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| Since Maciean’ disappear ance @ close examination of bis dackground has reventesthat “Guim His student days at Cam- bridge from 1931 to 1934 he had expressed Communist sympa- thies, but there was no evi- dence that he had ever been a member of the Communist par- ty and indeed on leaving the university he had outwardiy renounced his earlier Commu- nist views, | Burgess was born in 1911 and was educated at the Royal Na- val College, Dartmouth, at Elon end at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he bad a brilliant academic record. After leaving Cambridge in 1935 he worked for a short time in Lon- don as a journalist and joined the B. B,C, in 1936, where he remained until January, 1928, From 1939 until 1941 he was employed in one of the war propaganda organizations. He rejoined the B. B, C, in Janu- ary, 1941, and remained there until 1944, when he applied for and obtained a post as a tem- porary. press officer im the News Department of the For- | eign Office, He was not recruited into the Foreign Service through the open competitive examina- tion bul in 2947 took the oppor- tunity open ta temporary em- ployes to present. himself for establishment. He appearnd be~ fore a Civil Service Commis sion Board and was recom- mended for a junior branch of the Foreign Service. His estab- i lishment took effect from Jan. 1, 1947, He worked for a time | in the office of the then Mini: ter of State, Mr. Hector M Neil, and in the Far Eastern Department of the Foreign Of- fice. In August, 1950, he was transferred to Washington ag a Second Seevelary, Early in 1950 the security au- thorities informed the Foreiga Office (hat in late 1949 while on ; holiday abroad. Burgess had been guilty of indisereet. talle about secre matters of which he had official knowledge, For this he was severely tepri- manded, Apart from this lapse his service in the Foreign Of- fice up to the time-of his ap- ointment to Washington wax salisfactory and these seemed Kool trem to hope that he would make a useful career, Ni