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le ‘could not understand was! Whyjonly « short time before wt 5 Now asl ie 7 pro! a. Bussian politicians ba | NOW 83 1: happens, the plas Save that they bad no informp--; | Tdi years ago beens close frie tion |whatsoever concerning e s close ce in, Russia of ‘those. to was asked whether I would be’ prepared to write a story about | Burgess and Maclean. 1 said 1+, would not unless 1 was given otf Donali Maclean. A mpnths betrre = Maclean Bypess disappeared, Mr. Biaite, as I must call the plastic manu- {acturer, met Maclean at a party, Maclean who had been drinking, said to his friend “Mr, Blank: 7 5 Lp ae . ‘The statement they gave‘ wig ried tamale “ree sone of the Sovier by interpreters, who Tass Agetcy inierpreiers, Then the two translations were amal- gamated, A certain © English- neas™' remained in the Russian Mw letene earners every facility for-wplting-suche~ |""Wnat would you say if I told . . Russians were airit-ot sot the sory. i th that ‘Il was working for in thelr transla! a” Then I was asked whetner 1° | Uncle Jue? = Anxious were _th % Would writs t Bur Mr. Blank thou Maclean asking them for more ; | ment so remarkable that it was ‘ information. I said I:did not; | his duly to report it, He went to know thelr address, i . \the Foreign Office, where an | + \ : ‘ , ae OY oe a Otold ihat if L wrote» (oticial told him: “That is "a | ‘pouch with the Tass Agency afd | | »°* BUSY.:MEN s to elther Burgess or Maclean, and i j matter for Security. Why should) Pu bits fore ent they oe cme aN addressed the letter care of the we do Security's Job? FS egan io wore for the Agendy. + Ones, the Russians had made ‘Tass Agency, the letter would be: | | Vey toon afler thet Burgess’ Fitting ‘reports trom abroad afd“ Burgess ahd Maclesa es advise de red. i i have to send 5 ‘PP 4 heir ais ou {hlm. , a th@ letter by hand to the Press: | * if Ping ar due toe move made by oo {He London visits of Malenkuy Otfes “of the Soviet Forelgo |. IN A PANIC. | my, colleague, | Mr. chard The “two eee “Giptonfs ‘ . + ughes, le two men “ A) thought, tins | roundabout 1% can now be revealed thie. | forced into the open’! \*. 1 Sometimes oon Sls far, wees. r Wooten miter to Dona gherything that they transmit Quick MOVE ’ good. ‘Russias move £y'be' . | fm Great ae - sy eto go back & MUS | Azency. No original documenis - is” y way to pick up more ee ohne Ae at ear ae ere G ° hotostats were transmitted, out \¢ . man . Ine January. this’ year, Mt. "| {here were. copies of Teporis and | sent "a. ‘memorapijum ” to Mr. | | The Russians cannot be fooled, Harold Wilson was in Moscow. He ‘ Molotov” about ' Burgess and | They know that ‘Burgess ; Maclean, He declared that unless ‘Maclean has any more con- these men made a statement and | thets with Great Britain, so that the matter was cleared up.Wheo ~ thelr Knowledge, of foreign cy Mgrshal ~ Bulganin,’ end (Mr. is outdated. elr only use now schey went to Londoi 3 im advisi € Russi | ud be ‘pressed by report's how. to. deal’ with, "the British | the precis of certain confidential was there as legal adviser to & N papers. British firm of plastic manufac: ris strange, but 1 am certain turers. A member of this firm | that neither Burgess nor Maclean was there to do a deal with the | had a GUL Any secape Russians, to obtain an order | route so when they knew that ‘word ‘three. million | pounds .| they were suspected . they a i ' Poin of them had diplomatic’ en etauslomatn eee Be ges “a6 $s s] pasey ‘The : Kremlin thought” the ‘ jc] HIS FRIEND "| reds serge te | ——— mene “THE RED LIE. - Wilson met Mr. Kruschev passoorts and with ese they To end this story I wi went by 2 devious route, not. fant to j on January 12, and asked nim | (ovening al tt route, not, jexplain how and Why the Rus- what news he pad of Burgess and, Wrayelling all the way together, sians first lied about the pre : jactean. ce. Kyuschev, i 38ia. H a H ‘ in Russia of Burgess and Moclean a, replied? "Are they “| gE qca, Teveal without shadow’ | It was laid down as - - of doubt that although these two A 2 Som: le Uncle Joo” they were great, “ they were supposed to be.” | | embarrassment to the Russlons,") { Mr. Kruschey replied: “1 tand what is more they were that a1 mmunist’ has the fe to tell @ He if that te iin the interests of Communism* * ' t thought you had their address, | extremely suspect. ‘ { of thess tews of! I have fot beard anything of | “Even now, after all these years, ¢ ‘Coramunism canbe convenient to }them from any Soviet officials. | they are not allowed out alone? the, conscience, Such was"the | Nor nave 1 ever met them. . So it | and tney are not allcwed to come? {eae when both: Kruschey.” and - tands vo reason 1 cannot i nunicate with any member got; olotov armed: that they bad rat they are doing. . thelr families in Britain with@ut 4 po. mnowledge of the presence int (} Just one month Jater the t communications first beibg : /Bagsla of Burgess-and Maclean, . er ing hel secreuly f. ri was alk from the Kimlin where M?. Avene put inks sedd I don't knoe Harold W. hey, , Ue Russlans, ghey’ were pe T dan say i that he never “ . . g . NEXT SUNDA ‘ \ Rkssian women told, me.