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U-Le (Lbedd-39) roy Calls + ‘Maclean and Burgess Liars. CANBERRA, Australia, Feb. 12 —The former Soviet spy in Australia said today it Guy! ~ Burgess. and Donald’ Maclean; {lied when they~agserted 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 an 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 isappearance in 1951. In their statement, the run- apays admitted being Commu- njsts since their youth, but de- led they ever had heen spies, as is now charged by the British Foreign Office. “Burgess and” Macican work- eq for thé MGB (Soviet Minis- try of State Security) and gave Imuch 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 that they were Sovict agents.” 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- ties. He previously had 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 don “briefcases _full_of, Office documénts.” ~ H he was told tae, G2 ments Were photographe; yy the 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 wan sent to 'Moscow by secret code. Petrov wrote that Kislytsin Jater was sent to Moscow and put in charge of “an amazing library of foreign intelligence” and “py a remarkable coinci- dence this section turned out to be a collection of the mate- rial supplied by Burgess and Maclean.” " in his statement today, Pet said he felt sure Burge = ~~ add Maclean made their statq! nt in Moscow “under the di "| tion of Soviet authorities}! d@ that the statements ha en issued .for propagand| irposes. BELETED COPY sent BY LETTER JUN 22 j535 PER Fol ReQuts, Tele. Room Hotloman Gandy (ae dhe / NOT RECOROED V6 FED 2S .956 Wash. Post and Times HeraliAF S Wash. News Wash. Star N.Y. Herald ——___ Tribune N. Y, Mirror N. Y. Daily News —— Daily Worker - The Worker New Leader Dote B23 B. mae Der lef 376 A,