the Soviet
Union. Ile gave an interview to
a western correspondent last
month-the first time he had
coke silence since 1964. Since i
then, he has been seen about
Moscow, occasionally withMe-
linda Maclean, , formerly of
Glencoe, Ill., the estranged wife ;
of Philby's onetime friend and
fellow spy, Donald Maclean.
The KGB boasted that it had;
captured a spy named Afonov:
who was working for United :
States itiA i vedltFov ase 2001/07/27 CIA-RDP75-00149R000600330007-6
and made < number of amend- it said. "lie. was a
-pert and the CIA realized it.
But this operation, which is stil
hidden, ended in disaster.
"All possible theories were
analyzed--except one-that a
regular officer of the soviet
:i I)ed Revise Plan
aiiby at that time headed
.ish intelligence liaison mix
sion to Washington and sat i
on the planning tal ;.
The revolution was to touch
off revolt.:; other communist
count estia said.
"P114 "Y proved the pla !