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A Pye “ Kemsitele -BURGESS—-From P. I Ss We te Mr. ‘X’ Revealed Be ae cs hl intimate friend, ‘to “watch * i your atep.” Philby evidently believed that ‘Burgess’: #n-[ periors were upset by. his . Beandalous sex - behavior and). drinking. ’ But to Burgess, ‘it Was hint enough that his Red spy gamet was up. Then he and | acLean; slipped away. + ye : Lived With Burgess. a aon “sf “ph faye nt : #ted Order af the British Em- , pire, had been. very cloge to » Burgess in nn Bur- ~ 4 gess ved with Philby ‘in + 5: rented house there. 3 The ‘two. often entertained! ' Alan MacLean, Donald's younger broiiez, when he ’ visited the Capital. The young-) er MacLean also’ was in the! Foreign Service and then was ‘private secretary to Sir Glad- wyn. Jebb, British Ambassador', ie the United Nations at tbe) ee Burgess’ conduct in Washing- |, ton was notorious. A known|’ homosexual, he drank to ex. cess. He was stopped three} ' { times in one day for speeding. He was a cynic and a brag-! to > Zatti. and his cocktail- i i A &tice, Burgess was bhintly or-], dered home and told to resign.| i” ..; Knowlng Burgess" habits, wy Philby was not surprised when soe euperiorg instructed him to ake a list of. the disgraced lomat's ¢ B close Anlendtanday i { in i er mona ‘e Phllby, wite- holds the cov. " ibes at British Commonwealth |: _ policies shocked his colleagues. |, : Weeks before his disappear ft ‘e, “i . | oor the Foreign 6: ce fle piling up evidence his friend's homosexual activ! ities to. bolster the demand fo : Ais resignation, What Philby did not” know | "was that, in mid-April, 1951, the Secret Service lawiched an all out investigation of a spy ring in the Foreign Office and sug. picion pointed. ta Burgess, and. ~W4acLean, The white paper, ineldental- ly, admitted that this probe’ was was started two years after muthorities got a up from a Russian in the London Soviet, . Embassy about these Foreign Office leaks. Philby, who suffered » head wound In 1998 while covering the Spanish Civil War for a “London newspaper, could. net, warn Burgess himself. But be could—and apparent ly, did—teli Alen MacLean to get the message to his friend through Alan's brother Don&ld. ' Rendexvous With Red - * Donald MacLean was in Lon- . don sérving in the Fordgn. ". * Office as chief of its American © section. He had been acting. first secretary in the Washing- n Embassy from 1944 to 1948, well - before Burgess’ arrival there. vi _ “They: knew ‘each other anly 2 by: reputation, and neither: : ‘knew —then —that the other . was in the Kremlin's service. = When Burgess got Philby’s ‘qressage, he immediately went| to & secret rendezvous with the Soviet agent who served as hie] contact man, This Russian apy < was also MacLean’ 8 go-between! : with the cing. . os ' Burgess * evidently “told “the ; " Russien he was suspected and that the game was up. He . demanded that the Soviets line Up an qreape route to a Red asylum for him, eet os a Wash. Poat and Times Herald A-1 & A-8 oo... CT 231955 [te continue his normal routine no 4 4 . ae woo eS nis | “ yrmcreebaaeetween realized thik? ans role in the opeta- [war also must be suspected, Ha warned MacLean, set. up the [fight and put the. two: in cohé MacLean was indeed: "vader! 4 suspicion along with three others he was, however, allowed in hopes he would lead intelli: gence agents to other spies. MacLean’s country home " |where he Mved with his Ameri can-born wife,’ Melinda, : and their two sons, was not‘ sha- ‘dowed for fear he would notice ‘and realize he wag suspected: - This policy paid off except, : that the quarry eseaned, So Sil Semen gy Sales pe MacLean was spotted ‘hand- ing over a brief case full of, - ; documents to a Soviet agent in St. Marting Lane,. London. These papers were ‘photo- graphed. and. returned to. Mac- Lean, ‘Story of Flight . aus “gad Then, warned, MacLean ‘and. ‘Burgess fled. Using a false’ ‘Mame, Burgess rented a drive-'~ yourself auto and called at Mace | .. Lean's luxurious home for his, ‘solleagué. Not éven members .. ‘of their families ere told they, n -were leaving, “8 “% ' They abandon a the suto on. ee :a Southarnpton flock and-took “a cross-channe ship “to Sti: ; | Mals,. France, All they carried ~~. with them—two small suiteases: ” —they left on the - steamer, 7 the Falaise. ‘s " Once in France, ‘they’ gave: fn the railroad station a wide’ — berth, fearing it would: be; = watched by British agents. Efi. * Was. Instead, they hired a taxt to take them to Rennes. They! paid off the driver and evident- ly caught an express to Paris, In Paris the trail went cold. It was assumed they reported the Soviet Embassy there: a be flown secretly to Russia! Viadimir Petroy, a Russian! spy who went over to the West’ in Australia, sald a talkative! Soviet agent ‘indicated. to him! that they flew by Czech or. Russian plane to Prague, then, to Moscow, ~ .* Petrov. also said they ‘we e xuricusly “housed in: the. ussian capital, where their. rains were carefully pick r every. secret they mig gatlat