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Bhen Burgess “dot iY the nightmare fantasies -o} his monstrous life came to the surface. This is the re pulsive drawing he made of ‘a double- bodied monster while he listened to speeches at a Foreign Ministers’ con- ference. WAS HE DRAW- ING HIS OWN SECRET am SOUL? : potnt was, in fay? ew, the most powerful J I. Inow 8’ good deal about : foreign Office bureaucrats, ° ‘They will do almost a: to avoid @ formal board of inquiry, which ‘takes up every-" body's time, often invqlves bringing witnesses from long distances and produces endless meereainiy th eI iy the threat of a! board of inquiry worked this GUY - BURGESS. THE RUSSIAN SPY, WAS JUST GIVEN A “REPRIMAND” Now it ts possible to find ex- cuses for the Foreign Office men who let Burgess off 50 lightly. They did not know, after all, that he was a Soviet agent. But they. or the Security|” pimeery who advise them, should ve known, The} reason to know, y bed every or X must now inf i public of some breath ovakine | facts that no spokesman of the| Brush Government has dared | Wadisel | Gay Burgess was on intimte: rms with a number of highest officers of our Secret : Services - 4 He knew many of our leading | agents all over the world. -- 5 HE CERTAINLY DISCLOSED . TO HIS RUSSIAN MASTERS THEIR NAMES AND + SECRET FUNCTIONS. ' ° He penetrated the secrets of our . security system — without himself ever being suspected | by the British spy and % counter-spy chiefs who were his friends. - . To understand how . he - achieved all this I must take ‘you right back to the beginning when Guy Burgess was a Com- munist at Cambridge Univer-~ sity. It was there met him in 1932. I was a Fellow of one of the most famous Oxford colleges. Guy was on a visit [rom Cam- bridge. where he was the most brilliant undergraduate of his time. ~ tee He was not only brillisnt; he had compelling charm, | He was the most fascinating con- versationalist I had ever come across. . ‘And, since I am going to be | perfectly frank, I want to avow here and now that I was ex- ceedingly fond of this strange } ‘and in many ways terrible man; “Trip to Russi our very first talk he , persuaded me to join him on = holiday to Russia When the gommer vacation came round I found that I was unable to go. ‘Guy made the trip with a Com- munist friend. 1 . _ Tt proved wo be the decis! event in his life. It marked the | beginning of his long and ‘ treacherous service in the | Far the central feature of hat stay in Moscow 24 years ago was & long, socret inter view with Nikolai Bukharin, ene. of the most famous Yeaders ef the Communist International When he returned to London, Guy told me very little of what was “said at that fateful inter- view. But tts fruits were pot” in ripening. . 7 And strange fruits they were! 3 For this convinced Communist woddenly resigned from the we Paty and ¢ ask x monsters that ma monster's brai ‘t a ” Li never forget be gave me remark- ST TET ene cee get eto om eith all his ‘ned tHe “¥ am an agent He Jared that Com-, munisin was a reactionary’ Guy seemed to be hintin movement, that the real that, at heart—and in spite + progressives were on the his open Nazi sympathies—h extreme right and that views were still leftl his sympathies now lay; Before I could put this sta with the: German Nazis | ling deduction to Guy, he gave jand the Italian Fascists, | me an even greater shock by + To me be trotted out m| Saving very slowly and with the } confusing set of argu-| utmost gravityi— . « ; ments to account for his} “I WANT TO TELL FOU | astonishing change of| THAT I AM A COMINTERN ‘front. I did not follow all] AGENT AND HAVE ‘BEEN \of them, but I was at any} EVER BRIDGE” .:- [rate convinced of : ‘ ‘sincerity. I was stunned, There wi . For on leaving Cam | jong silence. Then I recovered. bridge he did not’ assocl-"| inyself sufficiently to say: “I ate with bis od friends ied don't believe you." the left. Instead. he-| “Why not?” said Guy. * Sought cut, first Victor ‘etse do you. think Tyee the Rothschild, mow Lord Communist Party and took an Rothschild, who hed absurd job with that M.P.? jbeen @ fellow under- | “Do you think I really be graduate, . (leved all that rigmarole about ‘the ‘progressive’ Nazis?,- 1 “1 invented all that. 1 had jt0. The Party told me to break off all connection with thein, to quarrel with oll my Commupist friends. So t pretended to'de- come a Fascist” « ~ * "i It was utterly incredible. But, even supposing it was all true, why was Guy telling his monstrous secret to me? Banker He asked for a job at \the famous private bank of the Rothschild family. And, so Guy told me, he advised the bank on poll- tical matters! His next move took him much further to the jright. He became private, ‘ secretary to ® 1 asked him just that. His tive eee . .Teply sent a tremor of dismay By now Thad down my spine.” more than “@ little “Because I want you to work tressed at Guy's swing to for me,” he said! 5: but uring & aa jeziam. {| NEXT WEER: How Burress conversation that I shall psmed a famous British schofer 3 hts fellow Soviet agent is Roving work doring the wér. How he got a blackmall hold Ja some of his highly f frien . Lea eaten je evidence that the “swing” was not all it seemed... Our talk took piace in m: | London flat I was then wor! ing os a journalist on the a iy“ 1 \ a! servative week): Bpecta- | 7 ‘ tor.” Guy tumed the con! - yersation to “tong review had * written of & I asked him why he theught qit so brilliant. He paused for ws ;@ moment. Then, with a por-j his voicg he ~~ “tentous note in “I think ft shows that you | have the heart of the matter in 4 manded