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Pp And @ Third Man ===> By Max Lerner On the first day of the new Parliament session, on Tuesday, Eden was asked to agree to a Parliamentary investigation of the . jwhole MacLean-Burgess case. “+ + J When he refused, the Labor member, Col. Marcus Upton, jasked whether he wished “to cover up at all costs the dublous | |third-man activities of Mr, Harald Philby?” . }. This now brings {nto the open’ the name of fhe “third m; jwho Presumably (perhaps innocently and blund ingly) warned / Burgess and MacLean that they were under the s§spicion of MLS, > which is fhe British counter-esplonage section, Their Sight fo} > lowed, . : . Fey I disagree strongly with those who ireat the latest excitement ‘about the two British spies and the “third man” as an effort to whip up British hysteria on the American model. The British, let us remember, don’t whip up easily, and this time they have a whopper of a spy mystery on thelr hands, The Russian Spy s system is both real and earnest, as witness David Dailin's new ° and massive volume on the subject, “Soviet Espionage,” which 1! hope to discuss in another column, -- aoe ec True, some of the enger-beavers say alily things, like Sen, Eastland’s theory that the Chh se Reds Jaunched their attack across the Yalu because Donald” MacLean. (then at tho British | ‘Nimbassy fn Washington) Presumably told his Russtan contacts } jto'tent their Chinese allies that America wouldn't extend the war ito China as a result, How would Eastland know? Net even Viad- ‘Mnir Petroy, the Soviet Intelligence man whe defected to tha’ -Gemocratic side in Australia, would have more than ihe wildest ; j Buess on that “one: ° ety ;/" But Petrov’s evidence. does now clear up any linge¥ing doubt. @s to whether MacLean and Burgess were Soviet aggnts, They’ “i were The two men vanished from England in May, 198. In 1953 ' i.Mrs.|MacLean and her three children also vanished, Petrov de, Jecte# in 1954. He has told how, when the news of Mrs. MacLean’s - * disapbearance broke, an MVD agent called’ Kislytzin boasted ;.to hifi that it had happened “just as we Planned it! . MeDELETED NPV SENT ChB MAGE, {i BY LETI. JUN 22 1976 PER FOIA REQUEOA, By para t58, Dowotd Lil *Winterrowd_ ‘Tele, Room-—— yar, Belleman — Miss Gandy —— —_—_———oeo i eB? iss 24qO368 DATED... LET 218 oe FORWABDEKY bY ON, ¥, DIVISION pagello NIGH? EXTRA EDITION TH. Yn DONALD MC LEAN: etal ESPIONAGE BUFILE 100-374183 4. —— HoT RECORDED 126 NOV 21 1955 —