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“y errs Bowe yt ewe ih F ee teat pee sonal a assurarice to Parliament, Harold Adrian Russell Philby had been a dedicated agent of the Soviet Union for 22 years. The Kim Philby for whom the future Prime Minister spoke was a fellow member of the Establishment that had always domidtited their nations affairs. The son oe of an eccentric, Kiplingesque empire builder, Philby was the product of a good public school, an excellent Doe Cambridge college, and the right London clubs, This was the man who had entered British Intelligence in 1940, who set up in 1944 the special new section to deal with the Soviet Union, who was sent in 1949 to act as “Link man” with the C.LA. in Washington, who until 1951 was being groomed to head the Secret Service. But there was a second Kim Philby — — the real one. And the real Philby Was a lifelong Communist who ‘Was rectuited by the Soviet intelligence Organization From the publishers of these other coast-to-coast bestsellers , lpoustepay ‘\ BOOK WORLD Atay 12, 1968 ie | | his official positions withia both American and British intelligence to destroy Allied operations, silence or kill Allied agents, protect a major atomic spy, and with- hold vast quantities of intelligence about Russia. This was the Kim Philby who served as liaison offi- cer with U.S. intelligence on a particularly sensitive operation — and thus assured the bloody miscarriage of a C.LA. project in Albania. He saw to it that a Russian defector named Volkov, who was about to turn over to the West the names of Russian agents, got instead a feet-first ride to Moscow. And when sus- picion fell on him as the “third man™ in the Burgess- Maclean affair, he escaped it with the same upper-class charm he used on associates, friends, and four wives. How did it happen? And why? THe Psy Con- SPIRACY, by the same London Sunday Times “Insight Team” which first broke the details of Philby’s defec- tion to a startled world, is the only complete, step-by- step account — and the only book on the case with no . Fete ae i - SOM EAL STOOL, an Aen. wee ws steak eat oat a Lies el tion t to a true, hair-raising apy story.” In that introduc- tion, Mr. le Carré describes the book as “brilliant.” Others bave called it “the spy story of the century,” Whatever else it is called, Tar Pioiay Conspiracy takes on added meaning because, above all else, it is documented. Authenticated” 7a . To be published this week. A Book-of-the-Month Club Selection. With 16 pages of photographs, 35.95 at all booksellers. Page?