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NY oem was returning to England. (On . x wem@ieme declared that in his contacts with BURGESS they had talked about Foreign Office gossip. He seid there was no indication that BURGESS had any Communist sympathics or could be a Russian agent. He also advised that he knew no American contacts of BURGESS. He said he believed the main contacts of BURGESS were around the British Embassy in Washington, DC. Ce MME omembered that BURGESS had gone to Russie when he was attending Cambridge University. <i said that he could not believe that BURGESS would have any Communist sympathies. He based this belief on the fact thot BURGESS wes the private secretary to HECTOR MAC NEIL, and no doubt wrote some of his speeches. He was of the opinion that MAC NEIL would not have BURGESS around if he had expressed any Communist sympathies. He seid that he-had no idea where BURGESS could be. He advised that BURGESS had meny friends in the intellectual set throughout Europe and the Mediterranean, He remarked that BURGESS was an intcllectual who was considered brilliant by some, and that he hes written many speeches for politicians in England. (@) we 4hat wraps Qrank too much He felt that BURGESS at times drank too much and was not an “absolutely straightforward fellow at all times". Ho classed BURGESS as an aesthetic tnecrectan ty) Fa eon on June 16, 1951 by ie y a SAME. 3s 2 cadet at The Citadel College in Charleston, South Carolina. On March 1 and 2, 1951 Quy BURGESS lectured before the International Relations Clu PY 2 political science group at The Citadele aml ~~ 6 i i -———— ee ha