PHILBY MEMOIRS WITHDRAWN A CHICAGO INDEPENDENT TALKS CUTLER'S MAN FROM TOWER HAMLETS

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CREST [1]

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General CIA Records [2]

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CIA-RDP88-01350R000200120002-9

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RIFPUB

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December 16, 2016

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September 30, 2004

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Publication Date:

October 5, 1968

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NSPR

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London Times 5 October 1968 ~ '~kAr-of-El ~-` Approved For Release 2004/10/13 CIA-RDP88-01350R90020A 20002-- SA c 0 ''HE T IMES DIAL ' `~7, Philby memoirs withdrawn A Chicago-independent talks Cutler's man from Tower Hamlets KIM PHILE3Y:S autobiography, My Silent War, hay been withdrawn after publication by the publishers. MlacGibbon anu Kee. The first' print was of about 15,000 copies: the book--with an introduction by Graham Greene-was published on September 23 and was on sale for about a week. MacGibbon and Kee have undertaken not to reseal why My Silent War has been withdrawn. " I'm afraid I can't say anything at all. It i5 already a fraught situation, and I don't want to make it more fraught".. says Mr. David Harrison, sales manager for Granada Publishi'-g. The publishers are knos%n to havz - '-- thought seriously about whether they i should publish the boor. 'The rights were bought from America, and the British edition is an expurgated ver- sion of the American. The Foreign Office say that they hace htd noth- \ing to do with. the withdrawal. Approved For Release 2004/10/13 : CIA-RDP88-0135OR000200120002-9