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Cambridge Five Spy Ring — Part 21
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deferttd to Russia nine years
Ago, appeared unexpectedly at
& Western’ party in Moscow
Wednesday night and sald he
would Jike to go back to Britain
for a holiday visitbut “only |
T wid hea
as iong BS a COUId Be cer {ain
I could get back to the Soviet
Union. cn
* Burgess, who with, ‘Donald
MacLean sneaked off from the
British Foreign Office in 1951
and defected to the Soviet
Union, appesred~ somewha
nervous “when he was sure,
rounded by Western journalists,
“Are you happy after 10.
years?” he was asked. = -
i “YT am. more happy after 19
years than I was after fve
years,” he replied qalekly but
somewhat defensively. «
“Not = ‘Soviet Cittzen’
; He also said: | “r haye.2 not
taken Soviet citizenship. I am
British subject but I can't
aépeak for MacLean.” -:
> Burgess said he had not had
any contact with Bernon
Mitchel or William Martin, the
two American code clerks wha
left the United’ States in July
and are now in the Soviet
Union, where they have ‘been
‘granted Soviet citizenship. -But
again he added+ ="T can't speak
for MacLean.”
Burgess asserted | several
times he would not go back to’
Britain as long.as the cold war’
is on, Questloged on the cause:
of the cold: Gar,” “7 Petored,:
fe the AmeSicans.”
5y OCI :
“British Defector, ays:
‘He Wants to Visi t Home’
homeland.
“eis of Wwanoelatio agecle le
’ books Sealing with po Tittcat
ma “Vaatters:
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a |
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‘He alec’ commented,
here is better than it was, and
ite getting better.”
A journalist polnted out
yed|would not- let. chim, visit . _ his.|Burgess had arrived during the
Stalin regime, and. then asked
“They are more afraid of my /whether Burgess had found
going back than I am,’
ignt. He was after peace.”
He’ declined. to talk’ about|make world headlines aga a
‘ts work, which ih reportedly con-|he said as he left. : _
cate: ao nae eccemn tee ae
"he said.|any errors under Stalin.
“Just think of the pressure the
Americans would put on.” ~+. |
“Khrushchey Was Right” "
Jn a discussion of the recent
“Everybody found’ errors.
“Have you found any errors
under Khrushchev?" he was
asked. He did not answer,
de -,
“Oh God, T suppose this itl
ee be ee mee “ped
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under Stalin,” he replied. ~° |
Burgess came to rty
‘eclared, “in. six months time uninvited with » British rahe
Ou will agree Khrushchev was) natist, :
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Malone
MeGuire
Rogen
Tamm
Trotter
WoC. Sullivan
Tele. Room
Ingram
Gandy
The Washington Post and
Times Herald
The Washington oo
The Evening §ia
New York Herald Tribune
New York Journal-American
New York Mirrar
New York Daily News
New York Poat.
The New York Times
The Worker
Tha New Leader
The Wall Street Jourmal
CT 20 1960
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