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“, This Yast point “was, in phy! ieW, the , most powerful J r now a’ good deal about The . oreign Office bureaucrats. They will do almost any 4 to avoid a formal board of {nquiry, which ‘takes up every-' body's time, often invqlves bringing witnesses from long distances and produces endless Paper wrangles - Certainiy the threat of a! board of inquiry worked this time. * - : an OF GUY - BURGESS... THE RUSSIAN SPY, WAS se GIVEN A “REPRIMAND.” Now it possible to find ex- cuses for the Foreign Office men who let Burgess off so lightly. They did not know, after all that he was a Soviet agent. But they, or the Security officers who adrise them, should have known. They had every Treason to know, ° For I must now inform the! - public of some breath - taking! facts that no spokesman of the! British Government has dared - to disclose, Burgess was on intimdte: rms with a number of a 7 | For the central Mp monsters that sprang oPsi¢sricr eee --ffom,a monster's braitt rnd srese fu oe neat Bhen Burgess “doo the nightmare fantasies -o, his monsirous life came to the surface. This is the re-_ pulsive drawing he made of a double- bodied monsier while he listened to speeches at a Foreign Ministers’ con ference. WAS HE DRAW- ING HIS OWN SECRET: ‘ . SOUL? . + ° re es aa TEE Fatt = CT Se RT peyote ene oe \ gah al his Red frets —“¥ at an agent jared that Com-,. ‘Tmunistn was a reactionary’ Guy seemed to be hintin -roovement, that the real that, at heart—and in spite | + progressives were on the his open Nazi sympathies—hi — — { ‘extreme right and that , Views were still leftl = -... - . - _~/ ao ol : = j ‘his sympathies now lay Before [ee eee ae? oe ee oe © { highest officers of our Secret : ‘with the: German Nazis ling deduction to Guy, he gave } an Treat many ‘of our Teading ,and the Italian Fascista. | me an even greater shock by i Ggents all over the world.” - + = : To me be trotted out m serene, tery slowly and with the | HE CERTAINLY DISCLOSED | confusing set of argu} Uimost gravity: « -- 4 ; TOHIS RUSSIAN MASTERS’ ments to account for his WANT TO TELL ¥OU ; THEIR NAMES. ANDi _astonishing change of| THAT 1 AM A COMINTERN ©: _ SECRET FUNCTIONS. roe ‘front. I did not follow alli] AGENT AND HAVE BEEN = a the cocréts of our ‘of them, but I was at any} EVER SINCE I LEFT CAM- { . He peneie tystem —— wit * trate convinced of his{ BRIDGE" 3.000.000 Bo curit 4 sincerity. . I was stunned, There was a ? - himsey ever ing suspected a :' For on leaving Cam | jong silence. Then I recovered. | ter chiejs who were . bridge he did not’ assocl- | inyseif sufficiently to say: “I ' a pee ey ° ve .ate with bis old [riends of | gon't believe you" - - . to understand | how - he - Bee ee te Het Victor Vetee Gy Dot?” said Guy. © Why 1 achieved all this I must take you right back to the beginning when Guy Burgess was a Com- munist at Cambridge [niver-" first sity, It was there met him in 193%. . I was a Fellow of one of the most famous Oxford colleges. bridge, where he was the most brilliant undergraduate of his time. . - . Loe He was not only brilliant; he had compelling charm. versationalist I had ever come | perfectly frank, I want to avow _ here and now that I was ex- ceedingly fond of this strange and in many ways terrible man “Trip to Russia “i: Bever During our very first talk he - . persuaded me to join him on = ’ holiday to Russia When the ; sammer vacation came round | I found that I was unable to go. Guy made the trip with a Com- munist friend, * It proved to be the decis! a | event m bis life, Tt marked the beginning of his long and | treacherous service in the Boviet cause. yt - ‘feature of that étay in Moscow 24 years | view with Nikolai Bukbaria, ent. ef the most famous leaders of the Communist Guy was on a visit from Cam-. was the most fascinating com . across. . And, since T am going to be ne eet al ile age was & Song, sccret inter - sought out, first Victor ‘else da you think | Rothschild, now Lord “Communist P ‘8 took ‘an ! arty and took an _Rothschild, who hed absurd job with that M.P.? ;been a fellow under- ' “Do you think I reafly be- | graduate, ; Heved all that rigmarole about - - ‘the ‘progressive’ Nazis? -. . Banker! . <1 tncented att that. 1 nad He asked for a job at |f0. The Party told me io dreak lthe famous private bank off all connection with them, to ‘of the Rothschild family. quarrel with all my Communist | And, so Guy told me, he }/‘iends. So i pretended to de- ‘advised the bank on poli-. tical mattersi ~ . His next move took him much further to the | right. He became private, come a Fascist.” « % Te was utterly incredible. But, even supposing it was all true, why was Guy telling his monstrous secret to me? ‘ secretary to & 1 asked him just that. His tive MP. ...... .. .Yeply sent a tremor of dismay By now Thad become -down my spine. : ~ Because I want you to work for me” he said, fos NEXT WEER: How Burgess named a famenus British schokkr a hts fellow Soriet agent is spying work during the wr. How he got a blackmalj hold gn | seme of his highly plactd friends, (ini eee * \ tressed at Guy's swing to q Nazism But during a . ’ conversation that I shall - forget he gave me remark- ! e evidence that the ~ swing ” ; was not all it seemed. «| London flat. I was then wor' _ ing as a journalist on the Can-.: _ servative weekly “The yersation to S"long reviewM had. - 9 °° 7 7 written of a book on '~ Guy praised the review In ex- ‘ travagant terms. I thought it was pretty good, too, but hardly 1 the masterpiece Guy seemed to * : believe tt : _ 1 asked him why he theught - . ‘git so brilliant. He paused for ae :® moment. Then, with a por-# oo -* . fentous ‘pote in his voicg, he ~ os Guy told me very little of what =. ‘oe oo Wes in ripening. at that fateful inter- this convinced Communist . For moment I was mystified. ¢ : ; ' Then I guessed what he meant: t My review had dealt with ray . a. Parts and quarrelled wi “ . nd ote gens a ge - -