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Oat ia ee et (Mount Clipping In Spoce Below) 7 , Uns PB, Maclean to escape, and it was _ _ By CHAPMAN PINCHER * | doubtrul whether’ this would - JIENT © . succeed In court. a W HEN Guy Bur. I disclose these facts now, a fess and Donald when Bur ess Ghravorra Maclean, the Forelin Force Publication yo - ang book# hich resents |. “ Oflice“traitors, staged Burgess. Mactean, and Harola * . . " ” me e a r ‘ their first publ rc Man "—as Thiee Musketeers appearance in Mos- of Soviet Intelligence. cow in 1956 I was -hurriedly summoned : to see a senior official. of M.1.5, the counter. ice . : a (indicate page, name of L The authors assume that Sewepaper, city and siate.} ', all three agreed to dedicate |: : ‘'«/ their lives to Sovlet |-. ‘ esplonage when the were students and Jaid deliberate ‘ Plans to penetrate the ° | lLiiden, Eng liad i : isae British Secret Intelligence ho naRe organisa Bervice. . eel "tron, These ‘assumptions, on He told me the security {4 which the book is built, are not credible and are in con- flict with the way the Sovie esplonage works. AGENTS authorities were extremely ‘ perturbed because they . feared that the two former ‘ diplomats were about to ——a { * fame other Foreign Office men who, though they No ‘doubt the three youths, ¢ » Might be innocent, would ou pli ere ‘marked aownen pact be branded as Communists|' | ora nNich agents by Soviet — a, & and homosexuais. ods talent scouts who operate in “rt Would L the M5 man |+ talent | Unbversity. | These | aS asked, point out this danger |: < talent scouts would be ‘Tatsh cant) in the Dally Express and’so |". Briush Gommuntsise” pate DE yy ee reduce the credibiity of |, ©. slbly even dons — reporting. a jus “5 * anything Burgess and | ! gery HQ. in mdon “Bt Let aclean might «ay before | ( which passes on the reports : ve ’ they sald tt? an to the Soviet Embassy where ko po* T agreed to help and askeq |s . ” they are carefully docketed. . PER — "the official if he had any{, |. , But at that early stage the [ ‘ hard evidence that either of ;* Russlans would be careful to them had been successful | eating the taste or picture, ; pples. ite abou Rea tere hers vision, which may last years, |. Date: & / 19 $6 : after the most Searching to Britlsh Communists. The | Edition: 7 inquiries there was no | ! Boviet spymaster, who la : evidence whatever to ] ¥“Phiiby.” Deutsch, 30s. , Author ' incriminate Burgess, me ' _ [EF PAGE TWo, con. THREE Editors iY ? ’ , SCARE ee ie nares ean uot ip Tatles Har, | esre if Six_ years tater when it |] ee 46 . was rumoured that Burgess ' Adrian P48. ‘ 8nd Maclean might touch down at Prestwick Alrport en route to Communist Cuba, the police applied for Warrants for their arrest on . Oficial Secrets charges, Again I was called in by the M.I5 man, who admitted that the purpose of the move was tq scare the traltors off becauf® any arrest and trial Would ibe most embarrassing, ‘ He donfirmed that he still had nd evidence that Burgess had beén any sort of Russian agent. All he could have been charged with Was alding Character: E *p ~ R_ or Clessification: £9 =< Submitting Office; Load. (Z] Being investigated @ ‘see 4 ee et t, oN ALY 6 Oz MAR !