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BME ee C oO Belmont —____ i “ Mohr Casper Callahan Conrad DeLoach a . — ; : ; VOns ti Ve , | E ‘ Gale 4 ; ; ; _ Rosen ’ Sulliv ———___ : . , Tavel Trotter — = ‘Tele. Room Holmes Gandy UPI-200 -_ (BURGESS) { . MOSCGy--BRITISH DEFECTOR GUY BURCESS DENIED TONIGHT THAT NEWSMEN | HAROL OF THE LONDON SUNDAY OBSERVER WAS A "THIRD MAN® . HO-TIPPED OFF HIM AND DONALD MACLEAN THAT BRITISH AUTHORITIES WERE ON THEIR TRAIL, yp BOTH BURGESS AND MACLEAN CAUSED A SENSATION IN THE 1950°s — WHEN THEY DISAPPEARED FROM THEIR FOREIGN OFFICE JOBS AND DEFECTED TO MOSCOW, “THERE IS NO THIRD MAN AND THERE NEVER WAS A THIRD MAN,® BURGESS TOLD UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL IN A TELEPHONE INTERVIEW, HE SAID HE PREVIOUSLY REFUSED 11 TELEPHONE CALLS FROM BRITISH AND TWO FROM AMERICAN REPORTERS FOLLOWING A STATEMENT BY LORD PRIVY SEAL EDWARD HEATH IN THE HOUSE OF COMMONS IN LONDON THAT PHILBY MAY HAVE SLIPPED BEHIND THE IRON CURTAIN. *I HAVEN'T THE SLIGHTEST IDEA WHERE PHILBY IS NOW. 1 CAN°T BELIEVE THAT HE IS IN MOSCOW OR IN PRAGUE OR HE WOULD HAVE TELEPHONED ME," BURGESS SAID. “I SIMPLY bO NOT KNOW WHAT HEATH IS UP TO. I AM BAFFLED. COMMENTING ON AN ARTICLE IN THE GOVERNMENT NEWSPAPER IZVESTIA WHICH CLAIMED THAT PHILBY HAD GONE OVER TO THE IMAM OF YEMEN, BURGESS ADDED: I KNEW HIM AND His FATHER FOR MANY YEARS AND THEY HATED THE RULING CLASS IN YEMEN, JI CAN'T BELIEVE HE WOULD HAVE GONE OVER TO HIM,® : MACLEAN REFUSED TO COMMENT. HE WAS APPROACHED BY A WESTERN NEWSMAN IN A MOSCOW COURTYARD, 7/1-~-N851PED , pen ro Eye | ee 4 | NOT RECORDED { : Ls~ € Lod3 — (91 Jue 5 1963 4 ryt c : +) & Jun 8 1363 WASHINGTON CAPITAL NEWS SERVICE ; ; | G| sane ae HSN BOLE IS at ait oN ge MO peta Ene te a i ae aS Pesos 8 Maat cate 8 AS eel oi AE see ae