EXPRESSMAN MEETS BRITAIN'S BIGGEST TRAITOR PHILBY TALKS

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• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 21, 2000
• Sequence Number: 27
• Publication Date: November 15, 1967
• Content Type: NSPR

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MEN EXPRESS
EDNESDAY NOVEMBER 15 1967
Weather: Sunny spells, showers
Is
Price 4d.
Expressman meets Britain's biggest traitor
PHILBY TALKS
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itifI were young
again in Britain today. . . and
I am sure there are such men,
Kim Philby?pictured at the Interview yesterday
From ROY BLACKMAN: Moscow, Tuesday
N a secluded Moscow restaurant today I came face to face
with double agent Harold "Kim" Philby, and for the first
time he answered some of the questions that have been
puzzling the world since his defection nearly five years ago.
quipping,
juking, and snapping
his fingers, fold nip iii
nervcius sLitiiiiiers 1?
" My purpose became
the tight for Communism.
I was prepared to sub-
tligate eve ry t hi in in
purmiit of that purpose.
" That is why I did it.
I would still do it if I Errors
ere v-oung again In
Britain today. And I am
sure there are such men."
Pit. he 151S Ing well for his
5:". years wo,e a red tie and not-
ton-wet:Mt ang Ru.-ttan hilt
when w e met by appointment
It. :s Lim" ytm talked.- I
still He renlited : Maybe it ts
t es,lt Ay seems to have hero
daung o."
?Philby the
traitor yester-
day gave the
first newspaper
interview since
he defected to
the Soviet
? The interview
could not have
been given
without the
approval of the
Russian
a othorities,
whose motives
for discrediting
the British and
Western Intelli-
gence services
are obvious.
?The Daily
Express p 0 It -
Ii sues this inter-
view. however.
because Philby's
015 n word,
reveal a vain -
able insight into
the mentality of
a traitor and
his ritas011? for
betraying Ii is
cou ntry.
arranged things so that I was
invited." That Was August 1940.
"I have never had any
regrets, except the obvious one
that with better and more
Intelligent work I might have
: rendered greater suceesses. '
I Even that was rustily not a
regret, said Phllby. " My Soviet
colleagues are generous in their
recognition that human will-
power and endurance has lib
limitations."
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Mrs he 0,1er:el:tat his wal trim
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2ti.ren ti.t w, 111,Y1 a Ilit lune
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ll' 1., 10th-US'WTI the N.ttional l'nion of Mine-
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j whit, 1..,,,per . PAGE TWO, COL SIX
Did he, I asked, make any
mistakes S " Clearly I can
identify many of my mistakes.
I wonder how many of them
the United States and British
Services can identify S I don't
propose to help them.
When Donald Maclean and
- Guy Burgess. the Foreign Office
? men defected to Rwsla in 1951
I'll thy was susaaseted of tipping
oil- I hal they were under
? u:SL):\Tat'n:t
it
. t lung: sutZgr,ted I ,tt?Is
matm" he said Italic.
I' But there was no ,v,deth'e.
JIBS so tuna 115 I stark to Inv
; :old did not drop my ;ward
knew I hada good chance. I
had been very careful."
That guard was described by
Pliitby as "rigorous self-
He said : I sustained it by
the ennvictmit that I was on
the right side, and also by a
determination to enjoy life to
t.te full w henever ditty per-
mitted. which happth till 'II
dal."
Price
aoced Orr], worth
it ? ?
Philby stroked li,s