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Cambridge Five Spy Ring — Part 20
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|New Reports on F .alby Spy.Case.of‘6. Vex Britaini~—
-_ Te “thi “Sinfittration.”
eclal to The New Yors Times ‘(tO all newspapers, consolidating | to this fantastic “infiltration.
| LONDON Oct. 7—The case|#!! previous notices about pub-/He believes it will make cle Callahan
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sf the “third man’—divertin, lication of information about/a need for reforms in’ many:
; * ; . “N8/ British intelligence and counter-|spheres. roo | Felt
s a theme for fiction byl intelligence. But David Astor, owner a Gal
raham Greene fut vexing and) Known as « “D notice” thisleditor of The Sunday Observer, ale 5
sisquicting woo it is reai—-)document amounted to a wath-jiaughs off the sociai signifi- “\ Rosen ——_______
has been reo d by Britain’s| ing to the press that prosecu-|cance of the story. “As I see it, ' Sullivdg
Sunday press. | ue |tion might result from the pub-|there is no social meaning in \
The “third niin” is Harold)lication of names of intelli-lit," he said. “Philby could have; Tavel
Adrian Russell (Kim) Philby,|gence officials or information|deceived: anybody.’ The - Rus-| y . Trotter
an Englishman who was a spy|about the organization of intel-|sians, «like ” us, “recruit their| ~ Tele. Rooi
‘for the Soviet Union’ while|ligence, ,..: “,- lagents among the socially satis- ele. hoom
serving sometimes as 4 journal-| ‘Officially, Government de-|fied segments ‘of their societ | mt Holmes
ist but more often as a counter-|partments are saying nothing|It is silly to blame the ‘old boy! -+ Gand
intelligence expert for Britain’s|/about the Philby stories. Pri-[network’""“-- i'° °°) 4: os andy
‘MI6, key department of the
vately, officials comment wryly; The “old boy ‘networ "is
on the unhappy fact that Brit-lreference to the tribal confi
t, The London newspapers havelish. journalistic _enterprise|dence and mutual backscratch-
feelncad that hie duties Inclekanla snes olin Gaeaing Tleinete tt cet oan peice ae she
br ¢ SESS fee Mules SIT SOUWIG SEIVE Lit SOVIEL UTIGT Siing Said 10 EXIST &aMmOng he
‘British Sercret Service. ;
lean countering Soviet espi-linterest in denigrating British|praduates of exclusive, class-
nage, commanding British in-lintelligence with new disclos-loriented British private schools
lligence operations in Turkey|yres about the handsome
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» quiet-}that-havye traditionally supplied
and liaison with the Central|spoken Philby. vee eae neye y nee
; ‘ a large ‘-percentage,! of « Briti
Intelligence Agency in Wash-|" After he. left yservants. ord if
in’
t ‘ the Foreign |/$ublic servants./<:.g6/ “Wis.”
jington, | with | access to Amer- Service in 1955, rumors and “The sionificance of the Phi
jcan inform . open charges were met of- “anlage a sad
| With such djsclosures as ficial denisis then by a Labor.|fY sigclosures that is worrying -
jthese, The Sunday Times and|Conservative coalition of sj-/"any,Britong was expressed by, ;
'The Observer have shaken this|lence. Finally in the summer pf)this | week's . Spectator maga: .
capital. Perhaps most unnerv-/1963 Philby was identified Hy;zine. It said: “While there are ;
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ing of all their disclosures is|the Government as a Soviét)master minds and active bodies - “\)h
that Philby managed to carrylagent.... | ": Nine - Philby and“ Blake’ at” J
on his career for 30 years, until : ¥ :
i . Philb born in Ambala,|watch out. If they. have - no
defetied to the Soviet Union India, an New Year's Day in ctually left some time bombg-
_ Followed More Precautions /19)9’ His father, Harry St. Johnjpehind they are considerin
ie beginning of 1963, when he Born in 1912 in India “| work in Moscow, we had better:
| _ His ., defection came long/Philby, was at various times an] pow to get them Into positie
aftor rvitic eeacnrityu nearauelowtbee teen et seelacee ao-Ligow, FO “mee _
awwe SFkaNGEh Gey PEC TAULOr, GESEr, CXPIOTer, Aa) y~ ~~ “.
tions were supposed to havelscholar, Moslem convert. friend| George Blake is another Brits
been strengthened—in part tolof 7. E. Lawrence of Arabig,|ish spy. who last October es-”
insure that there would be no|adviser to King Ibn Saud, ami caped from Wormwood Scrubs -
repetition of the 1951 Burgess-lofficial in the civil service $n Ptison where he was serving &@
‘Maclean affair. i ~ |
India. : 42-year sentence. 0": * ai . p 3
‘The “third man” label was| ‘Young Philby had a brilliant/, In the same week that The: The Washington Post )
‘attached to Philby after it be-/record at Westminster SchooliBunday Times was puousnin, Times Heraid Q
‘came known that he had en-land at Trinity College, Cam-|— Picture of Philby -in, Ref +4. Washington Daily News MS
iabled the late Guy Burgess andibridge, where he first showed: Pquare, other newspapers werg - ; . iG
Donald Maclean, then servinglan interestin Communism. : ublishing : pictures of Blakp- The Evening Star (Washington) O
as British diplomats in, Wash- “I have always been on the [swimming ina Caucasian lak@® tye Sunday Star (Washington) ____. QR
ington, to escdpe to Moscowlleft,” he once said, “but I have[——————— OCS Co=:s 2
before’ they could be arrestedinever been a Communist el Daily News (New York) rt
pn espionage charges. though I have known peop Sunday News (New York) =)
‘The articles in the two Sun-jwho were Communists at Ca New York Post —_-
ay papers contended that as/bridge and for years afte ; Zo
ead of the MI-6 section seek-|ward.” wo The New York Times fa
ing to counter Soviet espion-| The two Sunday papers dif- The Sun (Baltimore
1 age, Philby had to have access|fer on the date and site of his ( }
Li a
to_aif t_infor-jrecruitment by Soviet intelli- The Worker
th
iO ail Of Britain s—secret_infor-
mation about the Soyiet_Unionigence, but both agree that it , The New Leader
i! |dlid-sitnilar access to the equiv- i @ ly nineteen- Y/ Dad set Y - A
talent American intelligences —~ was in the ear Yhilby's ee Oo - 37 7 / 9? The Wall Street Journal
Tt s0, he was Much more im-|signment was to penetrate Brit} NOT RECORDED The National Observer SEE
portant than has hitherto beenlish intelligence. ‘
realized. fee ade His qualifications as a fou! ae pny te ses People’s World ——_____-_____
Alarmed - and, embarrassed,|nalist, established during the my ULI 16 be f f
the British. Gofernment must'Spanish Civil War, led to hif . Date Deboden P7967
xpect that thegpress will now/employment in. British intelli] “seme © | mew } ;
elve into" workings of|gence. 7 ; :
ritish intelligenfe. Three weeks) Harold Evans, ‘editor of ‘The ; toe
go, with each'of the Sunday|Sunday Times, feels strongly, — . “~~ XEnox ~ |
Sada
jweWSpapers engaged in a warjthat the Philby disclosures will
make many people “wonder
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of ‘nerves and each chafing to
start its series of articles first,/just what kind of social and
{the Goyssnment issued a notice administrative structure led up
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