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‘Burgess told everything’ do @ything that would give aid and comfort to Communism. They were then, even if they did not know it themselves, already members of the Russian intelligence service. Infleed, the mast astonish- ing fact aboot the whole extraordinary affair is that the two men, though they became close friends after their Cambridge days, did not know of each other's spying activities. Jb was not until they were alnyost ready for ther flight to Moscow thst they learned the} weré both linked in highly setrpt MVD work. Spies already ‘The scale of their activities, ean be gathered from what Kislytsin told me of the taree years in which he was in close touch with them. “Twas posted to our Embassy in London in 1945,” he informed me. “My job was that of cypher clerk to the MVD. I personally handled all the material that lurgess supplied. “TI received brief-cases full of reign Office documents. ‘They whre photographed at the ZEm- bassy and quickly returned to Burgess, The photographs were VLADIMIR PETROV’S SECRETS Continued from page 1 sent by courier in the diplo- matic bag to Moscow. “But there were many when urgent information from tne documents had to reach Moscow quickly. In those cases 1 used to transcribe the infor-. mation into code and cable it direct to headquarters.” It was typical of the way the MVD worked that while he was in London, Kislytsin never saw either Burgess or Maclean, But he knew the Soviet official who was in regular contact with Burgess, “Hie used to come back to the Embassy, after his: meet- ings with Burgess, with his clothes spattered with mud,” Kislytsin told me, “1 gathered that their rendezvous was out * sin was recalled .to Moscow. He spent a year on an intelligence training course in which he specialised In Eng- lish, Then he was appointed to the Directorate of the Cém- mittee of Information, 6 body that controls the sifting of intelligence brought in by the secret service. He was put in charge of the Special section of an amazing library of foreign intelligence cailed the Top Secret Archives. By a remarkable coincidence, this section turned out to be a collection of the material plied by Burgess and Maclean. MVD crisis ii was crammed full of secret documents of the British Foreign Office. There was so much of it that a great deal had not even been translated and buted to the Ministyes in~ terested, Kislytsin had his woris cut out even to sort it. When he had done so, he was frequently called upon té show particular files of documents to high-ranking officials of various Soviet. Ministries. Steadily the documents poured in for another two years, But in 1951 came a crisis in MVD headquarters. Urgent messages were re- ceived from London that Bur- gess and Maclean had reporied fo their Soviet contact that they were under investigation by British Inteligence. ‘They ' hegged for refuge in Moscow, ‘EXE WEEK: Viadfuir Pftrov reveals how the esqape p+ whs carried out, And he gives a{close-up picture of how Bur- géss and Maclean lve and work Jn Moscow tuday.