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STANOARC Rotts 0. 4 Office ‘Menordadum : TO + DIRECTOR, FBI” —— pate: 3/26/56 UNITED states GOVERNMENT 77 : FROM TB 0, LOUISVILLE QQ SUBJECT: a recalled reading an article which appeared in the U. S. News Report approximately one month ago concerning the activities of BURGESS and MacLZAN, the two British diplomatic employees who defected to the Russians, ‘The article mentioned contained information that BURGESS! roommate, who first furnished the information to British authorities, telephoned ANTHONY BLUNT reporting BURGESS' disappearance, This telephone call was first indicetion of the defection on the part of NaclBAN and BURGESS. Downed DVART _ in the morning of Merch 16, 1956, an article appeared on “the editorial page of the Louisville Courier- Journal in Louisville, Kentucky, witl a Washington by- line written by DREW PEARSON, in which reference is made to a certain book in which was found a letter believed to be a communication between Communist Agents. ae - The letter was recovered in the British Embassy in Cairo, _ Egypt, and was postmarked from Louisville, Kentucky, “ -! dated 194% ~.