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Cambridge Five Spy Ring — Part 21
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says |
_ ‘Everyone
oo
‘makes a_
mistake’ :
oo MOSCOW, Thursday. —:
la ‘Runaway diplomat Guy .
Burgess gate-crashets-
,Weatern party last night and |
sald about fein Russia:
’ “9t comes to everybody to -
: feel he has made 9 mistake, —
* and you can uote me on.
» that.” a
_ Burgess, “now 49,
“Western correspondents: "Of :
/ course J would like to go. back -
"to Britain, but I won't go back |
oe, - lasts.”
: * Wearing a single-breasted
: se, _London-made grey sult, red:
Said: “I’m more happy after 10
-walstcoat and Old Etonlan ; was after ave |
But he refused to say what bie
bthe, he drank vodka and |
champagne and chatted |
. almost carelessly,
: _After the party he Was |,
‘heard to say: “O God,
: Suppose this, will make head-
: vlines again.”
‘ - Burgess isa peared from
: Britain in ~195] wilh another
. Foreign Office man, Tel,
, Both later Ded up
_in Russia, .
-, Ship.
I'm British
tald correspondents:
ve “y ave not taken Soviet. citize
Tam a British subject.
* ca not speak for Maclean,”
te generally unders
Maclean
: eanged vhs nationality.
Burgess said he would ike j i :
to return to Britain for a hollday,
Lb as Jong as he ares be certain of -
urgess
Getting back
Union.
He said a suela
had. been issue
Government wiich. called him a .
Soviet agent, “ which I was not.
“I'm @ Socialist,
Heap,
Pm
£8 py wn, we 22
has not
the Soviet |
White Paper | '
the British:
I'm not a>
. Communisy” he Said. : cal
a %
They're 2 afraid’
Burgess added: “ They couldn't -
lel mé go back. ‘They are more-
Just think of the pressure ‘
the Americans would put on.” +
told | BES fraig of my going back than 1.
¢
Burgess insisted that. he was ~
as long as the Cold War not talking for Maclean, whom
he said he had not seen for some
time:
Asked about life in Russia, he .
years. than
I
yeara”
was he disliked
One corresponde
und errors
pdn’t you 7”
ne
T \‘that Burgess came to the Soviet |
Union while Stalin was alive and i
ked whether he thought
‘ere any errora then.
Burgess replied: y
. under Sta ca.
“\ Jot
haa
oreviously.
nt pointed out %
re,
- Every
100 -37Y/b9 74 ”
149 OF. 28 Iyb0
Mr. Ingram __.
Mr. W.C, Sullivan,
Tele. Room_____.
SVENING STANDARD
London, England
October 20, 1960
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