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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000600330067-0
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 21, 2000
• Sequence Number: 67
• Publication Date: October 2, 1967
• Content Type: OPEN

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(Mr. ASHBROOK asked and was
given permission to extend his remarks
at this point in the RECORD and to in-
clude extraneous matter.)
Mr ASHBROOK. Mr. Speaker, with
the superabundance of fictional spy
stories on the market in the past few
years one might perhaps be tempted to
view the field of. espionage with undue
levity. One need only recall the many
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cases in country after country where
citizens have betrayed the, country of
their for various l~eaap , 2 galize
th birth danger of espionage is forever
with us. Especially so, when the Soviet
Union over the years has enticed persons
from foreign lands to switch their allegi-
ance and service to the U.S.S.R.
One such case is that of Harold A, R.
Philby, a formor -British diplomat, whose
service to a dangerous foreign power
makes Benedict Arnold look like a piker.
I request that the article, "Philby Ad-
mits Spying for Reds," from the New
York Daily News of October 2 be inserted
in the RECORD at this point.
PIIILBY ADMITS SPYING FOR REDS
(By Henry Maule)
LONDON, October 1.-Twelve years after
British diplomat Harold A. R. (Kim) Philby
was exposed in the News as the "third man"
in a spy case, he has admitted being a Soviet
agent for more than 30 years.
An exclusive dispatch from this corre-
spondent to The News in 1955 named Philby
for i.he first time as the man who had tipped
off British turncoats Guy Burgess and
Donald MacLean; enabling them to flee to
Russia.
The question was raised in Parliament and
Harold Macmillan, then foreign secretary,
cleared Philby, former first secretary of the
British Embassy in Washington, declaring
there was "no reason to conclude that Mr.
Philby has at any time betrayed the interests
of this country or to identify him with a
so-called third man."
"I HAVE COME HOME," HE TELLS SON
Philby, 55, has admitted to his oldest son,
John, 24, who recently visited him in Mos-
cow, that his allegiance has been to the
Soviet Union most of his adult life.
"I have come home," he told the son, de-
claring himself completely happy in Mos-
cow, where he ostensibly works for a Soviet
publishing house.
Two London newspapers, the Observer and
Sunday Times, carried today what the Ob-
server called his "unmatched success story
in espionage."
They reported that Philby was now known
to be the most important spy the Russians
ever had in the West, and that for more than
a decade, while serving as a Soviet agent, he
was a trusted senior officer at the heart of
British intelligence.
Philby reportedly was assigned by the Rus-
sians in 1934 to infiltrate British intelli-
gence. By 1944 he was appointed head of
British anti-Soviet intelligence.
IN ON BRITISH AND V.S. SECRETS
He was named to diplomatic posts from
which he was able to disclose to Moscow
the inner secrets of M-16, Britain's counter-
intelligence service, and of American Cen-
tral Intelligence Agency, the newspapers
said. He was being groomed to head M-16
and be Britain's link with the CIA. V
In 1951, Philby risked exposing his posi-
tion by warning MacLean th't he had just
been unmasked as a major atomic spy, per-
mitting MacLean to flee with his friend
Burgess, who since has died.
Apparently Philby did so because he sus-
pected MacLean and Burgess might break
down under interrogation and betray him.
Philby was 1.-er exposed by a Soviet in-
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