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: Bon oe es _BURGESS—-From P. I ea a his intimate friend, to “watch. ‘your step.” Philby evidently, believed that ‘Burgess’ sn- .; Periors were upset by. his| . \ Beandalous sex .behavior and/., _ drinking. ; Slipped away. => { Lived With Burgess 27 Philby, wio- holds the cov.| eted Order of the British Em- . pine, had been very close to ¢ Burgess in Washington. Bur- 5 ess Uved with Philby in his} i: rented house there, = The ‘¢wo often entertained! , Alan MacLean, Donald's “younger brother, when he! ’ visited the Capital. The young-' er MacLean also’ was in the “| Foreign Service and then was! * private secretary to Sir Glad- . Wyn Jebb, British Ambassador|, to the United Nations at the, time. Burgess’ conduct in Washing- ton was notorious. A known! homosexual, he drank to ex- cess. He was stopped three times in one day for speedin; He was a cynic and a b part. and his cockt. * ibes at British Commonwealth “{ policies shocked his colleagues, Weeks before his disappear- ance, Burgess was bluntly or- dered home and told to realgn, » Knowing Burgess’ habits, Philby was not surprised when superiors instructed him to tpake a list of the disgraced - Splomat's close friendtmday, tess i Wash. Post and Times Herald A-l & A-B ‘oct 231958 But to Burgess, it was hint} enough that his Red spy game{ ‘was up. Then he and MacLean! Spy-Case Mr. “X’ 'o Be Revealed Hewassumed the’ Foreign ce was piling up evidence ; his friend’s homosexual acti¥! ities to bolster the demand fo! : his resignation, ¥ What Philby did not know was that, in mid-April, 1951, the Secret Service launched an all- out investigation of a‘spy ring in the Foreign Office and sus- Ficlon pointed. to Burgess and facLean, © . ‘The white paper, incidental. -Ty, admitted that this probe was was started two years after authorities got a tip from a Russian in the London Soviet. Embassy xbout these Foreign Office leaks. ° Philby, who suffered a head wound in 1938 while covering _the Spanish Civil War for a London newspaper, warn Burgess himself. But be could—and apparent- Yy, did—teli Alen MacLean to get the message to his friend ' through Alan's brother Donald. Rendezvous With Red - | don serving in the Fordga. * Office as chief of its American section. He had been acting st secretary in the Washing- in Embassy from 1944 to 1948, bins before Burgess’ arrival ere. » . “They knew each other only « could. not, Donald MacLean was in pn. . |. by ‘reputation, and neither. - knew —then—that the other * was in the Krevalin’s service. = When Burgess got, Philby’s wessage, he immediately went] to a secret rendezvous with the, Soviet agent who served as his! } contact man. This Russian apy { was also MacLean’s go-between' with the ting, “9! , Russian he was suspected and thet the game was up. He demanded that the Soviets line up an escape route to a Red asylum for him, © pm meew 0c fe ee i {Burgess evidently told ‘the’ - B aeeetoetween realized thht ‘an's role in the opel tion also must be suspected. He |warned MacLean, set up the {Signe and put the two ia cohs MacLean was indeed: under! suspicion, slong with three others he was, however, allowed to continue his normal routine in hopes he would lead intelli: ‘gence agents to other spies. " MacLean’s country home " \where be lived with his Ameri- ean-born wife,’ Melinda, : and, jtheir two sons, was not’ sha- 'dowed for fear he would notice ‘and realize he wag suspected, This policy paid aff—except, that the quarry escaped, 4 > MacLean was spotted hand- ing over a brief case full of documents to a Soviet agent, in St. Martins Lane,. London. These papers were ‘photo-! graphed and returned to Mac- Lean, Boe (Story of Flight eer! Then, warned, MacLean and. ‘Burgess €led. Using a false: (Bame, Burgess rented a drive-' Lean’s luxurious home for his, ‘colleague, Not even members of their families were leaving. ' ‘They abandongd the auto on ,a Southampton flock and-took a cross-channeP ship “to St: Malo, France, All they carried, with them—two small suitcases; —they left on the steamer, the Falaise, er ae Once in France, they gave; the railroad station a wide jberth, fearing it would. be; watched by British agents, It was. Instead, they hired a taxi! to take them to Rennes. They paid off the driver and evident- ly caught an express to Paris, In Paris the trail went cold. It was assumed they reported to the Soviet Embassy there. ets Vladimir Petrov, a Russian! spy who went over to the West! in Australia,. said a talkative! Soviet agent indicated to him’ that they flew by Czech or. Russian plane to Prague, then, to Moscow. = -* pegs Petrov also said they we) xuriously “housed in © t! ussian capital, where ere told they. - to be flown secretly to Russia? | yourself auto and called at Mac |