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: Sir Pere ’ MLS, afternoon with J. Edgar. An ‘TSILLITOE x for. discussion : missing diplomats, . Maclean and Guy Burgess. “. “Their disappearance a fortnight | : id L¥e]. & ALKS TO ron, Monday.-— Sillitoe, ead of gan talks this oover,’ chief of. th ederal-Bureau.o vegiigation.” .. among the topics dow the two Donald - ago provoked the State Depari- ment to Sugeest to the Foreign - Office tha America’s strict standards . security screening..'.. ” Although Sir Percy's visit was it should adopt. planned weeks ago, he will now ge t Mr. Hoover's ideas on how ‘” this could be done as quickly as * possible, ¢.2 FG Sir Percy, on his way, stayed three * hours at New , York ' ational Alrport.- 3~ -Inter- A burly 6ft. 3ins. G-man, one of - two agents sent rivacy. ordered eggs and bacon ‘or Sir Percy's party of four. I . And, towering above the tall Sir® to _ secure | Perey, he told the waiter the? ofder was secret—a little Pa 4 om i t i and-dagger comedy.” cloak: « inary - tourists must - fi rough the Immigration Se ce. r Percy took He oeer. K: officia : runk calls to Washing BY LETTER JUN 22 1976 ey, i t : . of blooms PER FOIA Re. JéST es _ ' ddle of the telegram that Guy A “Kidnap ‘theory | . Le in Rome ay onaid | Seaman? cables. “other side of the Iron Curtain,: belleves tonight that the missing diplomats are still ‘in| Wester: Europe. ’ . Pag ae But observers here add that one or both may have been kid-- Napped on their way to Paris. It is reasoned that Burgess could have been persuaded to keep an. Appointment in Paris on May 26: that Maclean, a sick man. ( convalescing from @ nervous: breakdown, could have agreed to:}. ~ travel with him. ” _ 4nd that one or both became un--J. ‘' easy ab what they found. in’ Paris, tried to get out—and kid-: napping followed. See Plump, cautious Mr. John. Pilcher,is - spokesman for the British Em-4 . bassy in Rome, said tonight 7: “We do not think the two men“ “ have been taken to Russia, : It is 14 days since they were'. \ reported missing. We knew soon: enough where Pontecorvo had one, ;And he joined © the uasiang through Rome.” 227°. Po i {| © Riddle of the. --: telegram: v5": one here has yet solved the’ z # Burgess is reported to have sent ' to Kis mother from.Rome three; “days ago.: SUR gy There are only two” offices in’ Rome from which the wire could ¢ - ave been sent.’ One is the.4 | private-enterprise Italeo.* ~ «4 Dr. ‘Giorgio Rubino, head of the ‘ office, said bluntly this evening :; : “No cable from a. man called urgess has gone. through this office to England in /the - past 1 gee 1 Soe “et e State Telegraph Office, the other. ible outlet . for’ the! e, ae & would not con~ | firm that they had handled it. -% _In_ London, Lieut.-Colonel' J, RB, Bassett, Guy Burgess’s step- father, said at Arlington House,’ 5.W.: “There is no question but . that the telegram from, Guy’ i was drafted by'him-- -* = ." My stepson suffered very badly’ from sinus trouble, and had can-! cussion (before he went - America." His black-outs wele; every bad. vee : io ple talked @ lot about a Meditdr.: | [ranean cruise, and the ‘tel : said he was taking: a” M rr, oe " . * +, ‘sh