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se ee FE ete ee te cme cane catia etn cali Rania! nigel ial Kiet alti alae kates Cs | le He was seen with Serov, the former head of the KGB (Russian Secret Service) at London in 1963. Serov had run into Dr. Ward, and bad put him in contact with the Russian agent, vapnov, : 4. Finally, surely it was Philby who warned Burgess and MacLean from Washington that an investigation was in progress on thea, Questions always remain which surprise everyone, not just English public opinion: now, faced with Burgess's and MacLean's drunkenness, dissipation, talkativeness, and wrong- doings for 20 years - after they themselves had even confessed, during their rgicoholic binges, that they worked for “Uncle Joe“ (Stalin) - after two Soviet agents who had defected to the West had specifically pointed them out by name - how could they not only let these men go free, but how could they leave then in their jobs? The cynical, hackneyed response of the middle class Englishman is: "Well, look, they belonged to ‘the Establishment. * _ Mo one touches the elite.“ But, a member of the MI5 furnished this explanation, which was much more disquieting: “Because important people were ‘involved’ in this affair, and 211 those who were in the coup have not yet been exposed. The Burgess-MacLean-Philby Affair is not finished.” The most important question Btill remains unanswered: “Who warned Philby?’ Because, if we know that Philby was the third man in the Burgess-MacLean Affair, we do not know who the fourth man Was. -_ ad Meanwhile, what has become of our three “gentlemen?” _ Burgess alone died of cirrhosis of the liver on August 30, 1963, at Moscow, MacLean and Philby, who had their wives come to them, work for Moscow newspaper agencies. They have given those that they have seen indications that they were bored, and desired to return "to the country.” MacLean is under hospital care for a serious nervous breakdown. But, will they dare to face up to the “national shame" which would aweit then in event ’ of their return? It was Burgess, who, betore his death, had the last word: “I am accused of being ‘badly behaved’; the worst crime for a gentleman. But, kindly tell me who is ‘well behaved’ in this time of our history?’ nol