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| | | Ya : “Fhe mere enisience of the huge FB] Tiling system has deterred mans from aniacking Hoover's totalitarian empire A sluggish trickle of information about the British Embassy leakage conlinued to reach us Apart from Dwyer, who wes soon to leave, three tacmbers of the Brinsh Embassy staff had access to the material: Geoffrey Paterson, the MIS representative in Washington. myself and Bobby Mac- kenzic. the embassy Security Officer. an old colleague of mine In the FEI. tena, the official concerned were Ladd. Lishman. who was then head of the antiCommunist section and Bob Lamprer. # nice. puddingy Ohio who was responsible for the detailed analysis of the tase on the American side We were still far from identifying the source in the embassy. bur during the winter of 1949-S0 the mel began to close round the Los Alamos source. The choice seemed to he between two scientists of great dis- Unction. Dr. Peierls and Dr. Fuchs. 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Rosenberg on the grounds that. if he did. the Russians ip furure would we only women as spies, Ir was an ath tude worthy of the most pedestrian of United States presidents In the summer of 1950 I received a fener from Guy Burgess. “J have a thock for you~ he began “I have just been posted to Washingion.” Hy suggested that | should put him up bo afew days until he found » flat fos bimsel, This posed & problem In nermal circumstances, it would havc been quite wrong for two secret op. eratives to occupy the same premise: But the circumstances were not nor- mal. From the earhest days. ou careers had intertwined) He had collected money for me at Cambridge after the revolt of the Austrian Schuerzbund in February 1934) ] had put forward his name as a possibi Ttecruit for the Soviet service. a deb: which he iater repaid by smoothing My €hity into the British secret sers- ice, In between. he had acted as courier for me in Spain. In 1940 we had worked ciosely together in 51% and te had paid me a professional vise in Turkes an 1948 Our associa fon was therefore well known. and mwas alread, certam that any s€rious investigation of ¢ither of us would reveal these past links. {: seemed tha: there could be no real professiony! objection 10 him maying with me The search for “Homer” Burgess’s arrival raised an issue that I] could not decide by myself Should he or should he mot be let into the secret of the British Embasss source which was still under investigation? The decision to initiate him was taken afieT 1 had made two ione motor trips) to points oultide Washingion | was; told (hy Sowet agents) that the bal.* ance of opinion was that Cruy’s special knowledge of the problem might he heipiul IT therefore took Gus full into our confidence. brefing him in the greatest detail, and the subecr remained under constant discussion between us My difficulty was that } had only seen Donald Macican (the “Weak” | twice. and briefly, in Jd years T had to idea where be lived. how he tived. or indeed anvthing at all about his circumsiances. Bur it 5 now ume to turn fo the case. to explain how it flood. and the problems ut involved The developmeni of ihe afiair was giving me deep anxiety. Hi was hesct by mmponderables. the assessment of which could be little betler than guess- work. We had received some deren reports referring to the source, whe appeared in the documents under the eode name Homer. bul little progres. had been made toward idenufving him The FBI was stilt sending us reams about the etnhassy charladies. and the inquiry rio our menial personnel was spinning itself out end- Jessly. To me. this remains the mog inexplicable feature of the whale continued an page we 7