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Leading part It was a triumph for the en the world-wide spy network ru fgom the Kremiln. Dozens 0} the most cunning agents of the secret Service had ¢aken part in it. And Kislytsin himself had played a leading roje in jt when he was an MVD officer in London and later in Moscow. Tt was through him. indeed, that £ was able to discover the trath about a mystery that has kept the world guessing for four years, Even though 1 was head of an. impoviant MVD btanch and heid the high rank of lieutenant- colonel In the service, L shoutd | never have been let into the Bur- | fess and Maclean secrets. AS in other secret services. no one group of the MVD is allowed to know anything beyond tts own spectal sphere of duty. So Thad no right to question Kis- lytsin about his wark in the | Burgess and Maclean affair. But no sooner did he hear that Mrs. Maclean nad Gisdp- eared than he sougit to get tn ouch with the MVD men jn loscow with whom he hj | janned her secret joprnéy before he Joined me in Austra- dia. 6 to secure permission fo seni coded cables to Moscow pe hag to explain to me, his chiff, aildabout bis work in the miss- ing diplomats operation. 1 gave him permission, My wife Evdosla was our cypher clers. She coded the cabled mes- sages he-sent and the replies he received. As a result 1 learned almost every startling detail of the Burgess and Maclean story. From the secret cabled mes- sages and from Kislytsin him- selt t was able to build up an astonishing pleture of the gizantic coup. ‘And now J can lay before the world the full solution to the mistery of the missing diplo- mats. irst of all, let me destroy some of the myths that have gathered round this case. TL Is not vet fully “orenfed, outside the Iron Curtain, fiat Burgess and Maclean were traitors to their country and gave secret. Informaticn to Moscow Soviet spies tose that beyond T can now di: ali doubt these two men requ Jar supplied the Pemlin with ‘ail the (formation they could jay their hunds on as trusted “Certain pubhe men in Britain ve consoled themselves wit! e idea that the two diplo ats were Soviet spies for only short time and could not have MORE SECRETS: ~6f the. Burgess: —of the. Soviet and Maclean conspiracy ‘NEXT WEEK . spy, ring. A . from inside: ": assed over to Rutssia an) ecreis of first-class importancq. In fact, both these men wel) long-term Soviel agents, explode is the fiction that Bhreess and Maclean driy cipssed the Iron Curtain |be- cquse they were ‘with life in “ capitalist " Bripain and yearned for the Ruswjan Utopia. In fact, the reason for thetr Simple and argeni— covered that they were in by_ the ‘Writish security services, And ey pleaded for asytum. Ardent Reds The story of the missing dipiomats begiz University, where these two young men, quite Independently. became interested in left wing politics. Their interest. was noted by the British the Soviet spy orga working from the Russian em- bassy as “diplomats did in Australia, Betore very long beth men were jhearé and soul on the Communist side in the world- at Cambridge Wide battle of ideas, Skilful work by British con- tacts, acting for our spy ou ork’ {1 London, soon coy them that if was their quty to