THE TRUTH ABOUT KIM PHILBY'S DOUBLE SPY CREER IS SO INCREDIBLE, IT TOOK THE WESTERN WORLD 30 YEARS TO BELIEVE IT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01350R000200270020-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
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• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 27, 2004
• Sequence Number: 20
• Publication Date: May 12, 1968
• Content Type: NSPR

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BOOK WORLD
The Washin ?n Post
12 b? .y 1968
-I .ave no reason to conclude that Mr. Philby has at
.any .ise betrayed the interests of his country," said
Harold Macmillan in 1955.
the time the Foreign Secretary gave " per-
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sonal assurance to Parliament, Harald Adrian Russell
Philby had been a dedicated agent of the Soviet Union
for 22 years.
The Kim Philby for whom the future Prime Minister
spoke was a fellow member of the Establishment that
had always dominated their nations affairs. The on
of an eccentric, Kiplingesque empire builder, Philby
was the product of a good public school, an excellent
Cambridge college, and the right London clubs. This
was the man who had entered British Intelligence in
1940, who set up in 1944 the special new section to
deal with the Soviet Union, who was sent in 1949 to
act as "link xnan" with the C.I.A. in'Washington, who
until 1951 was being groomed to head the Secret
Service.
And the real Philby was a lifelong Communist who
was recruited by the Soviet intelligence organization
when he was only 22. The real Pizilby was a master,
of duplicity who earned a Fascist decoration. on his.
a rst Communist assignment. From the' mica-forties'
through the coldest years of the Cold War, he used
his official positions within both American and British
intelligence to destroy Allied operations, silence or kill
Allied agents, protect a major atomic spy, and with-
hold vast quantities of intelligence about Russia.
This was the Kim Philby who served as liaison offi-
cer with U.S. intelligence on a particularly sensitive
operation - and thus assured the bloody arriagc
of a C.I.A. project in Albania. He saw to it. that 'a
Russian defector named Volkov, who was about to .l''
turn over to the West the names of Russians agents,
got instead a feet-first ride to Moscow. And wlsen suss-
picion fell on him as the "third man" in the Inurgess-
Maclean affair, he escaped it with the same upj:er-class
charm he used on associates, friends, and four wives..
How did it happen? And why? 'Tan Puu.m( Corr-
strtinct, by the same London Sunday Times ;"Insight
Team" which first broke the details of Philby`s defec-
tion to a startled world, is the only complete,-step by-
step account - and the only book on the case with no
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political axes to grind and no ps:;,onal Co n -==c to
soothe or protect. As an advance reviewer in Publahl-
ers' .7eekiy notes: "No less an authority t' an Ic .n L
Carrc endorses what the authors say, in his introt ac-
tion to a true, hair-raising spy story. " in that int oduc-
tion, Mr. le Care describes the book as "brilliant."
Others have called it "the spy story of the century."
Whatever else it is called, Trw P .t?Y Co vsPIRACY
takes on added meaning because, above all else, it is
documented. Authenticated Tzwe.
To be published this .Week- A Boob-of-the-Month
Club Selection. With 16 pages of photographs, $5.95
at all booksellers. .
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