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"ting out, and had one or two irons “ in the fire in Fieet. Street. As a result, his work for the Foreign |.” days, Burgess whe regretfully ine’ _ formed that he would have to leave. — Afsoon as the possibility of Bur-. cnet ae manag a EME eee ‘eet "gu lah fel anepe eT. - they were, “should be matched : ‘against the records of diplomats - stationed in Washington between’: .°;* Office had auffered, so much so. that. *_ gess helping in the rescue operation. the relevant dates in 1944-45 of the " 2’. dt looked like a close thing between ” ,: emerged from our discussions, great | known leakages. I received a reply po: _ an jresignation and dismissal. In any | attention was paid to my own posi- ~ . from Vivian,? assuring me that that WPone . ay col case, he was. anxious to get back to. * fon. Despite al] precautions, Bur- aspect of the case had been very .:: oh ’- England. ‘"gess might be seen with’ Maclean, ‘ :much “jn their minds.” But there -*- In somebody's mind—I do not © and enquiry into hia activity might | was no evidence on file that any- <’: -: know whose—the two ideas merged : ¢ lead to doubts about me. There . thing had been done about it, and wt " Burgess’ return to London and the | :seemed very little that could be “the speed, the disconcerting speed, < ‘rescue of Maclean. If Burgess re- ~ done about it, but it occurred to ‘of later developments suggested, ~' \+*. . turned to London from the British me’ that I could help to divert sus-;. that the idea must, have been rela-*:. sho ‘, Embassy in Washington, it seemed" picion by fnaking a positive con-'- « tively new. roa as * ~ | . natural that he should call on the tribution to the solution of the Brit-" .), A match of the Kriviteky mate is - head of the American Department,:: ish Embassy case. Hitherto, I had: “rial with the reports of the Em- *. He would be well placed to set the © “lain low, letting the FBI and MI-5 . bassy leakage yielded a short list: : bal rolling for the rescue operation. do what they could. Now that the , of perhaps six, names which was .. _ It would have been possible for him’. rescue plan was taking shape, there - sent to us by London, with the com-' : . ;:'s, to have resigned in Washington, " was no reason why I should not ment that intensive enquiries were °': * and returned to London without give the investigation a nudge in in progress, The list included the — : 7 fuss. But it might have looked a . the right direction, = - : hames of Roger Makins, Paul Gore- |}: _ > bit odd if he had gone back volun- ‘To that'end, I wrote a memoran-.. Booth, Michael Wright and Donald. * ~ + farily shortly before the disappear- dum to Head Office, suggesting that Maclean. (It may be objected that cat ° . ance of Maclean. Matters bad. to be _we might be wasting our time in . Maclean was not at either Eton or: | “y+@o arranged that he was sent back, exhaustive investigations of. the Oxford. He was not. But MI-6 did |: 7 1 willy-nilly. It was the sort of project Embassy’ menials. I recalled the ' not attach too much weight to that 555 _. . dn which Burgess delighted, and he statements of Krivitsky to the best." detail, on the ground that foreign-".. * es _- brought it off in the simplest pos- “ of my ability from memory. He had " ‘ers often assume that sil well-bern |. ' - aible way. Three times in one day,’ said that the head of the Soviet young Englishmen must go to Eton oe ~ che was booked for speeding in the - “intelligence ‘for Western Europe “and Oxford.) The ‘list. provided ~~ me state of Virginia, and the Governor '~ had recruited in the middle thirties ° Bobby Mackenzie with one of his ' | Feacted just as we had hoped. He a syoung man who had gone into ~ ‘finest hours. He offered me short \ywent a furlous protest to the State the Foreign Office. He was of good ‘odds on Gore-Booth.. Why? He had. - ‘Department against this’ flagrant | family, and had been educated at - been educated at Eton and Oxford;' - ’ "abuse of diplomatic privilege, which -| Eton and Oxford. He was an ideal- ‘he had ‘entered. the Foreign Office ' was then brought to the attention ist, working without. payment. I > Se Dlectenant: Colonel Valentine Vivian, .-- >. of the Ambassador. Within a few |. ‘Ssuacented that. ‘these, data, such = -p Devaty Cuiat, of the Beeret Bervice—Eds. = ee