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Soames Ace nen i . DUSSELDORF, Sunday. io OU would expect, | Intelligence officers would at least give a routine i check-over to a man wh: “ONE: ts @ close friend of Guy British. diplomat i . TWO: hi wees? SEFTON DELMER- | potds & 10d now in & Com- puts a man who fled to the imunstomeets Reds on yhis NEWSMA sectar, woe be ate THREE: fs an ex-Briton; Escape f t is an ex-diplomat; * i QLPGANG @ FIVE: ts at present visiting his W 3s } mother in West Germany and BUTEA, mere or j had used hig | German Bortign qhetefore available for question- position in the ing 7 Office to Aight Hhiler by passing secret informs: Hon to the British belween 1935 and 1039, But in September 1030 he managed to get on a plane and e8ea) trom The gue te Londos. » Burgess.” said the baron, “Lad been an intimate frend ef mine since 1934, He was immensely impressed with what T had done. He kept tell Bay so_far no British Intell { genoe officer has bothered 82+ year-old Baro WOU gang ay ) Futlity in his Cologne hotel. } Only Br. Otto John, head of the German Security Services, Rad a chat with him, ~ | ‘the barotm ts wuite ready to. ; chat, “You koow,” he sid to me sipping us i Moselle, “2 may have been the indirect. Spepiranioss of Guy Flurgess's decision to come aver to us." He smiled and quickly An! ex-spy tells” about BURGESS would you not, that British . | ne nad come | end de-Naii | police Army had everyone we met he Thouply 4 was the bravest man he bad ever met. Tt Was mos embarrassing, Probably ne made up bis mind ta fcow my example.” j Last time Putiitz and Burgess met was at the farewell party - Burgess gave in his Bond-sireet A ee | Mes, tat | ts possible — very “e ce { ssibie.” * ~ i And he smuled again, ow “Of course [ cannot be fermain tha, Maclean and Burgess are with us. 1 have | never seen them er even been | told anething mbout them. Buk i H {then—such things are secret. “Rowever, I have a good ‘ notion that I was responsible. a ng. said Puilitz, Bt story, I” After Listening (0 his re was there, Ev ree. Fi6o think HE sentation Santee Men yititz, a naturalised British citizen by then, was gi RS-a-week job as @ clerk in Londen, “TY could naraiy ive on that,” | he said. “I had to eat {ried fish every day. My rent alone gost_me £3 a week. “But while Tt siarved Britnin begas to support the rearma-; ment. of Germany and the | rebirth of German militarism. Arn 7 2 1a "DAILY EXPRESS" festored that iT abhorred and to London 3-15-5h Sewn Gt eed . fecided to get out and Bo RE: GUY BURGESS, ET AL ~ aS Y by talks between the his departure for - a c terribly with: AL AYLAORS sree over to the Russisns.” He gravelled secretly to Berlin, crossed, into surrendered his British passport fo. the German Communist » eee as Burgess, the vanished | police, who gave him an Eastern. gone passport in ty place. ‘Then he pied & Communist publishing firm, where door neighbour is John Peet. the former British Reuters reporter wha also crossed. over to the Russians. His preaching iE: pow the baron wag well faunched on th propagende Hne tte the Wes presch ‘~ HOW the Soviet Union's only ) palicy with regaed to Germany was Gennany's demulltarisatica fication, HOW the German People's been formed in Eastern Germany purely as “an answer ta West German + Tearmament. e They would be disbanded at once, he said, If the West abanconed rearma- ment, HOW the Russians theniselves were jonging to leave Germany if only the other occupying Powers would do the sari¢. HOW the reamuon of Germany gould be guile simply etiected es! Germans and the East Germans themselves without mterference | from tie allies. HOW they hoped te make @ litte exira money by arranging for some .West-Bast business deals. Shabby... ERTAINDGY | the baron looked “3s though he could do with some cash. His face jonked drawn and wern ant Spo a ipping | far older than when 1 bad Inst eT him in Lenden almost Hine yerrs ago o But,” and up Mashed we pro- aganda tne, “T am happy to be Re ting Nazism again,” Well, there 1% is. Dont you think dhis friend of Burgess 16 man. our Intelligence expers . ould take, the trouble to look ‘Bverything ih fact was DORE \_Secrnniie 2 Re Is around SST mrss ESPIONAGE ~ R ae ae st ae at Baath it 2 Meer Pa hale aa ae Santa the Russian zoie, . hig Gext- | Mes Nichola. Mx Belmont. Mr. Glavia. Mr. Harbo Mr, Rosen Mr. Tasua Mr. Tracy... Mr. Mohr. Mr. Winterrowd Tela. Room. Mr. Hollman ae hme GE PRES Se Vs Le gags joe att! i)