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SP Sn TI eee ORE ES IORI MERTEN et se asaag nd SOR et atom na hh meer O19 (11-22-55) 2 information that a special se ge tion was set up in Moscow to handle it, it,was disclosed yes terday.” . * The Senate Yoternal Security { ¥Subcommittee released an affi- fe [es from Vladimir M. Petrov,| : . f avi { Russia s0 much secret | sof Sydney, Australia, reciting Phearsay’ evidence thatthe ‘de-/ ') Ffecting British diplomatg had |)" + been spies for years before they! { , #Mled to Russia in 1951.8" ' 4 ° Petrov, a former Soviet secret! g Embassy in Sydney in 1954, His ix, ] #mittee record, was largely a re a hf -etition of parts of an fwrote. for; an American. a ine afte) he: defected , to Lf *,. Petrov said his assistant ‘inl ’ policeman, deserted the Soviet] ~ statement, placed. in the Com-| * ce. yet head C Moscow ‘news ‘conference ' lst winter that ‘they had awit to the Russian side. : The Subcommittee’ has: | : Burgess and MacLean’ told,al charges that someone, possibly} j Burgess" and MacLean, tipped the “Communists the’ United States would not attack: China when the Chinese Reds dvened in the Korean war. -* Y ‘here was no such direct ‘n- formation ‘in Petrov's affidavit. } Both Britons had been stationed) ‘for a-time in Washington. . ‘the ‘Russian secret police “in: |: Australia was Filipp Vasilievich Kislitsyn,” who’ had . formerly worked in the Soviet Embassy in London, * < He said Kislitsyn told’ him of handling material which Bur-| 1 furnished to the Russians; by the briefcase full, though Kislitsyn never saw either Bur- gess orf MacLean in London. « Later, said Petrov, Kislitsyn| *« headed “a special one-man sec- .i tion of the top secret archives” £ {n Moscow, setup solely to han- ‘gdle “the great“ quantity of ma- terial supplied by MacLean, and Burgess.” ©"? He ‘said Kislitsyn’ told “‘bim urgess and MacLean discov- red they were under security investigation and the helped them, FEI Ee y NOT <a ECORDED 438 MAr 4 1956 Mr, Tolso: Mr, Nich Mr. Mohr Mr. Parsons ~ Mr, Rosen Mc. Tamm Mr, Nease Mr, Winterrowd _____. Tele. Room Mr. Holloman —__ Miss Gandy Wash. Post and 223 Times Herald Wash, News Wash. Star —~—____ N. Y, Herald |_-__ Tribune N. Y. Mirror bes N. Y. Daily News —_ Daily Worker |__ The Worker New Leader 1 ae UDR ry Bee ce ete site done ten tet, 2 BAR