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é x The idealist ‘ But in Lendon the Foreig: - Mice said that King was jail ‘or ten years in October 19. ‘ for passing information to the Russians — who then had a, treaty with Germany, a He was caught as a result of | statements made.in America b i. Mr. Levine and by Genera to. Embassy. . Krivitsky, after referring to . King, spoke of & second agent . who was a Scotsman and ‘an idealistic young Communist. Maciean was then 26. '* But the British Foreign Office ‘sald that the infcrmation “of a general character” given about the Second Man was “not suffi- ciently precise” to lead to his arrest, A spokesman said that after . the disappearance of Maclea eo, { 1951) “it might ha foe . curred to us to wonde an ether he wag not the secon it pprson referred to.” : New there is no doubt th - Maclean was the Second Man. ; ‘The artist |: - - 4 at He had been working at the . . Foreign Office as a Third Sec- fee retary until bis transfer in J ‘ - 1938 to the Paris Embassy. . f Krivitsky told the U.S. : authorities In 1939. that the - Second Man “ occasionally wore : @ cape and dabbled in artistic circles.” At the time to which Krivit- . BkY was Teferring Maclean was a =| living in a small flat in Chelsea. ‘ It now seems clear that the i information was then in no L way linked with Maclean by the Foreign Office, Krivitsky, a defecting Russian - agent. The statements were . sent to London-by the British . ritish Secret Services. Mag-- erican Departmen& = ¢ 0 %: . after an agreement with Soviet ; Would -be spared if he shot him- The suspect .. Three big questions are rom these new disclosures - ‘ NE.—Was King consulted - during the Inquiries into the , Maclean case? TWO.—Why did the White | Paper on the Maclean case make no reference to the, Krivitsky information ? (The White Paper sald that by the beginning of May 1951 —just. before’ Maclean and Burgess vanished — Maclean . Rad come to be regarded as the rincipal suspect involved in. eakage of' information to, Russia sOme years earHer.] _ Sir Victor, 63, said in London ‘ yesterday: “After an interview - with Mr Levine I reported his statement to Lord Lothian. He: convinced us there was a leak-— age of British information to Russia. : The message that trapped King—but net Maclean—was sent from Washington by Lord Lothian, then British Ambassa- dor, and Sir Victor Mallett, his Counsellor. » Sir Victor. 63. said in Londén yesterday : “After an intervi¢w . with Mr. Levine I reported His tatement to Lord Lothian. Fle aS convinced there was a ledk- ge of British information. ‘ “AS a result of that we sent London a very detailed and Secret dossier.” ‘The informant And Krivitsky ? He was found shot dead in a Washington hotel on February 10, 1941. A verdict of suicide was recorded, : But he had gone in fear of his life since he “walked out” on Stalin—after being his lop spy in Europe—in 1937. H lawyer, Mr. Louis Waldman, did hot accept the verdict. And last night Mr. Waldman told the Daily Mail Washington correspondent : “I am more than ever convinced that ft was not a ‘voluntary suicide.” - He believes that Krivitsky's suicide was “staged.” possibly wer agents, that his wife and child Krivitsky told Mr. Waldman nm 1939 that the Kremlin w: ully informed within-24 houfs f all secret decisions made ndon. “He believed that thefe |) as a direct leakage af