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; I | Sinee Maciean's disappear- ance a clyse examination Of bis background has reveal@r that TITS is:student days at Cara-: bridge from 1931 ta 1834 he had expressed Communist sympa~ thies, but there was no evi- | dence that he had ever been a member of the Communist par- ty and indeed om leaving the university he had outwardly renounced his earlier Commu- nist Views, Burgess was born in 1911 and wag educated at the Royal Na- val College, Dartmouth, at Elon and at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he had a brilliant academic record. After leaving Cambridge hv 1934 he worked for a short time in Lon- don as a journalist and joined the B. B. C. im 1936, where he yemained until January, 1909, Fiom 1939 until 1841 he wags employed in one of tha war propaganda organizations. He rejoined the B. B. C. in Janu- H ' | | ary, 1841, and remained there until 1944, when he applied tor and obtained a. post ag a tem- porary press officer im the News Department. of the Faor- eign Office, He was not recruited into the Foreign Servite through the open competitive exanrina+ tion but in 1947 took the oepper- tunity apen to temporary em~ ployes to present himself for establishment. He appeartd he- fave a Civil Service Conimis- sion. Board and was recom- mended for a junior branch of the Foreign Service. His estab- lhshiment took effect from Jan. 1, 1947. He worked for a time in the affice of the then Minis- tev of State, My, Hector Me- Well, and in the Far Eastern Department. af the Foreign Of- fice. In August, 1950, he was transferred to Washington as a Second Secretary, Early in 1950 the security au- thorities informed the Foreign Offiee that in late 1949 while son holiday abroad. Burgess had been guilty of indiscreet. talk about secret matters. of which he Had official knowledge, For this he was severely repri- manded, Apart from this lapse his service in the Foreign Of fice up to the time-.of his ap- pointment to Washingten was satisfactory and thexe seemed good Teter. to hope That he would nike a useful career, \e