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Oe ePOFt FO Mis Superior * Mr, Philby writes, he speculgi that the Russians could Hav ned of Mr. Volkov’s inlen-- ns to defect by bugging] his m, Or Mr. Volkov might shave betrayed himself throu; Nervousness or excessive drink- ing, Mr. Philby added. “Another theory—that the Russians had been tipped off aboyt Volkov's approac! to the/ Brit§h—had no solid evidence! to port Ht,” Mr. Philby’ writhp. “It wgs not worth in- cluding in my report.” j Another crisis that jeopard-! ized his career came during Mr.| Philby’s service in Washington.! Shortly after his arrival in 1949,| he was informed that a Brit- ish-American investigation of} Soviet intelligence activity had! ylelded“a strong” suggestion”| at information . had ‘ teaked the British Embassy dur-| jing 1944 and 1945, the years \Mr. Maclean had been there. * Mr. Philby writes that his initial anxiety “was tempered relief” after he found that ither the British nor the Fed- ‘al Bureau of Investigation spected that a high diplomat) was involved. } “Instead,” he adds, “the in- + vestigation had conecentrated on nondipiomatic employes at the embassy, and particularly on those locally recruited, the Sweepers, cleaners, bottle wash- ers and the rest. A charlady swith a Latvian grandmgther, for instance, would rate 15- page report crowded with in- significant detail of hersell her family and friends, her private life “and holiday habits. It was! testimony {o the enormous re-! sources of the F.B.1. and to the pitiful extent to wihch those resources were squandered, Jt was enough to convince me that urgent action would not be Necessary, but that the case en require minute watch- a t However, during later meet- ings with Soviet contacts out- Washington he was told t “it was essential to rescue clean before the net closed) ‘of him.” Mr, Maclean was at time head of the American Department of the Foreign Of- fice in London. Mr. Philby tells how he as- signed Mr. ‘Burgess, who was also working at the British Em- bassy and living with the Phil- bys, to fim Mr. Maclean, in London. 7 Mr. Burgess was to mn. ge ims@f arrested three times in gne day for drunken diving in Wirginia, forcing Sir liver - Fr the British Amtpssa- dor, to send him home belause “it might have looked @ bit! odd” had Mr. Burgess returned: ‘3 \otuntarily just before Mr. Mac- lean disappeared. mnfident that Mr. Maclean} he \in the right direction.” To that! vend, he writes, “I wrote a ment! jorandum, to Head ptfice ge at we mi para time in exhaustive in- vestigations of the embassy menials.” But after reaching don, Mr. Burgess apparent ‘icked and joined Mr. Fean in his filght to the Union, on May 25, 1951. Describing how he learned; about their escape from a col- league at the embassy “at a) horribly early hour’ the next Imckning, Mr. Philby writes: le looked y. ‘Kim,’ he sai¢ in a half-whisper, ‘the bird| hag flown.’ I registered dawn- ing horror (1 hope). ‘What bird? Not Maclean? ‘Yes,’ he an- swered, ‘but there's worse than| that. Guy Burgess has gone ! with him.’ At that, my conster-| nation was no pretense.” \._In the wake of the Burgess-| Maclean case, which caused a major outcry in Parliament, Mr. Philby was recalled from Wash- ington and was asked to resign. ‘The Government denied at the! time that he had been involved) in fhe case and, according 0) the} memoirs, five years r he fesumed his role as a doufle ag t while working for ‘The: ol er. | - jing the investigation “a nudge “