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wom xpisen@ covtrs of pisaaaawe or @& 3S AND MACLEAR According to an Associated Press report on June 7, 1951,two British Foreign Service officers had been missing fron their homes since May 25, 1952, and it was thought that they might have gone behinc the Iron Curtain. They were mamed as DONALD MACLEAK, Read of the American Department of the Foreign Office, and GUY BURGESS, who was home on leave from the British Embassy in Washington, DeC. It was reported that a search by police and intelligence operators had been instituted in England and in France. It was further reported that the London "Daily Express" was reported to have primted that the two men told a friend that they planned to go to Moscow "to serve their idealistic purposes." . ow The™Washington Evening Svar" dated June 7, 1951 carried the follow- ing article concerning the two missing British diplomats: ( "Donald Duart MacLean and Guy F. De¥oncy’Burgess, Britieh foreign service officials who may have disappeared behind the iron curtain, were liked and free from any suspicion of Communist leanings while at their country's Enbassy here. "Acquaintances said Burgess, a 40-year-old bachelor, and Mechean, 38-year-old husband of the former Malinda Merling of Washington; knew each other from their student days at Cambridge University in the early 1930s. "But their service in the chancery office here was at different times and differed greatly in point of rank and responsi- bility. “Burgess left here on leave last May 10 after working sime last August 7 as a second secretary with 'not particularly exciting or important’ work, Exbassy spokesmen said. His duties were cescribded as ‘comparatively nondescript! and did not bring him into close com tact with highly confidential information. He dealt principally with refugee problems, special reports and miscellaneous matterse "YacLean, on the other hand, was an 'exceedingly able and ex- perienced'! diplomat who at the time of his departure in November, 1948, was acting head of the chancery with the rank of top first secretary. That was principally an administrative post, but it had considerable to do with transmission of cables and other messages. "MacLean came here in May, 1942, as an acting first secretary. He previously had been in the British diplomatic service since 1935, mostly in the Foreign Office. After leaving Washington he was stationed in Cairo. Since last November he headed the American de- partment of the Foreign Office. “He married*Miss Marling in England in 190. They have two sons. Maclean was a son of the late Sir Donald MacLean, a leader of Britain's Liberal Part; *, brother, & ‘acLean, was secretary to Sir Gladwyn Jebb, Britain's representative on the United Nations Security Council. Alan Maclean; now on leave in England, recently became head of the information branch of the British delegation to the U.N. "Donald Maclean is well remembered by British Enbassy personnel and others here for what was described as great efficiency and tireless energy. Acquaintances in Washington said that a breakdown he report- edly suffered last year might have resulted from overwork. @