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1. Did Burgess engineer his own recall to England? = gperecue who eould anawer this cuse fue ond: SEVER TAY Oeuse GHEWSES TiUsAS YT sticn Burgess or Kim Philby, If Philby did use Burgess as a court it was the most unprofessional way to alert Maclean that he was under investigation. In ® normal Soviet espionage Operation, Soviet agents have bot means of regular access to their Soviet handlers as well as emergency methods Of contact. In normal operations, it would have been sufficient for Philby to alert his Soviet handler who could have taken over and relayed the information to appropriate officials. By using Burgess, Philby “unecessarily scoapromised all threes of theses valuable agents. In addition, he knew that Burgess was a drunkard and a homosexual and would not be considered s reliable courier since he could well have revenied his operation while in a drunken stupor on his way back to England. Such a procedure leads to the question, "Was Philby actually in contact with the Soviets during this period?" 2. Did Burgess purposely ovemit his offenses--drunkennes;, ot coteve -ot6 make Sic secell eccecsers? St Getera,--to make Kis recall necssssry? It would pot be out ef sharacter for Burgess, a known homosexual and alcoholic, to do exactly what he did in the United States. 3. Was there anything en him politically--any eonnection with / the Soviets, et eetera? Both burgess and Bacleaa vers posted to ths United States as acoredited British diplomats and enjoyed all the privileges and imsunity granted to representatives of foreign governments fin the United States. Any doubts ef their Soviet gonnections . were dispelled by later lavestigstions eonducted in Englasd ‘"@@ wall ap the Petrov revelations made in 1955. 5 as &. Can we tell anything ebout Uesloan's etre ee NE og \ information while he i a As head of the Chancery of the Britieh Embassy, Maclean __= woud have had access rinse tgoing communications re; ing political foal matters. the representative — ef United Kingdom en a seane American, United Kingdom, and Canadian eomittee concerning atomic energy matters. As noted Pn (4) here fin the book, "fhe Third Man,” by ZB. RN. Cookridge, lean pry er atomic energy installations and ene ef ~ « the few gh-ranking officials eleared by Un: ates security 4 537. al peeses. fo) BU TELETYPE uniT LJ 53 oa ae : 7