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LA es ques s2ic thst he had no knowledee of any Communist sympathies on the part of BURGESS excert his "warm endorsement" of the Spanish Lovalists (which TRS ces not nw consider to be rro-Communist in the light of the thinking of that reriod) anid knows of no connections which BURGESS could have had with Soviet esplom re. wen said that he recalled BURSESS in that period (1937-1938) as a verson who was given to excess in drink and who was trving very desperately te be "one of the crouo", meaning the literary circle in which sgQgagali ct si traveled. g@MMeg@iii said he felt a kind of pity for BVEGESS because he wat @ confirmed social climber am pretty obvious in hie tactics, In this same vein an? including the vear 1947, when } last saw BUHKGESS in London when PURGESS was working for the Fritish Foreien Office, QE recalled that PUECISS alwars wanted to be "or the inside’ insofar as significant nolitical events ard ectivities were concerned, he 7” aa UECESS in 1947 when he went to Enclard te visit. nan — FISGESS wee working 7or the Eri Stich Toreim Offi ce then, SUUEMRM stated at this noint that PLPCESS wes known to be a homosexual. te did not sersider tris to be unusues, addins thet even if this condition were cerersli+ lnew to BUPGESsts frieris ard enplovers on ret ne thet neriod it would not have made much difference since accordine to #qummeLomosevuality on the part of a nerson such 3s FonesSS would not te considered unusual in the London of that vreriod., In this ceonrecti on SPF cocs not feel that BUPGESS's homosexuality would be a weakness which could be used to advantaré bv the Soviets. He repeated thet he knew of no rossible Comintern connections which PURGISS misht have had and stated that it was irconceivabtle to hin that the Soviets would ever choose a person such es FURGESS to work as an esnionafe agert, His reason for saving this was that PBUnG=SS's drunkenness and enotional instability were things whicl. were well imow and verv real, Secondly, he cannot imerine BURGESS enragine in any clandestine activity for anv rrolonged reriod of time without wantine to let someone know of his ectivities. @@MMMMBM said he did not know and never met any of BURSESS's relatives and mver recalls BURGESS sneakirr of hone or Zantilv. He does net know what PURGSOS'S finencial condition were but assumed he was comfortably Situsted since he recalled croine te A'RGESE's arsrtnent on several occasions in 1938 and again in 1947 and found it to be well furnished, with rererd to his first meetinre with PORCESS in 19L e recalle thet both he and PCESTSAS pot verv drunk torether. K oes not recall] PURSLSS savine anythirc atout hic jot with the Foreim Office which was Thdiscreet. Gm did believe that PURGESS at the time of this meeting (19.7) seomed to be cuskins his nervous enerry to extrene limits.