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—Where are Britain's missing diplomats? Behind the lron Cur- tain working for Stalin—that's where the evidence points. The mystery is clearing after @ year and a half. The Burgess- and-Maclean case keeps picking up Soviet angies. - Both were Communists. Both knew the West's secrets. Theory now is Moscow called them in be- fore it was too late. ee Reported from LONDON ~ and WASHINGTON The mystery of Britain's two miss- ing diplomats gradually is clearing to reveal another link in the long chain of Communist espionage. _. Here were two men who knew many ”- inner secrets of the West. One had ac-" cess to secrets of atomic-weapon develop- ment. The other was party to secret exchanges between the U.S. and Britain in the touchy Beld of Far East diplomacy. Both, it now is established definitely, had been Communists. Both also had tokd friends, at different times, that they were _ Communist agents. . On the basis of conclusions now being drawn by security agents, these two diplomats served Russia as reporters able to get information from the innermost secret councils of the U.S. and Britain— councils where military, atomic and dip- lomatic policies were a Alarm. Spontaneous exp of shock and alarm that these two diplo- ae ways mS MISSING: DONALD MACLEAN : Did Statlin’s talent scouts sound the call? | ; bassy in Cairo, a position that let him ‘in on deepest secrets of policy toward ‘the Communist-threatened Middle East. Maclean disappeared on May 25, 1951. His midnight departure was kept secret until June 7, 1951, and was revealed officially only after a London newspaper learned of the flight. Ever since that time, there has been a studied effort by both British and U.S. officials to make # appear that Donald Maclean was sn unimportant person, really not “in the know” at all. ‘ With Maclean went Guy Burgess. Bur- gess had been private secretary to Hector McNeil, No. 2 man in the whole British foreign service, and then was an official on the British Far Eastern desk. Finally he became second secretary in the Brit- mbassy in Washington. Burgess hed with plans for settling with Jap: and he knew the tricky paths of dealing with Chinese Communism from the U. §. . side as well as Britain's, ===), , Together, these men possessed many Careful propaganda has been used by the British Government, and tacitly the American Government, to obscure is fact. Emphasis first was placed upon the two ts had hhomo- Lctrsieer ; MISSING: GUY BURGESS vag ey MM . vad . the story shified to hints that the tvo had been victims of foul play, thdt they probably had been killed and their bodies done away with. : - Actually, security forces of nwo nma- tions have knowledge. that points to things far more serious than wild parties or murder. That knowledge is supple- mented by facts that have been un- covered by n permen, it all points in one direction: Brit- ain’s missing diplomats, on the basis of all information that is given real cre- dence, took the underground Commu- nist railway from London along a tortu- ous route to Rome, and from there to Prague behind the Iron Curtain. Routes from Rome already were well . Communist agents there had flight from Pontecorvo, a British atomic scientist. As the story is pieced together, Bur- gees and Maclean took the tander ground two