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pan oe ae Later, Secalnne. corimunists when they were fellow students at Cam- ‘bridge University, Burgess and Maclean were homasexuals and heavy drinkers. Philby was a Burgess protege. All three came from distinguished families, REY POSTS ~ Altho it was later discloscd that all three often voiced strong anti-American and pro-conimunist views, they rose fast in the British foreign sevice and occupied key posts in U.S.-British relations during the Korcan War. Donald Duart Maclean, who served in the British Embassy here from 1944 until 1948, Leaded the American section of the British foreign office from October, 1950, until he secretly fled to Moscow on May 25, 1951. Guy Francis de Moncy Burgess was Second Sceretary of the British Embassy from August, 1950, until May, 1951, when he hurriedly returned to England and defected with Maclean. He died in Moscow on Aug, 30, 1963. Harold A, R. Philby was First Secretary of the British Embassy and a top British Intelligence officer in Washing- ton from October, 1949, until June 1, 1951, when he was recalled to London and dismissed. He later went to the Middle East as a journalist and fled to Moscow in Jan- wary, 1963. AT LONG LAST Oniy after Philby defecied last year, did the British Gov- evrunent finally admit he was he “third man" who hed warned Burgess and Maclean that British and U. S, intelli- Gence agencies were about lo expose their spy activities. The Saturday Evening Post, in a recent article on t+ lease, reported that Philby received an FBI report ti Maclean and Burgess were being investigated as communist agents and called in his friead Burgess to tip him off. Burgess, according to this report, immediately fled to England, where he warned ¥: They then arranged with Soviel Intelligence to spirit them out of England and behind the Ivon Curtain. A labor member of Periament charged in 1935 tha! Philby s the “third man" in the case, but Harold 3 B then Foreign Secretary, vigorously denied it, insisting the British Government had ni evidence he had warned Burgess and Maclean, . - DONALD MACLEAN permitted to go to the Middle East in hopes he would Jead them to other Soviet spies. U.S. TAT The Saturday Evening Post article, however, charged that the Foreign Office had fired Philby in 1951 only because &he FBI and Central intelligence Agency had threatened otherwise to break off all Intelligence liaison between the two governments, A British “white paper" on the Burgess-Maclean case made puitic in 1955 sought to minimize both the significance of their defection and their access to military and dipl matic secrels during the"Korean War. GUY BURGESS HAROLD PHILEY ~ mM Scripps-Howard reporter R. H. Shackford wrote at t:e time, Lowever, that the admission they were Soviet sy. » “revived the strong presumption that both men not only bet.ayed their own country but also the United States.” “At various critical times at the end of the war and aftervards, beth men had access to top British-America: secrets, includitig atomic information and Korean War mii:- tary decisions,” Mr. Shagatord reported,