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ae — 2 = ve ‘cated soshmunists when they were fellow students at Cam- bridge University. Burgess and Maclean were homosexual and heavy drinkers. . Philby was a Burgess protege. All : three came from distinguished families. REY POSTS Altho it was later disclosed that all three often voiced strong anti-American and pro-communist views, they rose fast in the British foreign service and occupied key posts in U.S.-British relations during the Korean War, Donald Duart Maclean, who served in the British Embassy here from 1944 until 1948, headed the American section of the British foreign office from October, 1950, until he secretly fled to Moscow on May 25, 1951. Guy Francis de Moncy Burgess was Second Secretary of the British Embassy from August, 1950, until May, 1951, when he hurriedly returned to England and defected with Maclean. He died in Moscow on Aug. 30, 1963.- Harold A. R. Philby was First Secretary of the British . Embassy and a top British Intelligence officer in Washing- ton from October, 1949, unti] June 1, 1951, when he was recalled to London and dismissed. He later went to the Middle East as a journalist and fled to Moscow in Jan- vary, 1963. , . AT LONG LAST Only after Philby defected last year, did the British Gov- ernment finally admit he was he “third man" who had warned Burgess and Maclean that British and U. S. intelli- gence agencies were about to expose their spy activities. The Saturday Evening Post, in a recent article on the case, reported that Philby received an FBI report that Maclean and Burgess were being investigated as communist _ agents and called in his friend Burgess to tip him off. . ‘Burgess, according to this report, immediately fled to “England, where he warned Maclean. They then arranged -with Soviet Intelligence to spirit them out of England and __ behind the Iren Curtain. . “A labor member of Parliament charged in 1955 that Philby | was the “third man” in the case, but Harold Macmillan, then Foreign Secretary, vigorously denied it, insisiing the. British Government had no evidence he had warned Burgess _ and Maclean. ; Later, British officials said Philby had been “cleared” and a Stren satrarments rartn Ate RMT Pal DONALD MACLEAN - GUY BURGESS permitted to go to the Middle East in hopes he would lead them to other Soviet spies. U. S. THREAT The Saturday Evening Post article, however, charged that the Foreign Office had fired Philby in 1951 only because he FBI and Central Intelligence Agency had threatened otherwise to break off all Intelligence liaison between the two governments. A British “white paper” on the Burgess-Maclean case made public in 1955 sought to minimize both the significance of their defection and their access to military and diplo- matic secrets during the Korean War. Scripps-Howard reporter R, H. Shackford wrote at the time, however, that the admission they were Soviet spies “revived the strong presumption that both men not only . betrayed their own country but also the United States.” . “At various critical times at the end of the war ard afterwards, both men had access to top British-American secrets, including atomic information and Korean War mili- tary decisions,” Mr. Shackford reported. e.- aad —_———— aml OO moran