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Burgess'los secrers MAN FROM M15 ONCE CALLED TO SEE ME AT CHURCHILLS CLU “DO YOU KNOW GU ASKED ME. I TOLD HIM { DID, INDEED, Burgess was a member of the club from 1948. One of ‘hegeariiest. His membership nugber was 17263 and to date we have more than 0 members on our roll SY you can guess how far back Burgess's association with Churchills goes, He used to live fust across the from Churehills . in ‘ord-street. From the office i iow I can 0 the windows, of his flat, facing on Bond Street, HE WEPT! Colieagtie Bruce Brace saw sutch more of him than I did. Oven, after T had left the cluv ip the ear ‘to drop in for night-cap e. And I recall thet when he utd too much'to drink he used RE: MacLEAN CASE * disappeared. “Was | M: HARRY MEADOWS, the King of Clubs, writes ‘| Don’t Go Home Till Morning’ My interview with the MI5 man took piace in 1951, some weeks after the diplomats had faclean a member, the man from MIs jvanted to know? He was not. bub he had beqn p several times with Burge, What did they taik aboud? Most everything in the worl, said,-except politics. (Bufile 100-271183) EMPIRE NEWS “SEPTEMBER 25, 1955 LONDON, ENGLAND ihn N BUSINESS URGESS?” HE cry on Bruce's IN A PANIC DE Burgess ever mentipn Rus#ia? he asked. Néver, as far as we cod remember, but he did seem to be, if anything. a shade anti- American, though not violently so. But in all the time Bruce and I had known Burgess he, had never, even in his cups, given the slightest mdication "of his intention to leaye the country, But once lights flashed on in his flat at about 4 aum., after he had left the club—and_ then, suddenly, we saw him haring: across the road to Churchills ina tremendous panic. “Have you seen my brief. case?” he asked Bruce, “Was that yours?” Bruce ganged. “I just saw someone walk out with it.” Burgass tumed so pale we thought he would fain. So Bruce Aurriedly told him he was joking apd handed over his property. fat was the last we ever sav of lym. The next night Burgess apd _Madeaa disappeared, .