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-_ oo oeh VALKIN G: Te UPL DL Se aa) El i “ i | And no one satq_ “77 eNvIMTUAAnRRMUReReR CMR *§ iy B* living here, and at an inaccessible, ves country lodge, or dacha, Guy Burgess had enjoyed Immunity from the frenzied in- quisitiveness of the Western journalists, one of whom was stlil bombarding him with tele- ° , Grams almost daily. 4 |. As he walked freely about! _ Moscow, on and off, for five. years, it seems extraordinary, ! none the less, that none of them ever saw or found him. . j ; Within 20 minutes of his call } ,f walked across the corner of . the square to the Moskva. ny - Guy Burgess was standing | ‘outside the hotel entrance. He was instantly recognisable de-— _Spite a slight greying of his-, ‘dark hair. = ' His odird-bright, ragamuffin' face was tanneg by the Cauca- . lan sun: he had just returned .- from his holiday at Sochi { : hig mother. : e came forward to meet . AnH we shook hands, I felfa - .' lit#e like Stanley discoveribe Ligingstone—and our first wortls . ', Weke, of course, as banal as ; Stanley's, ' Ba Tg ek e . a ‘ | Jf rs go a : SMOKING: AMADA I UU teensy capture ert mo “ta + Tt isn’t allowed | ' @VRUELTUQUUUET EMEP TGEMRD DG gpOLAT HAZELL LEAT : he . UY said cheracteris-‘ ; cally: “I'm afraid a we've both got: , rather fatter since we last saw . each other.” We went up to his | ‘flat (the liftwoman rebuking ‘ him for smoking in the lift}. ; In the weeks that followed we . : Met many times and' talked. The conversation in which he. answered most of the questions . that people in Britain have been : asiing In vain for the past five * | yes did not take place on any ; .} on@ day. we Po was Spread over most of ' ' thi month. Again and again I. 1 Teparned to the subject of fhe .. BQpua. journey Irom London Mbscow the discussions betwhe : Teéss and Maclean .that fed : _ immediately up to ft, and fhe / wm tree nee * to \ ' t ‘Rag hitherto 7 : complete mystery ‘hbw they went, the actual rou t n the dialogue that follow. record the essence of inter- - mittent questionnaire. I have put it together sO that it reads | . gonnectedly. oe But Guv Burgess did tn fact: say, at one time or another,” every word and phrase that I. have here altributed to him, and he assures me that he-accepts thls as an authoritative record - _ Of Chis part of our. discuasions. « - 4. This episode starts In’ May + 1951, when Guy Burgess had . Just returned from his job at _ 1 the British Embassy in Wash- * ington. ‘DRIBERG . Well, this is the al ? i re | f i { 3 4, 4 4 4 point in your Hfe— * ‘the return from Washington, * ‘the Korean War—which was { really the breaking point... i and the int at which the ! general public first heard of yo ;BAPPEeC. Yes I do beg yo , BURUCOS: ty “emphasise th a and recall e situatio /w@ were in then. There w ‘ga -serious risk that the “Americans would force an extension of the Korean War. Six days before Donald and I ‘left England, the New York _Tines had said: “Sudden id ( peace could work havoc. with . usiness.” * . Lots of us shared ' DRIBERG : your anxiety. But i 1 ‘think. it's only eae ¢hat Merarthor BEY GLB creas wees fact been sacked a few weeks earlier. and that Attlee had shown--when he flew to Wash- ‘ ington in December 1950—that : Britain had an independent , policy on the Far East and : wasn’t afraid to express it. had in : that our, Far Ea ' poblicy was absolutely correc. : B t it wasn’t only the Immedia : sikuation that made me feel had to leave the Foreign om 4 air to: 4 1 fos i: i : the Foreign Office all the time, “ ' ! ; Embassy in Washington—-that ‘for the next 20 vearg ess a , Various missions overseas oo 4a EAVING: - | UUM RUE =" #4222 ; jsThe reason wh: Seer ur Tn Tt Be T was much more the EB o#ppalling experience: td had at’ ¢ he terrible and ignorant, subservi- encé to the State Department— : and the realisation, you see, that this was what my life would. be I wouldn't have minded nearly “ 8s much If I could have gat in. But I knew I couldn't do that : 2 eve ¥ has to serve in the. and Washington is supposed to” be one of the ton Embassies. 80 ‘ what on earth could the others:| be like? .A place like Bogota I. That's really why I’¢ made yp my mind to leave the Foreign. | Office—lohe before I came home. | from Washin fore I thoug | graph) had talked to me about | ton and long be- t of coming to. oscaw. | . . ot I'd even tentatively ‘fix | i up" | | arte lob — with the “Baily : Telegraph as diplomatic adviser. : Michael Berry (Daily Tele-