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etgleny's Story iy The other is ge" Kind of : 2 ay anmasl i 2 -For four pears now it hae heen} sgmnation id See and reported that the tee men ee A ee een eye on Seviet behind ihe Iron Curtatrt, but the! ved ere. Were on Govier: 4 British ' Forelen Office never|PUley. : vonfirmed its. Now, from the] The theory advanced by Pet~ +> pen of Viadimir Pottoy, who de-|rov Js that Macican and Burgess foeted from the Soviet Embassyjave today’ advising the Soy - fy Australia and “toll many de-|govdrnment en how to kant tails cf the Sovieb spy system, Great Britaln and the Untied has come the first story trom a[States in the feild of diplamacy., Russian souree about Messrajit may be that the whols Soviet) Maclean: and Burgess, It svas\"peace offensive’ haa fis origin! vevenicd ina copyrighted articisjin the advice gfven by these two, published in this country byliurmecat diplomats. They know! *U, §. News & World Report."lthe soft spots im the avmor of! ‘this is separate trom the dven~ithe Wesiarm democracies. They meant issued by the royal com-jnaya inside information sbouty mission of Busiratia last week} American and British relations| giving Petrow’s revelations of\top several years. the Sovick spy system. But until . . the commission’s report on So~t Quantity of Maicrial” View espionage was released by! Petrov gays there Ww: spe- ihe Parliament in Australla,logt cetion in Moscow cevoted 7 Petrov fel, that he could ni information received from! nik about the Macican-Burgess\yracean and Bursy The two! ‘onee, agetiis: were trained carly in| ‘The revelations about Maclean|Communist espionage even wile and Burgess re printed: 4 at Cambridge University Potvey London newspaper wver the speek rites: “ arrangemens with “Thel pistytstn in London from! Sydney Morning Herald," of Ause/ ogg on 1ou8, whoo was 1g- atta, British Forcign OSiceicaled to Moscow. There after a] oficials, who have never ed-lyear on an intelligence training mitted that they really Knewlourse, in witch he specialized’ what happened to Mnclein stidiin Engtish, he was appointed to’ Burgess or even what the pairjthe rirst directorate of the pam- hind been doing, now finally con-lnittes of information, where he cede that “on the basis of thisiwas put in charge of a special evidence (Potroy's statements) 'Gne-man section of the top secret the prestimption must be madelarchives, that, documents were passed to: Couey seen arer What QUANl-!coiely to the great quantity of i . material supplied by Maclean But Pewwov Himself ceclaresinng Burgess.” wt ee ieee ae Turing the years 1946 to sosal of the Soviet Embassy i AUS*lmoortent events wore happen- tralis had been ix London and! : y - ing In the United States of ab fold him ‘Pettov) that he bad oy eoncern to the Commutis Burgess, bostov ay yagpeHes Beirne Korean War broke wut e 950, Military gperstions and} ‘Al this Ume Burgest, wasigting of the Wester Allies were bringing out brief cases TUT of fovigontiy relayed regularly to the Porolgn Office cocumonis, which|Sovics government. | were photographed in the Sovietl” a. scene ooh a any Embassy and quickly returned taf 39.2 sibs oMipials ee ae im, Kislytsin used te encipher taining ‘Maclean ‘and Burgess! the more urgent information and 0 toey started to investinatel cable ft te Moscow. ‘Phe rest he! Som and also that they dtdn't! prepared for dispateh by courier in the diplomatic bas.” section wos devoted think if worth while shadows; stot ' Mrs. Maciean, i phils strangely paraiicls the! tp certainly hoped that! ; seintionshtp Of Alger Hiss of the lence Batch, leceanee whieh United States Vepartment “of nave been sneering at State arid Whittaker Chainders,/Asnerican security system whose “pumpkin papers” dls-irgaiize that Soviet esptonaie closed ihe aecuiments He gotiien's after all just @ fiameni of] from Hiss, Senator MeCugthy's Gmagination|! It turns out that, Just agterjamd that “guilt by association.” the British Foroign OMice started if followed through in an inves inyestigating Maclean and Bur-jtigatton of the Maclean-Burkess ess, the two men earned of thelpersonal relationships with each » danger and told the Soviet goy-iother and their friends, would * cement, which Reiped them tojhave possibly nipped the plot be- escape aba later brought Mrs,/fore it could do the damage ib ca Maclean and the chlldten tolevidentiy did. Even a tight in- S/ ‘Moscow. The family now ie Uying{tetest in. the subject of moral ; —_ there. Habits as shown by a previous | investigation of the personnel | records of the two men wor neve raised e question abou! M we tooth as security risks Qtion effective-‘consnent, 1985, N.Y. } ‘Two important questions arise! ie connection with the episede, Qneis Why the British security] aystem didn’t fan »