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a) . ° . . fee gee = @The quesiion that interesis me most is that of motive and sonajity: How a cause like Russia’s revolutionary tyranny . ng@t only have caught two men like MacLean and Burgess * $n its nft but kept them enmeshed there, For my own pictures” ~ of the spies I have drawn mainly on two accounts. 7.007 «°° - 7 Ond is “The Missing MacLeans,” by Geoffrey Hoare’ (viking, 5.1955). The other is a couple of articles on the tw} men that ap- . peared in The Reporter in December, 1952, by ihej English critic, , Cyril Connolly, written with hjq usual dash and Hrilliance,. + . . * e * . +“ Both men had evidently joined the Communist movement while at Cambridge, in the years before there were any Russian . purges, when young British aristocrats in search of intellectual * excitement and a new father-symbel found them in communism. » MacLean was a shy, ingrown but attractive youngster; Burgess talked politics incessantly, and used to warn everyone about the future when the proletariat would be in contro] and heads would + roll 2 Both were unstable boys, both drank heavily and later becamo ancontrollable drunks. Burgess seemed pretty openly 3 homosex- ‘ wal, MacLean was sexually ambivalent, and later married a charm: ing American girl, Melinda Marling, who bore him two sons and ;, Was pregnant with @ third child when he disappeared, Both '" Burgess and MacLean—for what the fact may be worth—had : fathers who died before they were out of their feens, a crucial’ when a boy: needs a strong fgthermodel on whom to fashion self. - * $Both entered the Foreign Service, both had ability at their Jobs, both got into scrapes over their drunkenness and violence. . Both boasted, when drunk, that they were Communist agents— * a fact that might have given the vaunted British Intelligence some - pause. . * . Both were deeply sick men who led confused, turbulent, and ! wretchedly unhappy lives, however they migt® look outwardly. : . . . - “ One day in May, 1951, the British Foreigsy Office peopic finally decided to arrest MacLean if they could get feal evidence on him. ’ It was this decision that presumably led Philby to give his “ip-off: ;) He, too, seems to have been a brilliant and confused young English- * ~ man whose politics were toward the left but whose father was a : pro-Arab Fascist. « - Le Recently both the missing men have been seen in Moscow, '' and it Is a good guess that they have praved useful to. the Russians , ‘in launching their recent policy of the New Friendliness. - ‘ « . te, . *"~ What can we say about these men except that every country Produces, among its abler young people, some who are the heirs t of the ages, but prove to be sick and twisted people in.search of ; & cause that will heal their inner insecurity and violence, and give » them the dream of being bigger in stature than they are. Sometimes they are sexually unbalanced, but that is not the - core of it. The core is that the ideas that ave. the ‘rest of us sustendiice leave them empty, =. f 7, + 7 . Tightening the security net won't help mu@i 2 elther, Remem- Y that the Russians have a ruthless security Bystem, yet Petrov. lefected to our side,. The problem is nat our puter apparatus of < The oly thing that can . rofibelief Ot