§ Mr. Arthur Lewisasked the Prime Minister whether he is aware that the Sunday Times and The Observer are serialising articles concerning the defection of Kim Philby; and what reply was sent by the appropriate Departments to their applications for clearance from a security point of view before publication.
§ The Prime MinisterThe attention of the Editors of both papers was drawn to certain aspects of the articles in question—on which I cannot, of course, elaborate—where, in the Government's view, it 453W would be contrary both to the public interest and to the requirements of current security to go into too much detail.