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ot ae STE ere oe IIE ORE TN es ac Tag ry yee moscow. Saturday.” [Ross and Maclean,’ the run-| « British di lomats, have a. ray aaaalee P all-smiles_ 7, we / my tha mew - wae wWeeen saw | a nang im ine oe re ce approach. to. Britain which is. official ” | Russian’ policy at the moment...” Coot ‘I am convinced of this after lengthy G ) 'L a, "inquiries during my stay in Moscow: ' , - : I had not been 48 hours in. the Soviet 4 Of : : eapital before the first clue came into my’: { 1 | _, Possession. Iam staying in Room 123 in the National Hotel. | ; Room 101 in the same hotel is the place where : i : | Burgess and Maclean were suddenly produced and - . f handed a statement to Mr, Richard Hughes of The ~ x ; | | ! | : { | q YS +e eee “4 . M: iy nday Times. , and | A Reuter’s Moscow corres, a ndent. Y JEP N yo ay ‘T WROTE TO MACLEAN yy “two days after I arrived I received a phone on which were completed in 1951, the year when Buf- : | U _ gess and Maciean disappeared from Britain. 7] . i ‘ i} ! | T I was taken to the top floor. | an qd shown into a smalil reom, 7. ! | | iT { “message from the Foreign Office asking me to call at the Press Department that afternoon, ‘ ’ I Hrove to-the new Foreign Office buildings,. wherein sat a man of about 40° years of age and a much younger man who was there to act as! interpreter. After a few polite+ phrases, the elder of the two “What4 your: iven « asked me point blank: H ty ig — 4 abe i? the ‘reaction in - ~“ to -the: statement ad " Wor pe Fi 191 Mis, 4 reer -__ ee ee i | was untry t here by Mr. Burgess & Mr} aclean ?*./. I replied that. ‘the "\mapr Jon | | pade was a very bad one, use] ; confusion had become wouly ore 4 aad ah oe artiish ‘ ct, and (te ni | | RE: MacLEANCASE - . (puttle 100-37H183) ° * ¢an - EMPIRE NEWS ‘SUNDAY, APRIL 29, 1956 = Joxto, Exctann ~—6©mBO MAY 1 6 1956 - > peeieD COPY SENT ce roe! ‘BY LETTER ‘JUN 22. 1976 a Pie eae nee A AOS aRaLT daitpnenmere — ; meg Ban OR 5 Sg. PRE Hp trae amr 7 A OR ON tren RS Ha 1.0 EEE IE ME PORN. oul 2 ones : a roe Ae i toad os . caeneverey