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—— i et ne ed , ices ee a wes 1) tle, vated corimunists when they were fellow students at Cam- ‘bridge University, Burgess and Maclean were homosexuals ~~” Philby was a Burgess protege. All aid heavy drinkers. three came from distinguished families. KEY POSTS ~ Altho it was later disclosed that all three often voiced © strong anti-American and pro-conimunist views, they rose fast in the British foreign service and occupied key posts in U.S.-British relations during the Korcan War. Donald Duart Maclean, who served in the British Embassy here from 1944 until 1948, Leaded the American section of the British foreign office from October, 1950, until he secretly fled to Moscow on May 25, 1951. Guy Francis de Moncy Burgess was Second Sccretary of the British Embassy from August, 1950, until May, 1951, when he hurried!y 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- ion from October, 1949, until June 1, 1951, when he was recalled to Lendon and dismissed. He later went to the Middle East as a journalist and fled to Moscow in Jan- uary, 1563. AT LONG LAST Oniy after Philby defected last year, did the British Gov- ermment finally admit he was he “third man’* who had warned Burgess and Maclean that British and U. S, intelli: gence agencies were about lo expose their spy activities. The Saturday Evening Post, in a recent article on t! ease, reported that Philby received an FBI report that Maclean and Burgess were being investigated as communist agents and called in his friead Burgess to tip him off. Lurgess, according to this report, immediately fled to Kugload, where he warned Maclean. They then arranged wiih Soviet Intelligence to spirit them out of England and behind the loa Curtain. A labor member of Poruament charged in 1935 that Philby wes ihe “third man" in tl:e case, but Harold Macmillan, then Foreign Secretary, vigorously denied it, insisting the British Government had no evidence he had warned Burgess and Maclean : - _ Later, British officials said Philby had been “cleared” and aes ees te a ; HAROLD PHILEY wea a er i DONALD MACLEAN GUY BURGESS permitted to go to the Middle East in hopes he would lead them to other Soviet spies. U.S, TREAT The Saturday Evening Post article, however, charged . that the Foreign Office had fired Philby in 1951 only because ihe FBI and Central Intelligence Agency had threatened otherwise to break eff all Intelligence liaison between the two governments, A British “white paper” on the Burgess-Maclean case made public in 1955 sought to minimize both the significance of their defection and their access to military and diple- matic secrets during the"Korean War. Scripps-Howard reporter R. H. Shackford wrote at tre time, Lowever, that the admission they were Soviet so. » “revived the strong presumption that both men not oniy bet-ayed their own country but also the United States.” “At various critical times at the end of the war and aficrvards, beth men had access to top British-America: secrets, including atomic information and Korean War mii. tary decisions,” Mr. Shige reported, DS ee er a ee ee ed ee | See ee ae are ee el Sm a ie Serta ets s We OO ew ee ‘ athe, net es -, wath phn 9 fete” Coe eee Ma