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WFO pRiliiapes In connection with this, QQMMMM expleined thet BUXSESS was e highly emotional person and @ hegyy drinker, ith regard to BURGESS' political philosophy at this time apenas <3: that he was not at all clear, Ha eayrisined that si} the persons §n bie nartieptear eraus whi ak mat Sep a a wide ok y be a or aa =] ‘tad Biv Mawe twa FY Le ob ee Ed incluied BURG=SS, Qin, oj -.. sie .-re warmly in favor of the Spanish Loyalist Governnen ani said that this feeling was common to persons in his group. wueininn si: that he had no knowledge of any Communist sympethies on the part of BURGESS xcept his "warm endorsement” of the Spanish Lovalists (which pees does not now consider to be pro-Communist in the light of the thinking of that period) and knows of no connections which BURGESS could have had with Soviet espionege, @QNQRMMMME ssic that he recalled BURGESS in that period (1937-1938) as a pers e 3 in drink and who was trying very desperat ash to be "one of the group", eaning the literary circle in which et al traveled. oathiniins seid he felt a kind of pity for BUKGESS because he was a confirmed social climber and pretty obvious in his tactics, in this same vein and includine the year 1947, when QM last saw , BURGESS in London when BURGESS was working forthe British Foreign Office, pee recalled that BURGESS always wanted to be "on { the inside" insofar as significant political events and activities were concerned. (w) saw BURGESS : Serer ocr next in 1947 when he went to angland to visit. nienaenes_ : : ) BURGESS was working for the British Foreign Gffice then, SQMURRMWMP stated at this point that BURGESS was known to be a homosexual. He did not consider this to be unusual, adding that even if this condition were generally known to BURGESS friends and employers of that, period it would not have made much difference since according to <u homosexuality on the part ‘of a person such @ BURGESS would not be consijered unusual in the London of that period: In this connect ion =siiiailiaianae dees not feel that BURGESS* homosexuality would be a weakness which could be used to advantage by the Soviets, He repeated that he knew of no possible Comintern connections which BURGESS might have had and stated that it was inconceivable to him that the Soviets would ever choose a person such as BURGESS to work as an espionage agent. His reason for saying this was that BURGESS! drunkenness and emotional instability were things which were well known and very real. Secondly, he cannot imagine BURGESS! engaging in any clandestine activity for any pro- longed period of time without wanting to let someone know of his activities, @@RNBNRWMP ssid he did not know and never met any of RURGESS' relatives and never recalls BURGESS! sneakine of home or ew ee ae —_—- — Po Ne CA ed, At ald we family. Ee does not know what BURGESS' financial condition was but assumed he was comfortably situated since he recalled going to BURGESS' apartment on several occasions in 1938 and again in 1947 and found it to be well furnished. S&S =- 20 va “f I