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Wl ase = anaete— LONDON. : of he was working as a correspondent. Se of two British weeklies, The Observer tye ‘and The Economist. Soon afterward, ‘| Edward Heath, then the Government spokesman, announced in answer to a question in the House of Commons ate . «¢ | that Kim had skipped to the Soviet)... Union. He added that, contrary to. es what his fellow spokesman Harold Ja ® “|| Maclean and Guy Burgess in 195], “} enabling them, too, to defect to . Russia. | ‘t : *""- It was only about a year ago that: -’ "| bits and: pieces of evidence began to|. : : add up. ‘The‘clean escape of still; - : another traitor, George Blake, from: was now. separated from him and. <| ready to. talk It looked as if we: “Thad underrated his importance as a. double agent. The Sunday Times of London started a worldwide investi-. gation and hired me as consultant.’ Our report has appeared over the last _ | month and has startled many people |. Lin the United States as well as Britain. " George Brown's antics at the Savoy. " Hotel on Noy. 1, it has startled him. So it's worth saying-~contrary to * Mr.. Brown's assertion: then to The . - Sunday Times’ publisher and other. -diners that the report “helped the’ ‘4 Russians’ - which the}Communists did not enw ts. | already, though it probably had ‘the’ :| salutary ef ect of showing them that ‘anh "iGe3, “adnan | Bags known to ail as “Kim,” fpeTred from Beirut, where tipped off his fellow traitors Donald ~ Wormwood Scrubs Prison in London|.. ,} in 1966 had been a pointer. Eleanor| ” . :.| Philby, Kim's last wife in the West,}. To judge from Foreign Secretary | that it contained nothing |. . ~ _we knew fi fuure apout their Subversion’. Coa Jamies Bond, Could et wu Bed . Bishop MCwWOSdH - Mohr «Casper cane Callahan ~ Conrad Felt’. (Gale . Trotter. “ Tele. Room pM yo y . Holmes extteeet _By GEOFFREY McDERMOTT. 7 et ” Oe in ys “(For 30: ) years betore he skipped to ni “: Russia i in 1963, Britain’s upper-crust | - agent H. A. Philby lived one. of the mos. -successiul—and treacherous—lies i in a Ce spydom, and Lendon hasn eo v4 - GEOFFREY aMeDERMOTT .spent 27 wees TL yt fas years in” the’ British Diplomatic Service. Be He snow. serge on | foreign, tlttme ro tx £4} Macmillan had said in 1955, Kim was 7: : ¥ “| indeed the “third man" who had * would have preferred to continue to « - ’ live a quiet life with those facts under .. _ the carpet, where they had lain for ‘so long. My Foreign’ Office duties in. the a nineteen-fifties and early sixties had placed me fairly and squarely in the. middle uf ihe “Anglo-American intelli- gence community. . For some years I chalred the Joint Intelligence Com: mittee, which included representatives of our intelligence departments. Sir Patrick Dean, now British Ambassador . in Washington, was my immediate boss. Representatives of the C.LA. Sat in on our meetings, and in return the representative of the British: Secret Intelligence Service, otherwise, called MI6, was right in on- the- Aimerican intelligence setup in Wash-~ ington. Philby had been that man from 1949 to 1951. In 1956, I became Foreign Office adviser to the chief of “f we, shall sce, was another _¢rucial year, f for Philby. As a’ result of my position I was ..less bewildered than some by these: Hehilling, developments. I knew fram experience “that ' deception was one of Ago N wi _; than .thev -suspected. On: the, other, - . hand, it told the public in the West,‘ 3 who are not babies, some serious ~~~.” facts of life which they have every. right to know and to judge them- . selves. Of course, the authorities © -- - The Washington Post”. °. "The Washington Daily News People’ 5 World the S.1S., Sir Dick White. This, as “_ ¢ en NOT RECORDED i> =yCat OV 1'7 1967 - ay te veal Shere sic: ": Times Herald © The Evening Star (Washington} —_ ‘> The Sunday Star (Washington) __ Daily News (New York) Sunday News (New York) New York Post - The Sun (Baltimore) . The Worker The New Leader The Wall Street Journal The National Observer ent Date oa tps LETTER TER afi sh oe pS QUES ~ 4 aa! ©