PHILBY TELLS OF HIS SPY ROLE HERE IN BOOK RELEASED TODAY

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• Publication Date: March 15, 1968
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While serving ; as a Soviet
spy, Harold (Kim) Philby sat
on a Special Policy Committee
in Washington which planned
and executed joint British-
American clandestine. intell-
gence missions in Albania and
the Ukraine.
Philby represented British
Intelligence on. the Commit-
tee. The other, members he
identifies as Robert Joyce,
representing the State Depart-
ment; Frank Lindsay of the
Central Intelligence Agency,
and Earl Jellicoc, from the
British Embassy. Joyce is now
retired and lives in Greece.
Philby reveals this in, his
memoirs "My Silent War," re-
leased today, by Grove Press
in New York.
The clandestine operation in
Albania, he contends, took
place in 1949, and involved the
landing "of a.small party" in
Albania "to detach it ... from
the socialist bloc." He de-
scribes the operation as "futile
from the beginning."
CIA Is Silent
The operations in the
Ukraine took place from 1949
to 1951, Philby writes, and in-
volved six British parachute
drops and "some" CIA cour-
iers.'
"I do not know what hap-
pened to the parties con-
cerned," Philby writes, "but I
can make an informed guess."
in Washington he, served as
British Intelligence` liaison of-
ficer with both ' the CIA and
the FBI..
He identifies his chief con-
tacts in the CIA as'Ja'mes A
gleton and William J. Howard.
Of Angleton,, he says, "We
formed the habit 'of lunching
once a week at Harvey's .. .
He was one of the thinnest
men L have ever met, and one
of the biggest eaters,. Lucky
Jim!'
A Gentle Snore
He describes meeting Angle.
ton "for a pleasant hour in, a
bar," just after he had been
ordered home to London as a
suspected spy. The CIA offi.
cial "did not seem to appreci.
ate the gravity of my personal
position," Philby says.
Philby describes Howard as
falling asleep at dinner at his
house one night,and "snoring
gently until midnight when
his wife took him' away.;' 'He
adds that Howard "cooperated
well ... in the construction of
the famous Berlin tunnel."
Philby says he once asked
FBI director J. Edgar Hoover!
what' he "really thought" of
Senate Joseph -R. McCarthy.?
He quotes Hoover as replying:,
"Well, I often meet Joe at the,
race 'track, but he has. never
given,me a winner yet."
The CIA yesterday had no Philby says that the expul-'
comment. Sion of British -diplomat-spy
"My Silent War" will be Guy Burgess from Washington,
"must" reading in both the in 1951-ostensibly for abus'
CIA and the Federal Bureau log his diplomatic status-was
of Investigation,, not only for a%i part of a Communist con=
its description of clandestine spiracy. '
operations but also for its inti- The Communists` peeded
mate personal descriptions of Burgess . back in . London?
the men he dealt with In both quickly, to warn..fellow,diplo.i
agencies.' During his two years mat-spy ;Donald, Maclean_
his imminent arrest and to
take charge of Maclean's "res-
Philby writes.
cue,"
Ingenious and Simple
nand simple, although it re-
quired the unwitting coopera-
tion' of Virginia Gov. John S.
Battle, British Ambassador Sir
Oliver Franks and Secretary
of State Dean Acheson. Bur- Associated Freiii,
gess was simply told to.go out ".,;HAROLD PHILBY 1'y
;
and get arrested three times .
in one day for drunk and reek-.., ? .,writes of spy role
less driving in Virginia, Philby
says. ? J j,~ i ~aro 104("")
Burgess did. Battle obliged
by protesting vehemen{,ly to ~? . ~? ~? D A *ha/SS4 ! y)
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. State Department obliged by I-es,e
protesting to the British Em-
bassy, 1~ (,~ SS12
and Ambassador Franks 4.t,4 . 'Y .
obliged by' sending Burgess!
back to London pronto, Philby !5p
says. I
Once in London, Burgess
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tipped . off Maclean that British intelligence wasl C. I. A. ,r? p it / #14/44n
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Soviets, and both shortly flew], ..1* i" C
the' coop to Moscow, Philby
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