- He served as a counterspy for the Federal Bureau of Investigation, after joining the Massachusetts Youth Council in 1940 and then reporting to the FBI that it was a Communist front. For some years he was an underground agent, reporting on the Communist Party, and in New York City in 1949 he testified for the prosecution in a conspiracy trial of twelve Communists, who were convicted. Philbrick made his living as salesman, advertising director, working for nuclear regulators in Washington, D.C., and as a lecturer.
- Was the subject of the 50's TV show 'I Led Three Lives'.
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