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So a a rie eon ee Eee Caner Sw ee a ee oe eel 7 er “ SCRE aie a cee ae oy wee Oa, wpe os a ay eee . BN ee wT ~ : , @TAIDAND rorat No. 14 . Py. ‘ Office Mem andi e UNITED STA1£5 GOVERNMENT + To Of 68 OV. Boardnagig cam sane DATE: February 4, 295 yaOM = 4, H. Belmontys 2a ui 7 ye ‘ ie jos . (pnam BUDJECT: ynONALD DUART MACLEAN SS rr [our FRANCIS DE MONCY BURGESS fi 9: peg ESPIONAGE - & ran ‘ {+ sttasta ? , ce ht Reference ta made to press release of the sthate ‘ Le Internal Security Subcomntttee for the afternoon newspapers Vide “ie 2u4057 re captioned case. The release stated that British recetved informatipn in 1939 that a communist agent of the general description of Donald“iMaclean had infiltrated the Foreign Office. Such informatto came from a former Sovtet tntclitgence officer who did not know Hacjea by name but described him as "a young Scotsman who played around tn th artistic world." fhe former intelligence officer was identified as General walter Krivitsky who gave the tnfornation to Isaac Don Levine, Welease reflected Levine testified that krtvitsky told him tn the 1930 lthat the communists had infiltrated key postttons tn England with 2 me The other man was naned John King who was identified and sentenced to 10 years tn -prtson in 1939, Krivitsky went to London to help tdenttfy the other one but due to the meager description he was not successful, the article described lfacilean and Burgess as young officers tn the British Foreign Service who fled England tn 1951, It stated "noth are reportedly in Moscow as adutsors on Anglo-American affatrs tn the Sovtet Government, Each had served two tours of duty tn Washington with British Embassy. Haclean was recently interviewed by Arttish newsmen in Moscow." . OBSERVATIONS? a The above ts based Isaac Don Levine 6-6-56, After their fligi rom Angland, subjects made their jirs puoite appearance tn Moscow 2/56 when they furnished a statenent to British and Russtan press admitting they had been conmunist. sympatht: since their college days, Since tdentifytng Maclean as a Soutet agen j Subsequent to his flight from England, .the British have conceded that loca o's is probably the Soviet agent described by Krivitsky. kKrivutts? AP tan aidw ¥ 2 tys vf + wos a Sovtet defector who was found dead tn a hotel room Vashington, | 2/41. Bufilea do not reflect subjects served two tours of duty tn [\saehtnoton, D. C.:: Maclean was here from 5/44 to_9/48 ess fri 8/50 te 5/51, According to Buftlea, Burgedsmgs tne “ne 1LO/ SEs by Brittsh journaltet Tom Driberg who wrotlg book-onssuch inverutew, ly memo 1-17-57 neervteuye7 analysts of the book, Buftles contain n Infarmation re interuteuss Maclean. It ta thought diet the press re. | |