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FROM SUBJECT: UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT . Memorandum aw oy Ae ee Het ue mee e e =e HAROLD ADRIAN RUSSELL PHILBY, Also Known As Kim Philby ESPIONAGE - RUSSIA SE RGA ppeen e tm sO a ow ae eT a The purpose of this memorandum is to comment on the various criticisms and remarks made concerning the Director and the Bureau by Philby, former British intelligence officer and admitted Soviet agent presently in Russia, in order that 1 may be aware of the true facts. Philby's Statement: In Chapter IV, Pages 87-88, Philby discusses the operations of the British Security Coordination (BSC) under William Stephenson in New York which Philby states were regarded "sourly" by the Director; that the real reason for the Director's resentment was that Stephenson was playing politics in the Director's own yard and that he never forgave Stephenson for the part he played as "mid-wife and nurse" to the Office of Strategic Service (OSS); that the setting up of the Legal Attache Office in London, England, was to by-pass Stephenson by shifting the weight of liaison to London, Philby further states that the Director's career "has been all politics." ( si