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me. } a. Today in Washington ieing —¥; anishing of Mrs. Maclean | —— Puts British Agents on nSpot / wer ie By DAVID LAWRENCE E aT | . ; - WASHINGTON, Sept. 17.- Doenaid MacLean--a British of- ficlal known among his friends as oa Communist — in some stranze way eluded the British security services in May, 1951 and disappeared behind the Tron Curtain bearing confiden- tial information he had been accumulating from his intimate contacts with the governments of the United States and Great Britcin. Now his American-born wife has disappeared under elrcum- siances equally mysterious. and the world is wondering whether © the British Security Service fell down again or wheiher perhaps it now will be in the position to eenfound its critics by ex- posing the whole story and re- vealne that perhaps it has known all along what was going, on. | The lattcr theory is one that, naturally arises wishfully among: those familiar with intelligence work. For it would be incred- ible if the British Security Serv- ice, knowing how important 1t! was to obtain every.scrap of iIn-i formation about the where- abouts of MacLean and his as- sociate, Guy Burgess, would fall to shadow the family in Swit- gerland and keep in touch with everyone who mich seek to talk, with the wife of the missing. dipiomat. May Take Days ! 1 , - - Certainly if the intelligence arents have been and fre still . on the job, it may be days be- Times-Heraid . fore they will discover the place - where Messrs. MacLean and Burress have been hiding. : Wash. Post — Theie would certainly have PP eel v been no point in inlereepting , ash. News —— Mrs. MacLean. It would be 4 shirwd, rather, to maintain un- A / Wash. Sear . _ interrupted surveillance wytil ifs if cold de determined exactly . N.Y. Herald Trib (where she was headed. ; “ ribune ——_— 2 N.Y. Mirror ___—