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Leading part It was a triumph for the en tire world-wide spy network ru ffom the Kremlin. Dozens o the most. cunning agerits of the secret service had taken part in it. And Kislytsin himself had played a leading role in it when he was an MVD offter in London and later in Moscow. It was. through him. indeed, that i was able to discover the truth about a mystery that has Kept the world guessing for four years, Even though i was head of an ..impouant MVD btanch and . held the Algh rauk of beutenant- evionel in the setvice, should never have been let into the Bur- gess and Maclean secrets. AS in other secret services. no | one group of the MVD is allowed ' to know anything beyond its own special sphere of duty. So “FE had no right to question Bis- Iytsii about his wark in the | Burgess and Maclean affair. But no sooner did he hear that Mrs. Maclean had disdp- eared than he sought to get en ouch with the MVD men In oseow with whom he hid Janned ber secret journt ¥ before he joined me in Austr- lia. amid to secure permission senkt coded cables ta Moscow pe had to explain to me, his chifl, ailgabout bis work in the miss- ing diplomats operation, 1 gave Him permission, My wife Evdokia was. our cypher clerk. She coded the cabled mes- sages he sent and the replies he received. As. a result | learned almost every startling detail of the Burgess and Maclean story. From the secret cabled mes- sages and from Hislyisia him- self i wag able to build up an astonishing pleture. of the gimantic coup. And now 1 can lay before the warld the full solution to the mastery of the missing diplo- mats. ‘ret of all, let me destroy some of the myths that hive gathered round this case. IE i8 not vet fully ccrepped, outside the Iron Curtain, frat Burgess and Maclean ere traiters to their country and gave secret information 6 Moscow Soviet spies t can now disclose that beyond ali doubt these too men. reyil- lari” supplied ihe T-emlin with ‘ali the information they could Tay thei iuinds on as trusted servants of the Foreign Office Certain public met in. Britain ave consoled themselves wita hé idea that the two diplo- ats were Soviet spies for only short time and could not have | MORE SECRET: Lexplode assed over to Russia ab acrais of first-class hmportancg. in. fact, both these men we ldilg-term Saviel ayerts. were 7 recruited for intelligence pork york while they were. still il stit- is the fiction that Bhreess and Maclean ny ewpssed the dron Curtain | be- cpuse they were cdistllusiqned th fife in “ capitalist " Britain ahd yearned for the Russian Utopia. in fact, the reasom for their Aight ibas siviple and urgent— they discovered. that they were: under investigation by the British Security services. And they pleaded for asylum. Ardent Reds The story of the missing dipiomats begins at Cambridge University, where these two young men, quite independently. became interested in left wing politics. Their interest was noted by the British branch of the Savieb spy organisation working from the Russian em- bassy as “diplamats "as we did in Australia, Betore very Jong both men were’ heart and soul on fhe Communiss side in the warld- wide battle of ideas, Skilful work by British con- cts, acting for our spy uet- ork im London, soon convinced them that if was their quty to onfinued on Pape 5 sete ate nage mean Fo