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| SPY?] fhat’s not a nice word SAYS THE COLONEL Express Staff Reporter RS. BASSETT, tile -mother of Guy ~~ -» Burgess, heard about the Foreign Office statement in her flat at Arlington House, overlooking London’s Green Park, Her husband, Colonel J, R. Bassett, did the talking, “After ail" he said, “if the Foreign Office say have, it Is no good fiving in face of what they think, don't believe, hey think ing in mitigation. ie thing run its own VAGUE “ word ‘spy’ is not a jnice ward. It is not the word at al] that I should apply to -his cake in any sense. Ff kthe Féreign Office like to think they were deninitely doing some dirty work they must Ununk it, “The Forcign Office statement is very vague. ‘They just believe this and that. “In view of what has transpired * dn_all these years they have come to the ‘conclusion that they were actually in contact with the wrong people. “They might be in contact with people, "These contacts are very often foisted on to you. “A lot of fellows ai that age think they can change world politics and perhaps make the world a better place to live in. These ideological ideas are at the root of the whole thing. CHANGE “Mind you, I’ never had the Shghtest Suspicion from Gi tqat there was anytifing going op at ali. “BR I do think that a lot of {qliows of thab sort consider things should be put right somenow and I think probably that was at the back of their minds, and I would not say they have not been doing a bit of “We see a. certain change in atiltude lately, 7° “The whole thing is ridiculous, Neither of these fellows was in any sort of position to have access to top-secret’ documents. “They are not things that you can bandy about from room to room, carty about, and take in R sfexioad to the Russian ass: “Wp have no statement, offical oq unofficial, We are absolutqly the dark except for wit years in the Press."