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on ‘break of World War II. He is reputed to have been en- gaged on intelligence work 'leonnected with counteresplo- (nage for the Foreign _ Oftice| jfrom 1939. But this has never ip een confirmed, His wartime exploits—what- ever they were—earned him the Order of the British Em- pire, a decoration for services to Britain. : But, Heath said, British Se- ‘curity Services now know he {was working for the Russians before 1946 — when he offi- cially joined the Foreign _ | Office. Philby's rapid rise in the ‘Foreign Service was believed due to his real job—an intel- - gence agent working for MI - 6 — Britain’s counterintelli- gence agency. In 1948 he was sent to Wash- ington. Within a month, Guy Burgess, whom Philby had known before ihe war, joined the Embassy as second secre- tary. At that time Burgess, and his friend Maclean, who was working in the British Em- bassy in Cairo, were passing secrets to the Russians. Mac- ‘ lean had left the Washington ' Embassy shortly before Philby arrived. Warns Spies Two years later, in 1951, Philby warned Maclean . through Burgess that counter- ‘intelligence agents were on his ; trail and about to Pounce, said ; Heath, Burgess and Maclean left Britain secretly. They re- vealed their presence in Mos- ? cow in November, 1956. , A month after Burgess and Maclean Skipped the country, ) Base 4 |Philby Was recalled to Lon-|r 4 é gess or Maclean. While in, government service he’ carried out his duties ably , [and conscientiously. I have no reason to conciude that Mr. Philby has at any time ; betrayed the interest of this, country or ‘to identify him; with the ‘So-called ‘third man’, il, indeed, there Was one." he -Sinee then there has been a series of espionage cases which have shocked the coun- try and rocked Macmillan’'s grip on the government. | ‘In 1961 counter intelligence agents broke up a Soviet spy ring of two Americans, two Britons and a Soviet master spy, which filched secrets|’ from the naval underwater} experiments base at Portland.|: Last December, Barbara} Fell, a government informa-|: tion worker was jailed forf[! two years for passing confi-}: dential Foreign Service docu-!! ments to a Yugoslav press United Press International HAROLD PHILBY . behind Iron Curtain? - : . ttache. don by the Foreign Office.|# ; : At present, Guiseppe Mar- He resigned three months tilli, a 40-yearold Italian later . : . atomic expert, is awaiting The revelations by Heath, trial for alleged offenses un- after 12 years of counter in-|~ telligence work on the case, cer Britain's. official secrets back sd t another security set-'""s), i962 John Vassall, an ac ac o . a . ' - Macmillan. Prime Minister cused homosexual employed! Macmillan was in charge of |?! the Admiralty, was jailed for 18 years as a Russian spy the Foreign Office at the avi oD ery time Burgess and Maclean Two months ago Macmillan disappeared. In 1955, during announced he has decided to a debate in which a Laborite|€Stablistt a permanent secur. legislator accused Philby of ity commission to improve being the “third man” who Britain's spy catching ability, tipped them off, Macmillan Meanwhile, Tuesday ify declared: , Washington the U.'S. Govern-} ment ordered an attache at acmillan Defense the Soviet embassy expelled “No evidence has beenjon grounds he tried to-recruit found to show that he was(a Government employe as a responsible for warning Bur- | spy. [7