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: Involved in Myst Of Missing Diplomats Uy the Avsocioted Prom LONDON. June 22—An Ameri- can “third man” was introduced todey into Britain's mystery of ‘the two missing diplomats. ‘The London Daily Express said)- Guy Burgess, one of the two miss- ing British Foreign Office men.| broke s date with an unidentified! American medica) student living’ in England, and went of to France. | ‘The newspaper hinted that! blackmail by Communists was in-| ‘volved in the mystery. Mr. Burgess, who had been vunder suspension by the Porcign ‘OMfice for misbehavior, disap- (peared May 25 with Donald Mac~ iLean, another Foreign Office em- ‘ploye. The two hed been drink- ‘ing companions. ,. Mr. MacLean was head of the ‘aAmexjcan department at the; "Foreign Office, a highfy respons-) jible position. ! Vere Traced to France. | two were tracedito France. ‘There the trail went cold. Some; suspicion was raised that the two) fied behind the Iron Curtain for unexplained motives. \ "The Express story quoted a man! who had been Mr. Burgess’ room- mate for 14 years as saying Bur. gess met the American medical student on the Queen Mary on} his way back {o London. after having been recalled from « minor post in the British Embassy in! Washington. { ‘The roommate said Mr. Burgess told him of his plan to take @ holiday in France with the young) American, beginning May 25, but, that at 5:30 p.m. that day, the diplomat received » telephone call) which appeared to distress him, the Express said. The account quoted the roommate: “] gathered Burgess was talking, to Maclean, After the phone call. Ghy was very upset. I heard ianothe} conversation in which he dindicat¥d that s married friend: thad g@i into serious troubi jParis and needed help. I med che meant MacLean. vk [ora “pe si inches Fa enti emt debe ca Left te Bee Mackean. | . “Burgess left the flat soon after- wa ee he was xoing TOTrert MacLean to see if he could help! inim. Burgess had his things, packed for a cruise with the Amer-| ican, I have not seen or heard! anything of him since. *Y hold the view, and it Is based on fairly substantial evidence. that MacLean was threatened by! something rather sinister in Paris —some kind of biackmail—and) wanted help. . if “] should say that the people! with whom MacLean had pot in-| valved were possibly irom the! ofer side of the Iron Curyin.” | he roommate said the er | n student has since returrigd to the United States, the xxgress fs. a DELETED tary eeu e 44 AULj23 1951 HON Bu e7R Tolson Ladd. Clese__ Glavin. Nichols___ Rowen__s. Tracy ‘bo. Algen Belmont. Laughlin, Mobr, Tele. Room. Nesse. Gandy. —_ 8. Ming Donal, Page Times-Herald Wash. Post ~__ Wash. News __ a Wash. Star A=o ‘So N.Y. Mirror ___