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STON AI, qurnaelirmmnnnacnas» United Stetee Department of Btete, mede eveileble e clipping from the "Jerusalem Post*, - dated June 18, 1951, which wee written by the Post's corres- pondent in London, and reported thet W.H. AUDEN wae interviewed by the "London Express" newsoeper on the Ielend of Iechie off, Neples, end mede the following stetement: "BURGESS was en open Communiet in the late 1930's in New York where he spent e#1x months of the yeer. We met several times while he wes at the Enbegsy in Weerington. BURGESS was etill pro-Communiet. evant in March of this yeer. We talked about FUCHS ant” NUNUEMAY_ he wae BURGESS'S close friend. I ezked hin if he had been ecreenec, and BURGESS spoke of diplomatic immunity*. This erticle also pointed out thet W.H. AUDEN, the poet and friend of MACLEAN ené BURGESS, now e neturelized Americen citizen, went to school with MACLEAN, and knew BURGESS at Cambridge end for many years efter thet. @ This article further reoorted thet STEPHEN SPENDER, AUDEN'S friend,ané enother prominent ex-Communist, hac earlier quoted a telephone conversetion with BURGESS on May 2h, the dev before the two men dieavveered. In this conversation BURGESS referred to SPENDER'S recently published autobiography, and commended ite anti-Communist tone, The erticle reported that AUDEN had etated that MACLEAN *knew quite a lot about the Atom Bomb", not ebout ite technical aspects, but about the- number of bombs stored by the Americane. »)