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Ueled fibedd-39) roy Calls =” | aclean and Tolzon Nichols Boardman - Belmont ee . Mason at oa ” r araons Rosea Tamm ' Nease Vinterrowd Tele. Room Hotloman co ‘Burgess Liars . CANBERRA, Australia, Feb. 12 W-—The former Soviet spy in - Australia said today shat Guy! ( Burgess and Donald’ Maclean ’ flied when they” asserted they never were Soviet agents. : Viadimer Petrov, who desert- ed his spy job in April, 1954, and turned over the Australian rauthoritics a pile of secret So- viet documents on espionage op- erations, issued a statement through the Australian Security Service, 1 He challenged a statement by; ‘Burgess and Maclean, the turn-' coat British diplomats who re- vealed their presence in Mos- cow yesterday for tihe first time since their mysterious isappearance in 1951. Vin their statement, the run- F ays admitted being Commu- sts since their youth, but de- ed they ever had been spies, as is now charged by the British Foreign Office. “Burgess and” Maclean work- ed for thé MGB (Soviet Minis- try of State Security) and gave Imuch secret information,” said (Petrov, “For these reasons the MGB arranged for Burgess and Gandy He said he was told ments Were photographed by the Embassy and quickly re- turned to Burgess, and the in- formation forwarded to Mas- cow by pouch. In some in- stances, he said, the information Was urgent so it was sent to Moscow by secret code. Petrov wrolé that Kistytsin cs jater was sent to Moscow and Fr put in charge of “an amazing library of foreign intelligence” and “Sy a remarkable coinci- dence this section turned out to he a collection of the mate- rial supplied by Burgess and Maclean.” n his statement today, Pe said he felt sure Burge = rn ee, cof aud Maclean made their stat Wetion of Soviet authorities a that the statements ha en issued for propagand rposes. — pe ee cae 6 FEB YS 956 | nt in Moscow “under the d | NOT RECONGED Maclean to travel secretly to the Soviet Union when British security authorities discovered that they were Sovici agents.” It was Petrov’s first public statement, except for publica- tion of a book, since a royal commission investigated his de- fection to Australian authori- ties. He previously had charged Burgess and Mgclean -with. de- iia livering secrets to Russia. In an article in the London ‘Sunday newspaper, The People, last September, Petrov said an- other Kremlin agent named! Kislytsin told him Burgess had delivered to the Soviet Embassy Hin don “briefcases full of igr Office documénts.” ~ ! 50 FEB 17 1958 ee ce ail 8 eae git t ae tte Wash. Poet —— Times Heraiv” ov Wash. News Wash. Star N.Y. Herald Tribune N.Y. Mirror N.Y. Daily News ~—— Daily Worker - The Worker Alnow. T andar NeW LeUudae. —..—_—— DELETED COPY SENT CHB 5 AS Maw Deere Le! Y LETTER “JUN 22 j539 PER FOIA ReQy 4 aw * Nd -. - et 2h, ae” - oT, fa Seo ei het seus, too . tt: es