PHILBY A DOUBLE AGENT FOR 30 YEARS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000600330062-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 21, 2000
• Sequence Number: 62
• Publication Date: October 2, 1967
• Content Type: NSPR

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CPYRGHT
OCT 21867.
TOLD HIM THIS, SAYS SON
Dos" iob,
LONDON, Oct. 2, (UPI) - The
on of Harold "Kim" Philby, the
ritish spy who defected to Mos
ow in 1963, said yesterday his
athcr "worked for the Russians
r 30 years." Philby once was
ritain's chief liason man in
0e, ashington with the CIA. .
Philby's son John, 24, told a
ritish Broadcasting Corpora-
ion commentary he met his 55 -
car - old father in Moscow two
e e k s ago. "I have ? come
ome," he quoted his father as
Philby's career as a double =.
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I : ay pieced together an account 'Philby's old school friends re- clean four years earlier.
f his activities over three dee- cruited him into British intelli- Philby continued his double -
des that read like an incredible gence and his career rose rapid- agent activities until 1961, when
spy novel. ly. By the end of 1944 he headed a Soviet defector made allega-
Philby was so successful, by anew , counter -espionage de tions about his double - agent
these accounts, that at one time parttnent directed against the background and long history,
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he was chief of Britain's anti - Soviet Union. with the -Soviet spy system.
was named Philby; still working as a corre-.
Philb
y
I Soviet section and came close to in 1947,
being named head of the entire Chief of British Intelligence in spondent in. Beirut, fled to Mos-
British counter intelligence net-, . -Turkey and two, years later, he cow in 1963 when informed that
work, MI - 6, before his. luck, ran , headed the Washington staff. a case.! was being compiled.;
out. Philby's closest brush with against him.
Philby graduated from Cam- discovery came in 1951 when he ? Philby's, son said his father
bridge University in 1933.. One tipped off two Soviet spies that ,now was working for a Russian`,
year later he began a long ca- their activities' had been uncov- news. agency on far eastern of-
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becoming a courier. He soon Maclean and agent Guy
graduated to higher level Soviet were able to flee to the Soviet
intelligence work. . Union because of?philby's warn-'
masqueraded as a pro - Nazi. Philby immediately came un-
journalist_and reported from the der suspicion from his American;
During the late 1930s; Philby
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colleagues and he was dropped , "I should think he ? far. re
from the Washington assign- lonely now," the younger Philbb
ment. said. "He is at last able to liv
Slowly,' however, Philby ' completely openly. He is a co
worked his way back into Brit- munist and it is a eonimuni
ish confidence. He was sent to' country and way of life." Philb
Beirut as. a correspondent for was granted Soviet citizenship;
the British newspaper the Ob-
server, one of the two which
printed an article on his activi-
ties Sunday.
The observer said it had been`
told Philby was no longer in the
spy business. But he was also in-
Beirut as a British counteres-',
pionage agent.
In 1955, former British Prime
Minister Harold MacMillan told'
the House of Commons that.
Philby was not the ."third 'man"