https://declassified.library.utoronto.ca/files/original/7cb3e84aa9016f63dd5a44ef5317b237.pdf 406cfd29b3037def0622c49491b5ea8c PDF Text Text Only now is their dramatic testimony disclosed-for exclusive publication in Britain through " The People." • In the most fantastic spy document ever compiled Vladimir Petrov toda:, reveals thatBargess and Maclean WP.re recruited as spies 20 YEARS AGO; They supplied Moscow with secret documents of the Bi-itish Foreign Office ON A SCALE HITHERTO UNSUSPECTED; When British Intelligence agents began to investigate t h e i r activities 'Bothjoined usas theywere stillstudents' spredS''.Wfiif'''J;"/"'m"U"" explode is the fiction that Burgess and Maclean only crossed the Iron Curtain because they were disillusioned with life in " capitalist " Britain and yearned for the Russian Utopia. In fact, the reason for their fiight was simple and urgentthey discovered that they were under investigation by the British security services. And they pleaded for asylum. - THE DATE WAS SEPTEMBER 17, 1953. INTO MY OFFICE AT CANBERRA BURST SECRET THEY BEGGED FOR AGENT KISLYTSIN, ONE OF THE BEST REFUGE IN MOSCOW. OPERATORS IN THE AUSTRALIAN BRANCH OF THE MVD, OF WHICH I WAS CHIEF. "It's come off at last, just as we planned it," he shouted, waving a newspaper. Ardent Reds He showed me the huge front page headlines. They reported the disappearance from Switzerland of Mrs. Melinda Maclean and her three children. She had gone, so the newspaper guessed, to join her husband, Donald Maclean, behind the Iron Curtain. No wonder Klslytsln was exultant. This was the final coup in the most daring spy operation ln history-the spiriting away of two highranking officials of the British Foreign Office, Donald Maclean and Guy Burgess. Leading part It was a triumph for the en- tire world-wide spy network run from the Kremlin. Dozens of the most cunning agents of the secret service had taken part ln it. And Kislytsin himself had played a leading role in it when he was an MVD officer in London and later in Moscow. It was through him. Indeed, that l was able to discover the truth about a mystery that has kept the world guessing for four years. Even though I was head or an Important MVD branch and held the high rank of'11eutenant• colonel in the service, I should never have been let into t.he Burgess and Maclean secrets. As m other secret services. no one group of the MVD 1s allowed to know anything beyond its own special sphere of duty. So I had no right to question Kis• lytsin about his work tn the Burgess and Maclean affair. But nu sooner did he hear that Mrs. Maclean had disappeared than he sought to u;et in touch with the MVD men in Moscow with whom he had planned her secret journey By VLADIMIR PETROV I , before he joined me in Australia. And to secure permission to send coded cables to Moscow he had to explain to me, his chief, all about his work m the missing diplomats operation. I gave him permission. My wife Evdokia was our cypher clerk. She coded the cabled messages he sent and the replies he received. As a result I learned almost every startling detail of the Burgess and Maclean story, From the secret cabled messages and from Kislytsin himself I was able to build up an astonishing picture of the gigantic coup. And now 1 can lay before the world the full solution to the mystery of the missing diplomats. f'1rst or all, let me destroy some of the myths that have gathered round this case. It ts not yet fully """epted, outside the Iron Curtain, that Burgess and Maclean were traitors to their (,OUntry and gavp secret information to Moscow passed over to Russia any secrets of first-class importance. In fact, both tnese men were long-term Soviet agents. They were recruited for intelligence iwrk while they were still students at Cambridge 20 years ago. And the final myth that The story or the missing diplomats begins at Cambridge University, where these two young men, quite independently. became· interested in left wing politics. Their interest was noted by the British branch of the Soviet spy organisation working from the Russian embassy as " diplomats "-as we did in Australia. Before very long both men were heart and soul on the Communist side in the worldwide battle of ideas. Skilful work by British contacts, acting for our spy network in London, soon convinced them that it was their duty to Continued on Page 5 r can ~=!!!!!!!========================~ Soviet spies I can now disclose that beyond all doubt these t1Go men regular/" supplied the r ·emlin with all the information they could lay their hands on as trusted servants of the Foreiqn Of!ice. Certain public men !n Britain have consoled themselves with the idea that the two diplomats were Soviet spies for only a short time and could not have New Oxydol washes whiter thanBleach! Yes I New Oxydol has an entirely new Oxygen formula, wi1hfar greater whitening powers than bleach itself I So New Oxydol now boils whites whiter than fOU can bleach them I Try it! OXYDOL'S • NEW OXYGEN FORMULA AI.L THE DIFFERENCE MAKES • Dl>UT QV.l.LITT l'SODVO'I 000136 � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource CDMB Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Extract from CDMB00030 Both Joined Us When They Were Students Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1954 Subject The topic of the resource MacLean/Burgess Description An account of the resource A-2023-02971 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Canadian Crown Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived LAC RG25/R219 2017-0440-5 Box 11 File 7-5-Burg Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Canada Declassified Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Canadian Crown