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Meso WING. tue orb ad) fe Sp py Burgess. no ‘Dies n Soviet, fies Doyebonk {Suinday) }—Guy, "‘Burwess; | -hard- fice, official who-fled to Rus- pia! in ‘1951 with fellow ' diplo- ‘of the Cold War's biggest spy scandals, has. died in’a Mos- cow ‘hospital after a‘ heart at- jack, friends reported today. A’ message -announcing the death of Burgess, 53, an ad-) imitted homosexual and Com-, munist sympathizer ‘since his, university days at Cambridge,| was received Saturday by his; 78-year-old mother, Eve Bas-! sett. It came: from: Melinda’ MacLean, the American wife of the British Foreign Office! security chief who Aefected! with Burgess. -. F ‘MacLean -had ‘been First} ‘Secretary at the British Em- ibassy in Washington and had worked in security in the Mid- dig East. Burgess had been a second secretary at. the Wash- jington Embassy. Together, they held a host of British- American secrets: which the British government later said they had fed to the: Soviets iover the years. . -.. ‘ Shortly before he ‘fled, Bur- gess had been recalled in dis! grace from his post in- Wash- ington and asked ic resign. MAEISUGT! G@NG €5acG 10 Pesign. ‘He had been stopped. three ltimes in one day near Wash- ‘ington for speeding and had -been reprimanded for leaving, ‘confidential - pa pers. unat-! ‘tended, oe Burgess and. Maclean left ‘their homes in Britain May ‘25, 1951, went to: France: and “then dropped out of sight un- {Hl the .Soviets brought ‘them lout at-a surprise , news con- ference, in Moscow, in’ 1956 at which’ bo * men’ issued ” a statement gssailing British and American, olicy.. ‘The Br&tish *Government ‘said later’ that’ Burgess an ‘MacLean’ got out Just before) - ‘a’ ‘security “net™ was to have ‘grabbed. them!’ as ‘Soviet, ‘abentsr3¢_hinted gtire—aine, wo ‘thEV WEFeNIpped: “otf hy a made terious third man." ee) 2 . The third man was “exposed: this year as another defector, former diplomat and journals ist Harold (Kim) Philby, wha; vanished from Beirut, Lebay non, last January. The Soviets annpunced in July that they: granted . Philby" political asylum. oe ce ee %: Friends: * taid’ Burgeass q f vo gy ver pen Fo” greatest "dream ‘had “been: to} return to Britain as* ra: free’ man for a vacation. ‘'” , ” They , said he lived ' to: re, "gret ‘his defection. Even’! in Moscow he always, wore his. old school tie—that of exclu- * Burgess, like many of these “parlor pinks,” became for a time -an' active Communist Party member, ‘By some ac- counts he was a Soviet agent before World War i], : . Before the war he worked for’ the‘ British ‘Broadcasting Corp. The war brought’ him into British intelligence. -The transition to the Foreign Of-: fice came later, and neither. his communism nor homosex- uality . proved: any. barrier vier to] * . 1 ay wade ind e hick echt . Pt) {Guy yn 2 que! - ' (00-3 7416 3- NOT KFUENDED 191 sep 5 1963 any son WT Z Belmont Mohr ‘ Casper - Callghan onrad — vans le itiven Lk Trotter ‘Tele Room Holmes Gandy The Washington Post and AL : | Times Herald The Washington Daily News _ The Evening Star New York Herald Tribune New York Journal-American New York Mirror New York Daily News New York Post The New York Timea The Worker The New Leader _ The Wall Street Journal The National Observer Date “Phe 1 19623