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“ernnoang Porat Wa. 4 : Office Mem® andi ¢ UNITED STA1£8 GOVERNMENT . to Ot OL, ¥. Boardnayle cumm SE pata: February 4, 295 ram: 4. Ht, seinen er 2a 4 poo es = BURJRCT: y DONALD DUART MACLEAN E> fo Jeor FRANCIS DE MONCY BURGESS : f ESPIONAGE - 8 roo ean - ‘ : ea sy Reference ts made to press re e of the sthate A dey Internal Security Subcomntttee for the afternoon newspapers Vie "in 244-57 re captioned case. The release stated that British recetved — information in 1939 that a communist agent of the general description of Donald™’Maclean had infiltrated the Foreign Offtce. Such tnformatto came fron a former Sovtet tntclitgence officer who did not know Haclea by name but described him as "a young Scotsman who played around tn th artistic world.” ‘Ihe former tntelligence officer was identified as General Walter Krivitsky who gave the tnfornation to Isaac Don Levine. ‘Welease reflected Levine testified that Xrivitsky told him tn the 1930 that the comnunists had infiltrated key postttons tn England with 2 me The other man was naned John King who was identified and sentenced to 10 years tn prtson tn 1939, Krivitsky went to London to help identtfy the other one but due to the meager description he was not successful, the arttcle described laclean and Burgess as young officers tn the British Foretgn Service who fled England in 1951. It stated "Both are reportedly in Moscow as adutsors on Anglo-American affatrs in the Sovtet Government, Each had served two tours of duty tn Washington with British Embassy. Uaclean was recently interviewed by British newsmen in Moscow," \! OBSERVATIONS So Pe eater emer SEE cland, subiectomie thet ter thetr flight prom England, subjects nade thet? puolve appearance tn Moscow 2/56 when they furnished a statenent to British and Russian press admitting they had been conmunist. sympatht: since their college days, Since tdentifytng Hoclean as a Sovtet agen 1 subsequent to his flight from England, .the Brittsh have conceded that ae ts probably the Soviet agent described by Krivitsky. Krivttsi wi ret trst was a Sovtet defector who was found dead tn a hotel room Washington, | 2/41, ‘Bufilesa do not reflect subjects served two tours of duty tn | -aehington D. C.’: Maclean was here from 5/44 to_ 9/48 eas fri 1138/50 te 5/51. According to Buftles, Burgedsimss inae nel0/56, by Brittsh journaltet Tom Driberg who wrot!g bogk-onsucn inverutew, My memo 1-17-57 contained an analysts of the book, Bufitles contain n infarmation re interutewyof Maclean. It £4 thought age the press re. Pc