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“ , Let to gNTe > “ 7 id eo " 2 ae aed Pe ae ee er eee Re dhe ws fon om The question that iiteresig mé most is that of motive and sonality: How a cause like Russie’s revolutlonary tyranny d n@t only have caught two men Uke MacLean and Burgess * $n its nt but kept them enmeshed there, For my own Pictures "of the spies I have drawn mainly on two accounts. Yee . “ Oné@is “The Missing MacLeans,” by Geoffrey Hoare’ (viking, 1955). The other is a couple of articles on the tw men that ap- -" peared in The Reporter in December, 1952, by they English critic, .. Cyr: Connally, written with hla usual dash and illiance, - an * Both men had evidently joined the Coramunist movement ‘while at Cambridge, in the years before there were any Russian . purges, when young Eritish aristocrats in search of intellectual * excitement and a new father-symbol found them in communism. ~ MacLean was a shy, ingrown but attractive youngster; Burgess _ talked politics incessantly, and used to warn everyone about the future when the proletariat would be in control and heads would — * Tol. 2 -Both were unstable boys, both drank heavily and later became . encontrollable drunks. Burgess seemed pretty openly a homosex- ‘ wal, MacLean was sexually ambivalent, and later married a charm: . _ dng American girl, Melinda Marling, who bora him two sons and was pregnant with a third child when he disappeared, Both | ‘” Burgess. and MacLean—for what the fact may be tworth—hadl — iM ers who died before they were out of their feens, a crucial: a.) wren a boy needs a strong fatheranodel on whom to fashion self. a “{Both entered the Foreign Service, both had ability at thetr _ Jobs, both got into scrapes over their drunkenness and violence.- - Both boasted, when drunk, that they were Communist. agents— a fact. that might have given the vaunted British Intelligence some : pause. . “ : Both were deeply slick men who tea confised, turbulent, “and . : ‘wretchedly unhappy lives, however they migiq look outwardly. - . _— oo » * - e . - 7 One day in May, 1951, the British Foreign Office peopic finally ' @ecided to arrest MacLean if they could pet feal evidence on him. x Jt was this decision that presumably led Philby to give his “ip-off; .: He, too, seems to have been a brilliant and confused young English- * “aman whose politics were toward the left but’ whose father was a . pro-Arab Fascist, « !.- - Recently both the missing men have been seen ‘In Moscow, . and itis a good guess that they have proved useful to. the Russians , in sien their Tecent policy of the New Friendliness. - Bee * .. Ld ee 1 oe ee What can 1 we say about these men except thal every ‘country - + produces, among its abler young people, some who are the heirs t of the ages, but prove to be sick and twisted people in.search of - .-7 @ cause that will heal their inner insecurity and violence, and give a them the dream of being bigger in stature than they are, ; 7 “Somelinies they are sexually unbalanced, but that is not the a core of it; The core is that ihe ideas that eve. the “rest of us susiendhice leave them empty, £1, Tightening the security net won't help mudh ; either, “Remem- . r that the Russians have a ruthless security bystem, yet Petrov ‘ efected to our side.: The problem {fs not eur puter apparatus of -- i wit. is: their inner arta, The. 0: eran at thing that can. fone ‘peabla ls Mihir belief! 4 ena)