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TWO TEXTS | Yow that the Foreign Ofice is; peparing its BurgessMaclean W! ite | Paper it might consider having section on Mr Vladimir Petrov ie author, He js evidently a remarkable man. His “story” appeared: in at least three places last week-end: in Sydney, London, and Washington, The Australian version we have not: seen, but there are interesting textual divergencies between the American! version (“US. News and World’ Report") and the British version (the ' “Peaple”), For American consump- tion Petroy (for it would be improper to suggest that he did not write it himself) adopted a terse and factual stdle. For English Sunday consump tiqn he became more fhznboyant, not to] say lurid. It is perhaps only a] curiosity of literature, but for ti | interesied in the technique af the oy stpry a few comparisons may be | entertaining, In the following “A”! ix the Ametican version, “B” the British: How @id Kistutsin (the MVD agent) betave when he heard of Mrs Muclean’s disappearance ? { A. Walked into ihe MVD offices. . with a smile of pride aud satistaction on his face, He carrled a newspaper... . “So it has come off ut lost” he said. “1 knew about this business, If has happened Just as we plonned 1." ‘B. Burst into my office, "It's come off at ast, just as we planned i," he shouted waving & newspaper. Why did Kistytein then want to cablb to Maseuw in ende ? i ‘A. “T must cable Moscow to ask if they: t the Australian press reports abtrut MacLFAN CASE (Bufile 100-371163) 0! 7 HE MANCHESTER GUARDIAN | SEPTEMBER 21, 1955 ea LONDOR, ENGLAND > In bighly secret MVD work. cof it had not even been. translate B. To obtain more details trom tne MVD in Moscow fabout Mrs Maclehny’s escape’, hen were Burgess recruited as spies ? A, He [Kislytsin] told me that Burgess find Maclean were long-term agents who had each been indenendently reemited to work tor Soviet Intelligence in their student days at Cambridge Univ. R. Both these men were lon; and Macltan students at Cambridge, twenty SeOrS age, Did they know of each other's activities ? A. I get the imore: ytsin that they did not know cach other as Sqyiet agents unit We emergency of| thpir Hight tegethem I do not know on! Jat terme they worked at a later stage. | . The two men, though they became; cl#se friends after their Cambridge days, did net know of cach other's pina | ies Tt was not until they twer almost ready for their Aight to Masaow that they Jearned they were both Inked: What did they give to the Russians ? A. Tre quantity and quality of th useret information whieh these two men | were able to supuly to Moscaw in the} rourse of their official careers con well! be. imag | B. They supplied the} Kremlin with all ike information they | ‘could lay their hands on. What happened to the information ? A. {ln Moscow in 1949-50 Kisiytsin ‘was in} the First Directorate of Infor tion where he was put in char speciat ones arekives, This section was devoted solely to the great quantity of material wupplied by Maclean and Burgess. Much or digiributed to the ministries eoncerped ; edt Kisivtsin used to show pariffular fifes and documents to bigh-rad afcials whe visited his section fo: parpo: the ing ~ ie B Meg Deetiol q