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AT RANEY Ml ERE AE ee ge SEE aR NR A Sie SARS Ne Com Ney Jet ae _ were bhey were shadowing him ? ‘y. He sald .i ‘policy Was leading i: - Do you think that : WDRIBERG: wos fae 4. festivation ts be may "have een warne " Searching inquirtes involvin © Hiedividual interrogations wer /Made into this last possibility | ‘Insufficient evidence was ‘| tainable to form a definite con-. cluson or to warrant Pprosecu- “1 Hon?) >. We ‘tunched together a ain“ " about a week later. Donald +. told me more about it . he thought {t was idiscrest. tesatee? making tn- : mar TO : Office, saying that Soret bot ee Was correct and that Western to war, the only reason : You've seen all * SPcrets and so o: ‘There _ dyin? Was no question of . ton ' Becret?- . _ BURGESS: this stuff abdut n, assed on any inforna- Was = technically Donald has con- | , vinced me that that: 45 90. I know no moré about it. | ‘han you do. : | I simply felt sure that his: , Benéral attitude was the same: ' as mine, and for the same rea- ' sons—and I knew what my own -~t motives were, - 1 [The White Paper ' stated ;| “In January 1949 the security | Guthorities received report, that certain Foreign Office in-- jormation had leaked to the [ee authorities some. years earlier, : + +“ Highly secret but widespread: pand protracted inquiries were s pe peaun by the security authori-: ‘Hes, and the field o suspicion | had been narrowed by mid- - April 1951 to two or three per- sons. “By the beginning of ay Maclean had come to be re- garded a3 the principal sus- pect. Linge eee ? . . ~ 4 *e oa _ . wat oy oo ifs Oscow PIES. cris ma JP Donald suddenly said: Soviet policy , is pee | ', Was anything sai IBERG: when you lunch gether 4, about i, Falng - third time we met. think I ot ma here, Guy, I ‘m going clear out, and go to the Soviet Union. Will you help me? “The trouble ts I can't even buy a ticket. They'd be on to me at once—wouldn't even let I thought It over as we talked, Then I said: “Well. I'm leave ing the Foreign Office anyhow, and I probably couldn't stick the job at the Daily Telegraph —and I think you're right. I don’ see why I shouldn't come fe] WW bo. : 7 he ros i . hee “ue . OME of my friends . ha : They or persuading me to leave. They think I did It out of ame Donald { quixotic loyalty to an old friend t 1 ind in trouble. were never very close friends, Yway, 7 did it because] } i thought he was right—just ag¢ I byid Just now: during that figst talk at the Foreign Office pe feund that we agreed with each her completely on the appal- 'ii}e situstionana” the” reay ! | ‘danger of war, _DAIBERG: ‘left? How long was this before you actual! Oh, only a few days. It all happened very quickly—a_ terrific scramble— - nothing really organised at all. Petrov® is wrong when he gays that the whole thing was .' elaborately planned and organ- j ised by the Russians, That's a : ; absolute nonsense, «, <4, |. . i : Well, how did you DRIBERG : arrange it? oo ¢ . This'is where the - BURGESS : story does get a bit complicated. You see, on the Queen Mary,: coming . from America, I'd made friends with : an American, an intelligent, pro-. i gressive sort Of chap...) F ® me leave the country.” ' “I thought: Why not ? noe ve got it all wrong. © at This {s absolutely wrong. We | ‘the FB. that I'd rather not ;. drag him into it more than we . need, . SO iY ‘Anyway, he and I were think- ; , I8 name has been Pp M lished, but he's : rsecuted 80 LE ingly both by M.1.5 and hee . week-end cruise to St. Malo and } ' the Channel] Islands — for the , Friday night, that was—and 7 ‘ing of golng to France for a” « Jaunt, 80 I booked tickets for a-- | '" got one of the tickets in his - * name. . I'd arranged te go down to Donald's house at Tatsfield. near - , Westerham—practically within |-on the Friday evening. |, But until I got there I didnt t know whether I was fons to ' Moscow with Donald or to | France with the American for ia jolly jaunt He didn't, of 4: course, ‘know _ Moscow idea. ~ “rye to atay by the e. pa until 830 and packed tho’ | lots of things, suitable for bo | purposes. : ! : | on the boat—that was the | Stuff for the Jolly jaunt: a dinner Jacket, ete ne & dinner jacket in Paris, °°: see : DRIBERG: , BURGESS: | DRIBERG:. ' " BURGESS: | | usten. Which ? ~:. able collected edition 1—all the novels in one dark- | brown volume, I never travel | Without it. _ eat rary of the Sovlet Embasty in Canberra. Soviet Goverament Cambridve ; The White Paper asid: * Pores tmselt was aol directiy concerned in te case and fia (mformaiion Jwas diained from oonversation with ome of ia colleagues im Soviet Ser a watrala.** , ao t r, ta who sought political asylum in April 1954. He said hat both Byreess and ‘ Maclean were recruited £0 ipies forgthe { 1 | | I anything of the O I told the American oe ok de | needs. Only one -- Jane * Viadimis Petrar, former Third Secre. | while studentef at sight of Winston Churchill 1 : coe i” < { - i . * . i ™ up, |? } . 4 | Hg \ . That's why I left some stuft |. - . Any books? |“ There's an invalu-: af i