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° Pherenare also details in* ‘the siory 1, which havea special bearing on cur- : ‘rent * arguments * in’ Ameri 1 Sedredging up old left-wing“ connec. ', f tions't and “guilt by association." ** : » Petrov, whe ii is in a position to know, | } reports that Burgess and MacLean:; both: were ‘members of left-wing F groups at Cambridge university. ? ° Geoffrey Hoare, in his book, ‘The f Missing’ MacLeans,” reports .-that : MacLean made no secret of his dit ‘‘bust’ with ‘the spinelessness of thi estern democracies’? and that a fone point he considered giving ok lanned career, to go to work, i in.R sia A 8 Seay t A routine ‘security check, “such” “as is conducted -in ‘this country, would | have revealed this facet of MacLean’s life. Whether the British government ~ i made this check or accepted the idea that college associations of the young - * diplomat’ were’ not; important never’: *: has been’ explained.’ t. ‘It’ follows ‘that “ifthe government? y- had looked into MacLean’s. past and + .become a bit suspicious" of: his: ide-. {:, ological leanings, great * masses of! , American and British secrets ‘might ;. not have been shipped to Russia. olen. ro "another intriguing angle “of - the mystery of the missing diplo- 2; a Po mats involves Mrs, MacLean, who*t . disappeared behind the iron cur- b 4*_ tain to join ‘her husband in pep: Fe" tember of 1953," Sr 5! Mev The British government seem-'. ingly accepted at° face’ value ’.. _ What Petrov calls Mrs, MacLean‘ cay