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4 _natural that he should call on the © ‘y+ mo arranged that he was sent back, “ting out, and had one or two irons .in the fire in Fleet Street. As a Office had suffered, so much so that it looked like a close thing between : 1+ ;Pesignation and dismissal. In any’ ~ ‘case, he was anxious to get back to In somebody's ‘mind—I do not”. «know whose—the two ideas merged: ~ , Burgess’ return to London and the { ‘rescue of Maclean. If Burgess re- . turned to London from the British * Embassy in Washington, it seemed, head of the American Department.: : He would be well placed to set the Dall rolling for the rescue operation. “It would have been possible for him’, to have resigned in Washington, ‘ and returned to London without fuss. But it might have looked a "bit odd if he hed gone back volun- ” : tarily shortly before the disappear- ance of Maclean. Matters had.to be :, willy-nilly. It was the sort of project. in which Burgess delighted, and he brought it off in the simplest pos- ‘ sible way, Three times in one day,'- ‘he was booked for speeding in the « _ State of Virginia, and the Governor ‘ reacted just as we had hoped. He ieent a furious protest to the State “Department against this’ flagrant abuse of diplomatic privilege, which was then brought to the attention of the Ambassador. Within a few ; result, his work for the Foreign |.” England. wot - me’ that I could help to divert su “picion by faking a positive con: tribution to the solution of the Brit-" . jexhaustive investigations lays, Burgess was regretfully in- | formed that he would have to leave. and enquiry into his activity might lead to doubts about me. There seemed very little that could be done about it, but it occurred to ' ish Embassy case. Hitherto, I had ‘lain low, letting the FBI and MI-5 _ do what they could. Now that the , . rescue plan was taking shape, there ‘was no reason why I should not ‘give the investigation a nudge dn y» the right direction. rans To that end, I wrote a memoran-- dum to Head Office, suggesting that we might be wasting our time in of. the Embassy menials. I recalled the , Statements of Krivitsky to the best " Af®soon as the possibility of. Bur-_ gess helping in the rescue operation. merged from our discussions, great ': : attention was paid to my own posi- © \ ton. Despite al) précautions, Bur- ‘geas might be seen with Maclean, "’. much “in their minds.” But there a “they were, “should be matched “against the records of diplomats stationed in Washington between’ the relevant dates in 1944-45 of the known leakages. I received a reply . from Vivian,? assuring me that that aspect of the case had been very was no evidence on file that any- thing had been done about it, and “the speed, the disconcerting speed, of later developments suggested | that the idea must have been ‘rela-* ‘tively new. A match of the Krivitsky mate* ‘rial with the reports of the Em. bassy Jeakage yielded a short list” of perhaps six, names which was .sent to us by London, with the com- ment that intensive enquiries were, yin progress. The list included ‘the «names of Roger Makins, Paul Gore- : .Booth, Michael Wright and Donald. “Maclean. (It may be objected that ; Maclean was not at either Eton or : ‘Oxford. He was not. But MI-6 did - not attach too much weight to that ' “detail, on the ground that foreign.’ ” of my ability from memory. He had " ‘ers often assume that all well-born - said that the head of the Soviet intelligence ‘for Western Europe | “had recruited in the middle thirties ‘ acyoung man who had gone’ into the Foreign Office. He was of good family, and had been educated at Eton and Oxford. He was an ideal- , dat, working without. payment. I suggested Phat these ‘data, such as young Englishmen must go to Eton and Oxford.) The ‘list. provided -Bobby Mackenzie with one of his finest hours. He offered me short odds on Gore-Booth. Why? He had » been educated at Eton and Oxford; he had ‘entered ‘the Foreign Office _