SOVIET SAYS KGB CAN OUTSPY CIA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000600330011-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 21, 2000
• Sequence Number: 11
• Publication Date: December 19, 1967
• Content Type: NSPR

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Ovlet Says KG .. ;charges in the article that ,thn
Can' Outspy CIA United States spies on this coun-
!..Pravda also charged that two
day, the, Soviet secret police got V pud
double praise today for recruit- hen they "Impudently peered".
ing Harold A. R. Philby, ' . a hrough a fence around an un?,
British spy, and for allegedly dentified Soviet "military ob-'
outsmarting many American ect" .- about 300 miles west of
spies, oscow.
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photo of-the former British in.. tatement confirmed the inci-
telligence official, the Soviet lent but said the Americans
Government newspaper Izvestia'' were improperly detained and
praised Philby as'a hero of com`1 `the accusations against them
munism. It was the first disclos. ere without foundation."
P
ure hilbyto, the who defected five people years s
that The two, Lt. Cmdr. Robert B.
ago, was In the Soviet Union, athurst of, the Navy and Lt.
"Second Homeland" ? ol. Robert E. Llichow of the
Since he came here after gain'- rmy, were arrested on the spot
ing access to many secrets oft. ut were later released. They
the United States Central Intel. ft the Soviet Union last spring
ligence Agency, Philby told , t the end of normal duty tours.
Izvestia, he had found his."sec-: -The 1'GB said in Pravda that
and homeland." t one ?time it caught a spy;
From the start of his career amed Afonov, who it . said
in British intelligence, Philby.- orked for United States Intel.,
police, the KGB. "I was happy ecret dispatches; the KGB said,)
"
oviet intemgence,
he asses. ight years with false military,
In'separate praise of the KGB, '.j formation
.
Pravda, the Communist party ? The K(;B, whose Russian In.
newspaper, said Soviet counter ials stand for the words State
espionage was so successful that ecurity Committee, celebrates,
Western agents' complain: "We fiftieth anniversary Wednes
try,. but the KGB stops us.""'' i ay ' .
f The ? United Stated : Entibaesy Fooled Allen, Dulles
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Philby
boasted in the Izvestia
rticle of his feats as a double
gent. and said he had complete,
"It was my job to plain, vari' -
us operations against the
viet Union and other Socialist
untries and then I had to tor=
do-,themmyself%... he..aaid. ;i
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Approved For. Release 2001/07/27 :. CIA-RDP75-00149R00060033;p,011-1