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mmppige - AGED jpartied cquple walk and in hand through the crowds in Red Square, Moscow. The man is heavily built and broad shouldered and looks rather like frevor Howard. His wife is..dark - haired and plumply petite. Most visitors would not give them a second glance, but they should, Indeed, nearly al! Moscow's I000- strong Western community look out for them when they make a rare abpear- ance together, for, In a city “where celebrities are few, this couple are unique, They both abhor publicity, and have already changed thelr address three times in their attempts to keep it Secret. They now live in a Small Mat in a barrack-like block. A caged canary chirps in the living-room, with its green sofa and armchairs, its silver-plated electric samovar, Luxuries Thetr bedroom has = dowd: Suite of two veneered wardrobe & dressing-table with bexayona Mirror, and a long wooden box in which when better Weather comes they will store their winter blankets and feather quilts, In a window cage. two glue and green budgerigars sharpen their peaks on cutliefigh. This man Hkes pets; He once kent a tame Viten in nis he came to Russi Their kitchen boasts such luxuries — for Moscow —as a Czeshoslovak washing machine, 5 Yugoslav Gioor polisher. @ Rumanian waruum cleaner apartment before | a. ee? , . a H that the couple possess a rare Importance. Indeed, all the Intelligence Services of the Western world would pay any ‘eum Co interrogate them. ; For 30 years this man, Kim Philby. one of the most trusted. agents in Britgin's Secret Intelligence Service, svatemati- cally repald that trust by treachery, making useless Dearlp every Western attempt to gather information from behind the iron Curtain. The deaths of unknown aumbers of brave men are due to him . His American + born wife Melinda has this dubious but nique distinction : her life has been interwoven not merely with one traitor but with two, And she married them both. Her first marriage to Donald Macclean, the Foreign Office spy, lasted nearly 97 years. For a woman to marry a traltor does not, of course, imply any stur on her own character, For her to marry two traitors could be fantastic colneidence. But in the case of Mra. Mac” fean this coincidence, when considered with other factors, poses the question: fs she jus a pathetic Kittle wome-, eon spired against by events—or ia she in fact a deeply convincing deceiver herset} ? Cast your mind back to the &siininer of 1551, That was the year of the Great Spy Seanda) which Jef Britain stunned and did tm ménse damage to our relation. ship with America, where it was felt that no secret was now safe in British hands, May 25 that year was a Friday, On that day Mr, Herbert Mor the Forei rison, Secretary, isstieg authority for Donald Maclean. a senior Foreign Office official to be in- terrogated the following Monday about his suspected treachery. That same evening Maclean by JAMES “LEASOR field, Surrey, With him went Guy: Burgess, who had warned him of the dangers if he stayed, Por a fortnignt the Poreign Office these defectiona secret, Not until June 7 was the story made public, and then net through any Government communiqué, [t was revealed b: the Duly’ press: 7 Then, at last. the Poreign _OMice admitted ‘thas the two men were “absent without leave,” - But newspapers in Britain and America now began to garner al! possible information, Thus { was learned that Mrs. Maclean had received a telegram from her husband despatched In Paris saying : “ Had to leave unexpected, Bogle soryy. Am Quite well, Don't worry, darling. -4 love pou. Please don't s ‘. loving me. Donald," Be wildered His mother, Lady Maciean, also received a telegram, It was aigned “Teento,” a name by which he was known in the family and which was presum- ably used to prove the cable's authenticity. And a mysterious Mr. Robert Becker, of whom Lady Maclean - had never heard, paid £2,000 into her account through banks in Switzerland, This repaid money which Lady Maclean had loaned to her son fort the de- posit on bis home at Tatsfeld, a was probably meant for. Maclean’s wife and family. The whole nation, already alarmed that three scientists Nunn May, Fuchs and Ponte- corvo—had given atomic secrets to Russia, was bewildered by these latest defections. It Was not surprising. there- fore, that the public and thé hewspapers should be acutely jnterested in the one person DeLoach Mohr Bishop Casper Callahan at “ Conrad - Felt Gale Rosen — Sullivan Tavel Trotter Tele. Room Holmes Gandy The Washington Post Times Herald The Evening Star (Washington) The Sunday Star { Washington) Daily News (New York) Sunday News (New York) New York Post The New York Times The Sun (Baltimore) The Daily World. The New Leader The Wall Street Journal The National Observer People's World ee The Washington Daily News ee ee These possessiong alone ehow _ vanished fhect ste bone at Tats Who might be able to provide ~ _ nas Examiner (Washington) | LONDON, ENGLAND Date __.lan Ra wt eg an ll tnt