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; From the earliest days, our careers had intertwined. He had collected money for me at Cambridge after the -Fevolt of the Austrian Schutzbund in February, 1934. | had put forward his name as a possible recrult for the | Soviet service, a debt which he later repaid by smooth- .ing my entry into the British Secret Service. In between, _ he had acted as courier for me in Spain. In 1940, we had worked closely together in SIS, and he had paid me a professional visit in Turkey in 1948. Our association was therefore well-known, and it was already certain that any © serious Investigation of either of us would reveal these past finks. it seamed that there could be no real profes- ° sional objection to his staying with me. _- Philbyon Guy Burgess). . , ‘There was another consideration which inclined me ‘towards agreeing with Burgess' suggestion (to put him - ‘up at my place). i knew from the files that his record was + quite clean, in the sense that there was nothing recorded ‘ against him politically. But he was very apt to get into _ personal scrapes of a spectacular nature. A colleague in the Foreign Office, now an Ambassador, had pushed him down the steps of the Gargoyle Club, injuring his skull. There had been trouble in Dublin and in Tangier. it occurred to me that he was much tess likely to make himself conspicuous in my household than in a bachelor flat where every evening would find him footloose. ~ a 4