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Scandal Over | 1951 Spy Case LONDON, July 2 (UPT).— Prime Minister Harold Mac- millan. faced a new scandal today over the revelation that a former British diplomat was the “Third Man" in the 1951 ‘Russia, Lord Brivy Seal Edward Heath announced in Parlia- ment-yesterday that H- A. R. Kia Bhilby, a former British diplomat and newsman missing from Beirut, Lebanon, since January, had fipped off ac- cused Soviet spies Guy Bur- gess and Donald MacLean on May 25, 1951, that British security officials were onto them. Burgess and MacLean, for- mer Foreign Office officials, both fled ta Russia the same day. ; | Lord Heath sald Philby, 51, i May have gone beyond the Iran ; Curtain. He said Philby, a for- * mer first secretary of the Brit- ‘ish Embassy in Washington, ‘was a former Communist and | had been a Soviet agent before 11946 while working in the for- jelgn pftice [ The revelation comos=anew blow “tir Macm fixi—witose { government has been rocked by the sex-and-security scandal involving resigned War Min- ister John Profumo and call ‘/girl Christine Keeler. Mr. Macmillan, then Foreign Minister, defended Philby in 1955 against opposition accusa- tions that he was ihe tipoff man in. the Burgess-MacLean SPEAKS TO COMMONS i} The Prime Minister planned a major forelgn policy speech to the House of Commons to- morrow following his weekend meeting with’ President Ken- nedy. The epeech was inter- preted as partly designed to -Iboost his wavering political prestige in the wake of the Profumo scandal. a Burgess-MacLean defection to U Ward-wheiroduced Profumo to: Christina, resumes tomor-' row. FAPERS ASK “WHY?” The trial of Soviet spy John Vassall already had produced questions about the efficiency ef British security services. London newspapers today asked why It took 12 yesrs to discover Philby'’s role in the Burgess- MgcLean_gffair ang why be was permitied to eacaye. , Philby, who had been work- ing in Beirut as « corraspond- ent for the British newspapers| Sunday Observer and Econo- mist, left his Betrut apartment Jan. 23 to attend a party. He never arrived. His American wife reported his missing, but later asked Police to call off the search when she received & telegram from _Catro signed rus nan. itt Heath said yesterday ef-t_Pplliy apa iy Bee Ian + has since ‘recelved * detter indicating her husband ts in a Soviet-bloc country, in Moscow, Burgess denied Philby was the “third men” in the case. He said he had not heard from Philby and had ng ideg where he was. jp», ' ete at i The pre-trial vice hearing of| Nee RE IU. TA ages ©) Gee —%_ Casper Coliahan Conrad _ [fMeosch Evans WW Gole = Rosen - Sullivan Pe ann Cy Tavel Trotter Tele Room Holmes Gandy VA 7 ; The Washington Post and yoo Times Herald / V The Washington Daily Newes { The Evening Star New York Herald Tribune TFT New York Journal-American New York Mirrot New York Dally News New York Post The New York Times The Warker The New Leader The Wall Street Journal The Natlonal Observer Date Po ee UL NOT RECORDED 19} yuL 9 1963 . é 1963