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{ Da eal ' . staihly genuine, WI ayy firgt put to them efter fh ‘ de ature that he yin . it @ Soviet agent. eye. overcame | Ze apa . . ‘, ee he ereb ¢ vhad kept u - the jerepy.* c ee BO . : Sand himself a Forgign mes, “js not fen hiatric ‘cinle* for prob= * lem children and adolescents. at it. these eg ge; "not : - ee ‘matter how he argued away. that way.” It goes ‘far mrs: “explain nls recurrent perlodsd - , Of nervous “ cgllapse ¥ pees was “ pnother com- ‘ ' drunkenness, & Plication. : Both: men were ‘homosexuals. * ut it shade it still more® dificult - for . he Security | - organisations to look at dossiers of Maclean and Burgess and. say, either in! 3 private or in this. White-' ee ‘ : ion 5 paper: “Yes, both of them | : s Rees strongly were Communists, and there * kas ¥ reat re, cpa: id So-and. o8 2g? L™ us not forget that. He’ was probably self-¥ tortured. Communism. injured him also. + en and women’ concerned, . themselves with’ this #han Of course Britain has deals| who, even in his late thirjles, ddi Healy with this matter. A x ie 5 , — looked like an‘tunder-. Bee a Meee Ma aes etn ake e e ) Tike at ' we fa, that would not puee Ager Y : : who sannet oa y i¢ smoke-, a seYeen which hangs round } ‘ a $ be all right when he Burgess .and 'Macleal i one” Ne " {has | learned | iho 10. created by “thelr peculidr ‘ft x get drink, personalities. entiet Suspicion: i T should be Te be “Tealised that, “because B% thelr lot was to do a special harm over and beyond The ‘usefuiness of Burgess | and: Maclean to the Soviet Union increased when they Stopped working for it..as \ spies and Jeft England,-: ‘Their'disappearance raised .' the, -stench of suspicion * which makes old friends look : greater importance: of: the two: diplomats, They: both belon; to! tl dangerous. cle SS,j the: "attractive®’d " Burgess “and Maclean’ j had: these special? | characteristics, the! \investigation of thelr case could not possibly. rIgad to the identifica-' on of the pro-; lommunist ... influence. Britain, for whi i eople’ werten Sie 2 2 eeertainly” Buree| Bs | ought never to gv ; Bot Into the Forel Office, and certainly neither he nor Maclean’ | Should have been) allowed to remain: ; there: and - certainly’ |; they owed thelr excep~ i tlonal good fortune to. » the influence of (PO ful people. + re “Public servants fee gemeet pe S omsateiaiion Itt aed or qe pee -