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OUAY I can disclose the most astounding seeret 0} \ ihe entire Maclean and, Burgess affair—the par plaged in it by that remarkgble woman Mrs. Melind, Madiean, . This wife and mother, |who earned widespread sympathy when her husband, the Soviet spy Donald Mactear, fled to Moscow, was herself, I am cow sure, sulity of a staggering piece of duplicity, She jonled the Seeret Service chicis of Britain, and iben those of Franze and Switzerland, in a series of sunning manceuvres that few master sples can match, ‘ Was my comrade Kislyisin who placed me in possession {$be Burgess and Maclean sderets. He was my assistant n the M.V.D.. the Soviet spy netyors, From 1945 to 1948 Kislyt~ Sin was stationed in London, where he was in personal touch with the two diplo- mats, Afterwards he worked at MVD. headquarters in Moscow In the department handling the Maclean and Burgess operation. ‘The truth of the disclo~ sures he made to me have now been confirmed by the British Foreign Office. Since I broke with Moscow and was given refuge In Aus- tralia. last year -I have studied the published doca- ments in the case of (be missing diplomats. Bytting together all that Risivtsin told me with thqse puilicly known facts, I ohn nog complete my dossier fon, Buy Maclean~—and Mrs. Melinda Maclean. Urgent conference in Moscow As 1 diselosed last week, Jean and Burgess spied for Russia over a perlod of many years before the sus- picions of the British Securit Seryiess were aroused. oe a Then tame catastrophe. ‘fhe two men discovered mal they were ander in- vestigation, Terrified. they reported to thelr Soviet con- tact in London, AL once, Kislyisin reveaied to me, the full resources of the M.V.D. were mobilised to snaich them from danger. In Moscow an went con ave Of too MVD. agents was caller, Chief af those pre~ Oolonet Rains, head gf t Directorate, which fs onsibls for intelligence work ritain and America. is deputy, Gorsky, since post, was 1 ‘anberza, the Australian c4pital, where I was chief of three nien were web Knows to me personally, The conference quickly des cided that Burgess aut Mace feds were agents ot spel vafue, that at ail’ costs they mst be saved from arrest anf drought io sanctuary in Ribsfa, How to stage the escape iteit wits a much taugher prob! Ping aller plan was discussed, Ot, Lo be rejected. Everyone af the conference Wars obsessed with the perils of whisking away feoa London tive spy cts hulding ime ) nt Foreign Office posts, Inst the route Macleaw AS and Burgess are gow known to have taken from London to Paris was ploited. In. Paris MV. agents wok complete ebarge. [4 Soviet or Czech Plade—Kisiytsin was sat sure which—flew them to Prague whe joy and retiet with which the MV.D. chiets received them in Moscow eat sell be imagined, Though be had been in inti- inate contact with them for years, the ruies of the spy game had, prevented actthily meeting Burkes, Ad cypher clerk to tae London brave of the Soviet spy fiet- wort Kistyisi had handled Office intormation Tor transmission hy code to Moscow, Ju the Soviet capital he leter had charge of the secret ary, congistigg entirely of decuments Supptied by the two diplomats, Kislylsin was never allowed 40 meet the two men whose highly valuable informatio; wen t_ through his hangs” Oaly on their grrivat in Mrscow did he greet Mactean ani Buegess tor the tirst time, And Ristytsin was given ihe job of luoking after the precious. pair. He became, indeed, thelr wel- fare supervisor, He saw them installed tn a comfortable house on the outskirts of Mascow. He sd the chits for al their ta slothing and persomal necessities. And he prepared pinns far exploiting their diplomatic knowledge and skill in the gu+ vite of the Kremon. ‘Supplied with _ the best’ Burgess best he used savisers to ihe Sovat Stine zed for them, zaged in it when comfortabie existence and Supplied with the best of every- ng. Life for the two reseurd spies was Hylicbut for one thing. ‘They missed their families. Maclean especially was 1 dombh concemes about Ais wil and three children, one of whor was born only a few wens aft his flight across the Iron Cu’ tain, He had sent Melinda aifection-