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» He (Kislytsin] was putin charge of | the special section of an amazing library | off foreign intelligence called the ‘Tpp! S@eret Archives. By a remarkable coincidence, this section turned out tofbe a collection of the material supplied by Burgess and Maclean, H. was crammed fulk of secret documents of the British | Foreign Office. There was so much of it’ that a great deal had not even been translated and distributed te the Ministries interested. Kislytsin had his work cut out even to sort it. When he had done so, he wage frequently ealied upon to shaw particular files of docu- megts to high-ranking officials of various Sovyet Ministriesparticutarly the , Fowpign Ministry—vwho visited his secret Ebyary for this purpose, “The version published in the United States hag got farther an in the tale than that published in London. The British reader has still to learn of Colonel Ratna, chief of the First Directorate, whom Petroy once saw “ty a boat with his. young son fishing" in & reservoir, and of Raina's sukcessor, Gorsky, whom Petroy ange saly “in the MVD. dining-room” And the British reader has yet to : 4 . Ihaar how Kislytsin met Burgess and Mbclean in Moscow for the first tithe, offen visited them. at a “ comforta}le hokse on the outskirts of Moscow,” and looked after their welfare. When he last saw them “ they were supplied with the best of everything” and were then “acting as advisers to the Soviet Ministry of Forelgn Affairs on Anglo-American matters.” Since all this is two or three years ago perhaps the Foreign Office can bring us rather -moreé up to date. Surely it has a few (photographs of Russian secret docu- ments to throw in for good measure, or has the experience of Operatifn Ckera and the two chests of sto on rekotds from the Rome Embassy bfen oirely wasted ?