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and “the en | fadvised thet he had first met GUY BURGESS around JaNURIY , 1953 when he received a telephone call from him at the former office of the Foreign Policy Association in the National Press Buliding, Washington, D. ©, At that time BURGESS stated that he was interested in questions concerning the Far East. aa? stated that BURGESS thereafter came to his office in the Press Buliding and told him that his, BURGESS', jab et the British Embassy was te analyze the motivations and tendencies of the American attitude toward the Par East, mot. only in regard to the official government opinion,but aiso in regard to the opinion of the general American public, wMMRQRM stated that at this time BURGESS requested him to obtain warious published msterisis which would adequately reflect the precise public opinion in the United States with regard to China. ie) QeM advised that between January and esrly March, 2951, BURGESS came te his office e total ef four er five times for the purpose of discussing the China question, He said that on all but one of these oecasions he took BURGESS to the Press Club bar where they would drink and talk, @@MMBM stated thet BURGESS drank heavily but was able to ‘hold his w whiskey" in thet he could drink six highhalls "without turning e hair’. He stated that although BURSESS would drink an unusually large amount of whiskey, he never seemed to even approach becoming intoxicated (gi ; age advised timt he later mt with BURGESS and discussed with him the course of official American policy toward China and tried te analyze for him the tendencies, impulses and concepts ef the present Ad- ministration together with the problems of the Administration in attempting to follow these concepts with so many Republican critics holding different wiews , tana told BURGESS he thought that as time went on, the critics a? the Administration weuld become more infivential, but that the over- riding question was the war in Korea, and that political policy depended on battle reports from the Korean front. me told BURGESS that it wae “his opinion that ff the Korean war were prolonged, the United States would cee hap tg