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cane Byt it seemed, after mt i Wb Oldfleld that 1 had vamloed iffko {ne heart of the wooem. Wihin @ few devs. na was confirmed by mt Rus an frend wo Londo After aeck.ng with headouarters be ——— i : and to the ob.fui extent wo which those resources were equandered Te was enough to convince ne that utgent acc-n Would not be necessary, t the case would require e watching Bomething i) Wes 2.20 he ere of Ass [90,00 Puchs. Gold. Greenziass. and the brave Rosenberva—net to mention others who aré mil fame'ess = Lisson with CLA eorsred an even wider fetd Mickey Ladd. Assistant Otrecter of the rit in charree ot secursty wes ay principal contact with the PBL. and f saw tim several mes & week, either in’ fils office or at home. He was one of Aoover’s original gunmen lo Chicazo—" the auy who always went in frst when there Was snocting to bé done—and he iooked the part Be waa short and immense? stocky, and must have been herd as) sels bdefore he dereloned # oaunch, jow's and the complexion that sures © sroke ip the offing. Ladd lost no time in lettin Te Enow that he disesorov my ciose contact with CLA, * seemed genuinely disgusted with ta cosmopolitan = airs “What do thet teach iheth in CLA, son?" he said to ma one evening. * Why. how to use knives and forks. how to Marry rich wives” A SLUGGISH tricele of infotma:ion about the Embassy akage coninued to reach us. part [from Dwyer [Philby pr asor in the Washington post], who fae soon ww leave, three members of she Oriwh Embassy slal’ mad accesa +o the material: Paterson, myse.t. and Bobbe Mactenzie the Embassy Security Odlicer. who was an o.d colleague of mine trom Section V davs tn the PBL, the offtigus con cerned sere Ladd Lisoman, who was then nead of the ancy « Communit s#ctlun, and Boo Lambiere, & cite oudding? native of Ohio tho @as respom Sible for the detaied ane.yas om ibe #856 On the Amer.caa side. * We ere ht fer frum dens.f whe source in (he Brtah moaass, dub durin une winter of {gay30 che net orgao to clos@ round the Lor Alamos source The chotce seemed Ww ie O8fteen FO scientists of great disiinction Dy. Peeris and Or Pacha tr wes Owyers last direct ser- mice to 8.8. that. ov @ priciant plece af analvaia of :he knoen Tovemenots of the two men. De conclusively eitonagted Peters. Thereafter. the finger pointed unwarerng:? at Puchs The usuai troupie arose over the mature of the evidence. which wes oot valid io law. But Pucba —prov.ded the evidence arainat bumeeif. After fis arrest he was passed to Jatin Skardon, of M.15. for interrogation. Skarden succeeded wo Winging his cote fidence to such am extent that Fuchs sot on! confessed nu oWn DErt i: che buaness hut also oidentided from oboto graphs hs contact in ine United Staws. Barre Gold Prom God, Who Was a0 ID talkative mood the chain led inexoraby co the Rosenpersa who were dwy ¢.ect [t ie worth me Euenhower exD.a.red his refusal to reoreve Ethel Roesen- bere on the grounds that -f he @id. the Fuss.ans io future would use on.v women @8 sD:68 Tp wes 4D attitude worthy af the most oedes:man of United States Pres.denun [o (ne mammer of 1980 1 received om ietter from Gu¥ Burgess “1 have @ snock for ou. be began. “Tf bave just H posted .o Waan-ngton.” He suamested that { shoud cut Aim yp for me few days unill he nad found a flat for himself This posed 8 problem [mn Dormal circumsatances it would have been guile wrong for two secret operatives (a occup? :he same oremises. But the circumsances were aot normal Pron the eariest dare careers fad invertwined He bad collected moner for me at Camoridae aher the revoit of the Austrian Schuetzbund to Pepruary. 1934. T had put forward his came as & possibie recruit, for the Soviet Service. a debt which he laver renaid br smoothing my entre into the British Secret Bervice In between. be had acted as courier for me in Svein. [hy t. gether tn 8.18. and me @ orofessional visit lo key in 148 Cur association waa therefore well known, and was a: certain that any setioua invest gation of either of us would Tevea) aks. co our seit couspicucus in my Bouse hold then io a bacheior Hat where every evening woult And bum foctioose. 1 hed scarcely te ta fy) my. sereeme aen jackenme showed me- ‘ler he had received from aeer Poster. theo head of the Foreign Office security branch. warditg tum about Burgess’s arrival Carer-Poster explained that hu eccentriciues would be more easily overiooked in @ large embassy than in # small one. He gave ry gutamary of his pase peccaditiogs. aod said that wotee might be in store, “What does he mean ‘word. muttered Mackenzie, “Goa:s?” i told him tnat [ knew Quy welt, that ne would be ataving with me. and that E would keep an eye on him He seemed happy that there was someone eee who Was Teady wo ahere the responmsioriity In the aht of what was to come. my decision to fall in With Burgess's suzfestion looks like a bad mistake | have indeed given it much thought tp the onst 1S years ti will not do to plead inet the twit eventa Were tO take & few months later were wuerly ubforeseeat.ée security = Ore cautions are designed to five protection trom the un. foreseeaDie. But. op reflection. I thick inar my decison to accommodate Burwess speeded bY a few weeks at most (he focusing of ihe spollignot op me. ft also ‘ent wieour to the etter which Bedell-Smith [Nead of the CAT sent the chief insuting on my removal from the gcene. [ct may even have been jucky ‘hat susoicion feil on me prematurey, in the eense that it crvetalised before Lhe eridence ®aa strong enough tO brng ‘ne to court Burgeass arrival raised ap waue that [ cou'd not decide br mreif Should Ae or should subject remained under con- Mant discussion between us My difficulty was that Tt bad only seen Maclean twice, and briefly in 14 years ([Maclecn had att Washington (h 188 for service in Cairo and later in London} 1 nad 00 idea where ne lived how he Uted. or indeed anv- thing at ali apout his circum- ences But it uw gow time to turn to Une case to expiain how th stood. and the problems invoived a Tne development of the affair was aa a deep anxiety. Iv Was Deset tmoonderan.es, the assessment of which could be iittie better thao guesswork ‘We bad received some doxen reports. cetermng “the source.” "ho appeared tm tbe documents under the code asme Homer. but litte orogress had beeb anadé. Low “ine hum. The PBL were stil) sending Ws reamp about the Embast charladies, and the inguiry into our menial persocne) was spin- ming iself out endiessiy To me. this remains the more inexpiicaole feature of the whore affair. There was already evidence that the Foregn Office had been penetra Both Krivitsky¥ and Vaoikov bed aad ma (General Artcitery, @ Red army intelligence offcer, defected to ihe West ta 1937. and ! pen information to the effect that the Russians hod infilzraled a young = &rttish traitor into the Foren Office. Volkop kad irted to defeei in 1945, offering to name hirg Grifish frauors im the Forewn Office and one who was head of a &ritish secu organisation. Volkov's defection was thirarted by PAilby: Volkoo mysteriously disappeared before he could be given asylum.) There was. of course. sothi