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Cambridge Five Spy Ring — Part 32

121 pages · May 09, 2026 · Document date: May 11, 1966 · Broad topic: Intelligence Operations · Topic: Cambridge Five Spy Ring · 115 pages OCR'd
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——_——-—-— - a 4 “. nea eee : - W Pes Ht. “Peer (BIO, Philby Tells of His Spy Role 7 Herein Book Released Today While serving as a Soviet} in Washington he served as his imminent arrest and to SPY, Harold (Kim) Philby sat)British dintelligence Uaigon of-(take charge of Maclean's ‘ ‘Tes “jon a Special Policy Committee/ficer with both the CIA gndicue,” Philby writes. 7 in Washington which planned the FBI. . lingenious and Simple ; & and executed joint British-| He identifies his chicf con- The scheme was ingenious ; gence missions in Alba Peer _ in the OA as James An-land simple, although it re- , eton and Willi . tau : i ee Uleraine. 8 ee eton am Y. Howars. quired the unwitting coopera- Philby represented British , , Says, We ition ef Virginia Gov. John S. ' Intelligence on the Commit-/formed the habit of lunching Battle, British Ambassador Sir tee. Th® other members he:once a week at Harvey's .. (Oliver Franks and Secretary identifies as Robert Joyce,!He was one of the thinnest|of State Dean Acheson. Bur- representing the State Depart-/men I have ever met, and one gess was simply told to go out | Pou ment; Frank Lindsay of the/o¢ the biggest eaters. Luck and get arrested three times | Central Intelligence Agency, Jim” Yin one day for drunk and reck- and Earl. Jellicoe, from the|’"™ less driving in Virginia, Philby British Embassy, Joyce is now|/A Gentie Snore says. retired and lives in are ni He describes mecting Angle- |, Burgess did. Battle obliged Philby reveals this in his « y protesting vehemently ty memoirs “My Silent War,” re- ton . iret Pleasant ee in en the State Department. Th leased today by Grove Press) oo aered ho eto L 4 een|State Department obliged by in New York. suspected i Th ome ane protesting to the British Em- The clandestine operation in| "praia net ceom to apprech lene tane Ambassador Franks lAlbania, he contends, took ‘ not seem.to appreci-|obliged by sending Burgess place in 1949, and involved the|4'€ INE Bray ily Ot my personal jback to London pronta, Philby landing “of a small party”’in Po ohitbe dent iY, BAYS. ed as (ee ice | . Albania “to detach it... from|). in) vince af dinner at hisitisgea” in London, Burgess the socialist bloc.” He de- house one ni at dinner at hisjtipped off Maclean that scribes: the operation as “futile ousé one night and shoring British intelligence was gently until midnight when|aware of his spying for the his wife took him away.” He|Soviets, and both shortly flew CIA Is Silent . |adds that Howard “cooperated the coop to Moscow, Philby The operations in the well... in the construction of writes. Ukraine took place from 1949|the famous Berlin tunnel.’ ve Bu celal, creep be hee to 195), Philby writes, and in-)_ Philby says he once asked “ untae ‘1 ate Britich oarachutelFBI director J. Edgar Hoover volved BiA BLAMED PL BNE XK drops and “some” CIA cour-|what he “really thought” of jers. . {Senate Joseph R. McCarthy. “I do not know what hap-}He quotes Hoover as replying: pened to the parties con-/“Well, 1 ofteh meet Joe at the werned,” Philby writes, “but Ijrace track, but he has never aiven me a winner vet,” vale te” Ips mak Pethane aeaabiee Fe, 5 from the beginning.” « / ebs sr Fewoe nd mutes lean MAKE ai informed BuUtaS. giver mae & Winner ye | The CIA yesterday had no! Philby says that the expul., comment. sion of British diplomat-spy 1 “My Silent War" will be Guy Burgess from Washington {{must” reading in both thelin 1951—ostensibly for abus- CIA and the Federal Bureaujing his diplomatic status—-was jof Investigation, mat only forjall part of s Communist bon- its description of clandestine |spiracy. operations but also for {ts inti-| The Communists needed mate personal descriptions of|Burgess’ back in London the men he dealt with in both|quickly to warn fellow dipio- agencies. During his t two yeare mat spy Donald, Maclean of ba ane a0 _ ENCLOSURE
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