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Cambridge Five Spy Ring — Part 8
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| LONDON (Thursday), Aug.
30 {.P). —British. intelligence
officers | have_ found t the two
missing British Riplomats,
Guy Burgess and Donal
MacLean, after a three
months’ search of western
Europe, the London Daily
Herald reported today.
The newspaper, organ of the
Labor Party, said intelligence
agents the Foreign
Office yesterday they had traced |
the movements of the two men
since they walked off a channel .
steamer at a French port, May:
25, and vanished. |
The newspaper said Mrs. Mac-
‘Lean, now on the French
Riviera, had received a message
from her husband, but it gav
no further details. Mrs. mal
-Lean’s housekeeper, Sylvia ze
field, said at their country hom
ifhat she knew nothing of such
communication.
ard Is Noncommittal
Scotland Yard said —itcoule
neither confirm nor deny the
report. One. = yard_official said:
“This is not our province. It is
purely a foreign office affaix”
No_othber J.andon_mornigg
newspaper carried the story.
The two diplomats walked
down the gangplank of the chan-
nel steamer Falaise at St. Malo,
France, and vanished.
Their disappearance brought
down a storm around the head
of the Foreign Secretary in the
House of Commons and sent
‘,
S
infarmasa
BbO7 is
Washington to talk with J. Edgar
Hoover.
| a A LL
sion it was another case of
‘defection to Communism and
that the two men had fled be-|
‘hind the Iron Curtain. But there
was no concrete evidence.
No Bodies Turned Up
Another theory was that one
vacation.
British Paper
Britain’s Chief of Intelligence to].
Many jumped to the conclu-
‘DO clues to their disappearance.
The case was revived last week:
when Chicago-born Mrs. Mac-'
Lean went to the Riviera for al
Sept
~ or both of the men might be
dead, but no bodies turned up. —
oO : A third theory was the me
Co * [had thrown over their career]
a pe the result of a “bender.
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achelor. had been recalled fro
ashington because of a series!
of scrapes over fast driving.
MacLean, 38, was worried over
the expected birth of a third;
child. . .
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