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BURGESS—From P. FE 2 Q& GR “aR aa [Spy Case Mr. ‘X’ #Tq Be Revealed, . Rendexvous With Red_-———| Ye bis intims§e@riend, to “watch believed that Burgess’ su- jonsld MacLean was in Lon- y periors were upset by hisisection. He had been acting! scandalous sex: behavior and/ first secretary in the Washing. Ef drinking. ; . ton Embassy from 1944 to 1948, Ley © But to Burgess, it was hint} well before Burgess’ - arrival by enough that his Red spy game] there. . . ve Was up. Then he and MacLean] They knew each other only! 4 slipped away, . & your step.” §Pnilby ‘evidently’ g eas knew ~~ then ~ that the other; Lived With Burgess was -In the Kremlin's. service, 5 Philby, who holds the cov-} When Burgess got “Philby’s Pog eted Order of the British Em-| message, he imm liately went pire, had been very close tolto a secret rendezvous with the’ f Burgess In Washington. Bur-| Soviet agent who served as his gess lived with Philby in hjs contact man. This Russian SPY! rented house there. was also MacLean’s go-between The «wo often entertaingi wih the ring. Jan MacLean, Donalgs unger brother, when Ye Rpssian he was suspected and it MacLean also was in the démanded that the Soviets line, ‘oreign Service and gen was <P 2 escape route to a Red : private secretary to Sir Giad-j#sylum for, apg ES aan Jebb, British Ambassador|e4.:0.17,% ee dik LY Ato the United Nations at the ‘ | Burgess’ conduct in Washing- ton was notoriqus. A. known. Weeks before his disappear- e, Burgess Was bluntly or- dered home and told to resign, &" Knowing Burgess’ habits, Philby was not surprised when ‘his superiors instructed him to femake a list of the’ disgraced *, diplomat’s close friends and.2s- sociates, ° ‘P He assumed the Foreign Of- te ‘| fice was piling up evidence of his {riend’s homosexual activ- ; ites to bolster the demand for , bis resignation, . What Philby did not know was that, in mid-April, 1951, the Secret Service launched an all- out investigation of a spy ring ’ picion pointed to Burgess and . : lacLean. wee The white pgper,-meidental- “iy, admitted Was was st: t authorities two years after’ a tip from a London Soviet i 3 these Foreign { Office leaks. "Yt. t H i Philby, who ‘suffered a’head{ = by reputation, and neithert urgess evidently told the dowed for fear he would notice isited the Capital The young. tfat the game was up. Hel, Tis policy paid off—except .B Jerossthannel ship to St. @on serving in the Foreign{! \ Aen Office as chief of its American|! | The go-between realized that! MacLean's role in the opera-| tion also must bé suspected, He: iwarned MacLean, set up the fight and pug the two ta con MacLean was indeed under| spicion, slong ‘with. three thers he was, however, allowed, {fo continue his normal routine im hopes he would lead intelli. Bence agents to other spies, MacLean’s country home where he lived with his Ameri- can-born wife, Melinda, and! their two sons, was nat gsha- and realize he was suspected. phat the quarry escaped, MacLean was spotted hand- ing over a brie case full of, documents to a Soviet agent, in St. Martins Lane, London.| These: papers were photo- graphed and returned to Mac- Lean. sa . Story of Flight - Then, warned, Maclean abd Burgess dled. “Using a fabe name, Burgess rented a drife-| yourself auto and called at M&c- Léan’s luxurious home for his colleague. Not even members| of their families were told they ‘were leaving. ‘They abandoned the auto on # Southampton dock and took Mio, France. All they carried with them—two small suitcases hey “left on the steamer,! th Falaise, BS Once in France, they gave the railroad station a wide berth, fearing it would be watched by British agents. It Instead, they’ hired’ a "taxi to take them.to Rennes. They paid off the driver and evident- | hin the Foreign Office and sus- . Hy caught an express to Paris, In-Par& thé trail went cold. jIt was assilmed they reported . : to the Soviet Embassy there at this prabe . to be flown secretly to Russia Viadimir Petrov, a Russian spy who went over to the West in Australia, said a tatkative jSovlet agent indicated to him rihat they flew by Czech or _ Russian plane. te , i wound in 1938 while covering: to Moscow ie’. Tfhete,, then. the Spanish Civil War for a |London’ newspaper,’ could not! es Burgess himsel i fostow. © 7 h ‘Petrov also’ ’said ' they avers, uxurlously’- housed< in’ the’ Russian.” capital," where $ their, }~ But he could—and apparent-| | brains” fly did—tell Alan Macleans fe Wor every cetcine d fet thsamessage to jen : ~ know, Hirough Alan's brother Donald} = PS Riseaah mee a Ae