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" By CHAPMAN PINCHER of WHEN Guy Bur. : acess and Dona ‘Maclean, theForelgn ; TOMicetraitors, staged . their first public appearance in Mos- cow in 1956 I was -hurriedly summoned + to sce a Senior official of M15, the counter- esplonage * OFganisa- tion, He told me the Security authorities were extremely ‘ perturbed because they . Teared that the two former + diplomats were about to * Mame other Foreign Office men who, though they . might be innocent, would be branded as Communists and homosexuais. . Would 1, the M.S man asked, point out this danger in the Daily Express and 50 Teduce the credibility of “anything Burgess. and Maclean might say before ' they sald tt? . - 4, T agreed to help and asked the oMcial If he had any hard evidence that either of them had been successful ples, He told me there was No doubt about Maclean. but after the most searching inquiries there was no evidence whatever to incriminate Burgess... ,- Pa ‘ SCARE . : Six years tater when tt * Was rumoured that Burgess "and Maclean might touch down at Prestwick Airport en route to Communist. Cuba, the police applied for * Warrants for their arrest on + OMclal Secrets charges, Again I was called in by the M.L5 man, who admitted that the purpose of the move Was tg scare the traltors off becaute any arrest and trial would fhe most embarrassing. ‘| He gonfirmed that he still had ndevidence that Burgess ; | had betn any sort of Russian agent. All he could have been charged with was alding Gz WAKE 1968 Ss ———— a oo Maclean to escape, and it was doubtful whether this would succeed in court, TI disclose when Burgess is dead. because of the publication today of a dook* “which presents : Burgess. Mactean, and Harold |: “Kim” Philby—the “Third Man"-—as Three Musketeers of Soviet Intelligence. : | The authors assume that all three agreed to dedicate |: f their “lives to Soviet |. = esplonage when they were + students and laid deliberate + Plans to penetrate the British Secret Intelligence Service, . ‘These ‘assumptions, on which the book is built, are not credible and are in con- filct with the way the Soviet |: esplonage works. AGENTS No‘doubt the three youths, who were sold on Commun- ism, were marked down as - potential agents by Soviet talent scouts who operate in every university. These |. talent scouts “would be ¢. British Communists — pos- sibly even dons — reporting. to party HQ. in London which passes on the reports to the Soviet Embassy where “they are carefully docketed, “> 2 But at that early stage the * Russians would be careful to keep out of the picture, [: leaving the task of super- Vision, which may last years, . to British Communists. The |: Soviet spymaster, who is ¥“Philby.” Deutsch, 308, [OF PAGE TWO, COL, THRE! ah these facts now, |” te page, name of Sewapaper, city and state.) Lydon, England aS ‘ ok a BM ited on wie TUR 24 * “pit uf PER Up oars 2/19) 6 e— Edition: Avthorr Jone thar Reece I/ Adrien Phitby Cheracter: Erp “RE or H Clesettication: £97 | : ! l Submitting Otter Z,., of, we (Z) Being investigated