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i { serene wie ¥ ' [oleae omrr want en een ete i mez.de me think that a lot of manipulation went on during those two years to ~ Levine said the British found a retired army officer nam aptain John King working in the code room, and that surveillance proved him to be a Communist agent, Following Levine's testimony in the summer of 1956, the British Government confirmed that King had been discovered and sentenced ' to ten years in prison in September 1939. But finding the other man was more difficult. Lord Lothian called Levine back to Washington and asked him to arrange for General Kriviteky to go to London to assist, Krivitsky went, but was unable to identify the man from meager descriptions he had, Later Krivitsky returned to Amertea and on Feb, 10, 1941, was found shot to death in a Washington hotel. When the Burgess-MacLean case broke in 1951, Levine said he took a great interest in it because MacLean fitted the description Krivitsky had given. ",,. first, that he was a Scotsman, and Donald MacLean beiongs to a Scottish family, Second, that he played around in the artistic world. (MacLean) met his wife, Melinda, on the left bank and in a cafe," Levine seid. Levine said another significant fact was that "MacLean had decided late in 1933 to go to Russia, and then, as I learned subsequently, gave up his decision, and two yeare later appeared in the Foreign Service, Naturally it convince him that his duty as a revolutionist was not to go to Russia, where there are plenty of Cormmunists, but to serve the revolution in London ina « 7° . strategic spot,” er ee,