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wee CF Rb i og eT ny SS 1 4at- 3! 2 arene x efrov Calls,"" ; Maclean and Burgess Liars: CANBERRA, ‘Australia, Feb. 12 @—The former Soviet spy in Australia said today that Guy. ise ge: id Donald Macléan. lied when they tied they never were Soviet agents. Vladimer Petrov, who desert- ed his spy job in April, 1954, and turned over the Australian authorities a pile of secret So- viet documents on espionage op- erations, issued a statement! {through the Australian Security (Service. He challenged a statement by Burgess and Maclean, the turn- coat British diplomats who re-| vealed their presence in Mos- cow yesterday for tthe first time since their mysterious disappearance in 1951, In their statement, the run- aways admitted being Commu- nists since their youth, but de- nied they ever had been spies, as is now charged by the British Foreign Office. “Burgess and Maclean work- {ed for the MGB (Soviet Minis- try of State Security) and gave much secret information,” said’ Petrov. “For these reasons the MGB arranged for Burgess and Maclean to travel secretly to, the Soviet Union when British security authorities discovered It was Petrov's first public statement, except for publica- tion of a book, since a royal) commission investigated his de-; fection to Australian authori-j ties. He previously mad charged Burgess and Maclean with de-: livering secrets to Russia. | In an article in the London; ‘Sunday newspaper, The People,: last September, Petrov said an- other Kremlin agent named Kislytsin told him Burgess had delivered to the Soviet Embassy in London “briefcases full of Foreign, Office: documents.”"— He said he was told the doeu-| ments were photographed by jthe Embassy and quickly -re-| turned to Burgess, and the in-} ‘formation forwarded to Mos-| ‘cow by pouch. In some in- ‘stances, he said, the information| was Urgent so it was sent to Moscow by secret code. ' ~ Petrov wrote that Kislytsin later was sent to Moscow and put in.charge of “an amazing library of foreign intetligence” and “by a remarkable, coinci- dence this section turned out to be a collection of the mate-| rial supplied by, Burgess, and a . i statement et: that they were Soviet agents.” + Tele. Room —— ; Hollomag and Maclean made their state’ ment in Moscow “under the difj rection of Soviet authorities}, and that the statements hag’ been issued for” propaga) purposes, _ 4 yo Te ue f BND INTALES o Fhe Wash, Post and 4 Times Herald Wash. News Wash. Star N.Y. Herald Tribune N. Y. Mirror N.Y. Daily News ——— Daily Worker = The Workeg ate. New Leader Date FER 12 1956 DELETED C2" “mC. mee Borne dal BY LET" JUN 22 1976 - oa SiNae wae Ramos ate ee PERIL _uESI : Nat gt Tt ea tie PS a a te