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E™eeted—coeamunists ‘when they ‘were fellow students at Cam- ' bridge University, Burgess and Maclean were homosexuals & and heavy drinkers, . Philby was a Burgess protege. All three came irom distinguished families. tit - :* Altho it was later disclésed that all three. often’ ‘voiced: " strong anti-American’ and -pro-communist views, they rose fast in the British foreign service and occupied key posts in - U.S.-British relations during the Korean War. - ._ Donald Duart Maclean, who served in the British Embassy “here from 1944 until 1948, headed the American section of _ the British foreign office from October, 1950, wnttl he secretly re ) | | + bg a fled to Moscow on May 25, 1951, rere ¢ aA oO. af Guy Francis de M moncy Burgess Wad FOUUL Secretary 1 mare ue the | British Embassy from August, 1950, until May, 1951, AY he when he hurriedly returned to England and defected with . Maclean. He died in Moscow on Aug. 30, 1963, - ' Harold A. R. Philby was First Secretary of the British © "Embassy and a top British Intelligence officer in Washing- — ’ ton from October,’ 1949, until June 1, 1951, when he was... recalled to London and dismissed. He later went to the ~ _ Middle East 88.8 dpomnsllst and. fed to Moscow in Jan- _ "AT LONG LAST a Only alter Philby defected last year, did ihe British Gov- ernment finally admit he was he “third man” who had warned Burgess and Maclean that British and U. S. Intell- . . “gence agencies were about to expose their spy activities. The Saturday Evening Post, in a recent article on. the ase, reported that Philby received an FBI report that -. Maclean and Burgess were being investigated as communist . agents and called in his friend Burgess to tip him off. Burgess, according to this report, immediately fled to | England, where he warned Maclean. They then arranged with Soviet Intelligence to spirit them out of England and . behind the Iron Curtain. A labor member of Parliament charged in 1955 that Philby . was the ‘third man” in the case, but Harold Macmillan, then Foreign Secretary, vigorously denied it, insisting the British Gdjernment had no evidence he had warned Burgess. amd Macl Later, British officials said Philby had been “cleared” and DONALD MACLEAN GUY BURGESS permitted to go to the Middle % East in ‘hopes he would lead them to other Soviet spies. St U. S. THREAT The Saturday Evening Fost articie, however, charged that the Foreign Office had fired Philby in 1951 only because * kthe FBI and Central Intelligenca Agency had threatened.’ of . Otherwise to break off all Intelligence liaison between the Paar ’ two governments, - : A British “white “paper” ont the Burgess-Maclean case made public in 1955 sought to minimize both the significance of their defection and their access to military and diplo- matic secrets during the Korean War, : Scripps-Howard reporter R. H, Shackford wrote at the time, however, that the admissian they were Soviet enies “revived the strong presumption that “both men not only betrayed their own country but also the United States.” .- “At various critical times at the end of the war and _ afterwards, both men had access to top British-American "secrets, including atomic information and Korean War mili- tary decisions,” ) Mr. Shackford Teported.. - ey ” 1