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conn mistake’ MOSCOW, Thursday. — Runaway diplomat Guy, o Burgess gate-crashe Western party last night and “hid about Ife in Russia: s “It comes to everybody to : feel he has made a mistake, * and you can quote me om ; that. Burgess, ‘now 49, told + course 1 would like to go back to Britain, but I won't go back | ae jong @s the Cold War ‘Wearing a single-breasted London-made grey sult, red waistcoat and Old Etonlan ttle, be drank vodka and | champagne and chatted almost carelessly, y, After the party he was ‘heard to say: “O God, [suppose this will make head- jlines again.” “Burgess disa) red from soe Britain in~1951 "with another . Foreign Office | man, uo ‘ cis Both later wp H in Russia, -} getting back _ ‘Western correspondents: “of : : den, : 5; any, Lt _ Pp “Uy 9.5 “vie ~ ity I'm British 4 told _correspondent4: I ave not taken Bovier eitize ship. FJ am a British subject. caymot speak for Maclean.” fut It is generally unders! here that Maclean oes Dot, changed his nationality. 1 Burgess said would ike | to return to Britain for s holiday, ' } a8 long as he could be certain of to the Soviet | ; Union. , , He said a “stupla” White Pa) ' had been issued by the ‘Britian Government which called him a + Raplet agent, “which I was not. Tm a Socialist, I'm not @ Communist,” he said. 7 They’ re afraid Burgess added; “They couldn't. Jet me go back, They are more* afraid of my going back than 1. VENING STANDARD London, England October 20, 1960 (for info) “Just think of the pressure ! j the Americans would put on.” Burgess insisted that he was’ not talking for Maclean, whom he said he had not seen for some time, Asked about life tn Russia, he . ,Said: “I'm more happy after a years than I was after five years.” i Bul he refused to say what a ‘was he disliked previously. =} |. One correspondent pointed out (that Burgess came to the Soviet | Union while Stalin was alive and / sked whether he thought re vere any errors then, Burgess replied: -“ Everybpdy Ce - under Stako. dn'y y 10073 -3 B7W/EF -A NOT LAA ecORDED 7 149 OG: 2B 1400 ee