Introduction It is well known that the evolution of electron-hole pairs generated by light in a number of aromatic organic semiconductors is sensitive to a static magnetic field (MF) with induction B < 1 T [1--5]. Transitions in the spin state of the pairs under the action of MF results in changes of their macroscopic material properties: dark conductivity and photoconductivity [1--3], luminescence and fluorescence [4,5]. A number of electronic properties (width of band gap, polyaromaticity, closed p-electron shells, etc.) of a new promising material --fullerite C 60 --are very similar to those of polyacenes investigated in [1--5]. A proof of the temperature-independent hopping conductivity has been presented in [6]. The effect of a static MF with B < 1 T on the photoconductivity of C 60 has been published in [7]. The above mentioned facts suggest that the spin state of electronhole pairs in fullerites can also play an important role in determining their photoelectronic properties. As a rule the duration of the spin-lattice relaxation in electron-hole pairs is much longer than their lifetime in such materials, and MF mixes singlet and triplet spin states of the light induced carriers sooner than the perturbation of these states by thermal fluctuations. This explains the possibility to observe an up to 10% increase of photocurrent in a "weak" MF B < 1 T at room temperature [8]. The main goal of this work was to investigate the possibility for control over spin states of charge carriers and photoconductivity of C 60 by using a magnetic field.