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re ne ~My = \ England ever ourished—H, Phiiby. a arald % 9, G DECIDEDLY - TOPICAL twlat has been given w of the most on, I refer to General Walter Krivitsky, once the Head of lid¢ary Intelligence in Western pe, who defected to the United States; published & garish sequence of confessions in the Saturday Evening Post and was found shot. by @ hysterical Inaid, In a hotel room on Capitol Hill one morn- ing in 1941. Some 0.3, Intelligence experts how Jean to the theory ‘that Krivitsky was eliminated by Russian agents in order to pro- tect the ‘most dedicated traitor Thin, tense and enigmatic, Krivitsky ran Stalin's European Spy Network by posing as an Amsterdam art dealer—and sur. faced in the United States, Uttering dark warnings about the extent to whith Russia ‘iad penetrated the Western tntelli- ecnce Services. SPECIAL weno By special arrangement between Herbert Morrison—who, with Cabinet approval agreed to fact a5 sponsor — and Louls Waldman, a New York lawyer, Krivitsky was sent Secretly to England by submarine in 1939— and unloaded enough tnerimi. Rating evidence to canvict of espionage a code clerk at the Foreign Office named John Her. bert King, who was subsequently sentenced to 10 years, serving some of the time in the Tower Tt was an {nipressive per- formance, and the State Depart. ment immediately \ 2 3 MAY -6 196 / DEAT MAN IN THE TOWER Krivitsky = witty ~ passport. But, in London, an odd feeling persisted that el EVENING STANDARD. WEDNESDAY APRIL 11. 1908-9 H OF A GENERAL: \ AND HOW IT LINKS WITH PHILBY AND THE Arivitshy—the apy recatted 9) Morrison {right Was he liquidated te protect Philby ? an American he had still not told all he knew and early in’ 194] Suggested & second visit. Morrison Within days of this invitation Krivitsky was discovered dead at the Bellevue Hotel—the back of his head blown bullet. Stained of by a mushroom At his side, a blood- revolver and tour ambiguous farewell notes, Suicide has Uneasy official demise. But now that Krivitsky of long been the verdict on his tt is widely felt may have known Philby's " recruitment {nto Soviet espionage, The circumstantial evidence for this theory Is seductive . . ITEM: John Herbert King. the Spy Krivitsky exposed, was recruited by the English Com- munist Raugias Springhal)—so wus Philby. ITEM: wife, Elizabeth on Secrer Krivitsky met rewarded Both women were members of a 8 Philey met his first ohimann, while assignment for the Soviet Service in Vienna, where Ais wife. Tonia. £56 $0 Fk. DELETED COPY SENT A... yon” | } , f AAAS [ae EANEST limited circle of underground Communists. and almost cer- tainly knew each other, ~ ITEM: this) week, Isnaae Levine, who Bhost-wrote the generil’s memoirs, recalled that Krivilsky had one day made a teasing, cryptic reference to the preserice of a second traitor Inside the Foreign Office. whcse name was Scottish and: whose habits were bohemian—a super= ficinlly - accurate snapshop of Donald Maclean. SUICIDE a} “Iam convinced of two things,” Louis Waldman told ma trom his New York Law. Office, ‘First, that Krivitsky's death, Was not simple suicide. He had been informed by a messenger that a notorious OGPU assassin named Hans Bruesse had arrived im New York and towards the end he was grey with fear. “Second, he had further very damaging evidence to offer your Government.” Sn Evening Standard London Avril 17, 1968 go - b f Jey —_—_——= Zé a NA? Pre ooRDED oye J91 -may 2 1968