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WFO Agnes In connection with this, QQMRMMMBW expleined thet BURSESS was @ highly emotional person and @ heavy drinker, With regard to BURGESS' political philosophy at this time Seeniggts <-30¢3 thet he was not at all clear. Ee explained that ell the persons in his nerticular croup which included BURGESS , @_esmaniieaibasieinay, ois. and ‘saaeseamipiaaie: were warmly in favor of the Spanish Loyalist Government ani said that this feeling was common to persons in his group. eaailindinn 525 that he had no knowledge of any Communist sympethies on the part of BURGESS xcept his "warm endorsement" of the Spanish Lovalists (which does not now consider to be pro-Communist in the light of the thinking of that period) and knows of no connections whic: BURGESS could have had with Soviet espionage. said that he recalled BURGESS in that period (1937-1938) as a person who was given to excess in drink and who was trying Maneergea eo to be “one of the group", eaning the literary circle in which et al traveled. cannes seid he felt a kind of pity for BUXSESS because he was a confirmed social climber and pretty obvious in his tactics, In this same vein and including the year 1947, when nadia last saw . BURGESS in London when BURGESS was working forthe British Foreign Office, om recalled that BURGESS always wanted to be "on { the inside" insofar as significant political events and activities O : were concerned. next saw BURGESS in 1947 when he went t a to visit. ) BURGESS was working for the British Foreign Gffice then, SQMMWM stated at this point that BURGESS was Known to be a homosexual. He did not consider this to be unusual, adding that even if this condition were generally known to BURGESS' friends and employers of that period it would not have made much difference since according aes homosexuality on the part -of a person such # BURGESS would not be consiijered unusual in the London of that period. In this connect ion =iiiiiiabag does not feel that BURGESS' homosexuality would be a weakness which could be used to advantage by the Soviets. He repeated that he knew of no possible Comintern connections which BURGESS might have had and stated thet it was inconceivable to him that the Soviets would ever choose @ person such as BUHGESS to work as an espionage agent. His reason for saying this was that BURGESS' drunkenness and emotional instability were things which were well known and very real. Secondly, he cannot imagine BURGESS' engaging in any clandestine activity for any pro~ longed period of time without wanting to let someone know of his activities, @@UNMMMMNF said he did not know and never met any of BURGESS' relatives and never recalls BURGESS' speaking of home or family. Ee does not know what BURGESS' financial condition was but assumed he was comfortably situated since he recalled going to BURGESS" apartment on several occasions in 1938 and again in 1947 and found it to be well furnished. = Oe L haf “ye [|