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Se le cee F 2 Defpctors - " DealfWor d.: dé 4 ‘Of Newsman | , A ‘ Reuters - : MOSCOW, July — Guy. Burgess and Donal® MacLear former British-tiplémats who defected to Russia in 1951; said in separate interviews to-, night they did not know any thing about an English news- man who is reported to have followed them behind the Tron, Curtain. * Burgess and MacLean fave: differing replies when asked if H. A. R. “Kim” Philby, who} disappeared from Beirut ear- lier this year, informed them, they were in danger in 1951. | Burgess denied the charge and said Maclean was tipped off when a car carrying “over- eager MI five sleuths” bumped, -into his car in London. | +4 MacLean's only .comment ywas: “I have nothing to say.” ; Burgess ridiculed Foreign’ j Minister Edward Heath's state- Ment in the House of Com- i mons that Philby was the “third man” in the sensational, flight to Moscow by Burgess. gand MacLeane+——.0- Burgess recalled that Philby had told a press - conference that he (Burgess) was “one of my oldest friends, one of those .good friends in bad times as: well as good.” i. Burgess added: yo “Philby was that sort of 4 ehap. I would have thought’ 4 he would have got in touch * with me but he has not.” . When asked about the re- port that Philby was a Com- munist and ai Sevict spy, ’ Burgess paused for a moment,‘ then said: “To my certain: knowledge Kim was never a’ member of the Communist! Party at Cambridge. He joined the secret Tvice as an , assistant of Imgne.” | Asked if knew that! ry \ theme gave formation to: Rurgace ranlied! tha “Rueciang, Burgess replied: i sbarply_ “NO oe eee ees et A wid Ve ae Ah o™ yer woe gh © she : Ve at Qe si 1% cai Ye (00- lmont __V_ ohr Casper Call Conrad DeLoach ee, ee Gale ——— Rosen. souk Trotter Tele Room Holmes — WW Gandy The Washington Post and AS Times Herald The Washington Daily News The Evening Star rr New York Herald Tribune New York Journal-American New York Mirror New York Daily News New York Post The New Yotk Times The Worker The New Leader , The Wall Street Journal “The National Observer Date QW yt Ae NOT SCORDED 7 191 gut 8 1963 a i Ca f > wine § -670@: o 5, ORIGINAL FIL