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eel ee er OT pe teenin Det * a TES Mp. Bonrdm&y ce. Mr. Nichols *kE" Mr. Belmont Mr, Harboe Mi. Mohr 22 Mr. Hosea WW Mr. Teawirs _ * i Rey OE CER Aare ayy Pew > e Mr. Sizaa cas Aad Tele. Room oo Mr, Hollomed toad ane ee Miss Gandy i LONDON«=THE GOVERNMENT BISCLOSED THAT SECURITY AGEN GOTHERING EVIDENCE IN 1954 AGAINST TWO MISSING DIPLAMATS KNOUN TO HAVE ‘BEEN RED SPIES PARTLY BECAUSE THE WIFE OF ONE OF<THEM WAS-~ORFONANT, AN OFFICIAL "WHITE PAPER® ON THE DISAPPEARANCE OF SUYORURGESS AND DONALD MACLEAN MAY 25, 1951, UNFOLDED THE FIRST BETAILED RECORD OF THE STORY"THAT HAS LED TO SEVERE CRITICISM OF THE FOREIGN OFFICE, THE WHITE PAPER SAID SOCTALIST HERBERT MORRISON, THEN FOREIGN. © ow SECRETARY, APPROVED A PROPOSAL GN THE DAY MACLEAN AND WIS FORETCN ra OFFICE COLLEAGUE DISAPPEARED THAT SECURITY AGENTS SHOULD QUESTION . _— MACLEAN, WHO WAS HEAD OF THE AMERICAN SECTION, BUT THE QUESTIONING WAS DELAYED, AUTHORITIES WANTED TIME TO CONFRONT MACLEAN WITH ALL TRE EVIDENCE POINTING TO spy ACTIVITIES, AND THEY WANTED TO SEARCH THE HACLEAN HOUSE AT TATSFIELD, KENT, A FEM MILES FROM WINSTON CHURCHILL'S t IME» MACLEAN'S AMERICAN-BORN WIFE, MELINDA, WAS EXPECTING THETR THIRD CHILO AT THE TIME, . . TTHTS WAS “AN ADDITIONAL REASON FOR DELAYING TEE PROPOSED INTERVIEW 9 UNTIE MIDSJUNE NHEN MRS, MACLEAN, WHO WAS THEN PREGNANT, WAS EXPECTED EO BE AWAY FROM HOME," THE pADER SAID. AS 2? TURNED OUT, MACLEAN FLED BEHIND THE IRON CURTAIN ~~ DRESUMABLY * TO RUSSIA «= ON THE VERY DAY IT was DECIDED TO QUESTION HIM 45 A "PRINCIPAL SUSPECT? [N LEAKAGE OF INFORMATION TO RUSSTA, THE WHITE PARR SUD ANERE WAS NOT ENOUGH EVIDENCE TO PROSECUTE THE “THIRD MAN" WHO TIPPED OFF MACLEAN TO FLEE, THE GOVERNMENT'S WHITE PAPER DEFENDED THE FOUR-YEAR CAOVER«US WHICH CAME TO LIGHT THIS WEEK WITH THE REVELATION THAT MACLEAN AND BURGESS WERE KNOWN TO HAVE BEEN SPIES, IT ALSO WAS REVEALED THAT FOREIGN OF FICE ACENTS HAD BEEN ON THE TRAIL OF MACLEAN'S WIFE BUT Lost Angst ae LAST WAS SEEN TABOARD A TRAIN HEADED FOR THE SOVIET ZONE GF USTRIA, eds — as THE GOVERNMENT SATU THRE FATLURE TO RELEASE ALL THE DETAILS IN THE CASE WAS A TACTIC DESISNED To AID COUNTER-ESPIONASE, _ WESPIONAGE I$ CARRIED GuT IN SECRET, *® THE WHITE PAPER Sarp, - VCOUNTER~ESPIONAGE EQUALLY DEPENDS FORITS SUCCESS UPON THE MAXIMUM SECRECY OF ITS METHODS. * (RELEASE AT 2:00 P.M, EDT) : ( BURGESS-MACLEAN) | N TS HELD o¥e : “N. THE FAPER WAS APPROVED By PRIME MINISTER EDEN AND FOREIGN SECRETARY MACMILLAN , ; S/ARe+-JELSTE ee ee _