PHILBY TELLS RUSSIANS HOW HE SPIED ON WEST

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000100060005-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 8, 1999
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: December 19, 1967
• Content Type: NSPR

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Washington Post Foreign Service
MOSCOW, Dec. 18-The S
ing its 50th anniversary th s
week, introduced British -
feztor Harold Adrian (Ki
Philby to Russian readers t)-'
night.
In a five-column intervi '
produced for the governme it
newspaper Izvestia, Philby
scribed proudly how he h d
outwitted Western Intel, igen c
agencies during the 1940s a d
.1950s and publicized his
, cently completed book f
m9 olra-wblch hia3 gssoclot s
166 b6611 i11to lptlnu, thus f
,unsuccessfully, to place n
British and American ne -
r papers.
The Philby Interview f
lowed an article in' Prav a
earlier today' accusing t
for in e r. American milita
attaches hereof espionage.
the Ukraine in?June, 1988,-a
GER
bassy called "fabrications nor and Frank Lindsay of th
.. without found a t i o n."iCIA about organizing an anti
,The organization, known,Communist revolt "in one o
ince 1954 as the - CommittecIthe Socialist countries in th
in State Security. (KGB), isiBa]icans." This.operation, whic
urrently headed by,, Yuri P.
ndropov. It was founded six
ceks after the Communist
seizure' of power as the Cheka,
r Extraordinary Commission
i i1 gainst Sabotage and Specula-
6n. Its leaders over the years
avid ilicluded Henryk 'Si'agoda,
ikolat,Yezhov and Lavrenti
aria-all of whom died vi-
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The Philby Interview: added
losed In British publications
bout the, double agent's activ
ties and was curiously: reti-
ent on several points. For ex!
mple, Philby described a talk
e had .in 1951, in ,Washington
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Philby betrayal to his super
iors in the RGB who thereupo
foiled it, Was revealed carlic
this year to have been directe
at Albania. Why the r.GB pre
ferred to avoid mentioning it
role in saving the Albanian r
gime of Enver Hoxha was no
known.
llby itp eared. to rate th
16 Ooii Valise Wall Audi
highest of the various intell
glance officials he met i
Washington between-1049 an
1951. He said Allen Dulle
,'}was attentive to people bu
i i fact ' treated them conde
cendingly. He -never consi
ered matters deeply and
would say that, with. all hi
ertheless a dilettante. Tho
h y said his conversa?
Lions with J. Edgar Hoover
were "sometimes of a very, cu?i
.rious character," and dealt
mostly with the methods of
Soviet Intelligence agencies..
Philby claimed that Hoover's
deputy, Identified only ast
Ledd or Ladd, once tried toi
persuade him "in utmost sari-I
ousness that President. Frank-
lin Roosevelt was an agent of
the Communist International,"
(In Washington, an ' FBI
spokesman said a man named
D. Milton Ladd had been a
(deputy of Hoover, but had re-
:tired in 1954. The spokesman
,declired to comment -on the
Izvestia art.iclej ',;
? The Pravda charges this
morning referred to an inci?,
dent in Orsha, the Ukraine, 18?
months ago involving Lt. Col.,
Robert E. Lilchow, the assist.,
`ant U.S. Army attache, and Lt.;
Comdr. Robert B. Bathurst, as-
'sistant Naval attache. Both
men were ' u>