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- #4 0Y8—From, Pa. J | -y code clerk at the Soviet. Em-| aassy to”Australia, transmitted{ ‘0 MoscéW some of Kislytsin’s ee? “cre. messages. Mrs. Petrov.that she fled to join her hus-|m ids. # ui is to fdi EN " nessas _Petrovit § an sald; “We beleve this. to!disappearanée of Mrs. Macle viso obtained asylum in Aus-jband in the Soviet Union. |be true.” from Switzerland. =“ = | ia. Petrov's disclosures imply| Asked about the statement: ‘islytsin told Petrov he was, The Petrov disclosures are|that the Soviet Union, for many] ¢ : assigned to the Soviet Embassy ely fo be extremely embar-|years, had access to secrets af Tenet anes ewer heine had at London in 1845 as a cade wssing far the Foteign Office|the British Foreign Office, in-|yéstigated, the spokesman said: clerk. from. the. Soviet secret! and the Government here. Both {cluding secrets entrusted to|It ig true that MacLean was police and for three years was) ‘ave maintained they did not/tbis country by the Unitedlunder active investigation by {ie close touch with Burgess and | vow the whereabouts of Bur.(States and other Allies. ithe security authorities. Bur- MacLean through an intermed- oss and MéLean aftcr the two} They lend substance to de-|ge¢s' suitability for continued |e He did not Simi-"l meat, ven erossed the English Chan-|mands made in the United|foreign service employment ither of them. ‘ ‘‘) and entered Franee fonr|Stales that. Washington should| was under investigation andi) ‘CAs ago. withhold fram Britain secret/he had already been with- The Foreign Gfice also has|matters until the Goyerriment|drawn from Washington.” . rofessed ignorance of where:|here eliminated enormous holes} Petrov, who was head of the material that Burgess s“pplied. oouts of Melinda MacLean,|declared to exist in its security|Soviet secret, service in Aus-|L feceived briefeascs pull of \merican-born wile af Mae-;system, tralia, said in his account that|/Foreign Office documents. They Sean. She and her children; A Foreign Office spokesmanjKisyltsin, who had been work-/were photographed af the Em bassy and quickly returned 10; appeared from Switzerland ioday confirmed some of|ing under him, burst into his; a Septentber, 1953, after they{Petrov's statements. afice on Sept. 17, 1953, waving} Burgess. The photographs were) iad been allowed fo leave thisf Asked whether Petray was|a newspaper and shotiting}! sent. by courier, the diplo-! ountry. corrert in saying that Rurgess|‘It's come off at last, just ag. matic hag, tn Moscow.” . 4 Petrov's account confrmed{and Maclean had been long-|we planned it?” '¢ From London Nislytsin wert, _ ime Soviet agents, the spokes» Kislytsin was veferring to the, | ---— ~~ * ; — ee omnes 7 hn. 1948, ta Mosenw, where fe Was put in charge of a special ‘section af “an amazing brary of foreigr: intelligence called the top seeret. archives.” Acearding to Petrov’s avc- count, “it was crammed full of . *. spcret documents of the British ~ Féreign Office, There was sp: mbch that a great deal had n Petrov quoted him saying “P personally handled all the dven been translated and dig: tributed to the (Soviel} minis teries interested.”