TOP BRITISH INTELLIGENCE AIDE BARED AS RED SPY 34 YEARS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000600330066-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 21, 2000
• Sequence Number: 66
• Publication Date: September 30, 1967
• Content Type: NSPR

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LONDON (UPI) - Britain's
secret Service today faced a
rigorous check-up- after tre
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,.
1 who vanished from Beirut four
iyears 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, iiad been re-
cruited by Soviet intelligence
only a few months after he left
Cambridge University. 11c later
became a senior officier in
British intelligence and was
slated to become head of MI6
before he was fired.
Informed sources said trat
Philby recruited Guy Burgess
and Donald Maclean as Soviet
agents in 1933 while they were
,working for the British Foreign
service Land she tipped them off
that they had been discovered.
Burgess and Maclean defected
in 1951. Maclean still lives in
Moscow. Burgess died there.
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Philby visited his father
Moscow recently.
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 ras served the
communism of Soviet Russia for
34 years, ever, since be, left
Cambridge in 1033.
"although I do not disapprove
of what he has done, I know he.
did not enjoy abusing his posi-
tion or ris 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
member of Parliament who in
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 that I was right ...
.They and the Secret Service
behaved with incredible stupidi-
ty in roing to all lengths to clear
him."
Lipton said that former Brit-
ish 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 testimonials.
"Philby had access to hte 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.
"I admire him very much,"
Philby said. "For what he did
could not have been easy-and
it very well. He worked
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