BRITISH FEAR RED SPY PLOT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP70B00338R000300220030-8
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 15, 2005
• Sequence Number: 30
• Publication Date: October 7, 1967
• Content Type: NSPR

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Wed MacLean's Ex-Wife
BIiITISH. FFR Blake spied seven pears for
the Soviet Union while working
for British intelligence and, the
RED_SPY.PLOT Foreign Office
: Philhy the hilhy story brake;
followed by a disclosure that
'~ Philby had divorced his third
Charge Disclosures Aim;~,wife in Moscow and married the
At Hurting U.S. Ties ' 51-year-old ex-wife of a fellow
defector, Donald Maclean.
Maclean, a British diplomat,
London,, Oct. 6 (A'1--The mend was a link between the British
who.guard Britain's secrets are. and American atomic establish-1
convinced that the Soviet Union` ments while he was first secre-I
has':launched a deliberate cam- tary at the British Embassy in1
paign to 'discredit British intel-; Washington. He and Guy Bur-'
ligenince services and poison rela-i gess, a fellow diplomat, fled;
~tio between London and Britain May 28, 1951.
Washington= , Government infor- Philby.,appears to have been}
mans report. the key -man in the Soviet es-I
There has been a wave ol; pionage apparatus uncovered so,
revelations of how the Russians far.
' placed British agents in key Accotlding to his son, Philby
positions to obtain American; was first recruited by the Rus-
'andBritfsh secrets. The disclo-.sians in'Vienna in 1932 within
sure$ tend to discredit British' months of his graduation from
intelligence and security servi-; Trinity.. College, Cambridge.
ces..' Burgess was a classmate; Mac=
Out iata sugpaet that the re lean a year behind tt9bir~.
velatfons may be retaliation for: In Vienna Philby married a
wid ;publicity on Svetlana All'- Hungarian who was working
luyeira's defection and her me for the Communists, and began
moirs, and for the recent book' his undercover career as a cou
of Greville Wynne, a British: rier while working for a London
business man imprisoned in: literary gazette.
RuZia and exchanged last fall; After covering the Spanish
for a.'convicted Soviet spy, qor-; Civil War for the London Times,
don' Lonsdale. Wynne told of lie returned to London and was
acting . as a British agent in
recruited by the British Foreign
Russia:. Service , and, shortly before the
Agent For 30 Years . outbreak of World War II, by
4 TM'biggest disclosure was by' British intelligence.
Harold Philby-that he had been As head of the counter-espion-
a SgTiet agent for 30 years,' age division, he was charged
durilig: most of which time he.', with uncovering foreign agents
1 held: 'critical . post. in the Bri-, and -feeding them false or mis-
tish` ntctlf'genc~.,Service. it leading information. He re-
Philby broke this news aftcri cruited Burgess and Maclean,
four years' silence in Moscow, ' for the Russians _,;:
where he is working for a ` .
Soviet publishing agency. Bri-
tish officials are convinced Phil-
by would never have made the
disclosures without prior per-
mission from the Kremlin.
The wave of disclosures be-
gan September 21 when Com-
munist sources in London leaked
the news to British newspapers
that an Irishman, Sean Bourke,
I had called. at the, British Em-
bassy in..Moseow and admitted
he had ,helped George Blake
escape #fom a London prison
where h e .was .serving . a 42-year
sentence;. ' _ _ . _.. , ... .,
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