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gM | | i rt: | Cy QS ,- Memorandum W. A. Branigan to W. C. Sullivan i “a ie REVIEW; "THE THIRD MAN" conclusions such ag his atatement on page 136 that the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) investigation showed Donald Maclean was bandled by Arthur Adams during part of his stay in the U.8. In order to make this sound reasonable, the author refers to Adams as a KGB (Committee of State Security) agent when in truth Adams was a JGRU (Soviet Military Intelligence) agent. Again on page i162 he [Evo ss during the investigation of Colonel Rudolph Abel by the FBI, two witnesses identified a photograph of Philby as a person they had seen at Abel's studio in 1951. This, of course, is pure fictions Thete are several other instances in the book where the author exercises his imagination in order to make all the pieces of this case fit into his own preconceived notion of exactly how this case developed... The balance of the book tells the story of the flight of all three of these individuals behind the Iron Curtain,, the death of Burgess, and marriage of Philby to Mrs. Maclean. It adds nothing new to the case. ( 5 Bureau files show that E, 7 Cookridge, whose true name is Me, has written several books on espionage. have previously told us that he prepares his books from Overt sources such aS newspaper articles and other publications. His most recent book was entitled "Shadow of a Spy" which purported to tell the story of George Blake, British intelligence office who was a Soviet agent. |, © THE PUBLISHER: * —_-—aaae The publisher of this book is Arthut Barker, Limited, _ of London, England. Bureau files contain no identifiable gp) information relating to this company. \r" MENTION OF THE FBI: ? On page 163 the author quotes from the "FBI Story” the order attributed to the Director after the secrets of the atomic bomb had been stolen "to find the thieves." He says this order put every FBI Agent on alert and over 80 Agents were kept busy for mont. on", . . the rather paltry case against Judith Coplon -- a case which was finally thrown out by the U.8. Supreme Court.” In furthe ance of the Director's order he states that ". . . forgotten suspec were run ith and put through third degree interrogations." In this paragraph the author is running down the importance of the Coplon | caze and shows the Bureau in « bad light when he refers to thiga degree interrogations. - ( ACTION: For information, It is recommended fat this book bg, piaced in the Bureau Library. v4 \ aca / , *) on ore ee