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et the Pe a“ 7 os “ -_ -F woe Lo tong »y. Toe (Bde wee . woe Loe y ] ors _ Meo . - ; + : . . 7 we Ne oo . Loe Memorandum - UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT 7 . - oh VW. Boa ramen ae — DATE: Feb, 13, 1956 % : gupyecr: DONALD DUART MACLEAN , = . de. . GUY FRANCIS DE KoncrSuRcEsS GGA: bo Aaa Te . ESPIONAGE = B - _ - "Washington Sunday Star” of 2/12/56 contatned tert of ; _ statement issued by subjects at news conference in the National Hotel, Moscow, 2/11/56. Conference attended by representatives of Russian ' sand British press, Subjects merely handed a prepared statement to _ { the press and did not answer questions. The statement alleged subjects went to Soutet Union to contrilute- to the policy aimed at greater - understanding between Russia and the West, having become convinced on ._- the basis of official information at their disposal that neither the British, nor still more, ths Anerican, policy at that time was pursuing - Such ao course, Theynhaa every ‘possibility to know plans of a small but - | powersul group opposed to mutual understanding between the Fast and . Fest. Both subjects admitted being Communtsts at college, although they engaged in ne political activities while serving their government, feeling they could put tnto practice their ideals. ‘they denied ever Fay acting as Soviet agents. Maclean said that after the war it was + 6) 6difficult to find anyone who thought of anything other than the | i | . Communist menace or to understand the senseless danger of Aperican.. policy in the Far East or Europe, Maclean said in May, 1951, hia -... phones were tapped and he was surveilled wherever he went and one of | hts colleagues was sent to him for provocative purposes. A week er , se after Burgess returned to London from Washington, tn early May 1951, he visited Maclean at the Foreign Office. Maclean, being under sur- veiliance, Burgess agreed to make ali plans for their. escape from ..... \jSngiond. Burgess claimed he never made a secret of the fact to his - jfrtends er colleagues that he had been a Com t indicated he had been connected with uI- ak, — ) a ae ; we Epserpa tions: , - yt - _ Observattonss SMe eg bs, ow we 2. Aotua11 ee <I e statement contains ittele new tnfe except” ~ °* that it does remove a11 doubdt as to subjegts! whereabouts.’ ‘They - ‘admitted having been Communists since thet r’xollege days. According te their statement, Maclean bepane aware of the,-investigation of him