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ee pie eee nein ne ee ae eam « a Ch BACKS ANYBODY “CAN MAKE "A MISTAKE” Guy Burgess, the former British diplo- | Matis, who defecied to Kussia sine ' years ago, told western journalists Jast ‘Night that he was got a communist; , “It comes to everybody to feel be hag BURGESS WOULD oO MOSCOW, Ocr, 20 ” u Me. Teles Mr. Motr.. ee My, Parsona-.m Mr, Calinh" 2 Mr. Det ech Me. Malone im Mer. McGill re cae Me. ee Me. Trotter _. awe Mr. W.C.Bullivas Mr, Ingram ——= Miss Gandy cael a 4 Pat i made a mistako—~and you can quote .ime on that”, he added. Bufuess, wearing an Old Etonian tie, said at a western party that he had not . seen Donald Maclean, fellow-diplomatist with whom he fled to Russia, for some ‘y time. Several times-he insisted that he was fot speaking for Maclean. . “YT have not taken Soviet citizenship. .f Sm a British sublect “| he said. = Of ' course, 1 would like to go back to Britain ] for a holiday, fist eo Jong as I could be certain of getting back to the Soviet Union.” } p burgess said that a “stupid™ White, "wy, Paper had been issued by the British. ' "ip } Government which called Lim = Soviet. Be agent, “which I was not”. He added: Yy ‘} "I'm a socialist; I'm nota. communist.’ c& | They couldn't let me xo back. They are ; Soy . i more afraid of my going back than Tam... J ~ {J ust think of the pressure the Americans ae ‘ would put om. I won't go back so jong he sy ‘as the cold war #006 on” & aN ' Asked how long that, would be, be Ss 5 replied: “ Ask the Americans.” ~~ IS _ “HAPPIER NOW". Pod » 3 asked about life in Russia he. g _ said: “ I'm more happy ater 10 years than. rane it was after five years." He refused io’ en ee . 1 $ay what it wae he disliked previously, wy > ‘ & { , One correspondent pointed out that: a ; Burgess came to the Soviet Union while; "Stalin was alive, and asked whether he! . thought thore were any errors thea, Bur-* acss replied: “Everybody found ertare , under Stalin. Bidot you?” He. refused | to reply when asked whether he found - _ errors under Mr. Khrushchey, ~~ Referring to the United Nations and the “ Russian attacks on Mr. Hammarskjéld, the # - oe ; Secretary-General, Burgess said: -“ In six | eae . months’ time you will agree Khowkeney | eis after peace."—Reater, ai - BocT 960. THE TIMES _ London, Englane Oct. 21, 1960 (for info) ot ait A a eT