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NY ele was returning to England. yf , x wm@inar declared that in his contacts with BURGESS they had talked about Foreign Office gossip. He said there was no indication that BURGESS had any Cormunist sympathics or could be a Russian agent. He also advised that he knew no American contacts of BURGESS. He said he believed the main contacts of BURGESS were around the British Embassy in Washington, DeC. (>> ay we tel a el Russie when he was attending Cambridge University. <i said that he could not believe that BURGESS would have any Communist sympathies. He based this belief on the fact thot BURGESS wes the private secretary to HECTOR MAC NEIL, and no doubt wrote some of his speeches. He was of the opinion that MAC NEIL would not have BURGESS around if he had expressed any Communist sympathies. He aaid that he-had no idea where BURGESS could be. He advised that BURGESS had meny friends in the intellectual set throughout Europe and the Meditcrranean,. He remarked that BURGESS was an intellectual who was considered brilliant by some, and that he hes written many speeches for politicians in mee @ MME om ombered that BURGESS had gone to He felt That BURGESS at times ar ank too much and was not an “absolutely straightforward fellow at all times". He classed BURGESS as an aesthetic intellectua Y ae em -_ was interviewed on June 16, 1951 by SA # an is a cadet at The Citadel College in ant oot neh Paral ing an March 1 and 2, 1951 guy i art Qai WL OAL I es ge South Ree Wo oe Whe beRad Wad A ate 43 BURGESS lectured before the International Relations Clu Yh political science group at The Citadel.