PHILBY AIDS PROPAGANDA TO BRITAIN

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP70B00338R000300220037-1
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 15, 2005
• Sequence Number: 37
• Publication Date: October 2, 1967
• Content Type: NSPR

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Britain.
I understand that Philby, 56, is
working on a project to give a
fresh new look " ' to Russian
publications sold in Britain.
'Throughout the summer he has
been preparing material for the
mopthly digest Sputnik which will
be published in Britain by the
international Publishing Corpora.
Lion.
The I P C signed an agreement
with the Novosti Press Agency. of
Moscow, in May to publish
Sputnik throughout the l ngliah=
speaking world,
IMPROVING CONTENT
Turgid articles
preparing for the British market
the turgid and thoroughly-cen-
sored articles which have been
earmarked for Sputnik.
I was told recently: "Philby
will give a professional touch to
the magazine. He is working flat
out to make it thoroughly read-
able."
The Russians are said to be
desperately anxious that Sputnik
will make a major impact on
British readers and that the I P C
should continue to show interest
in publishing it.
The sales of other propaganda
publications, Soviet Union and
Soviet Weekly, are small and are
static.
P'hilby's closest friend in Mos-
cow is known to be Donald Mac-
lean, the diplomat who defected
in 1951. Maclean told me to-
night: " I am sure Kim will get to
hear of the publicity about him.
I am equally sure he will not
comment on it."
uy JOHN %IILLEK
MOSCOW, Sunday.
J,USSIA is employing Kim-
Philby, now revealed as
having been one of its major
agents, to direct a propa-
?anda campaign aimed at
Improving its ima a i
The pocket-sized magazine, in-
tended to be Russia's ' ansvfp-
to Reader's Digest, will contain
articles which have appeared in
Russian newspapers, magazines
and technical publications.
Philby, who has been employed
by the Novosti Press Agency since
he arrived in Moscow in 1963,'
has been working behind the
scenes to improve the content and
display of the material for
Sputnik. But his name will not
appear among the list of editors.
only man in Russia" capable of
MI 6 INQUIRY
Demand likely
OUR DIPLOMATIC CORRESPON-
PfiNT writca; Li6el059rc that
Philb began to work for Russlnn
intelligence In 1933 and was
probably the most important spy
they ever had in the West, are
likely to lead to demands for a
fresh investigation of the con-
duct of MI6, the British counter-
espionage department for which
he worked.
The department has already
been through one drastic over-
haul, mainly as a result of Philby's
defection in 1963.
Mr. Marcus Lipton, Labour M P
for Brixton, who in 1955 named
Philby as the "third man" who
warned Burgess and Maclean to
leave the West, said last night:
" There must be many red faces
in the Foreign Office and in our
security services. I was doubly
and trebly justified in 1955."
After Mr. Lipton's naming of
Philby, Mr. Macmillan, then
Foreign Secretary, gave Philby
complete clearance in the Com-
mons. In 1963 Mr. Heath, then
Lord Privy Seal, said Philby had
worked for Russia " before 1946.'
The weekend reports about
Philby say he recruited Burgess
and Maclean for Russian intelli-
gence in 1935. The Foreign Office
last night said, predictably, that h,
had " no comment" to make.
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