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42 Ce Tux American Mencuay ‘The “hot pursuit” message, stating If the State Department is to be , : that the United Nations Comman- believed, it had little in the files der had “strictest orders about vi- and made the first inquiry of its olations in Manchurian territory” own Personnel the summer of 1956 was dated November 13, 1950 and in response to a Senate Subcom- was communicated to Great Brit- mittee request. The State Depart- ain. Burgess was then attached to ment turned up no information! the British Embassy in Washing- ton; Donald Maclean was head of Te Britisit do seem to have be- the American Department of the lieved that part of the story was British Foreign Office. Either or to be unearthed in Washington. Sir both could have supplied that and Percy Sillitoe, head of M. I. 5, Brit- other vital messages to the Soviets. sish Intelligence, few to the United Burgess, moreover, may well {States and held talks with J. Edgar! have been the source of much clat- (| Hoover on June 1. Well-es- sified information which leaked to tabhshe reports also place Sillitoe American newspapers in those criti- at the Pentagon conferring with cal months. Certain columns ap- |, G-2. The results have not been dis- pearing in December, 1950, for ex- |ctosed, but the FBI did take some ample, were almost literal record- jl action. On June 13, 1951, it sud- ings of orders and of policy papers. denly withdrew from the Interna- By a remarkable coincidence, these tional Police Commission, then columnists labored to focus atten- opening sessions at Lisbon ahd at tion on Maclean and “swept Bur- least one British paper (Daily Ex- Sess under the carpet.” Burgess cer-’ press) assumed a connection, State- tainly had contacts with tome of | ments appearing in papers also in- Fr them as he had a background in {{ dicated that the FBI interviewed | eens news and broadcasting work. certain —ex-Britis naturalized However, none of this was the Americans who knew the diplo- | ~_z concern of the American State De- mats, Presumably, the results of the : tment, which did not even ques- investigation remain in FBI les, fon the American brother-in-law Certain government employees |'" of Mr. Donald Maclean until Sep- who normally would have had Svan tember 1953. This in spite of the contact with the diplomats have Be fact that he (Jay Sheers, recently a since been removed, transferred, or # writer for the United Nations) had have abruptly resigned, but in no been a security guard at Mutual Se- instance has a connection with curity Headquarters in Paris until Burgess or Maclean been publicly April 1951 and had visited Donald established. and Melinda Maclean in May, There is one new fact which has f° shortly before Maclean's flight. recently emerged quite casually.