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A “ ‘Spy Burgess... - ‘Dieg fn- Soviet Hos ital, SLONDO ent, { ao AP)}—G urge 38; shard-} drinking ‘British’ Forelgn Of- *|ficg’ official who ‘fled to Rus- [sia in 1951 with fellow diplo- Hmat Donald MacLean ‘in ‘one! fof the Cold War's biggest spy scandals, has died in“a Mos- cow hospital after a’heart at- jack, friends reported today. A’ message -announcing the death of Burgess, 53, an ad-! mitted homosexual and Com-, munist sympathizer ‘since his. university days at Cambridge,| was received Saturday by his, ‘78-year-old mother, Eve Bas-! ett. It came’ from: Melinda’ ‘MacLean, the American wife jof the British Foreign Office jsecurity chief who defected! pwith Burgess. ©» MacLean ‘had ‘been First: )Secretary at the British Em-| jbassy in Washington and had ‘worked in security in the Mid- dig East. Burgess had been a second secretary at the Wash- ington Embassy. Together,' they held a host of’ British- American secrets which the British government later said: they had fed to the Soviets over the years.. Shortly before he ‘fled, Bur- gess had been recalled in dis- grace from his post in Wash- ington and asked to resign. jHe had been stopped. three ‘times in one day near Wash- ‘ington for’ speeding and had been reprimanded for leaving; ‘confidential Papers, unat-! ‘tended, t Burgess ‘and MacLean left} ‘their homes in Britain May ‘25, 1951, went to: France’ and then dropped out of sight un- i} the ;Soviets brought them) jout at-a surprise, news con: ference..in Moscow, in'1956_ at ‘which’ bof * men’ issued * al statement gssailing British nad American oe said later ‘that’ Burgess an MacLean® got out Just “before ‘a’ ‘security ‘net’ was to have: Government} nm ‘infwere upped off ferious third man.” this year as another defector, former diplomat and journal ist Harold (Kim) Philby, wha| vanished from Beirut, Leba: non, last January. The Soviets ganpunced in July that they; aranted Philby: | ra lum. % Friends” aid? Bur e greatest "dream had “been. to} return to Britain as‘a.free Man for a vacation. ©‘) »° They ,sald he lived to: rey ‘gret ‘his defection. Even’’in’ Moscow he always wore his, old school tie—that of exclu: “Burgess, like many of these {“parlor pinks,” became for a jtime van’ active Communist Party member. ‘By some ac. counts he was a Soviet agent before World War il, Before the war he worked for’ the‘ British ‘ Broadcasting Corp. The war brought him. into British intelligence. - The transition to the Foreign Of- fice came later, and neither his communism nor homosex- uallty proved- any barrier to advancement. ° ¢ y gent ae gh ae BY a per Fone ) ty Not Ay 19] sep 5 1963 : o-3 7414 3- RY —_— ye son os FB. iment 3 Mohr —— Casper —__ Callahan id, onra a vans —_____ le Siilivan Trotter Tele Room _—__ Holmes Gandy ‘The Washington Post and ‘Times Herald The Washington Daily News The Evening Star New York Herald Tribune —____. New York Journal-Amertican New York Mirror New York Daily News New York Post The New York Times ‘The Worker The New Leader _ The Wall Street Journa) ‘The National Observer Date “Asep 1 1963 \e