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UNITED STATES COVER: ent SORROWNES n Memoranaan = q T. : WC. eure 4/18/62 === i — = FROM: W.A. NT a . =— O RQ suajecr: DONALD DUART MACLEAN; eae GUY DE MONCY BURGESS CG ESPIONAGE - R ee QO meme = =O Ce . This is to report information received that the subjects have left Russia and the British allegedly have stated they will be arrested if they come to the British Commonwealth. Cable to Legal Attache, London, requesting further information attached. ( Maclean and Burgess are the former British diplomats who fled from England to Russia in May, 1951. We conducted certain investigation in this case sinde both men had been stationed in the United States while in the British diplomatic service. Maclean was attached to the British Embassy, Washington, D. C., from May, 1944, to October, 1948. Burgess was also attached to the Eritish Embassy, Washington, D. C., from August, 1950, until May, 1951, when he was recalled due to protests about his violations of the speeding laws in Virginia. Maclean is possibly identical with a Soviet agent mentioned by .