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BTANDARD FORM WO, 64 TO + - DIRECTOR, FRI \ : Brnon + SAC, WEO SUBJECT: DONALD MACLEAN; ; GUY" BURGESS / ESPIONAGE ~ R On duly 13, 1951, . wa nterviewed and advised tha. he had}, first met GUY BURGESS around January, 1951, when he received a telephone call from him at the former office of the Foreign Policy Association |p the National Fress Building, Washington, D. C., at which time, BURGESS}... - stated that he was interested in questions concerning the Far Bast. said that BURGESS later c to his office in the Press Buildihge-—.--- oe and told him that his, BURGESS’, job at the Lritish lmbassy was to analyze the motivations and tendencies of the American attitude. toward the Far East, pot only in regard to the official yernment opinion, but also in regard to the opinion of the general American public. tated that at this time BURGESS wanted him to obtain various published materials which would adequately reflect the precise public opinion in the United ‘States with regard to China, QP acvised that bet»een January and early March, 1951, BURGESS came to his office a total of four or five times for the purpose of discussing the China question, He said that on al] but one of these occasions he took BURGESS to the Fress Club bar where they wovld drink and talk. @Q@MMMi stated tha BURGESS drank heavily but was able to “hold his whiskey" in that he cou drink six highballs "without turning a hair", He stated that althovgh {GESS would.drink an unusually large amount of whiskey, he never seemed to even approach becoming Intoxd.cated «gag MUGMNE acvised that he later met with BURGESS and discussed with him the course of official, American policy toward China and tried to analyze for him the tendencies, imm:]ses and concepts of the present Ad- ministration together with the problems of the Administration in attempting to follow th concepts with so many Republican critics holding different. views. SQQBMe told BURGESS he thovght that as time went. on, the critics of the Administration would become more inflvential, but that the over- riding question was the war in Kcrea, and that political policy depended on battle reports from the Korean front, ggg told BURGESS that it was his opinion that if the Korean war were prolonged, the Urited States would z become thoroughly pro-CHIANG KAL SbEK, ROM advised that BURGESS had later written a report to the British Foreign Uffice built on the concept that American public opinion with regard to China and the Far East depended upon*battle reperts from Korea.