30 - YEAR SOVIET SPY CAREER REVEALED

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000600330063-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 21, 2000
• Sequence Number: 63
• Publication Date: October 2, 1967
• Content Type: NSPR

CPYRGHT-
to being, named head or the. entire British counter-. headed the Washington staff, working closely with
intelligence network,_MI-C the CIA and the FBI. Philby's:.closest brush with .
chief'bf Britain's anti: Soviet section and came close -' intelligence' in Turkey, and two years later ' he
read'like an incredible spy novel. 'directed against the Soviet,Urton. - `.
don ,newspapers pieced together an account yester- his career rose rapidly.-By the end of 1944 he
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old rather in Moscow two weeks ago. "I have. come When World War U broke' out,. Philby's
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casting Corp. commentary that he met his 55-year- Franco side -of the Spanish civil tsar.
i.:entrat inteiugence agency. counts. During the late 1930s, Philby masqueraded
Russians for 30 years. Philby:,-, once was Britain's rier, the papers said. I-Ie soon graduated to higher
chief liaison man in Washington. with America's level Soviet intelligence work, according to the ac-
Phi!: the British spy who defected to Moscow in versity in 1933. One year later he ? beoAn i lnna
London - 1e son ot Harold (Kim) . u y was graduated from Cambridge Ifni
? Soviet spies that their activities had been uncov-
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Guy Burgess were abl
e to flee to the Soviet Uniorr_;i!
1 came under suspicion and he was drotined from.
j., the Washington assignment. - ?'
i1 Slowly, however, Philby worked his way back:t'
correspondent for the British newspaper, The Ob1;i'
Philb
server.
y continued his doubleagent activities-.1
until 1961
when a So
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tions about his history with the Soviet s
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rniloy, still working ' in Beirut, fled to': Moscow r iny,
963 when informed. that ; a 'case,-was:`~being vcm
giled against him
Approved For Release 2001/07/27 : CIA-RDP75-00149R000600330063-4