Guy Burgess - in The Memories of His Contemporaries

In The Memories of His Contemporaries

Harold Acton, in More Memoirs of an Aesthete, recalls meeting him at the beginning of World War II: "The most vindictive of these guys was Guy Burgess, later to win notoriety as one of the "Missing Diplomats", though nobody could have been less diplomatic. Brian confided me that his equipment was gargantuan - <>, which might account for his success in certain ambiguous quarters".

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