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1 ; rN Tole6n A 0-20 (Rev. 7-27-67) C Cc pdcoach Mohr “ Bishop ». - Casper ———___ Callahan : i ' - a Conrad __ 4 ( i. , Gale : } on nN, / Rosen ; , \ Sullivag. Tavel Trotter Tele. Room Gandy : { \ DELETED COPY SENT A Co Dee F BY LETTER alg’ vt PER FOIA REQUEST 313A HFR - PHILBY 3/14 NX ADV FOR 6230 P.M, EST GUM MARCH 17 NEW YORK (UPI)=-XIM PHILBY, TEE BRITISH SOVIET SPY WHO VAS GIVEN POLITICAL ASYLUM 1963, DECLARED SUNDAY HE HAD NEVER BEEN A DOUBLE ACENT BUT HAD WORKED’ FOR 30 YEARS AS "A STRAIGHT PENETRATION AGENT WORKING IN THE SOVIET INTEPEST.* IN A SHORT BICGRAPHY, "MY SILENT WAR,".SOON TO BE PUSLISHED BY GROVE PRESS, PHILBY GIVES EVIDENCE OF BEING IRRITATED BY WRITERS WHO HAVE DESCRIPED HIM AS BOTH A DOUBLE AND TRIPLE AGENT. WRITING FROM MCSCOW, HE SAID HiIS LONG CONNECTION WITH THE BRITISH SECRET INTELLIGENCE SERVICE (SIS) MUST BE SEEN "AGAINST MY PRIOR TOTAL COMMITMENT TO THE SOVIET UNION WHICH I REGARDED THEN, AS 1 DC NCW, AS THE INNER FORTRESS OF THE WORLD MOVEMENT." PHILBY, THE THIRD MAN IN THE SENSATIONAL BURGESS -MACLEAN SPY CASE OF 1551, SERVED AS TOP SIS OFFICER IN WASHINGTON FROM 1949 TO 195} AND WORKED IN LIAISON WITH THE CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY (CIA) AND FBI. HE DESCRIBED FORMER CIA CHIEF ALLEN DULLES, WHO HAS BEEN CALLED PHILBY "THE BEST SPY THE SOVIETS EVER HAD." AS 0 ; “BUMBLING" THAT HE WAS LATER PUZZLED BY PRESIDENT KENNEDY 's MISTAKE IN TAKING DULLES* ADVICE ON THE BAY OF PIGS INVASION oF CUBA, AS FOR HIS ALMOST DAILY CONTACTS WITH THE Fei'S J. EDGAR HOOVER, PHILBY SAID: "IF THERE WAS EVER A BUBBLE REPUTATION, IT IS HOOVER’S." PHILBY NOTES THAT HOOVER WAS UNABLE TO’CATCH MACLEAN, BURGESS, COL, RUDOLF IVANOVICH APEL AND OTHER SOVIET SPIES WORKING IN THE UNITED STATES, BECAUSE FE IS "A GREAT POLITICIAN," HCOVER STCOD BY WHILE THE LATE SEN, JOSEPH MCCARTHY STIRRED UP A°’NATICNWIDE SPY FEVER BECAUSE UNDER SUCH CONDITIONS "NO CONGRESSMAN OULD DARE TO OPPOSE INCREASED APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE FBI." HE SAID. THE MASTER SPY SAID HOOVER SUFFERED THE DEGRADATION OF HAVING BRITISH SECRET AGENTS OPERATING ON U.S. SOIL IN 1940 WITH THE IMPLICATION THAT THE FBI WAS NOT CAPABLE OF DEALING WITH SABOTAGE ON AMERICAN SOIL. UNDER BRITISH SECURITY COORDINATION 'S. (BSC) WILLIAM STEPHENSON, PHILBY SAID, BRITISH | ACENTS "COMMITTED MORE ACTS OF SAEOTAGE’ THAN THE WHOLE OF THE GERMAN-BORN COLONY IN THE UNITED STATES.® STEPHENSON "INTERFERED" WITH SUPPLIES BESTINED FOR THE AXIS;NATIONS AND HIS STRONG BOYS "BEAT UP OR INTOXICATED" THE CREW, OF SHIPS LOADING THESE SUPPLIES, PHILBY SAID, STEPHENSON LATER PLAYED "MIDWIFE AND NURSE®" To THE CFFICE OF STRATEGIC SERVICE _4e0SS), AN OFFICE VHICH COMPETED WITH THE FBI FOR FEDERAL FUNDS AND DESTROYED HOOVER /S MONOPOLY INTE INVESTI GATIVE FIELD, HE SAID. a - oo ey NOT RECORL” ares DIMAR2 01968 \e WASHING? OMAR APGTIGGBNEWS SERVICE LE 5 Piet of : . oe +e at oe He i ee a eT eet rites Haag lig te ae PE ie ee a ae ee Rae Ca Po RL ae a! A : ie ™ iirc ation "ee Reuters am Pn so f. ein ta el be ihe sath hols Se EE, OC Rae Banaed irs” | j 1