PHILBY WAS SPY, SON TELLS BRITONS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000600330059-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 21, 2000
• Sequence Number: 59
• Publication Date: October 4, 1967
• Content Type: NSPR

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October f+, 1967
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London - Harold Philby, a
former top intelligence offi-
cial in London and Britain's ;
top i11tiY with t a i'a i
Russian spy for 34 years, his
son said on a radio-television
broadcast here. The elver
Philby, who told his son about
his spy career during the
youth's recent visit to ' Mos-
cow, had been named as the
third Zan in the Burgess-
MacLean defection in 1951
and reportedly tipped off the
two Soviets so they could flee
behind the Iron Curtain.
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