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Died. Guy Francis de Money Burgess, 52, Eton-produced British diplomat who, with his colleague Donald Maclean, was found to be a top Soviet spy after their sensational 1951 flight to Russia; of heart disease; in Moscow. A slovenly, hard-drinking homosexual, less effective at undercover work than the fastidious Maclean, Burgess turned left at Cambridge, passed official secrets while in the foreign service both from London and Washington. He split with Maclean in exile, avoided Russians and defiantly sported his old school tie, but it was left to Maclean to eulogize him, as a band blared the Internationale...
...Russian government mouthpiece, Izvestia, announced last week that British Journalist and longtime Foreign Office Staffer H.A.R. ("Kim") Philby, 51, the famed Third Man in the Burgess-Maclean spy case, had turned up in Moscow, where he will probably spend the rest of his wretched life. Philby vanished last January from Beirut, where he had been a correspondent for London's Economist and Observer. Presumably he had been sent to the Middle East as a British agent, but had actually been a double agent for the Russians as well...
...nounced Day's resignation. He had experienced his share of frustrations in sharp-elbowed Washington, but the only reason he was leaving, he said, was that "an unusual opportunity" had knocked. He will leave the New Frontier next week to set up a Washington office for Sidley, Austin, Burgess & Smith, the Chicago law firm in which he began a legal career 25 years...
...Anatoly Dolnytsin, a former senior Russian intelligence officer who defected to the West 18 months ago, and had spent the intervening time being thoroughly pumped by U.S. and British agents. One reported result: the revelation that British Newsman H.A.R. Philby was indeed the "third man" who enabled Spies Burgess and Maclean to escape arrest and flee to Russia in 1951. Last winter Philby, too, slipped behind the Iron Curtain just ahead of pursuing MI-5 agents. Although the government had made quite a show of asking the British press not to print the story, the authorities had in fact leaked...
...Seal Edward Heath revealed that Philby had surfaced "in one of the countries of the Soviet bloc." New information had come to light, said Heath, that revealed that Philby had been a Soviet agent while working for the government and in fact had been the tipster who had warned Burgess and Maclean...