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af or Pde, Unitec Stetee Department of = ete, DESe eveileble e@ clipping from the "Jerusalem Post’, deted June 18, 1951, which wee written by the Post's corres- pondent in London, and reported thet W.H. AUDEN was interviewed by the "London Express" neweoseper on the Jelend of Techie off Neples, end mede the following stetement: ; aeRnTeapres Wee en open fammimnt et tn the Ieto 1970's 4n BUR iGESS ras Mali Me be bb er ia i CY add Wa the Po ve s/f J whe id New York where he spent e1x months of the yeer. We met several etill voro-Communiet. enetAiacet in March of this yeer. We telked about FUCHS amt NUNUEMAY — he wae BURGESS'S close friend, I ecked him if he had been ecreenec, and BURGESS esnooke of diplomatic immunity®. times while he wes at the ey fart in Weerington. BURGESS was Thies article also pointed out thet W.H. AUDEN, the poet and friend of MACLEAN end BURGESS, now ea neturelized Americen citizen, went to echool with MACLEAN, and knew BURGESS et Cembridge enc for meny veers efter thet, @ This article further reoorted thet STEPHEN SPENDER, AUDEN'B friend,ané another prominent ex-Communist, hac earlier quoted a telephone conversetion with BURGESS on May 24, the dev pefore the two men disavveered. In this conversation BURGESS referred to SPENDER'S recently published autobiography, and commended ite enti-Communist tone. The erticle reported that AUDEN had etated that MACLEAN *knew quite a lot about the Atom Bomb", not ebout its technical aspects, but about the- number of bombs stored by the Americane. »)