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TOLD HIM THIS, SAYS SON 4 . Phithy a Double Anant far riiiny a LONDON, Oct. 2, (PD — The son of Harold “Kim"’ Philby, the British spy who defected {o Mos- cow in 1963, said yesterday his father ‘worked for the Russians for $0 years.” Philby once wae Britain's chief liason man in Washington with the CIA. Philby’s son John, #4, told a British Broadcasting Corpora- tion commentary he met his 55 - year - old father in Moscow two weeks ago. “I have come 1 home,” he quoted his father as Philby's career as a double - agent and ‘the circumstances of his discovery and flight have re- Mained subject to speculation and controversy in England, but two Londen 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 these 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 gradualed from Cam- bridge University in 1933. One year laler he began a long ca- reer with Soviet intelligence by becoming a courier. ‘He = soon graduaied -to higher level Soviet mtelligence work. During the late 1930s, Philby aded as a pro - Nazi \ nd ried from the aa ur mm wat jot inalist ani repo: repar saying. ‘ Apache —___. t y Callahan Conrad Felt Gale Rosen Sullivan Tavel ———_______ Trotter Tele. Room Holmes Gandy 2a 2) Vanare™ iC AYO 1 wu rou KIM PHILBY a I Franco side of the Spanish Civil War. When World War II broke out, Philby’s old school friends re- cruiied 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 1947, Philby was named Chief of British Intelligence in Turkey and two years later he headed ihe Washingion staf. Philby’s closest brush with discovery came in 1951 when he tipped off two Soviet spies that their activities 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 uf- der susnicion frofihts*#arferican Sieprcior 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- seryer, one of the two which printed an article on his activi- ties Sunday. The observer said it had been. told Philby was no longer in the spy business. But he was also im > 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 cortinued his double - Re activities until 1961, when a Soviet defector made allega- lions about his double - agent background and long history with the Soviet spy system. Philby, still working as a corre- spondent in Beirut, fled to Mos- cow in 1963 when informed that 2 case was being compiled [a against him. Philby’s son said his father now was working for a Russian news agency on far ea fnew “I should think he is far less lonely now,” the younger Philby said. “He is at last able to live compleiely openiy. He is a com- munist and it ig a communist country and way of life.” Philby was granted Soviet citizenship. The Washington Post Times Herald The Washington Daily News —_}-— The Evening Star (Washington) The Sunday Star (Washington) 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 7 OCT 2 1967 tat ; _ ~~ ~~" ~ Date d { f ? ’ f ? ly 2 if) é } “ / ro, + ermenpeees an a why