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ee aS erergt spots for propagandists and rts ed can make the Communist line we plausible, and for men who know the officials, the workings and the policy secrets of the United States Govern- ment. In Britain's two diplomats, ance they were in hand, Russia could have many of the- qualities she wanted. ° Both held jobs that gave access to important secrets. Both were well-cdu- cated, able writers. Both hekd knowledge : a magazine News, published In Englic am! aimed directly at i} ce American an _ British public. Its p:.zes now show knowledge of Western ways and U.S. idiom familiar only to p-ople who grew _np with the English language and have real kinnvledge of the United States. After Burgess and Maclean disup- _peared, US. psychological-warfare ex- perts in Korea noticed a change in Com- munist propaganla eallets that are showered ov American troops there. The Pherkh Mer, Karepeee >. « DID TT LEAD TO COMMUNIST HEADQUARTERS IN PRAGUE? that is pric translated into “cold war” tenus. At the time of the mysterious Aight of Maclean, terms of the Japanese Treaty were being negctiated. Ri ta teaMets onwe were crude; aow they are ‘clever, with comvincingly slanted ap prals. Trails of Communism left by the two men can be followed closely fran the beginning. They had known cach other more than 20 years, from a time when both were left-wingers at Cam- Koreans hed been aggressors, sent biased. ~): and held strong opifions against t le postwar U.S. souch for Communist agents, : ; In the middle 1930s, before Burgess joined the Foreign Office, a Sriend re- ported that he professed being a Com- minist agent and tried, without success, to recruit the friend as another agent. Maclean talked as if he favored anl the Communist factions fighting for the Spanish Loyalists. He wanted an cid fe war in Korea regardless of Western objectives, plainly stated” a beliel ‘that Britain should give up such possessions as Hong Kong and Malaya, which are coveted by Communists, and held strong opinions favoring Alger Hiss. Maclean violently denounced Whittaker Chambers as two-faced, and even knocked down one of his friends for defending Cham- Just a few wecks before the Might, Maclean, too, told a friend he wus a Communist agent. , “ Warning. Finally they were being caught up with. It was May 25, 1951, in. London when the word came. Burgess was arranging a week-cnd trip to France with another friend, He- renled a car and packed some clothes. Then, at 5:30 in the aflernoon, he re- ceived a long, mysterious telephone call. " Maclean celebrated his birthday Uhat ~ last day ia London with a Jong lunch at excellent foreign restaurants in the Solve. While Burgess was getting the telephoue call, Maclean caught a train to his enm- try home in Kent, not far from wher Winston Churchill lives. In the night, Burgess arrived at Mac- lean’s home, was introduced to Mrs. Maclean under an assumed name. Bar- gess and Mactean Jeft in the rented cur, after conferring privately. From there, the trail Jeads to mystery, A look at the map on page 23 shows tle rade they aew are believed to have taken across France to Rome after some devious dodging into the Channel Islands, and fign Rome across the Iron Curtain. Underground agents aided their Aight. Mexsages to their families. written by somconc else and filed in Paris aml Rance by nnsterious strangers, left a false svent. Last summer, a strange four-figure deposit, appeared in the accounts of Mactean’s family in a Swiss bank, where deposits can be made by code number without revealing the depeaitor’s tame. The money was refused by the Maclean. It now is regarded by many as a Soviet effort to pay for Maclean's services. The case still is very much alive, ne vestigations still are going on. Diplomats behind the [ron Curtain peer af aces. looking for Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean. They are sure the gght place to lonk és behind the Curtain. '