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Q-19 (7-8-55} be Mr. Tolson s+ ¢. Mr. Boardman, , ; Mr. Bélmont {i ge" oo Mr. Harbo A vt. Mr. Mohr Mr. Parsons a Mr. Rosen Mr. Tamm Mr. Sizes Mr. Winterrowd Tele, Room Mr. Holloman . Miss Gandy _BRatohl 7.’ ate, we 1 vd Ao’ es, ve re i Lea i Lv ud Ba h/t Forelgn Office so long to die FEL yo 4, close Official information-abuat Uk ‘ft ‘ihe case, Young said the impact é 3 Fey ritain By Ranald MacLurkin Fleutets LONDON, Sept. 19—The Brit- » Foreign Office said today it “rust be presumed that Donald tacLean photographed govern-, . vant documents and passed the! apies to Russia before he and fellow-diplomat, Guy Burgess, of the country more than four ars ago. The new disclosure was made an angry storm blew up “out. the way the Foreign Of se has handled the case of the wo diplomats who mysterions- disappeared. in. 1951_ after _aveling to France. After years of reticence, the weign Office Sunday admitted ratLean was being investi- ‘tated by security authorities “hen he vanished. The admis- :on ¢ameée after a newspaper) ‘ublished an article on the dip- “ats by Viadimir Petrov, for- rr Russian diplomat and spy wef in Australia, whe defected >the West last year. é Jvasion” Charged Ags newspaper editorials to- “vy thundered charges of “eva- um‘hat the government for tak- ag so bong to praduce the facts, je Foreign Office spokesman inouneed that a white paper— . i . ie a “i 4 Lyf ¥ fom Fy a Assoclated Presa Burgess MacLean ».. new evidence revealed official government document—; will be published this week on the pair. ‘ The row is likely to reacn the floor of the House of Commons when Parliament returns from its summer vacation Oct. 25, Politicians already have put for- ward questions for Prime Mfin- ister Sir Anthony Eden to an- Pek Poad toe feck ae = hy, C8. on the men’s contacts, “the counter espionage factor,” had to be considered. : Hundreds of questions have | “‘|heen asked in the Howse of, swer. One asks him to appoint, a committee to investigate the affair “and the eicney of civil service security arrangements,” * The Foreign Office spokes man, Sir George Young, dis- closed. today that MacLean was under suspicion in April, 1951, a month before he disappeared. He was. allowed to stay on his job as head of the American Department while security men investigated him. But the Foreign Office made sure that during this period top- secret material did not reach him, it was explained later. Young tould not say how many d@cuments had been passed to the Russians or whether they contained vital information, . ‘Burgess Not Investigated Burgess had not. been directly under-security investigation, but his general conduct was “unsatisfactory,” Young sald. Asked why it hed taken the Pa it -i aT ae ee ee general effi-; ‘Commons and by newspapers dince May 25, 1951, when Mde- ‘yean, then 38, and Burgeds. en 40, vanished. They cross @ English Channel-by-an-orcl- nary passenger steamer te St. Mala, France, then disappeared. ' MacLean’s American-born wife, Melinda, also disappeared imysteriously from Switzerland iwith her three children tw wears later. It was assumed sh ad slipped inta a ued | ountry to join her husband. } } Wash. Post and —— Times Herald Wash. News Wash, Star N. Y. Herald Tribune N.Y. Mirror Daily Worker The Worker New Leader sian! Date id la