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Comment TUESDAY, DEC, 29, 1953. BURGESS: A SUGGESTION UY BURGESS, one of | the “rmlssing diple- mats," writes to his mother for Christmas. So the whole intriguing, _ never ~ ending mystery bolls up again. Wild stories and hafr-raising theories are circulated. One Ameri¢an newspaper even inks Macteas and Buacess with the missing ectentist Povrecorva, and then with the explosion of the Russian H-bomb. Bech sensational theorising does not sweeten Anglo American relations, nér help British préstigé.” If fruitless . speculation can be ended by authentic news, now ia the time to issue it. The trouble js that nobody texcept, perhaps, @ limited official circle) ‘knows any-° thing whatever about the motives or the whereabouts of the two missing men. Bince that day in. May 1951 when they were last seen walking from a taxicab to the railway station in Rennes, “France, nothing has been Known of their ; movements. thee Te . "DAILY MAIL" London aaaeer ere Re: et piel gy, ¢ Qo b Bepis nN Tt et te 3 ye SEITE me oie a Sta gti ee el Litnnt cat gel FegES i alge kL . awa lowed up. oe ystery HERE were ‘telegrams home, though not in the metre handwriting. There ‘was a draft for £1,000 re- “eelved by Mas. MacLean through a. Swiss bank. There was her own disappearance. RI wey Poteet Now comes the - Burgess letter. The restels silence, Get us try to get the thing in perspective, Maccean and Buacess were not prominent | figures, nor had they great secrets to impart. What knowledge they had must | have diminished in Value so rapidly that today it would be worthless. It is their disappearance and the manner of [t which gave them importance. To call them. world figures is no exaggeration now. Another polnt to remember ts that they have committed no crime. The police are therefore not. officially in- terested in them except. as * missing persons,” and have no reason to pursue amatka fev a hy oe ULE TEL or yen ww G2 5447 quirles, =, * ee Possibility ps does not apply to the security officers of the Foreign Office. They are, of course, very much. interes in the case and have kept Jt open. for more than 24 years. They must have considered _ Several possibilities. One ts -, that the two7men were Kid- napped and bundled behind the Iron Curtain. Such dis- appearances are not un- known nowadays. But this theory is hardly borne cut by the facta of Mac Lean’s and Burctss’s de- parture, nor by the careful arrangements made by MRs. Macrran hefore she too was ey Mr. Tolsea_—— Mr, Boardmen— Mr. Nichols Mr. Belmont Y Mr. Glavin... Mr. Hareb... Mr. BP gt PP esetnniiey Mr. f. sindah , Tracy... Mohr .. Myr, Wooterrowd.. Tele, Room . ._...- Mr. Holloman... Miss Gandy... - oo te t is still likely that they are | Soviet or satelifiewtere® ; tory-—and if thatis so it can | only be because they were! invited there and were {n- possession of papers issued by the Soviet authorities, | Security | F they are behind the Cur- | tain it should not be beyond the resources of our Becurity organisations to discover it. And if they are not, the task should be even easier, : Strangers cannot appear in any place and settle down ° without people taiking—- venee aF , especially when the strangers are Maciran and Buksess, about whom the world is speculating. People talk even behind the Cur- tain—behind thelr hands. It | is this sort of talk which Security exists to pick up, In. other words, it is not reasonable to suppose that after 24 years of inquiries our officers, however baffied in «SOME Tespects ave drawn 8 total blank. We suggest therefore that to clear the alr an official statement should be issued providing all the informa- tion which it is in the ational interest tO give L - aR. ht ae Dowel yaya DELETED COO 57 BY LETTSS suits a ae we | NOT RECOWVED Ar y oo a ae a _ \ : a ee eet es ee ott eT ee tal = ve a ie soe wei hs ‘s es: woe wan ~ on re ao ae * ion a; a. Sp | TR