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- 1 suayect: DONALD DUART MACLEAN;. ee ee -~r o a . Ly a Orifice Men © dum * UNITED $..AsTES GOVERNME TEE . pe ~ ro + Director, FBI (eel. ; . mB, Memphis i e / ic GUY FRANCIS DE MONCY BURGESS i) . ESPIONAGE - R oy y Rebulet of August 22, 1957 By separate communication the Bureau Kas been fur- nished with copies of a report of SA ’ dated September 5, 1957 at Memphis, in this matter, setting out the results of an interview with WILLIAM W, GOODMAN on August vy) - 1957. 41 The Bureau letter of August 22, 1957 instructed Memphis to ascertain from GOODMAN the details of the remarks which QUY feBURSTSS allegedly made to GOODMAN regarding, the FRI ang- the Dirsgtor, which were reported generally ae: the Legat, London, and which were furnished to ‘itemphis rebut, . « ir @ : ss os Cn August 27, 1957, COODMAN advised SAS ° na that during his discussions with BURGESS at the opera in Noscow on July 10, 1957,-actually * very little was said regarding the FBI. He stated it,.is difficult, for him to reconstruct the remarks which apparently gaye rise to BURGESS' belittling remirks about the FBI, but they apparently resulted from the request of BURGESS to GOODMAN to take a messag: to Le "AGOODHAN stated that BURGESS commented that he could not writ¢.to because the“FRI, which he identified as "the American Gestapo,” would harass GOODMAN stated that it was in this context that BURGESS made the comment "the FBI and thet bestard Hoover." GOODMAStated that he ignored the remark and BURGESS did not pursue the matter,further. GOODMAN stated BURGESS seemingly ’ tried to fenve the impression that he had had some personal con- tact with Mp, HOOVER. GOODMAN pointed out, however, that this { was a conclusion which he was drawing based on the apparent us bh w bitterness and vindictiveness with which BURGESS spoke 'éf t Bureau and the Director. ar Oo s) oy. Tee ~ b 4 Due to the nature of ‘BURGESS! comments regarding thet Bureau and the Director, this matter has riot.-heen inc ded in the report of the interview as it is not believed that the Bureau gy would want to disseminate jthis , _— a 2 Bureau” 1-. -Memphi