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[A CLEAN: LUES TO THE TIP-OFF MAN By CHAPMAN PINCHER ECURITY authorities are now satisfied that_the Third ; Warned Burgess and | ritain—was himself ; not just a friend of a Communist agent, nu he djplomats, 10 They think that he may;in still hold an important posi-| home at Tatsfeld, Neat} Suddenly— is belief follows from e he ty Man—the man who ‘he aviour of the two men on the aclean to get out of lume on Mees see Vest a lunch suspicion that Foreign Office per- they disappeared. ission had been interrogate him. He was expect- IK to have a quiet week-end at Surrey, ven to them, It was Burgess who learned, tion in the Government suddenly that Maclean was in| Service, danger. Yet Burgess’s name had Since M.L5 set out to identity thelr Third Man they have established two vital points :— In the early afternoon ‘of May 25. 1951, @ few hours only a few top officials in the Foreign Office and M.1.5—-probably, fewer than 10 men—knew that Maclean was to be interrogated as & Spy suspect. Oo cone of these few must have warned the diplomats. 2 Whoever passed the warning, clearly knew that Burgess W§s & Spy working with Macleah. Agd that was not suspected by ig se arity Authorities at that tim| a it could have been known only someone who was also in the sby network. MacLEAN CASE (Bufile 100-371;183) DAILY, BePRESS never been mentioned during the] security discussions about Maclean. He was never Bus-| Pected of being a spy. At 2 p.m. that da: Maciean Was’ stl" tuna “as Maclean was stil lunching with friends in Londo Hs trdvelled to Southampton. : le took the car to Tatsiteld aha in, Burgess wps| the car in which the ts | ‘oO men left to catch the tw 10lo'clock boat to St. Malo. OCTO! 25, 1955 Lon ENGLAND ~ ; 'T + MA ge " . ee oe we Mir. Brdig/ing Mr, Hinde fe Mr. May AO Mr. Parsciun Nr. Peoon