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ee te oe RS SN er ere CRE ay EEE DARIN EE pro veto Pate aa Fae at ac EE Be A Sat a Se weet ie “ ‘Missing Diplomats” Reappear t ‘ot v strangest cases in the . charged that the Red Chinese attacked tangle of treason and esplonage that . United Nations forces In Korea because communism has visited on the world has taken a newtyist} The “missing diplo- "—Donaid Maclean and Guy~Bur-_ geas._have put in a . formal appearance ‘at Moscow to “explain” their disappear- ‘ancé’ from Britain. The explanation i clarifies nothing, except to ‘confirm the , kenerally accepted fact that the two are _working for the Russigns, It even adds “some additional mystery to the puzzle. } Why did the Kremlin decide, at this : moment, to unvell the long hidden pair? i There are several possible reasons. For yone thing, the revelations of Vladimir Petrov, who defected from. the Soviet «Embassy in Canberra and provided the first public clew to the activities of ' Burgess and Maclean, stirred up a good _ deal of bitterness in Britain, The For- ‘ elgn Office was led to provide its own Hnformation on the case and the realiza- “tion that two rather obvious security “risks had been allowed to retain posts ! of considerable importance in the British ‘ torei ign service and had subsequently ‘vanished without a trace, subjected the * government to some pointed criticism. Mt has been suggested ‘that the Russian ‘government would like to reduce the ‘temperature of public opinion on this Cgcore fore high Communist officials “pay their scheduled visit to London. * Jt is also possible that the Russians “were impelled to produce Burgess and “Maclean by a current controversy in the PERFOIAK ul hw 2 FEB 29 186 F-14)4 -they knew that there would be no retri- bution on Chinese territory. In his .Tecent article In “Life” magazine, the general, referring to Burgess and Mac- lean, wrote: the chain of our enemy in Korea through Peiping by way of Moscow.” At any rate, whether British or Amer- ican public opinion-~-or both—was the.- Red target, the Russians have produced the missing diplomats to assert: “We neither of us have ever been Boviet agents.” As to that, the free world will ‘take the evidence of Vladimir Petrbdv and the British Foreign Office against . the self-serving statement of two. men who have done nothing to merit confi- dence and much to destroy it. It may be a minor point, but the odd phrase- . Ology of the statement attributed to Burgess and Maclgan, (“already a few months previously,” Jor example) is much closer to that of Moscow than Cambridge. In fact, it reads precisely like a translation of one of Premier Bulganin’s effusions, Perhaps this is because the published text was originally a Russian document, - signed by the two Englishmen and turned into an approximation of English for export, perhaps they ‘wrote it and the Russians processed it later. But what- ever they have to say must be taken as just another product of the Soviet prop- “Untter-states. General MacArthur has aganda mill, a . ra _ go DELETED COPY SENT CB. Mee None fel { BY LETH. JUN 22 S76 J oe eee] “These men with access to. secret files were undoubtedly links in- . Masog * Mohr ‘ Belmone Parsons Rosen Tamm Nease Winterrowd ‘ Tele. Room Holloman Gandy Wash. Post and Times Herald Wash, News Wash. Star +? N.Y. Heraid __ 47 Tribune N.Y. Mirror —W N. Y. Daily News Daily Worker The Worker New Leader Date AFR 94956 y