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Mo —_" Turncoat in Moscow" by cLAne PORTZOUS, a Press-Scimitar Staff Writer: . fw) Hyitdian VW. Goodman, Memphis lawyer and businessman, wos accosted by Guy Burgess, the turncoat British diplomat, at performance of ‘La ‘fraviatat in Moscow. @ "Goodman said Burgess apparently has resigned himself to permanent exile. Burgess told Goodman he was in Russia 'pre- venting World War III,! but he couldn't tell how he was doing this. "Mr, ond Mrs. Goodman went to Russia before going to London for the mecting of the American Bar Association with the British lawyers. "tArc you from the American Embassy?! Burgess, who was wearing a dark pinstripe suit, asked. ‘If you are, you had better not be seen talking to me or you'll get in trouble, I'm Guy Burgess, one of the two missing British diplomats.! . (@ ) "Burgess happened to be sitting in the next seat to Goodman, who was a colonel in the Air Force and spent four years in Washington during the war, and worked with the Russians. He said it 1s almost certain tht his meeting with Burgess in the theater was not by chance, ® jurgess served in the British Embassy in Washington. He and Donald’ MacLean, who was head of the American department of the Foreign Office in London, fled to Russia in May, 1951. (@® "at the first intermission .at the theater, Burgess excused himself to a Russian couple with him, and walked with Mr. and Mrs. Goodman to the lobby. During three 20-minute intermissions, Burgess talked to “oodman, alternately boasting of his good treatment! by the Russians and recalling with nostalgia personal friends an old haunts in the United States he never expects to see again, ) "'fhey do very well by egg-heads in Mo: cow, # Burgess said, and fingered the blue-striped black four-in-hand he called "my old Etonian tie,! calling Goodman's attention to the tie. wo "Burgess talked of his theory of Britain's foreign policy, saying that after the war, the British Foreign Office "took over the State Department' and ‘moulded its policies.' He said he blames only te United States for 'the old war-mongering.' ye