'THE FRENCH PHILBY' BIG NEW SPY SENSATION SUNDAY TIMES SECURES THE FULL EXCLUSIVE STORY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01350R000200660040-8
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 22, 2004
• Sequence Number: 40
• Publication Date: April 14, 1968
• Content Type: NSPR

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14 April 1958
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For four years the affair has been a secret s
closely guarded by the intelligence services
though recently rumour and
of the Wrest
,
speculation-has followed in the wake of
inquiries by the Sunday Times and lifer
magazine and hints of thk affair in Topaz,, ; ?
the recent best selling -novel' by Leon 'Uri~
BEGINNING : NEXT. WEEK
The Sunday Times has secured the first:.,:';
full and first-hand story of one of the most,
sensational espionage affairs since the war
Its cast includes the late. President..
: K(Pnedy,;General de Gaulle and a Russian
defector who enabled Western intelligence
services to neutralise 200 K G 0 agents. The.,
story-which will begin exclusively in the;.:
Sunday Times next week-contains astonish
ing allegations by a forner. senior member;.',.;
of the French Secret Services now living in'
the United States. Insight has checked the-'-
details of the affair in Washington, New
.York and five European capitals. One of the.
explosive charges is that high up Within.,
French Government circles there has been" .
a traitor, a French Philby, who pushed Presi-
'dent de Gaulle into anti-Western acts.
reprecussions of the case shed new light'
upon the secret causes contributing to the J ?,
precipitous decline in French-American rela? '
?tions over the last five years. ?': r :. '.
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