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- ie vonsnruce teat ac homtahimse ndeon iti 7 STANDARD road M0, 64 t fo, . C) . ee Office Memendum ¢ UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT To fr. A. He se inonti" DAT&: Narch 29, 1957 FROM ilir, We As srantch hen _ SUDJECT:DONALD DUART' LACLEANS- GUY FRANCIS DE uoNcY LURGESS ee rn eee y ESPIONAGE - R * NV Edna RY Fluegal has written an article re subjects published in “American Hercury” in 3 installments. The \first and @- second installments summarized in my memos 1/27/57, and 3/6/57. ‘The ti installment appeared in the April issue and is briefly summarized here ‘luegal described as chairman, Political Science Department, Trinity Coliege, Washington, D. C.; gta, oreign affairs consuitan to Senate Internal Security “ Sec ME REET é t 4 fad b an | First installment of article highly critical of British for Satlure to release full facts concerning case. Author commented that Jacts my not have been disclosed because of posstble involvement of British "holy cows" plus fear that Congress might enact measures reatr pooling of classified information by U.S. and England. Article also critical of british for not notifying U.S. authorities concerning thei investigation of leaks discovered in 1949. In addition to criticism o britisn, author stated the American angle of the case was totally unexplored and raised a number of questions concerning American side o case, such ass: With what Americans did they deal; why the blackout a who maneuvered it; Who tipped off the subjects; What assurance do we h that opportunities for espionage that subjects enjoyed have been elo. ARE RSLS OT PN LOTK The second installment stated that a routine investigation b British should have barred: subjects from Government employment invol access to classified material and that the Foreign Office should have terminated their services at several points in their career. Without : lear their communist background, both would have been regarded as_ security risks under U.S, standards. Burgess was reported as having 1 with Fhilby and had contact with CIA, National Security Agency and Sta Department. HKaclean's relatives who had been in U.S. and had had connections with Americans were named. It was indicated they should h been investigated. It related that FLI made some inouiries in this country but investigation ia ya jeans was » ee its province _Afie third installment and iast installment recit tons VladimirFetrov's (Soviet defector in Australia, 1954] statement alleg : that subjects were long-term Soviet agents and had fled .to Moscow. Th . british limite Paper published as result of Petrov's*disclosuré;-The pr ‘statement issued by subjects when they first appeared in hiosqau.februa Lire an excerpt from articles sub equently written for wane (O55 5 eyetantcais eee i) Bal fo