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RSLS Mohr Bishop Casper Callahan ——_—_ Conrad Rosen Sullivan Tavej —_____ “Philby talks of other double agents From KYRIL TIDMARSH Moscow, Dec. 18 Comrade Kim™ Philby, as cvestia deséribed “hint” tonight, laimed in an interview with the oviet Government newspaper that it knows of a growing number of ople in the western intelligence crvices who have “ devoted them- clves to the cause of international olidarity of workers "in the same ay as he has. Introducing him to the Soviet ple, Izvestia confirmed that Mr. ‘nilby had been responsible for vlorming “the Centre", as he atled hts Moscow security service satrolier, about an Anglo-Ameri- 4h attempt to overthrow com- aunism in Albania by means of uerrilla-famented uprisings. The scapade was a disaster, believed » have cost 150 lives, because, as cvestia put it, there was a staff iwmber of Soviet intelligence in i person of Mr. Philby facing tr. Alan Dulles, the Central uellipence Agency director dur- ig the meeting where it was fanned. Mr. Philby’s autobiography, out- ned to his Russian interviewer, lows closely the life history S3JAN1 0 1969 OA Tn aT tage x aise le IE ot aa xt tee sage soon : Cae yw ogo nt ev ne BN PUNE, seem, yor, tnt rr, Som ait ike ee one ae Ser mae et — 4 RAD, AOE ner or Bath, pal Go ~ Sean Lied te eavertanh ene ths ten bate som sae ye) sen ye om te ‘[BAPABCTBYHTE, TORAPHI OHNE: Tkpet, Ba Mg eet ory a8 a Wiel de Ocean tg Seni * Hello, Comrade Philby ”*, says the beadline under which an Izvestia interview appeared. assembled by the wesiern press. He said that while at Cambridge during the depression be made trips to Germany and Austria for summer holidays, and these proved to be decisive in his career, When Austria was flooded with the blood of workers, he said, “I understood on what side of the barricade my place was. I felt ceaselessly that my ideals and con- victions, my sympathies and will, were on the side of those struggling for a better future for mankind. The heroic Russian people, build- ing a new world, were the personi- fication of these ideas. " After searching “ agonisingly ™ for ways of being useful to com- munism, “the great movement of our time”, Mr. Philby said he found the way by joining the Soviet intelligence service, “I thought at that time, and still DELETED COPY SENT A( Groowe. a ( Saas “le ly besa aewest or ce A ee atl ese Sa STAI SE think, that in this work I served my own British people.” Asked if he were happy, Mr. Philby answered: “The greater pact of my life is behind me and, looking back over the years, I be- lieved I have not lived them io . vain. Yes, I] am happy. “T want to repeat for myself the words of Felix Dzerzhinsky, that knight of the revolution and great humanist: ‘If I could live my life again ] would begin it the way I did” [Dzerzhinsky was the founder of the Cheka, the Soviet security service, today known as the K.G.B] Mr. Philby said that he had just completed his memoirs. “ Within the framework of what is possible and reasonable ”, he said, he had cast light on certain moments of his Jife from the point of view of an intelligence officer. It is not The New Leader The Wall Street Journal entirely clear what he was bi at when he added that ‘ Pages of the book have a ai relevance to certain circles i number of western countries His meaning is probably they will discredit western sec organizations, or sow discord tween them. This appears tc his purpose in saying of bis W ington job as liaison officer tween the British security ser: and the C.LA. that “I was fa with the very delicate task of fending the British security ser: from the C.ILA., which was c stantly displaying the clear int tion of swallowing up its ally’ In the course of his narrat Mr. Philby states that Graham Greene, the novelist, ; Jan Fleming, the creator of Jai Bond, had worked for British telligence in the post-war peri: \ The National Observer j People’ s World 1G, Dad ot ANI Nn NTN Ate / } eee £24 Sel £oncen Deiat oi ane fut ya’ Date fPANG-GY J he a ES am =, Piet aen ier a a as eee ee ao,