SOVIET SPIES AND 'MCCARTHYISM'

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000600330004-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 21, 2000
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: December 23, 1967
• Content Type: NSPR

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SANTA MONICA, CAL. -
OUTLOOK
E-32, 312
DEC 2 3 1967
5oviet spies
it. appears h a e ; ovie
ment has good reason to donor
ndiscriminately.; McCarthyism:",.
:i at assumption is borne out by his re- that they were reluctant t6 reveal the
eiying. one of the: U.S,S.R.'s highest activities of Reds in the: Oct. 21-22
onors, the Order of the Red Banner. "peace" march on the 15entagon for
a Russians do net make such awards. fear it would unleash '.'a new wave of
i e to oscow rom eirut,
Lebanon, where he was a correspondent
fora London newspaper, having quit the
British intelligence service when it ap-
peared his colleagues were closing in on
him in the late 1950s. Last September,
the London Sunday Times and the Ob-
server reported that Philby had been
confronted in Beirut late in. 1962 with
the evidence against him and that in
January of 1963 he escaped to the Soviet
Union.
The Iiive6fia artioie i6 a remindcr
that when the CIA gave llritish Intelli-
gence some al Ing tips about Philby
back in 1955, the Tory former Prime
Minister Macmillan termed the allega-
tions "McCarthyism." There was "no
treason to conclude that Mr. Philby
had at any time betrayed the interests
,of his country," said-the prime minister.
As a London Telegraph writer put it at
the time, "the word McCarthyism has
the paralyzing effect of nerve gas."
,:' gent, working with the American Cen- Unfortunately,, fear of this smear
ral Intelligence Agency, he must have word used by liberals still protects those
assed on to Moscow at least a few of of the far left. A recent example was
Washington's and London's top secrets. the statement of government officials
ulsome praise In connection with the
bservance of the 50th anniversary of
1o KGB, ithe initials repmonting tho
ussian words for State Security Com-
ittee, the secret police. Izvestia d-is-
losed to the people of the Soviet Union
or the first time that Philby was one of
hem, having fled to Moscow five years
go. As might be expected, U.S. offi-
ials discount the Kremlin's and Phil-
y's claims as "part of a series of Soviet
abrications."
However, during the years he mas-
ueraded as a loyal British intelligence
And 'i'AcCarthyism' .
govern-
the ren-
egadd British master spy, Harold A.
R. (Kim) Philby, as it did with an ar-
ticle in the Dec. 18 issue of Izvestia
l hadlined, "Hello, Comrade Philby."
he former double agent, who obtained
S. and British intelligence secrets
or Moscow while pretending to be work-
ng for London, is characterized by Iz-
estia as a hero of communism.
The turncoat spy was granted such
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