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Defector Burgess Died Broken and Isolated in Moscow
A former British diplomat Guy Burgess died at 53 in a Moscow hospital. Once partnered with Donald Maclean in the 1951 defection that shocked Britain and the United States, Burgess spent years in poverty and degradation. He was described as toothless, overweight, and alcohol dependent, living in a sparse Moscow apartment with little contact to the West.
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Stanley Johnson
Associated Press
Moscow
Guy Burgess
Donald Maclean
London
Washington
NEW York
Guy Buress
Britain
United States
Burgess
Red Army