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Cc . Philby Says He's Happy- Over Red Spy Charg SCOW (UPI)--The Stam- meng Kremlin spy accused of pendtrating American and Brit- ish $s pionag e headquarters simed today and said he really wouldn't Mind doing it all over again. Harold Philby, the upperclass Englishman said to have served Moscow while heading Britain's anti-Seviet spy network, emerged for the first time from Soviet espionage shadows and talked with Western newsmen in ann hint #2 Mae “68 mDSCUnW NOLL, Philby ‘seemed pleased with himself. : Faced with British charges that he stole enough secrets to earn the title as the twentieth century’s greatest spy, Philby waggied a finger only once with a correction. He said it most certalnly was not true that he began spying in 1843, as reported in London. it 28 in 1933, he said happily, And ¥? _Phiiby, stammering still at imes, said he became a Com- munist agent during the great depression, “The dilemma af the working class people was fright- ful,” he said. “That's why I did ft—l would do it again tomorrow,” he said, Any regrets? “I do miss the casual access to my children, although in fact I think I see as much of them as Y would have had I remained a foreign correspondent ' (one of > his spy “cover” jobs),” Philby said. Record In Top Spots He waid he was “never hap- pier, certainly never healthier” than during the last four years In Moscow since he skipped away from Beirut. Behind him, according to Brit- ' ish official and press reports, lay: Spying for the Soviet Union “while serving as wartime British say chief for Spain, Portugal afd Africa. {§pying for the Saviet Union ile serving as organizer and Hef of Britain's anti-Soviet es-it to newsmen. Mie : HAROLD” PRILBY one TRE alia alee pionage network at the end World War II, Spying for the Soviet Unio while a liaison man in Washing ton for Britain's M. I. 6 espio- flage organization, London's equivalent of Washington’s CIA, __Being asked for and advising U. §. security officials in those years on organizing the CIA. Being the “third man” who tipped off British diplomats Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean in time for the pair to make their famed 1951 flight to Moscow, steps ahead of British counter- spies. That Was Undoing According to British reports, it was Philby's known friendship with both Burgess and Maclean that led to his undoing. Eased out of sensitive fields, he re- turned to being a foreign corre- spondent, fleeing at last to Mos- cow in 1963. Some things Philby refused to talk about. This included his re- ported marriage to Maclean’s ex-wife, Melinda, She and Philby were spotted at a Moscow con- cert only last week. He indicated he enjoys very much life in a comfortable apartment supplied by a grate- ful Kremlin. He refused to show DeLoach Mohr Bishop Casper Callahan Conrad Felt Gale Rosen Sullivan Tavel Trotter Tele. Room Holmes Gandy |W AW Cc ; RELETED COPY SENT ACG acu rd SY LCHER GP fae PER FIA REQUEST The Washington Post Times Herald The Washington Daily News . The Evening Star (Washington) é The Sunday Star (Washington) Daily News (New York} Sunday News (New York} New York Post The New York Times The Sun (Baltimore) The Worker The New Leader The Wall Street Journal The National Observer aulonal Ob er ee People’s World oe ~ . . f meas ff NOT RECORDED — TAR NAV An 1989 . aT tue ~fi.f wmv oF ¢