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Cambridge Five Spy Ring — Part 20
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London ‘le Tentled’ at
ossibility of Retarn
Moscow apr 23 (Rei
British. diplomat who ‘defected
that the, British Government
obtained ‘2 warrant for his ar-'
rest last week partly because
return to ‘England.
Burgess, in an interview ‘at
Inis Moscow apartment, said the
‘warrant also Was counter-prop-
sganda to last week's return
‘0 the Soviet Union ‘of the So-
vice sclentist Alexei I .Golub,
who defected six months ago in
the Netherlands. ~ .
Burgess, wearing a necktie]
of Eton, an. exclusive English
prep school,
nothing . to’ reports ‘that he
might try to return to England.
“T like living in the Soviet
Union under socialist
4“ wouldn't like to live in ex:
pense-account England.”
He said he had interrupted a:
ABlack Sea vacation to return
there to try to.clear up the sit-
uation.
Burgess ani Donald D, Mac-
ees
ters)’ — Guy” Burgess, former}
‘to the Soviet Union, said today].
it was “terrified” of his Possible
H
said’ there was! -
defected together eleven years
urgess Scoffs cat “British ‘Warrant, for’ Arr
Mie
ie ORS NM Se
lean, also a former diplomat
go. The British «warrant
charges’ them with having vio=
lated the Official Secrets Act,
_, thought}
I-vOne isthe British\ Gover
iment is so, easily’
ung into
are, po:
e “going
panic, " he’ sai
ively terrified
ck to” England:
Pacing the floor and’ smo
iAg almost without let-up, Bur-
gess sald the oily. evidence
Britain had against him’ had
fbeen obtained from’ . Vladimir
Petrov, a Soviet Embassy offi-
cial who defected in Australia
in 1954.
“Nobody can accept Petrov’s
word," Burgess said. “His state-
ment about me was made to
Australian security police.”; He
said the Australian security’ po-
{jlice were dominated ‘by: the
American Federal Bureau of In?
He said “that he” would: like
to vacation in Britain ‘but that
‘hiss would ‘cause, “great pain
and trouble” to. his,..""many,
friends in high places.” *
He said he had .never writ:
ten home saying he wanted to
return permanently, but. had
mentioned “several years’ ago”
|that he would like to vacation
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N.Y. -IMES
EDITION____ LAE CITY
DAWED_____ 4/2/62
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FORWARDED BY NY DIVISION
EDITOR: JOHN B. OAKES
RE: GUY BURGESS-FORMER BRITISH
DIPLOMAT WHO DEFECTED TO
THE SOVIET UNION
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