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— x Aatky £740 BRITON BARES | ‘DITINDEDC! IN| VLVINULITV FH |" BURGESS GASE ' Ex-Chiet of Security. Tells of ‘Gag’ : : LONDON, July 7 {Reuters}! | —A book published Thursday! * told of frustrations of the) 2 British security chief in Wash- ‘ ington and his “ gagging” by| |, an official British investiga-| 3 tion in connection with the : “Burgess and Maclean” af! % fair. 7 Francis J. Thompson, o1,! said in his book “ Destination! « Washingion” that “not one’ » man, but many,” blundered| :- in hte case of the British dip-| € lomais, Guy Burgess and Don-; z ald Maclean, who defected to, Russia in 1951. iz te B _ Burgess, 50, and Maclean, | 46, are now in Moscow. | Burgess Recall Cited | Burgess had been’ recalled, as second secretary to the’ British embassy in Washing: _ ton, May 4, 1951. Maclean was head of the American depart-, ment of the foreign office at: the time. 7 Thompson asserted he was largely responsible for Bur-ipr. gess' recall. He had been sen-/a 1 — ior security officcr at theliny — British embassy in Washing- ton since 1948. In 1950 he re-| _ ceived a report on Burgess’ | pending transfer there. He said he and Sir Robert|5 McKenzie, then regional se-| curity officer for North and," Central America, exchanged {9 haffled glances when they|s! read the foreign office report on Burgess. The report said|~ s “a drunkard am | would hear watching.” _. - sider whether — ae Securtly Breacli hompson said Burgess’ ac- tivities did not permil anit around-the-clock observation “which ideally should have J been kept.” hoe He described breaches -of security by Burgess while the embassy and how Burgess was stopped for speeding three|U times in one day by Ameri-}A can police, once in the : pany of a “ well known sexual pervert.” Burgess was oflen “half- conscious and obviously very drunk” at his office, Thomp- .g0n wrote. ; Thompson, a Scotland Yard and royal air force veteran, said Burgess was “ allowed to roam about freely all over the United Stalcs and to keep up any contacts he may have had, then finally to get to England and link up with Maclean.” Thompson wrote that apart from the criminal investiga. tion department, British secu- - yily men were no more than weil meaning amateurs who BER GREER fc i “bungled a major investiga- ° tion” in the Burgess case. a Offer Is Rebuffed In 1956, three years after leaving the foreign office, b Thompson said he asked to]* give evidence to a committee investigating British security. |V The foreign office, hel wrote, old him in reply that/b the prime minister had in-+p viled the committee to “ ex-|n amine the security proce-|y _ dures now appleid in the', public services and to con-|y any further) ¢ measures are necessary.” The group was not askedic to look into the past, Thomp-!d son said he was told. Cc Thompson expressed his:s disappointment at not being}. _ able to describe the “ sorry|- “picture of British’ security in St ararica” and alleged he was! “ gagged.” a —_— eee . . : vO: . a s 7 5 ogee! - ~ 402