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Pont aS = And NONE of Burgess, as hee BURGESS | ROTE: ‘I SENT MORE Z LETTERS’ | * Ree . Express News a Analysis Desk URGESS, the hint 3 & | te -] A, —_ ‘Ch — & =] F%) = a 7 Q as sent Christmas /dbtters to his mother in ondon for two yegirs yunning, wrote several . jetters EARLIER, it was disclosed. yesterday. these got through the Iron Curtain, who vanished with ‘Donald Maclean three yéars and eight months ago, got. his first: letter through at Christ- “mas 1953. Ib was posted in Gondon. He got hig second I¢tier to his mother this last Christmas. ‘This too was posted in London. His. mother, Mrs. J: BR. Bassett -4My eon didn’t know I'd rece fhis 1953 message until sald at her home in Arlington House, off Piccadilly, Jast right: “In this second letter Guy says he wroté to meé before Christmas 1953. I didn’t pet those other lett I -don't know how many thre were—he didn't. say. ch it, Was published in’ the’ newspapers." PESDORALY DUA HacLEAN,. et al ‘ESPICUAGE = R (Bufile 100-374163) DAILY E: JANUA RY LONLOR wWHRICE OF T HESS 2, 1955 N GLAND Mo LEGSL ASGar DSFESY PIGGY": atlas? ca ae Nags eg” gw te ca ab aes ere. a, pte OP a fag eo Banting: Mth Mme RT ae em = Pel RTCA Pa a RE hy RT a faery a MIN a Se, a ~~ « * * «NO RINT: How did Burgess get accesd to ‘nglieh newspapers if he ig in oscow, a5 many believe ? 3. Basset, sald last niggt: “Thers ‘lg nothing in td letter to indicate: where my 600 ig, o¢ What he is doing Be gave me no hint at all.” i wis thought that Burgess. former Secomd Secretary at Washington, and Maclean, who waz; head of the American Deoartment. at the Foreign Gffice. may be advising Russia ‘on Western affairs. If this ig so Burgess would need to see English newspapers. Thus he could have learned that ‘his message to his mother in 1953 had reached her. ‘The Soviet political police would ihave known $00, and Apparently did not object.. x But why did the earlier letters miscarry 7 . : Ie 1s significant that there io wWora either from Macleen until September 1953, hen a message reached fis wie, Melinda in Geneva asking [er to jon fim. ; NOW, WHY? So there nad been a asllence enveloping the diplomats for two years and four montha. And then t- ‘Maciean got word to his wife. Mrs. Maclean got. word to her mother, Mrs, Dunbar. Burgess got word ta his mother. And again Burgess got word to nis mother. What happened in 1953 that might. have changed the policy cot ithe diplomats’ masters ? Stalin. died. in March. And Malenkov, succeeding him began a few months later a policy oft conciliating the estern. world. Burgess and Maclean, experl- enced British diplomats, would obviously be of considerable value as advisers for the carry- ing out of that policy. Was it because Malenkov wanted the Western -world to that the two men.were alive and well -- and * with Russians ~~ that the’ Jager messages’ were allowed to. pO. through? * tL would seem the only possiple conclusion. Mati know, Q INDEXED Mr. ‘deiecs Mr. Boartunn._. Mr, Nichols Mr. Belmont .... Mr. Hatha. Mr. Bio. roe | Mr. Town : Mr. Ten Mr. £26 ‘Y Mr. 3 rd Tele, Resm Bir. H-thunan.. Miss Gandy. eri nin be i { | | | BLL EOP eS ohn ae ’ Ag ob bee ce fie By LETTER JUN ado $ . ae 4 Fz * het ft re a pt NOT 7""oa Ee ‘LOT FEBi a 1955 - " act Fain ne