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Cambridge Five Spy Ring — Part 8
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WIFE; “FAMIL
OF ‘MISSING’
N VANISH
el m TIVE
Be PA
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; * GENEVA, Bept. 15 ONLY. Newsi!
" —Mue. MelindatacLean, Ameri-
can’ wile of a British diplomat,
who mysteriously disappeared
two years ago—possibly behind:
the iron curiain—vanishead Tact
day with her three children and,
police fear they may, have been!
kidnaped. * Dat m eo?
. Their disappearance was’ re:
eee
©
i
RSE MELINDA. MacLEAN!
* ported by. the’ frantic “mother of
MM . MacLean, Mrs. Mellin’ G.
rder “ate efege Set
rain and busiftermins aye
pheen alerted for the: Macleans:
{the mother and her sons, Fergus, |
; ®, and Donaid, 7, and daughter,
. Melinda, 2.. Melinda’ waa born
three weeks after her father, Don:
; ald MacLean, 38, head of. the
‘ american’ department” of the
: Rritiah forelen office, vanished
from the free world with another
* British diplomat on May 25, 1954-
Gt Kidmaping Feared “71
The diss ppearance of MacLean,
-*and Guy Burgess, 40, « specialist
(in Par Eastern” affairs, presented
* Scotland Yard with “one “of ite,
i greatest ‘maysteries, The’ British
government says to this day it
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80 SS
Ladd
Nich
ig
Belmont
Clegg
Glavin
Harbo
Rosea
ET an ee
al ay
Geary
Mohr
Vinterrowd —
+ doesn’t “know, where _ the." pair} °
4
, went, or ‘why, Wee Fo Sa
‘ Mra.-Dunbar, on the verge of
" hysteria after “ awaiting | word
from her daughter all day, called
“fm police and said, “They must
! iy
‘ Rave been kidnaped
i She said she “went for a walk |
in the morning and, upon re!
‘ turning’ found the house empty.
. Bhe ‘called “everybody we. know"
: : Without result,” : .
At the time of the’ disappear-
mance of MacLedn and Burgess,
-15,000 police and secret agents.
; * worked on the case. They traced
. the pair as far'as France, and ©
there the trial ended.
Most British papers specylated | j
‘ that they fled behind the iron
- Curtain, Both, and especially:
_ Burgess, were known to, associate |
with Communists | and other
; leftists. Burgess had been re- i.
Sealled from Washington. only ‘a
‘ month before they vanished. ~.
fa ’ Hoped for Return * Mae
A State department spokesman |
said at the time the two vanished ,
‘ that MacLean was a member of |
’ the committee) which’ controled
| wartime exchanges between the
; United States and its Allies ; in’
j developing the atomic bomb. a
ro But Mrs? MacLean, then: ex:
i
id
4
4
+
aged ?
i pecting her third child, felt ‘OCT ns
tain to the, end that her husband j
: would” reappear, < It: was only 4
‘monthe after Melinda was born’
f that, “pope started to wane.” :
Y It never faded, however. ‘she.
' moved to France, in the Beau-"
' yallon region where her husband
phad been reported sighted. Tien, ;
when-hesamoney ran- out, she
‘ stayed. -priefly in Pars)
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