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we Hie disappearance { « a. eh A Ne ee ee Cd ial € GY’. BURGESS AND DONALD MAC « LEAN, TWO FOREIGN OFFICE DIPLOMATS, DISAPPEARED ON MAY * 25, 1951. THEY WERE FOUND TO HAVE CROSSED INTO FRANCE, AND THERE THE TRAIL ENDED. There have been several indications that they have gone behind the fron Curtain. and this ,was strengthened og when the wife of Maclean vanishe. from ii i Geneva with her three? ‘ children in September - fast year. The only news of Bur- ‘ gess since has been a ‘ ~ letter to his mother, who ; lives in London, ft was posted in London on Deo ale a ‘ cember 21 fasr year, . Duncan Webb. ‘ | Handed over at | sea’ ‘by his ‘guard’ we ; By Duncan Webb’ . a FEW days ago I was in a motor launch in the middle of the Adriatic Sea off Venice. At the point of my revolver a man, who could speak no English, handed over to me a message that I was told had come from Guy Burgess, the ‘missing British diplomat. It was a message that meant nothing to me as if was in a form of code. | But 3 ; a a when I got back to London I jwas able to phss it on fo a Former close frie of urgess with results I ean only describe as sensati Malk. .e “J do not see how this message can have been fakefi,” . is friend told me. “It makes an allusion to a Hterary project about which he and I knew and very few athqrs tould possibly have known.” IN THIS MESSAGE,. BURGESS EXPRESSED - “GRAVE FEARS FOR HIS LIFE. 7 Faced with his friend’s assurance that the message must almost certainly have come from Guy Burgess « himself, it is not for me to cast any doubts upon it or to suggest that the expedition I was led to make to get it 8 fraudulent. . Demands made for money For I went under a promise that I would be able to meet ' Burgess, who, I was told, was-about to leave one of the : usslan satellite countries, and who wanted to sell his ory for money. XI did not see Burgess; I got no further than 4 tall blogd | i an,.who was offered to me agone of his guards. At tHis . point, demands were mads on nile for money, and as I coujd ; pot produce it, I had to yse tre. threat of -4 loadgd » (/F ——eA—a— evalver ‘to withdraw from 4 owt he deal. * spat © geri 5 ey tos Pome i os of, ae FO EI ah en Ree gts Se cde OR ates waa gntes a e “ee war ae a