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\Philby,inTat er lew, | Says He Woujd Spy For Russigy’s Again By ivi SHUSTER - if -, Special (tbe New Yor Tags || | LONDOM) Wednesday, Nov. - il5—Harol€ Philby said in an interview published here today that he had no regrets over hig 30-year career of spying for the Soviet Union and would do it all over “if T were young again in Britain today.” *,.' 0°" Philby, a ranking British in- telligence agent who defected! to the Soviet Union, in 1963, said that he led his Wife as a double agent because he want- eg. to “fight for Communisf:" d was “prepared to subjugdte everything in pursuit of t pase.” nn - “T would do row,” he said. a ‘Mentality of a Traitor* . He was interviewed by Roy Blackman, Daily Express re- porter in Moscow, in-a restau- rant there.- Officials of the Jt again tomor- “hounding” Philby.’ ' The Sunday Times, which published a series of articles on the career of Philby in re- cent weeks, indicated in one of its pieces that Philby had asked for money. for his personal story. ms " ~ Inan editorial note, The Ex- Press saiq -phat, the interview conid i ue Dae spptaine whthouf, -2pproval. of t - mee 4 eb See en . Sdviet authorities, “whose m tives for discrediting the Bri ‘ish and. Western intelligence services are obvious.” But it said that it was publishing the: interview because it provided! an insight “into the mentality, of a traitor.” | Philby. had remained inac:! cessible to Western correspond-| ents. in Moscow since he ar-! - trived from Beirut, Lebanon,; four years Sago. He was s¢eni Sunday night at the concert of: the Moscow State Phiiharmon-! ie, but said only that he had, inothing to say. anol * The Daily Express, which in- cluded pictures of Philby and k F N62: NOVi2 Set Sey place between “drams of vodka‘ “I cannot Wy Wytonversion) happened at any fixed point of time,” Philby is quoted as say- ing, “but I do know that after two years of painful thought I had made up my mind in June, 1833.” Calls Job Easy He said that jt had not been difficult to reach a high posi- tion in British intelligence, “I just arranged things so that I waa invited,” he added. Philby. regarded as the most important Soviet agent to pene ate the Western intelligence community, at one point head- ed the British anti-Soviet intel- ligence operation. In the late! nineteen-forties he was sent to Washington to work with the Central Intelligence Agency, which was then getting organ- ei He left the British intelli. gence service in 1955 2nd con- tinued his spying as a journalist until his defection. Philby said in the interview that, since his arrival in Mos- cow, “I have been treated with gh honor and great cansidera- n” and that “T cannot really! Bard my life as being pne of, rdship.” On British intelligence by said that the British Gay- ‘ernment had great difficulties dn finding the right men to run their intelligence services. Mili- tary me “have never really shone” in this field, he said. Discusses Matives “Iam surprised that the \Americans were not better led,” he added. In discussing his motivation for turning Communist, Philby recounted hig feelings in the thirties. eh “The background of my thinking was the economic crisis and massive unemploy- ment throughout the capitalist wold and the appareng help- Jespness of existing ‘f6y1 deal! with it. What a di tute it was." 1‘ : Asked by Mr. Blackman what h missed of English Sife, Philby said that he missed beer and oysters, an occasional afternoon at the soccer matches and some friends. some things he did not mind being without, listing “the ex- pense-account lunch, British railways, the Beaverbrook press, lall the humbug about police, ibank holiday, _ The iB lish ‘Channel, the rising cost of liv- ing, the Oxder_ab the British Empire.” i Te! Ea a ‘and glasyes of white Georgian} ai ee] ener 7 eng Oe eee, a ta! ea ‘ a“? * Bag a aa 2 boa oy aS ee et 5, nt “ae ee ta, ny ve tay . a 7 a DELETED COPY SENT Ac LETTER S| estas. But he added that there were! PER FQ RMUCST po : ae PLih ena) Bishop —____.- Casper Caliahan Conrad Felt Gale Rosen Sullivan Tavel Tratter Tele. Room Holmes . The Washington Post Times Herald The Washington Daily News The Evening Star (Washington) ” The Sunday Star (Washington) Daily News (New York) Sunday News (New York} New York Post The New York Times 7a The Sun (Baltimore} The Worker 2 ~The New Leader “The Wail Street Journal The National Observer People’s World Date _# <9 bas Z + NOT RECORDED 47 i0V 21 196, ~—reme ee ee - wee air: . Hin es 2 ‘a Ieee aiedl “Oe 235 - oy 1 na Ty Me To