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"eated-somumunists when they were fellow students at Cam- '~ bridge University, Burgess and Maclean were homosexuals 824 and heavy drinkers, Philby was a Burgess protege. _ three came irom distinguished families. all U.S.-British relations during the Korean War, - “here from 194 until 1948, headed the American section of fled to Moscow on May 25, 1961. ay de Moncey Bu: : Guy de Moncy Burgess was Second Secretary of ... the British Embassy from August, 1950, until May, 1951, when he hurriedly returned to England and defected with * Maclean. He died in Moscow on Aug. 30, 1963.- Secand Sacre! ton from October, 1949, until June 1, 1951, when he was :° recalled to London and dismissed. He later went to the , Middle East as a furalit and fled to Moscow in Jan- wary, 1963, . AT LONG LAST Only alter Philby defected last year, did the British Gov- ernment finally admit he was be “third man” who had warned Burgess and Maclean that British and U. S. Intelli- -gence agencies were about to expose their spy activities. The Saturday Evening Post, in a recent article on the Harold A. R. Philby was First Secretary of the British” Embassy and a top British Intelligence officer in Washing- * " strong anti-American’ and -pro-communist views, they rose‘ fast in the British foreign service and occupied key posts in. ; Donald Duart Maclean, who served in the British Embassy iS i | the British foreign office from October, 1950, ‘venti he secretly hease, reported that Philby received an FBI report that - Maclean and Burgess were being investigated as communist agents and called in his friend Burgess to tip him off. Burgess, according to this report, immediately fled to England, where he warned Maclean, They then arranged with Soviet Intelligence to spirit them out of England and behind the Iron Curtain. A labor member of Parliament charged in 1955 that Philby was the. ‘third man" in the case, but Harold Macmillan, then Foregen Secretary, vigorously denied it, insisting the British G ernment had no evidence he had warned Burgess , and Mack .. Later, British officials said Philby had been * The Saturday Evening Post article, however, charged that the Foreign Office had fired Philby in 1951 only because Une FBI and Central Intelligence Agency had threatened otherwise to break off all Intelligence liaison between the - two governments, A British “white paper” on the Burgess-Maclean case made public in 1955 sought to minimize both the significance of their defection and their access to military and diplo- matic secrets during the Korean War. icriepsHoward reporter R, H. Shackford wrote atthe er, that the adi they were Soviet spice vie the strong presumption that both men not only betrayed their own country but also the United States.” “At various critical times at the end of the war and . afterwards, both men had access to top British-American ». secrets, including atomic information and Korean War mili- tary decisions,” Mr, Shackford reported., . . Pe Ae etek oa ds. —_—_—_—_—- ——-