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{. | By HENRY RAYMONT . The forthcoming memoirs of at a Soviet in- teligences officer in . Istanbul who was Preparing to defect to the West fis to alert the Brit- ish Goverment in 1945 to the existence of three Soviet under- cover agents in its intelligpbnce service, ~ | But Mr. Philby writes th i was instrumental in preventing Moré specific information from ‘reaching London. The agents weré Ponaid Maclean, Guy (Burgess and Mr, Philby himself ~—all high British secret service officials, Mr. Maclean and Mr. Burgess defected to the Soviet Union in 1951, and Mr. Philby defected in 1963. , In an 85-000-word manuscript he completed last «summer in (Moscow, Mr. Philby writes that he Soviet official’s defection ‘was foiled, presumably after t. Philby notified the Soviet thorities. | Mr. Philby contends that he and his two associates were not detected mainly because of the -British Government's reluctance ito investigate anyone with their upper-class and university backeround ‘Dackeround, ‘ First Part Published The first installment of Mr. Philby’s account of his 30 ydars as a double agent is being phb- lished far (he first time in the West in the current issue of Evergreen Review, a monthl magazine of literature and poli- tics published in New York. A second installment is to appear in the magazine's May issue and the memoirs will be pub- lished by Wave Press next month as a@ book titled “My, Silent War.” ne n the manuscript of the baok, a copy of which becam avpilable to The New York Ties, Mr, Philby traces his! career in the British intelligence’ service, from 1940 until he be- came First Secretary of the British Embassy in Washington in 1949, in. charge of liaison) with the: United States Govern { fey ealarinlier wen dt won ment in saguri L¥ iiatcers. “ The maig themes are laxity and rivalriés in the British and American Intelligence agenci _ foment: anti-Communist s ‘nfent. in Eastern Europe * Ge cold, convoluted thinking _ Wequired in the + improb i ide a ‘Book by Phill ways He:Foiled © Detection ‘in’ 1945| es spy Harold A. R. (Kim)|__ Philby as AS 6 (093-4 2° ORBED ry Ma? 23 the failure of ‘alleged ‘plan Z t Mr. Philby, believed to be the moat important Soviet agent t! shave penetrated Western inte ligqgice, has lived in Mosco \sinde he fled to the Soviet U jon from Beirut, Lebanon, where . he was Middle Eastern corre- . \spondent of The Observer of Tianambiae ba crn London. Last LecemMmoer, ne Was acclaimed @ hero of the K.G.B., |the Soviet intelligence service, in connection with the 50th an- jpiversary of the Bolshevik Rev- ;olution. Two-Fold Purpose Seen The sudden attention given Mr. Philby and Moscow's au- thorization of the publication his memoirs in the West wer viewed by experts in Sovief!. policies as serving a two-folg, purpose to discredit Western! intelligence organizations and) toa improve the image of the} Soviet Union’s security serv.| ‘jees for its citizens. ‘ The manuscript is written as “a personal record” of what ‘Mr. Philby calls “the hazards of the long journey from Cam- bridge to Moscow.” Mr. Philby asserts that he became a Soviet agent in 1933 out of Commu- nist conviction gained at Cam- bridge and that he was recruited -into the British secret service by Mr, Burgess in 1940. But he offprs no ‘details, how. he ,firet t Mr-'Butgess and Mr.- Mac- at the university, nor does ha fdontifu any of hie Soviet ate SMS SERED eaty MS aeew be contacts. ; “During my period of serqice there was no single case fa consciously conceived operation against Soviet intelligence bear- ing fruit,” he writes. ' The tip to the British Gov- -ernment that could have led to the exposure of his spy ring, he says, came from a Soviet jintelligence agent identified as Konstantin Volkov. Assigned to Case . Mr. Philby says he prevented more specific information from reaching London by getting himself assigned to the case “because it nearly put an end to a promising career.” By phe time he arrived in Istanul, t weeks after Mr. Volhov, st made contact with [he itish, inquiries at the Soviet hassy were greeted with a 968 2 térse “Volkov'’s in Moscow.” _ | amen a DeLoach Mohr Bishop Casper Callahan _._ Conrad Felt Gale Rosen _ Sullivan Tavel Trotter Tele. Room Holmes - Gandy un , } - DELETED cobrseine PAS Dy werrres -. Hf L277 fh ae OV LETTER G0? | PER FOIA ROQNEST The Washington Post Times Herald The Washington Daily News é OR AC} The Evening Star (Washington; —_ The Sunday Star (Washington} Daily News (New York) Sunday News (New York) New York Post The New York Times PT. _ The Sun (Baltimore) The Worker “The New Leader The Wall Street Journal The National Observer People’s mn Date 4 % on — =