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PHILRY CASE RAYS 0 DISTURB ALS Intellivence Aides - Retain! Faith in. the British By ALVIN SHUSTER Special to The New York Times LONDON, Nov. 4--The Amer-| icon intellicence community re-[ tains confidence in its British! counternart despite the recent] flurry of sny reports here, That is the judement expressed bv sources here and in Washing- un The -articles in the British press have covered old pround —namelv the case of Harojd ALR. “Kim” Philb who spied for the Russians or 30 years. He worked for British Inteiti- gence until 1955, continued his spying as a journalist, then four years ago defected to the Soviet Union, where he now lives. Some new details in the case have turned up, but United States officials say they have long known about Philby, worked with British officials the nineteen-fifties to expope him, and see no reason to fal that the articles jeopardigc Brftish- American intelligence refations. U.S. Spending More he United States, af course, has become the “big boy” in the intelligence field now and spends many times more than the $30-million or so the Brit- ish allocate for such activities each year. The United States for exam- ple, is far ahead on the tech- nological side with its compli- cated and sensitive electronics equipment and its Samos recon- naissance satellites, The Brit- ish have kept such expenses down. Despite the huge United States operation, sources in Washington, when asked about the present state of the rela- tionship, said the “British pull their weight” and have an “un- doubted genius” for intelligence work. - : As one put it: “What binds! us is common language, com- mon interests, common law and neither of us is a police state. In a democracy, you're going to have Phiibys inevitably. Mi-6, and MI-5 have both done a hell: of a good jab.” MI-6 is the serv- ice that deals with counter- espionage, while MI-5 deals with extematLintelligence ac- fivitias. 62 NOV 13 1967.3/7 oe, ol elec TA ae tet BT SF pag ay Ge de Tn ge < yt Po aa ac mires ae wa ee * . - oe ee ac Seetnie aee DeLoach . Bishop ouch praige by Americans o the British network was not Calla eard in the hineteen-fifties, oe perhaps the iow point in the Conrad relationship. This was because of the Philby case and the de- Gel fection to the Soviet Union by Gale former British diplomats who R ad worked in Washington— slliv Tey, Burgess and Donald Mac- Sullivan In those years, the eri- Trott c n and British intelli ence Trotter amenities were said tofhave Tele. Room Wed far apart. Where San increasing reluctance ees OP united States officials to Gandy are information with British and a clear unwilling hess to accept British security clearances automatically. The personality of the then head of MI-6 was also a factor in the declining relationship. Sir John Sinclair, a major gen- eral who headed military intel- ligence toward »the end of World War NI, was said to be! arena h i w mn American| nis had less igh-! oe regan an the high fi. ate ad ? 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 ASE The Sun (Baltimore) The Worker — The New Leader The Wall Street Journal The National Observer a) People’s World DELETED COPY SENT A -c.Odbnd” Date Lofcsfez | [. 5 Ja — | , 6S L7°YE A - | NOT RECORNED | na 17g NGV 9 1567 G - ——— ») a a bo S-@ OY 2 fale alice To aay i me A nate