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Ay 2 Defectors Deny Word Of Newsman a Reuters’ >. | MOSCOW, July"1 — Guy. Burgess and Donald MacLean former British diplomats who defected to Russia in 1951, said in separate interviews to- night they did not know any- thing about an English news- man who is reported to have followed them behind the Iron Curtain, Burgess and MacLean gave differing replies-when asked if H. A. R. “Kim” Philby, who disappearcairom Beirut ear. lier this year, informed them they were in danger in 1951. Burgess denied the charge; and said MacLean was tipped: off when a car carrying “over-. eager MI five sleuths” bumped’ into his ear in London. 4 MacLean’s only comment! was: “I have nothing to say.”' Burgess ridiculed Foreign ; Minister Edward Heath’s state- ment in the House of Com- Mons that Philby was the “third man” in the sensational flight to Moscow by Burgess and MacLean--———» Burgess recalled that Philby had told a press conference that he (Burgess) was “one of, my oldest friends, one of those good friends in bad times as! well as good.” | Burgess added: ; .“Philby was that sort of, {ehap. I would have thought jhe would have got in touch with me but he has not.” When asked about the re-, port that Philby was a Com- munist and a Soviet spy,’ Burgess paused for a moment, then said: “fo my certain knowledge Kim was never a member of the Communist. Party at Cambridge. He joined; the secret {service as an , assistant ‘of mine.” H 1_ Asked ift he knew that! Philby gave information to - 1 Ee eesians, Burgegs_revligd : “No. Ase 1963 eo 2A 75 ; St sah, ‘a Fy £<- God “4 * . 191 gut 8 1963 Oe ONE —— lohr Casper Callahan —__ Conrad 7) DeLoach AMY Evans Gale Rosen / suey Tavel” Trotter Tele Room ___. Holmes Gandy O The Washington Post and f° Times Herald The Washington Daily News —__ The Evening Star ~ New York Herald Tribune New York Journal-American New York Mirror New York Daily News New York Post The New York Times The Worker The New Leader ‘The Wall Street Jouragl ‘The National Observer Date JUL bAd es NOT RECORDED 2 1962 fe \.5 ‘ ™ COPY FILED IN UNRECP