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vue uesause Guere was Loo much to hide, The rivalry between 8.1.8, ar 15 ‘he counter-esptonag, ser 2 3 undoubtedly bitter ag lly describes, ‘but this was one Issue on” which they were agreed. And” the Government seems fo have been behind them. ~. Twenty years ‘ef defence reporting have convinced me {hat there is a security grade that carries more weight than Top Secret — Politically Embarrassing, And open trials involving adm many years would be far more politically Cmbarrassing than the dis. ppearance of three relatively obscure Foreign Office men & disappearance which might never require official explana- tion. Remember that no offictal explanation Burgess and f in Sppesition, Beifee to be’ silence | Philby was admitted to ‘have been the “Third Man” in 1963, | And “officials still retyse comment om Philby's disclosures. ck of a "1 bis suspicions being watched, eo ough he was Suppose: under close surveillance in London, MLS either missed Maclean's vital Juneb,y. sith - Burgess ip _Pall--Matt ‘shortly before ‘the cape, or ignored it No effort was made to shadow clean during the weekend when he fied. No alarm was ralsed until the traitors were safely inside Russia, In 1962 when there was a that” Burgess and Maclean might touch down in Britain en” route for Cuba M.I5 took unprecedented stems fo scare them off. Warranis for their arrest were tssued with maximum publicity, Privately, fecurity chiefs admitted that the last thing they wanted wag jo see elther Burgess or Maclean in a witness-bor. . It might be asked why Klaus Fuchs and George Blake were } fot encouraged to escape instead of being tried. The tact that both were foreigners might have some bearing titude to Bil arvey, the e teturn of a eted spy to Washinglom and Philby calls it an “exer, cise in spite”! All traitors sulfer from defects, Among Philby's vanit ranks high. As cach of these Instalment® thot Be must always be “proved right.” To excuse his own drunken- ness and that of his friends, he iders “a strain of irresponsi- : be essential to “the rounded character.” The character that considered } British institutions so loath~ some that he betrayed them. vet could ch the Stalin-Hitler