THE SPY TRADE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000100050099-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 1, 1998
• Sequence Number: 99
• Publication Date: January 28, 1968
• Content Type: NSPR

T 28 Janua 19 Approved For Release : CIA-RDP75-0C
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arold "Kim" n y, 56,
master double agent who
spied for the Soviets while
he worked as an intelligence
chief for the British, has
penned in Moscow, between his seduc-
ions and benders, an untitled, 80,000-
Word manuscript of memoirs. I
If published, these espionage revela-
ions might well prove damaging to the
"BI and the CIA, because Philby worked...
?losely with both organizations for years.
r. 1949 he was temporary first secretary
t the British Embassy in Washington,
assigned the vital job of security liaison
vith the Americans., Consistently he
luped the best minds in our intelli-
gence agencies.
IIe helped Guy Burgess, an, old. Cain-
bridge classmate and a raging homo-
sexual who worked as a second secretary '
in the British Embassy and who lived
with him, pass top secrer information to
the Reds. He also joined with another
Cambridge chum and bisexual, Donald.
MacLean,hcad of the American Depart-
ment of the British Foreign Office,. in.'
BY LLOYD S H EAR E R
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Communist propaganda into the -Soviet
Union.
Philby first began to work for the''.:
Soviets in .1934 when he was graduated
from Cambridge. But it was not until
July 1962, when a Russian agent named
Anatoli Dolnytsin defected to the CIA,,
that we finally learned the truth about
him. The CIA notified the British, but
they moved too slowly, and Philby es-
caped to Moscow where his co-conspira-
tor, Burgess, died, and left him $5600.
Philby, four tunes married-his latest
is Chicago-born Melinda MacLean, whom
he stole from li(?r ex-husband Donald
MacLean. in N oscow last'year-is pre-
pared to withdraw his manuscript from
imminent publication. He is willing to
save British and U.S. intelligence serv-
ices further embarrassment if only the
British will release two Soviet spies, Mr.
and Mrs. Peter .ironer w;-,o are really
Morris 'and.Lona Cohen of, the Fsronx;
Philby was not only "The Third Man"
who warned Burgess and MacLean that
the jig was up and that they had best
escape to Moscow,. but in his trusted post.
at the embassy, he caused untold harm
to our agents.
He admits, for example, that he was
responsible. for one of America's worst
defeats in the cold war against Russia. In
.1951, he claims, he sabotaged the CIA
plan to start a revolt in Albania, which
Allen Dulles hoped would start a chain
reaction of rebellions in other Commu-
nist countries.
Philby says Dulles called him in as
"an expert on operations against the
Soviet Union," explained that he planned
to drop several hundred guerrillas into
Albania ... "to stir up trouble in vari-
ous places which would have spread and
led to an explosion and overthrow of the
Socialist order."
Philby helped plan the operation, then
promptly tipped off the 'Communists
who, he says, captured 150 of our men
as soon as they landed.
Philby also claims that he handed
American count la a OrtlRG16asetrol( AI Mi )000 1 R00010d 5
of Russian Solidarists), a Russian emigre
tipping off the Soviets about Anglo-
shman "Kim'.' Philby, master spy for Russia and double agent, at recent press conference in Moscow;