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| STATEMENT IN FULL \|. The Jollowing i isthe full statement by Burgess and Maclean handed out in Moscow yesterday: uy BURGESS and Donald Maclean, former members of “It seems to us that doubts as to our whereabouts and speculatiol about our past actions may be a ~small but contributory factor; that has been and may again be ex~ ploited by the opponents of Anglo- Soviet understanding. Accordingly we have thought it best to issue the following statement: We both of us came to the Soviet Union to work { that nelther the British the eee gate Governm| it time seriously nt working Jor this We had in the positions we occupied ery reason to believe that’ such an understanding was essential if peace was to be safe. We had every reason to con- clude that such an understanding was the | alm of Boviet poticy. ~ We had had every opportunity to know, and grounds for fearing, the plans and outlook of the few but powerful people who opposed this understanding. . Not Soviet Agents It was prol badly our action in neces- sarily gin Ing up political activities by , entering the public service that, falsely j analysed, led Phe Foreign, ‘Office to say ' through its spokesman it “ beliéved” we had been Sovlet agents at Cambridge. The Foreign Office can, of course, = belleve™ anything it wish ne i tant point, however. is that question we know, and it does not We néither of us have ever’ been ‘Communist For So far the ground m2 common both. Details of our caree? completely Serene mand hag. ncrefore, better be seat me ear astean, he worked in Paris, Washingion end tar member of the Fore! 2 1935 9 28 to 1951 nnd as But ich, with ahion Cry Ser ice was|par Lion ‘he war rar Pero carried | Ly acceptable not this e it ‘of better; BY NO MEANS T ONLY ONE’ no means alone inside the ein objecting to, British ‘War and ingly ‘polated ‘in doing #0 after ae an became more and more jeu! tf anyone willing to fhink or pe of thing but the Som, munis " or to tnderstand the folly and ganger. ‘of American policy in Europe. ort tie. tn Bay, 195 e. , 1051, e eet possi ever * Microphones in Home’ jepho! office and private His teeny es microphones. iein clfthes policemen “followed him whgrever he went and one of his colleagues W! put act as provocateur. jaclean, Sherefore, decided to to the Soviet Union to do whatever luid to further understanding betw Efst and West from there. ‘The difficulty of leaving the count while” being tailed—by the - police wes: tolved by ® meeting with Burgess shortly” after the latter's return from the ‘Wash: ington Embassy to London. The latter n risks of! sucht! journey WOU) ve been too great: for” Mrs. Macies}, who was shortly expecting # child. YMPATHISED Wr | SOVIET POLICY - ‘him which he accepted, first in ® depere pent of the reir in the Foreign Office. even to seek to reach, | between East and West. Neither in the BBC. nor Foreign Ofce, nor dur the period that he was associat ie Secret Service and also mer ‘tell aid he make any secret from his ft or colleagues 5 friends | giper of nis views or the fact that he | Red been a Communist, In Agreement tion that he was & Bove ‘This statement of Bt ig necessary to understant the eRitation which arose 8 week or so after his return London from Washington in 19§1. le went to see Maclean as Head of the merican Department of the Forelj Mice. They found that their informatic id opinions about the political situat id the danger of war were in agreemen®. What now happened was determined by the f following facts. Burgess, who eeertey Paited w Jol a view 2 jeaving the he Foreign Office, hin} Gince “yaa Undependentiy and ubeor quently decided that tne ‘would no longer j employ him. DOUBTS WHEN THE BREAK CAME However, when the break Burgess was doubtful whether he or could conscienti tiously do the new job jhe had been arranging. Therefore, when ‘Maclean told Burgess that he himself decided that he Gould no longer work for the Foreign Office and tts cles and suggested that they should to the USSR, Burgess had no alfteutty in ‘There alone there eppoared to both ta be chance of was the recut of living In the U.S4.R. both of us are convinced that we ght in doing what we did We are handing this statement to 34/ puttin uiting nto into practice in '