PHILBY TELLS RUSSIANS HOW HE SPIED ON WEST

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000600330010-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 21, 2000
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: December 19, 1967
• Content Type: NSPR

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Andropov, It was founded six
'*ceks after the Communist
seizure of power as the Cheka,
or Extraordinary Commission
Against Sabotage aria Specula-
S on o ore6n erv ce cusa coils which e U.S. ? m-twit 1 en Dulles, Frank
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o- bassy called "fabrications 1 ner and Frank Lindsay of the
viet security police, celebrat- without f o u n d a t i o It" C] A about organizing an anti-
ing its 50th anniversary this The organization, known Communist revolt "in one of
week, introduced British de- since 1954 as the Committee the Socialist countries in the]
fector Harold Adrian (Kim) on State Security. (KGB), is1Ba]kans." This.operation, which,
Ph'1b t R d
t
night.
In a five-column interview
produced for the government
newspaper Izvestia, Philby de-
scribed proudly how he had
outwitted Western intelligence
agencies during the 1940s and
:1950s and publicized his re-
cently completed book of
momaln-which big a acir tea
have been attempting, this far
unsuccessfully,, to place in
British and American news-
papers.
The Philby interview fol-
lowed an article in Pravda
earlier today' accusing two
f o 'r m e r. American military
;attaches here of espionage. in
FOIAb3b
as connected with a certain;
i fluential political grou.
i hich was always pushing him'
rward." .
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y o ussian rea cis
o-currently headed by, Yuri P,,Philby betrayed to his super-,
tion. Its leaders over the years
have included Henryk Yagoda,
Nikolai Yezhov and Lavrenti
Beria-all of whom died vi-
olent death o her+ allc1 Alex-
ander 6helepin, a member of
the present Politburo,
The Philby interview, added
little to what had been dis-
closed in British publications
UL
fors in the KGB who thereupon]
foiled it, was revealed earlier
this year to have been directed
at Albania, Why the I GB pre-
ferred to avoid mentioning its,
role in saving the Albanian re
gime of Enver Hoxha was not
known.
phllby ap peal'etl t9 rate the
ate don. Walter Bedell Smith
filghest of the various Intelli-
nce officials he met in
Washington between .1949 and
Philby said his conversa-1
ious character," and d'eait
hilby claimed that Hoover's(
eputy, Identified only asr
in Roosevelt was an agent of
he Communist International."
[In Washington, an ; FBI
pokesman said a man named
Milton Ladd had been a
eputy of Hoover, but h~d re.
red in 1954. The spokesman
eclired to comment
e
on th
zvestia article.)
The Pravda charges this
orning referred to an inci-;
lent in Orsha, the Ukraine. 18
onths ago involving Lt. Col.
obert E. Lilchow, the assist-.
nt U.S. Army attache, and Lt.;
'
omdr. Robert B. Bathurst, as-
]stant Naval attache. Both
len were ' sgb f &ptcd l w4A
Offieiaisi said was Nit.
roper detention" but stayed
n in Russia to complete their
ormal tours of duty last sum-
,
11951. He said Allen Dulles er. Pravda gave thei impres-
about the double agent's activ- "was attentive to people but' Ion that the Incident ad just
ities and was curiously. reti ip. fact treated them condos- ceurred..
ample, Philby described a talklered matters deeply and I
FOIAb3b
rtheless a dilettante. The
est proof of that was the ad.'!
hich resulted in such a:
haipeful failure. It is believed;
e occupied this post only;
anks to his brother, John,
oster Dulles P.hilby!
aid he had tried hard,to have
ood relations with Richard,
elms, the present director of
fie CIA. "He was an easy per.
on to work with, though he
as very reserved. He could
11ever have invented gunpow-
er-he's certainly no Walter
edell Smith . He Is more
f a politician than an expert
t his trade. As I was once
1d by an FBI officer, Helms.