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Move—trom, Pa. 1 | ov code clerk at the Soviet. Em-} aassy to7Australia, transmitted! 20 Moscow some of Kislytsin’s| — seret messages. Mrs. Petrov:that she fled to join her hus- ciso obtained asylum in Aus- band in the Soviet Union. iia. Petrov's disclosures imply ‘Yhe Petrov disclosures are that the Soviet Union, for many to be extremely embar- years, had access to secrets of ossing for the Foteign Office the British Foreign Office, in- and the Government here. Both cluding secrets entrusted to ave maintained they did not|this country by the United w the whereabouts of Bur-|States and other Allies. ss and MéLean aftcr the two] They lend substance to de- ven crossed the English Chan-lmands made in the United sland entered France four|States that Washington should cars ago. withhold from Britain secret The Foreign Office also has|matters until the Government vrofessed ignorance of where.|here eliminated enormous holes vouts of Melinda MacLean, | declared to exist in its security \merican-born wife af Mac-jsystem, ‘can, She and her children{ A Foreign Office spokesman ssappeared from Switzerland|today confirmed some of Petrov's statements. 1 September, 3953, after they. sad been allowed to leave this} Asked whether Petrov was country. correct. in saying thal Burgess Petrov's account confirmed}and Maclean had been long- time Soviet agents, the spok jman said: “We believe this to/disappearance of Mrs. Maclean) |be true.” Be? ylizerland. = i Asked about the statement! Mislytsin told Petrov he was) that they fled because they had assigned to the Soviet Embassy learned they wete being in- at London in 1945 as a code : ijelerk from the Soviet secret vestigated, the spokesman said: ot s 1 “It ie true (hat MacLean was police and for three years was rf S Senn in close touch with Burgess and | under active investigation by rT | the security authorities. Bur-|Machean throush an intermed- | itabili . He did not :'m:-"£ meet gess' suitability for continued | (31 foreign service employment |Ptner Of them. was under investigation and : A he had already been with-| (Petrov quoted him sayin: drawn from Washington.” vt personally handled all thy Petroy, who was head of the {material that Burgess “pplied. Soviet secret, service in Aus-|1 received briefeases pull of tralia, said in his account that;Foreign Office documents. They Kisylisin, who had been work-/were photographed al the Em- ing under him, burst into his{bassy and quickly returned to| office on Sept. 17, 1953, waving] Burgess. The photographs were} a_newspaper. and shouting} sent. by courier, in the diplo- “Tig come off at jast, just aq: matic bag, to Moscow.’ we planned it!” ; ¢ From London Kislytsin wert, Kislytsin was veferring to the, -00 1 — [Jn 1948, ta Moseaw, where I: was put in charze of a special ‘section of “an amazing lbrary of foreign. intelligence called the top seeret archives.” According to Petrav's ac: count, “it was crammed full of secret documents of the British F@reign Office. There was mbch that a great deal had ni ven been translated and dis- tributed to the (Soviet) minis. teries interested.” Pres Nm tn