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THE A \ seuret agent ab the R han Embassy in Canberra, sough “pojiieal asylum in April i sf ve d gave the Anstralian, auiporiues & Break deal of secret Information. This. I reported, detwiled information: Maclean and Burgess. ses 2 Foreign Office Tid ia aly replied at 2 ‘Petrov had only hearsay knowledge, Buy we authent icliy of gthe revgelach made PY. “Petroy is | nail tobe doubt ¥ Austrsijs's YS. at rf Minister. Mr. Menzigs, in a writlen parliamentary er that Petrov and his wife 8 supniying emason of val baling Soviet espionage Australia and throughout the world. inéluced. aboub = 20 years ago... It wowld be, impossibie, said Mr. Menzies, “for Petrov to prtblish anything without the, fail consent of the Australian’ muhoritics,, Avid now Petrov has come oul win] more, information. ‘Fig says that both Burgess and Maclean were reeruited | for jigence work while they yere suill students at Cambridge 20 years aKa, He favs that one of bis colieagues in the Russian Service was pasted to erupassy, personally’ he material semiee by Burgeds, which inelyged briefcases full of Foreign Office documents, angie ail The warning TPHE long, jong trpil of Maciean snd Burgess gigrted on the night of May 25, $5), But M16 had put oul warn- ings about them months before. They said that Donald Duard Maciean, then aged 38 and yanking as a counsellor in the \ Rorrign Office, was unreligdis ically sod unstable tignally, followea an er S ge “om. Fd, PETROV| FORCES ~ hendan ia 145" e > ISSIONS Express Chief Crime Reporter PERCY HOSKINS ‘HY does ‘the Foreign Office, after more than four years of denials, now come oui with these admissions? Because Viadimir Petrov has forced ity Petrov, third seeretary and S0-fearoid second — seare welp nelieved to be active agtn farlthe Soviet. The mystery MA AGLEAN and Burgess, ix believed. crossed to France that night of May 25. On dune 7 the Foreien Office announced shat both: men, being absent without leave, dad deen suspended, ‘The rest was mainiy questions, * and no answers. “Then in Sepiember 195% Mac- Jean's wif, Melinda, vanished. The wife ~ YRS. MACLEAN had been Living for a year with fier ee children in Geneva. fer mmbier, Mrs. Dunbar, Was sipyy er mother i wita with the cnildren % ‘vanished, A year jeter Mrs, Dunbar received a Jenter from her daughter. ti was undated and bare no address, It said that she and the children were well and Bapps,, The The greetings PROM Maclean himself silence. But In Becember | 1953 Burgess sent Ohristmas. Bree ings to his mother, Mrs, in London, letter reine 7 her Buih these _ comarunications had apparentiy been sent through contier, ‘They bore Tendon postin AT the Soviet Embas fn. 2} tendon tact night an cial 8a) “We do nob know how events, wUl develop and St very dificult to say anything.” nds ab Montreux for the week-end, She