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do. quithing that would give aid and comfort:-to Communism. They were then, even if they did not know it themselves, already members of the Russian alligvern intelligense service: Indeed, the most astonish- ing fact abeut the whale extraardinary affair is that the two men, though they. became clase friends after their Cambridge days, did not Know ef each other's spying activities. It was not intl they were alnyest ready for their flight te Moscow that they ‘nih | “they weré both linked in highly secrpt MEVD work. i Spies already The scale of their activities, can be gathered from what Eislytsin told me of the three years in which he was in close touch with. them. “T was posted to cur Embassy in London in 1545," he informed me. “My job was that of cypher elerk to the MVD. I personally handled all the material that Hurgess supplied, “T received brief-cases fall of] reign Office documents. They. were photographed at the Em- bassy and quickly returned to Burgess, The photographs were urgess tol VLADIMIR PETROV’S SECRETS Continued from page 1 sent by courier in the diple- matic bag to Moscow. “Hut there were many fimes when urgent information from the dacuments had to reach Moscow quickiy. In those cases I wsed to transcribe the infor-.- mation inte code and cable it direct. toe headquarters.” It. was. typical of the way the MVD worked that while he was in London, Kislytsin never saw either Burgess or Maclean, But he knew the Soviet official who was im regular contact with Burgess. “He used to came back to the Embassy, after his: meet- ings with Burgess, with his clothes spattered. with nnd,” ‘ Kislytsin told me, “i gathered that their rendezvois Was out * in the country.” In 1948 Kislytsin was recalled to Moscow. He spent a year on an intelligence training course in. which he specialised in Eng- lish, Then hé was appointed everything!’ to the Directorate of the Cém- mittee of Information, a ody ‘that controls the sifting of inteHigence brought in by the secret service. He-was put in charge of the. Special section of an amazing library of foreign intelligence called the Top Secret Archives. By a remarkable coincidence, this section turned. out to be a collection of the material sup- plied by Butgess and Maclean. MYD crisis Ti was: crammed full 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 to the Ministgies in- terested, Kislytsin had his work cut out even to sort it. When ne had done sa, he was frequently called pon te show particular files of documents to high-ranking. officials of varicus Soviet: Ministries, Steadily the decuments poured , in for afiother two years, But in 1951 came a erisis in MVD headquarters. Urgent messages were re- ceived from London that Bur- gess and Maclean had reported to their Seviet contact that they were under investigation by British Intelligence. They begeed. for refuge in Moscow, -EXT WEEK: Viadfinir Phtrov reveals how the esdipe whs carried out. And he gives alclose-up picture of how Bur- géss and Maclean live and rk fn Moscow tuday. So pina Teenie near mpmanntontt