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\Philby a Double LONDON, Oct. 2, UPN -- The son of Harold “Kim” Philby, the British spy who defected to Mos- cow in 1963, said yesterday his father ‘worked for the Russians for 30 years.” Philby once was Britain's chief liason man in Washington with the CIA. Philby's son John, 24, told a British Broadcasting Corpora- dion commentary he met his 55 - year - old father in Moscow two weeks ago. “I have come home,” he quoted his father as saying. Philby's career as a double - agent and the circumstances of his discovery and flight have re- mained subject ta speculation and controversy in England, but iwo London newspapers yester- day pieced together an account of his activities over three dec- ades that read like an incredible spy novel. Philby was so successful. by {hese accounts, that at one time he was chief of Britain's anti - Soviet section and came close to being named head of the entire British counter intelligence net- work, MI - 6, before his luck ran out. Philby graduated fron: Cam- bridge University in 1933. One year later he began a long ca- reer with Soviet intelligence by becoming a courier. He soun graduated to higher level Soviet intelligenée work. During the late 1930s, Philby masqueraded as a pro - Nazi journalist and reported from the _, Sa EA SASHA Eo wo “eat = Sate 7 whee om, rn oe seer a oy ie O ‘ _KIM PHILBY Franco side of the Spanish Civil War. - When World War II broke out, Philby’s old school friends re- cruited him into British intelli- gence and his career rose rapid- ly. By the end of 1944 he headed a new counter - espionage de- partment directed against the Soviet Union. In 187, Philby was named Chief of British Intelligence in Turkey and iwo years later he headed the Washington staff. Philby’s closest brush with discovery came in 1951 when he lipped off two Soviet spies that their activilies had been’ uncov- ered. British alomic spy Donald Maclean and agent Guy Burgess were able to flee to the Soviet Union because of Philby’s warn : ing. : Philby immediately came un- ; der suspicion from his American /3- gent for 30| Years colleagues and he was dropped from the Washington assign-— ment. Slowly, however, Philby worked his way back into Brit- ish confidence. He was sent to Beirut as a correspondent for the British newspaper the Ob- server, one of the two which printed an article on his activi- ties Sunday. . The observer said it had beea jold Philby was no longer in the spy business. But he was also in Beirut as a Brilish counteres- pionage agent. In 1955, former British Prime Minister Harold MacMillan told the House of Commons that Philby was not the “third man” who tipped off Burgess and Ma- clean four years earlier. Philby continued his double - agent activities until 1961, when a Soviet defector made allega- tions about his double - agent background and Jong history with the Soviet spy system. Philby, stil] working as a corre- spondent in Beirut, fled to Mos-. cow in 1963 when informed that a case was being compiled against him, Philby'’s son said his fathe now was working for a Russia news agency on far easiern a fairs. se _t nr are aanan - DeLoach Mohr Bishop Casper Callahan ™ “E should think he de far Jese lonely now,” the younger Philby said. “He is at last able to live completely openly. He is a co munist and i is a communis country ‘and way of life.” Philb was granted Soviet citizenship. TTT 4 7 The Washington Post ! Times Herald The Washington Daily News f | The Evening Star (Washington) The Sunday Star (Washington) b! Daily News (New York) Sunday News (New York) New York Post The New York Times The Sun (Baltimore) The Worker The New Leader The Wall Street Journal The National Observer People’s World Date 10-28-67