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BURGESS WAS| A THIEF poled from Dartmouth al -Naval’ College. Koya VINCENT MULCHRONE:*':., Was expelled: from- the. ollege : at. Dartmout! ealing * from_ a fellow Gass Royai Naval when he was 14 for cadet (o> f It was the cadet Burgess’ stole from—now a. doctor with a famous London hos- oital—who made: this ais- closure yesterday, ' ~~ “1 bring this-.matter ‘to ight,” “he said “because it seems to expose @ weak link in he Foreign Oftice’s security arrangements,, “How can a man ancked ‘trom An officers’ training college for weh an offence get into the “greign Service 7 “ Burgess and I went to Dart mouth in’ 1924 and were gether in the ‘St. Vincent fer. {41 remember him as u_clevbr chip-and very artistic. He wi ve Bhilty-eyed.:;, ie 7” RE: MacLEAN CASE file 100-371:283) DATING MATL OCTOBER 25, 1955 LONDON, ENGLAND OFFICE OF Tt Aci 20N ichauffeur-driven. care while he Open locker We were in our fifth term, I inf 1925. when the theft came. had missed drawing instrumel “One day I was passing Bur- gess's locker. It was half open and inside I saw my belongings “T reported the matter to a petty officer and J was inter- viewed by a Lieut Caven {who was’ in charges + He wold me to keep quiet about it. Burgess’s locker was emptied. He was sacked, and within a few hours he had left the college. » “L thought all this would come. out In the White Paper on Bur.| fess and Maclean, but it simply fad Burgess hag pen educaled ap Dartmouth, ~ But J know “gave all the facts to a mem: of Parliament. He treated it as a bit of amusing informatibn. “We never saw Burgess aggin at Dartmouth, but the story w around that, he hed left decal se of poor eyesight. J said nothing. though I knew differently.” An official of the Royal Naval College, at Dartmouth said yester- day: “Our records show that, Burgess was withdrawn from the college by the Admiralty because of poor eyesight.” How third man_ By Dally Mail Reporter ODS, . MER, NORMAN DO DOr Ds, MPs a was told about the “third man”) <) who tipped off Burgess end Maclean. ‘That-night, ‘with 8. 1,000-word signed statement before ‘him, -Mr. Dodds wrote to the Foreign ‘Secretary, ° Mr. asking him to name the mai. “AL ‘his home ycuterday fir. dds sald: “I have evidehce rom & most reliable sougce, Macmilign,: | ATTACHE \3hY 1D, _ NOV 15 1955 FAS oO which » i eae the . Foreign Secre rary nae ee Mies G, A P2PYAL NOT RECORDED 126 NOV 14 1955 2/0 ee ee Mr. H Honan —__