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semiemenimtrsss interviewed on July 13, 1951, See » by Special Agent QeRpRREebIea and the writer, (& advised thet he hac first met GUY BURGESS around January, 1951 when he received a telephone call from him at the former office of the Foreign Policy Association in the National Press Building, Washington, D.C, At that time BURGESS stated that he was interested in questions concerning the Far East. qagQgii stated that BURGESS thereafter came to his office in the Press Building and told him that his, BURGESS, job at the British Embassy was to analyze the motivations and tendencies of the American attitude toward the Far East, not only in wegaré to the official government opinion,but also in regard to the opinion of the general American public, Fe al stated that at this time BURGESS requested him to obtain various published materials which would adequately reflect the precise public opinion in the United State. with regard to China. (@) WROMA advised that between January and early March, 2951, BURGESS came to his office a total of four or five times for the purpose of discussing the China question, He said that on all but one of these cecasions he took BURGESS to the Presse Club bar where they would drink and talk, MMMM stated that BURGESS drank heavily but was able to Shold his whiskey” in thet he could drink six highballs "witnout turning ea hair’, He stated that although BURSESS would drink an unusually largs anount of whiskey, he never seemed to even approach becoming intoxicated (gi) sagem advised tint 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, impulses and concepts of the present Ad~ ministration together with the problems of the Administration in attempting to follow these concepts with so many Republican critics holding different views, Pome told BURGESS he thought that as time went on, the critics of the Administration would become more influential, but that the over- riding question was the war in Korea, and that political policy depended on battle reports from the Korean front. =e told BURGESS that it was “his opinion that if the Korean war were prolonged, the United Stetes would