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° "Phereswre also details inthe story | _, which, have & special bearing on ecur- : a, ; rent” “arguments * “in ' Ameria QVver “dredging up old left-wing® connec: , , Hons” and ‘guilt by association.’'* " ’ Petrov, who is in a position to know, : reports that Burgess and Maclean: : ¢. both ° were “members of left-wing |; : Groupe at Cambridge university. Geoffrey Hoare, in his book, ‘‘The 4 i * Missing’ -MacLeans,"’ reports «that # -MacLean made no secret of his di ‘bust’ with “‘the epinelessness of th estern democracies’? and that a ites roe aor te ma +) +. wpe op Ae tpn ae eos . dchtarnln dy ate. ‘one ‘point he ‘considered g giving up iis | nned career, to go. to work i in. Rup: [aia Mary ty a ab - A routine ‘security. check, ‘sueh” ‘as - +. is conducted -in ‘this’ country, would , have revealed this facet of MacLean’s ‘life. Whether the British government ° - made this check or accepted the idea that college associations of the young - af *, diplomat: were not. important, never” * + has been: ‘explained. yee “Te fallaws ' fat "tf ¢ha gag ernanent: Oh AWAITS Fide A ULI BUY Aa vie - had looked into MacLean’s. past and : become a bit suspicious’ of: his- ide... a ological leanings, - great * ‘masses of! ; ‘American and British secrets ‘might Le not. have been, shipped to Russia. Fy me ee ete ; " Another intriguing angle ‘of ., the mystery of the missing diplo- «; “ mate involves Mrs, MacLean, who” i ro disappeared behind the iron“ cur-*: 3 2s tain to. join ‘her, busband in Sep-.0 "tember of 1953,""",'" 7 Ee : So The British: government ‘seem-.2 ~ ingly accepted at© face’ value Uj Mente what Petrov calls Mrs, MacLean f. e: - Ne 4 ‘s