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sOlsuss Cc oO Belmont —_____ \ Mohr Casper Callahan Conrad —_ a: DeLoach _____ —_ : Evans tm df T ‘i Gale : Rosen . et y Tavel Trotter —_= Tele. Room Holmes Gandy UPI-200 -_ (BURGESS) , MOSSGW--BRITISH DEFECTOR GUY BURGESS DENIED TONIGHT THAT NEWSMEN HAROL PETRY OF THE LONDON SUNDAY OBSERVER WAS A ®THIRD MAN® WHO D HIM AND DONALD MACLEAN THAT BRITISH AUTHORITIES WERE ON THEIR TRAIL, BOTH BURGESS AND MACLEAN CAUSED A SENSATION IN THE 1950°S ' WHEN THEY DISAPPEARED FROM THEIR FOREIGN OFFICE JOBS AND DEFECTED TO MOSCOW, “THERE IS NO THIRD MAN AND THERE NEVER WAS A THIRD MAN,® BURGESS TOLD UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL IN A TELEPHONE INTERVIEW. HE SAID HE PREVIOUSLY REFUSED 11 TELEPHONE CALLS FROM BRITISH AND TWO FROM AMERICAN REPORTERS FOLLOWING A STATEMENT BY LORD PRIVY SEAL EDWARD HEATH IN THE HOUSE OF COMMONS IN LONDON THAT PHILBY MAY HAVE SLIPPED BEHIND THE IRON CURTAIN. “I HAVEN'T THE SLIGHTEST IDEA WHERE PHILBY IS NOW. I CAN'T BELIEVE THAT HE IS IN MOSCOW OR IN PRAGUE OR HE WOULD HAVE TELEPHONED ME," BURGESS SAID. “I SIMPLY bo NOT KNOW WHAT HEATH IS UP TO. I AM BAFFLED.” COMMENTING ON AN ARTICLE IN THE GOVERNMENT NEWSPAPER IZVESTIA WHICH CLAIMED THAT PHILBY HAD GONE OVER TO THE IMAM OF YEMEN, BURGESS ADDED: °I KNEW HIM AND HIS FATHER FOR MANY YEARS AND THEY HATED THE RULING CLASS IN YEMEN, JI CAN'T BELIEVE HE WOULD HAVE GONE OVER TO HIM,* MACLEAN REFUSED TO COMMENT. HE WAS APPROACHED BY A WESTERN NEWSMAN IN A MOSCOW COURTYARD. i 7/1 ~--N851PED i} NOT RECORDED (p37 6 Lots et sue ses