REPORT ON PHILBY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP70B00338R000300220035-3
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 15, 2005
• Sequence Number: 35
• Publication Date: October 20, 1967
• Content Type: NSPR

Approved For Release 2006/01/30 : CIA-RDP70B00338R000300220035-3
1(eport on Philby
LONDON f Harold Phil-
by's son confirmed that his
father had been recruited by
the Soviet secret service
early in the 1930s, years be-
fore he joined British in-
telligence and rose to its top
ranks.
The London Observer and
the London Sunday Times
both printed page-one art-
icles yesterday detailing
Philby's double role. The
son, John Philby, said that
when he saw his father in
Moscow, where the spy de-
fected after he was
exposed,
the eider PhilbY said, "I've
corriehome:"
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